READING LIST

Recommended reading for students graduating from Highland High School .

By the end of ninth grade you should have read at least two of the following:

Travels With Charlie by John Steinbeck

Helen Keller: Rebellious Spirit by Laurie Lawlor

Drive by Larry Bird and Bob Ryan

A Night to Remember by Walter Lord

Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, A Dream by H. Bissinger

The Alchemist by Paula Coelho

Rebecca by Daphne duMaurier

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Eleven Seconds by Travis Roy

Exodus by Leon Uris

The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown

By the end of tenth grade you should have read at least two of the following:

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

Into Thin Air by John Krakauer

Seabiscuit by Laurie Hillebrand

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

It’s Not About The Bike: My Journey Back To Life by Lance Armstrong

Summer of 98 by Mike Lupica

The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith

By the end of the eleventh grade you should have read at least two of the following:

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

Farewell To Arms by Ernest Heminway

Seize The Day by Saul Bellow

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines

My Darling, My Hamburger by Paul Zindel

The Red Badge Of Courage by Stephen Crane

The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty

By the end of the twelth grade you should have read at least two of the following.

The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

In These Girls Hope Is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Night Hoopes by Carl Deuker

The Brethren by John Grisham

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Woman Warrior: Memoirs Of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Kingston

The Locket by Richard Paul Evans

Night by Eli Wiesel

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