Books approved for classroom instrucion in Northside ISD High Schools
Updated October 2009
The High School Reading List is being updated and will be reposted once those updates are complete.
| Author | Title | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Achebe | Things Fall Apart | |
| Aeschylus | The Oresteia | |
| Anaya | Bless Me, Ultima | I H and up with parental permission |
| Austen | Pride and Prejudice | AS IV |
| Beckett | Waiting for Godot | |
| Bellow | Seize the Day | |
| Benitez | A Place Where the Sea Remembers | |
| Bolt | A Man for All Seasons | |
| Bradbury | Fahrenheit 451 | AS III |
| Bradbury | The Illustrated Man | |
| Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre | |
| Bronte, Emily | Wuthering Heights | |
| Borland | When the Legends Die | |
| Buck | The Good Earth | |
| Burns | Cold, Sassy Tree | |
| Camus | The Stranger | |
| Capps | Woman of the People | |
| Cather | My Antonia | |
| Chekhov | The Bear | AS II |
| Chopin, Kate | The Awakening | |
| Cisneros | House on Mango Street | |
| Clarke | Childhood's End | |
| Clarke | 2001 Space Odyssey | |
| Clemens Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | AS III |
| Conrad | Heart of Darkness | AS IV |
| Crane | Red Badge of Courage | |
| Dante | The Inferno | |
| Dickens | Great Expectations | |
| Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | |
| Dickens | Hard Times | AS IV |
| Doestovesky | Crime and Punishment | IV |
| Doestovesky | Death of Ivan Illych | |
| Dumas | The Count of Monte Cristo | |
| Du Maurier | Rebecca | AS IV |
| Ellison | Invisible Man | III, IV |
| Faulkner | As I Lay Dying | AS III |
| Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby | AS III |
| Flaubert | Madame Bovary | |
| Frank | Alas, Babylon | AS II |
| Franklin | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | |
| Gaines | A Lesson Before Dying | IV with parental permission |
| Golding | Lord of the Flies | AS II |
| Grisham | The Client | III, IV |
| Grisham | The Firm | III, IV |
| Gunther | Death, Be Not Proud | |
| Hansberry | A Raisin in the Sun | AS III |
| Hardy | Return of the Native | AS IV |
| Hardy | Jude the Obscure | |
| Hardy | The Mayor of Casterbridge | |
| Hardy | Tess of the D'Urbevilles | |
| Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter | AS III |
| Hemingway | A Farewell to Arms | AS III |
| Hemingway | The Old Man and the Sea | AS III |
| Homer | The Odyssey | I |
| Hurston | Their Eyes Were Watching God | |
| Huxley | Brave New World | AS IV |
| Ibsen | A Doll's House | |
| James | Turn of the Screw | |
| Jenkins | Walk Across America | |
| Joyce | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | |
| Kafka | The Metamorphosis | |
| Keyes | Flowers for Algernon | |
| Kidd | The Secret Life of Bees | |
| Kingsolver | Bean Trees | |
| Kingsolver | Poisonwood Bible | IV |
| Knowles | A Separate Peace | AS II |
| Laurents | West Side Story | play |
| Lee | To Kill A Mockingbird | AS Requirement I |
| London | The Sea Wolf | |
| Malamud | The Fixer | |
| Malamud | The Natural | |
| McCullers | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | |
| McDonald | Swallowing Stones | |
| Melville | Moby Dick | |
| Miller | The Crucible | AS Requirement III |
| Miller | Death of a Salesman | AS III |
| Orwell | 1984 | |
| Orwell | Animal Farm | |
| Paton | Cry, The Beloved Country | |
| Peck | A Day No Pigs Would Die | |
| Pearl | The Poe Shadow | |
| Perry | Hold Autumn in Your Hand | |
| Potok | The Chosen | |
| Potok | My Name is Asher Lev | |
| Preston | The Hot Zone | IV; I if part of an interdisciplinary unit with parental permission |
| Rand | Anthem | AS II |
| Rand | The Fountainhead | IV |
| Reginald | Twelve Angry Men | AS II |
| Rostand | Cyrano de Bergerac | |
| Santos | Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation | |
| Sartre | The Flies | |
| Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | AS II |
| Shakespeare | King Lear | |
| Shakespeare | Macbeth | AS III |
| Shakespeare | Much Ado about Nothing | |
| Shakespeare | Hamlet | AS Requirement IV |
| Shakespeare | Henry V | |
| Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | AS Requirement I |
| Shakespeare | The Taming of the Shrew | |
| Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | |
| Shelley | Frankenstein | AS IV |
| Sinclair | Jungle | AS III |
| Shulman | West Side Story | Novel |
| Solzhenitsyn | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | IV |
| Sophocles | Antigone | AS Requirement II |
| Sophocles | Oedipus Rex | IV |
| Sophocles | Medea | |
| Steinbeck | Grapes of Wrath | AS III |
| Steinbeck | Of Mice and Men | AS II |
| Steinbeck | The Pearl | |
| Stewart | The Crystal Cave | |
| Stoppard | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | |
| Tan | Joy Luck Club | |
| Trevor | Deathwatch | |
| Tolstoy | Death of Ivan Illych | |
| Warren | All the King's Men | |
| Weisman | Gaviatos | |
| Wharton | Ethan Frome | AS III |
| White | The Once and Future King | |
| Wiesel | Night | |
| Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray | AS IV |
| Wilder | Our Town | AS II |
| Williams | The Glass Menagerie | AS III |
| Wolff | To the Lighthouse | |
| Zindel | Pigman | |
| Zusak | The Book Thief |
