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GRADES 11-12 READING LIST

2011-2012

MILTON HIGH SCHOOL

 

Top Ten Best Books fro Young Adults     Alex Awards     Green Mountain Book Awards     Michael Printz Awards     2007 Teens' Top Ten Books     Biography/Auto-Bio/Memoir      Classics      Fantasy/Sci-Fi     Graphic Novels    Non-Fiction     Historical Fiction      Realistic Fiction     Sports/Adventure     Suspense/Mystery    Verse                      

YALSA Top Ten Best Books For Young Adults

Brennan, Sarah Rees                     Demon’s Lexicon
Griffin, Paul                                 The Orange Houses
Herlong, M.H.                              The Great Wide Sea
Jinks, Catherine                            The Reformed Vampire Support Group
Napoli, Donna Jo                          Alligator Bayou
Small, David                                Stitches: A Memoir
Stead, Rebecca                            When You Reach Me
Stork, Francisco X.                        Marcelo in the Real World
Taylor, Laini                                Lips Touch: Three Times
Walker, Sally M.                           Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland

 

 2011 Alex Awards

Bell,Alden                                   The Reapers Are the Angels: A Novel
Bender, Aimee                             The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel
Bognanni, Peter                           The House of Tomorrow
Donoghue, Emma                        Room: A Novel
Grant, Helen                               The Vanishing of Katharina Linden: A Novel 
Haig, Matt                                  The Radleys
Hamilton, Steve                          The Lock Artist
Kwok, Jean                                Girl in Translation
Murray, Liz                                Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journeyfrom Homeless to Harvard
Pierson, DC                                 The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To

 

Green Mountain Book Awards (Nominated Titles)

(Vote for your favorite in April during National Library Week)

Benioff, David                              City of Thieves
Anderson, Laurie Halse                  Wintergirls
Barnes, John                               Tales of the Madman Underground
Black, Holly and Cecil Castelucci       Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd
Connolly, John                             The Book of Lost Things
Doctorow, Cory                            Little Brother
Going, K.L.                                  King of the Screwups
Kelly, Joe                                    I Kill Giants
Lacour, Nina                                Hold Still
Ness, Patrick                               The Knife of Never Letting Go
Patterson, James & Hal Friedman    Med Head: My Knock-down, Drag-out, Drugged-up Battle with my Brain
Pratchett, Terry                           Nation
Price, Katherine                            101 Places Not to See Before You Die
Sitomer, Alan Lawrence                  The Secret Story of Sonia Rodriguez
Stork, Francisco X.                        Marcelo in the Real World
Yancy, Rick                                 Monstrumologist

 

 

Michael Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature

Bacigalupi, Paolo                           Ship Breaker
Honorable Mention:
Christopher, Lucy                         Stolen
King, A.S.                                   Please Ignore Vera Dietz
Sedgwick, Marcus                         Revolver
Teller, Janne                               Nothin

 

Nominations for the 2011 Teens’ Top Ten Books

(Vote for your favorites during Teen Read Week, October 12-18, 2010)

Bachorz, Pam                              Drought
Beam, Cris                                  I Am J
Beaudoin, Sean                            You Killed Wesley Payne
Black, Holly and Justine Larbalestier  Zombies vs. Unicorns
Card, Orson Scott                        The Lost Gate
Clare, Cassandra                          The Clockwork Angel.
Collins, Suzanne                           Mockingjay
Collins, Yvonne                            Love, Inc
Condie, Ally                                 Matched
Cremer, Andrea                           Nightshade
Fitzpatrick, Becca                         Crescendo
Grant, Michael                             Lies
Hawkins, Rachel                           Demonglass
Hakwins, Rachel                           Hex Hall
Kagawa, Julie                               The Iron King
Lore, Pittacus                               I Am Number Four
Moore, Peter                               Red Moon Rising
Nelson, Jandy                                        The Sky is Everywhere
Oliver, Lauren                              Before I Fall
O’Neal, Ellis                                 The False Princess
Patterson, James                         Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel
Pearce, Jackson                           Sisters Red
Smith, Cynthia Leitich                    Blessed
Westerfeld, Scott                         Behemoth
White, Kiersten                            Paranormalcy

