Your Recommendations
Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier (fiction)
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (medieval detective drama/historical fiction)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (science fiction/ futuristic dystopia)
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My Recommendations (see below):
9th Grade
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard (fiction/lost worlds/colonialism)
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (fantasy/fiction)
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (historical fiction/England)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (fiction)
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers (fiction/American/coming of age)
Heart of a Soldier by James B. Stewart (true story of a former soldier who rescued people on 9/11)
The Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar (history/Roman Empire)
Ender’s Game* by Orson Scott Card (science fiction/*student selection)
Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger (football/sociology)
The Miracle of St. Anthony: A Season with Coach Bob Hurley and Basketball’s Most Improbable Dynasty by Adrian Wojnarowski (sports/ basketball/sociology]
Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, his Star Recruit and the Youth Basketball Machine by George Dohrmann (sports/basketball/sociology)
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall (sports/running/anthropology)
10th Grade
The Castle by Franz Kafka (fiction)
Dance of the Happy Shades and Other Stories by Alice Munro (fiction/Canada)
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (fiction)
Jump and other Stories by Nadine Gordimer (fiction/South Africa)
The Story of an Unknown Man by Anton Chekhov (fiction/Russia)
King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard (fiction/lost worlds/Africa/colonialism)
First Love by Ivan Turgenev (fiction/Russia)
Floating Clouds by Fumiko Hayashi (fiction/Japan)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (fiction/American)
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (fiction/American)
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane (memoir/South Africa/life under apartheid)
Brave New World * by Aldous Huxley (science fiction/dystopia/*student selection)
Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare (Elizabethan drama)
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (American drama)
Stories of Scottsboro by James Goodman (an excellent and careful study of the 1931 Scottsboro Boys trial – American history)
The Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam (basketball/sociology)
The Miracle of St. Anthony: A Season with Coach Bob Hurley and Basketball’s Most Improbable Dynasty by Adrian Wojnarowski (sports/ basketball/sociology]
Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, his Star Recruit and the Youth Basketball Machine by George Dohrmann (sports/basketball/sociology)
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall (sports/running/anthropology)
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by Martin Dugard (history/exploration)
The Fate of Africa by Martin Meredith (a comprehensive study of African history in the post-colonial period: 1945-present)
Diamonds, Gold and War: The British, the Boers and the Making of South Africa by Martin Meredith (history/South Africa)
The Scramble for Africa: White Man’s Conquest of the Dark Continent 1876-1912 by Thomas Packenham (history/Africa/colonialism)