Edmond North High School Required Reading
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REQUIRED READING LIST 2023-24
EDMOND NORTH HIGH SCHOOL
9th Grade
On-Level:
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet
- The Bonds Between Us Lit Circles (Student Choice)
- All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely
- Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham
- Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Watkatzuki Houston & James D. Houston
- House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Intro to Advanced:
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet
- The Bonds Between Us Lit Circles (Student Choice)
- All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely
- Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham
- Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Watkatzuki Houston & James D. Houston
- Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
10th Grade
On-Level
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- Alternate course: Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Shakespeare (Choose one)
- Twelfth Night
- The Tempest
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Julius Caesar
- Ourselves and Others Lit Circles (Student Choice)
- 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Letitch Smith
- Dear Martin by Nic Stone
- A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
- The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
- I Am not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sanchez
- The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan
- Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
Intro to Advanced:
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- Alternate course: Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Alternate course: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Antigone by Sophocles
- Shakespeare (Choose one)
- Twelfth Night
- The Tempest
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Julius Caesar
- Ourselves and Others Lit Circles (Student Choice)
- 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Letitch Smith
- Dear Martin by Nic Stone
- A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
- The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
- I Am not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sanchez
- The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan
- Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
11th Grade
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Individual and Society Nonfiction Lit Circle (Student Choice)
- Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
- The Nazi Hunters by Neal Bascomb
- Born a Crime (YA Version) by Trevor Noah
- Brain on Fire by Sussanah Cahalan
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- Unbroken (YA Version) by Laura Hillenbrand
- A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
AP Language
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (excerpts)
12th Grade
- Beowulf
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Shakespeare (Choose one)
- Hamlet
- Macbeth
AP Literature
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Student choice:
- Student choice titles tbd
Lit circle choices may be found by searching for the title using the search bar near the top of the webpage.