Recommendation: Students read 3-4 novels per semester along with several information texts.
A-G English Department Booklist
All of the novels listed below can be found on the CW website.
Grade 12: Taken from the previously UC approved a-g class novel list (before 2015-16).
Out of Africa (Denmark) by Isak Dinesen
"The Beggar" (Russia) by Anton Chekov
Don Quixote (Spain) by Miguel de Cervantes
The Iliad (Ancient Greece) by Homer
The Divine Comedy (Italy) by Dante
The Thousand and One Nights (Persia) Traditional
The Aeneid (Ancient Rome) by Virgil
Grade 11: Taken from the previously UC approved a-g class novel list (before 2015-16).
Huckleberry Fin by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Scarlett letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Call of the Wilde by Jack London
Uncle tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Big Sky by Arthur Guthrie
To Kill a Mocking bird by Harper Lee
The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg. Clark
Grade 10: Novels highlighted in yellow are taken from the newly UC approved a-g guidelines for the Collections textbooks.
Julius Cesar by William Shakespeare
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Other Novels: A Separate Peace by John Knowles, The Pearl by John Steinbeck, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, A Farewell to Arms by Earnest Hemingway, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, Jane Erye by Charlotte Bronte
Grade 9: Novels highlighted in yellow are taken from the newly UC approved a-g guidelines for the Collections textbook.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Bean Tree by Barbara Kingsolver
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Other Novels: Animal Farm by George Orwell, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, All Quiet on the Western Front by E. Remarque, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, The Red Pony by John Steinbeck, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
These novels are UC approved for A-g 20th Century Literature for grades 9-12, but can be used for other English classes.
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Bean Tree by Barbara Kingsolver
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Black Like Me by John Griffin
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Black Boy by Richard Wright
The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
These novels are UC approved for A-G Science Fiction for grades 9-12, but can be used for other English classes.
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
The Time machine by H.G. Wells
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
From the Expository Reading and Writing Course (ERWC) UC approved modules, but can be used for other English classes.
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
1984 by George Orwell
Brave new World by Aldous Huxley
From the UC approved list for World Literature, but can be used for other English classes.
The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous and Andrew George
The Odyssey by Homer
Journey to the West (Monkey) by Wu Ch'eng-en
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Francis Abiola Irele
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Arabian Nights by Anonymous, Translator: Husain Haddawy