10th grade Independent Reading List

Unit 1:

            About Time by Jack Finney

            Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya

            Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

            The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

Unit 2:

            Washington Square by Henry James

            Fences by August Wilson

            A Summer Life by Gary Soto

            Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong

Unit 3: The Complete Saki by Saki

            Dune by Frank Herbert

            Platero y Yo or Platero and I by Juan Ramon Jimenez

            Hiroshima by John Hersey

Unit 4:

            A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

            The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima

            Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge

            The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

Unit 5:

            Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl

            Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

            The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander

            A Night to Remember by Walter Lord

Unit 6:

            Watership Down by Richard Adams

            A Separate Peace by John Knowles

            The Tale of the Unknown Island by Jose Saramago

            Black Ice by Lorene Cary

Unit 7:

            Poetry Out Loud edited by Rpbert Aldin Rubin

            Emily Dickinson: Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson

            Neruda: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda

Unit 8:

            Great American Stories

            The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

            Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza

            Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat

Unit 9:

            The King Must Die by Mary Renault

            Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

            The Acts of King Arthur and his Nobel Knights by John Steinbeck

Shrapnel in the Heart: Letters and Remembrances from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Laura Palmer

Unit 10:

            Macbeth by William Shakespeare

            Visit to a Small Planet by Gore Vidal

            A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansterry

            A Book of Plays