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.