| Grade | Work (Lexile Score) |
| Freshmen | Animal Farm by George Orwell (1370) The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy(NP) Color of Water by James McBride (1240) Farewell to Manzanar by Houston and Houston (1040) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1430) Inherit the Wind by Lawrence and Lee (850) Living Up the Street by Gary Soto (1140) Mythology by Edith Hamilton (1040) Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (630) Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (1260) Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt (770) |
| Sophomores | All Quiet...Western Front by Erich Marie Remarque (830) Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (1340) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams (NP) The Color Purple by Alice Walker (670) Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (1320) Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (890) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1070) A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (750) Lord of the Flies by William Golding (770) Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1380) Night by Elie Weisel (570) Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (1340) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee |
| Juniors | 1984 by George Orwell (1090) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (990) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1360) Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (790) Crucible by Arthur Miller (NP) Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (NP) Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (680) Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1070) The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (1170) Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane (1040) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1030) Native Son by Richard Wright (700) Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich (1340) Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (NP) Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1420) Self-Reliance & Other Essays by Ralph W. Emerson (NP) Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (610) The Trial by Franz Kafka (NP) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora N. Hurston (1080) |
| Seniors | The Awakening by Kate Chopin (960) Beloved by Toni Morrison (870) Beowulf (1090) Candide by Voltaire (1110) Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare (NP) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (810) Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1390) Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1050) Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1260) Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (1310) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (890) Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde (NP) Lion in Winter by James Goldman (NP) Othello by William Shakespeare (1370) Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (920) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1100) The Stranger by Albert Camus (880) Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (890) To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1030) Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1350) Wuthering Heights by Emile Bronte (880) Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1490) |