Vermont Reads

Katherine Patterson                      The Day of the Pelican

Biography/Auto-biography / Memoir

Albom, Mitch                      Tuesdays with Morrie
Angelou, Maya                             I Know When the Caged Bird Sings
Beah, Ishmael                             A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Bernstein, Harry                 The Invisible Wall
Brown, Cupcake                 A Piece of Cake
Bryson, Bill                         A Walk in the Woods
Douglass, Frederick              Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Fleming, Candace               The Great and Only Barnum:The Tremendous Stupendous Life of Showman P.T. Barnum
Franks, Lucinda                  My Father’s Secret War
Fuller, Alexandra                 Don’t Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight
Gantos, Jack                      Hole in my Life
Grealy, Lucy                      Autobiography of a Face
Haley, Alex and Malcolm X    The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Heiligman, Deborah             Charles and Emma: The Darwin’s Leap of Faith
Hickman, Homer                 Rocket Boys
Iggulden, Conn                   Genghis: Birth of an Empire
Jamison, Kay Redfield           An Unquiet Mind
Kamara, Mariatu                 The Bite of the Mango
Grogan, John                     Marley and Me
Kaysen, Susanna                Girl, Interrupted
Lewis, Michael                     The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow       Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead
McCourt, Frank                  Angela’s Ashes
Meacham, John                  American Lion
Moehringer, J.R.                 The Tender Bar
Nasar, Sylvia                      A Beautiful Mind
Obama, Barack                  Dreams from my Father
Plath, Sylvia                       The Bell Jar
Polly, Matthew                    American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch
Rhodes-Courter, Ashley        Three Little Words
Roose, Kevin                     The Unlikely Disciple
Sedaris, David                    Me Talk Pretty One Day
Sheff, Nic                          Tweak
Shields, Charles                  I am Scout
Ung, Loung                       First They Killed My Father; Lucky Child
Unger, Zac                       Working Fire: The Making of an Accidental Fireman
Walls, Jeanette                   Glass Castle, Half Broke Horses
Welty, Eudora                    One Writer’s Beginnings

Classics and Classic Connections

Alighieri, Dante                   Dante’s Inferno
Austen, Jane                               Emma; Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James                   Go Tell It on the Mountain
Bronte, Charlotte                Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily                     Wuthering Heights
Cather, Willa                      My Antonia
Chaucer, Geoffrey              Canterbury Tales
Dante, Alighieri                   The Inferno
Dickens, Charles                 David Copperfield; A Tale of Two Cities
Dumas, Alexander              Three Musketeers
Ellison, Ralph                      The Invisible Man
Fitzgerald, F. Scott              Tender is the Night
Flaubert, Gustave               Madame Bovary
Garcia-Marquez, Gabriel        One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gratz, Alan                        Something Rotten
Hardy, Thomas                  Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Heller, Joseph                    Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest              A Farewell to Arms
Hesse, Hermann                Siddhartha
Hurston, Zora Neale            Their Eyes Were Watching God
Ibsen, Henrick                    A Doll’s House
James, Henry                    The Portrait of a Lady
Joyce, James                     Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz                      The Metamorphosis
Kesey, Ken                       One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Klein, Lisa                          Ophelia
Lewis, Sinclair                     The Jungle
London, Jack                     Novels and Stories
Martel, Yann                      The  Life of Pi
McCullers, Carson               The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Melville, Herman                 Moby Dick
Mitchell, Margaret               Gone With the Wind
Morrison, Toni                    Sula; Song of Solomon; Bluest Eye
O’Conner, Flannery              A Good Man is Hard to Find
Orwell, George                   1984
Pasternak, Boris                 Doctor Zhivago
Rand, Ayn                         The Fountainhead
Remarque, Erich Maria         All Quiet on the Western Front
Salinger, J.D.                     Catcher in the Rye
Salinger, J. D.                               Franny and Zooey
Shakespeare, William           Much Ado About Nothing
Shelley, Mary                     Frankenstein
Smith, Betty                      A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Steinbeck, John                  East of Eden
Stowe, Harriet Beecher         Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Swift, Jonathan                   Gulliver’s Travels
Tolkien, J. R.R.                   The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Twain, Mark                       Tom Sawyer
Vonnegut, Kurt                   Slaughterhouse Five
Walker, Alice                      The Color Purple
Welty, Eudora                    Collected Stories
Welty, Eudora                    The Optimist’s Daughter
Wharton, Edith                   Ethan Fromme
Wilde, Oscar                      The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee            The Glass Menagerie
Woolfe, Virginia                   To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard                   Native Son

Cover Image Fantasy / Science Fiction

 

Adams, Douglas                 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Anderson, M.T.                  Feed
Atwood, Margaret               The Handmaid’s Tale
Barlow, Toby                     Sharp Teeth
Bray, Libby                        A Great and Terrible Beauty (series), Going Bovine
Cashore, Kristine                 Graceling
Cast, P.C. and Kristin           Marked (series)
Clare, Cassandra                City of Bones (series)
Collins, Suzanne                  Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay
Connolly, John                    The Book of Lost Things
Crichton, Michael                 Timeline
Doctorow, Corey                 Little Brother
Eddings, David                   Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery, Magician’s Gambit
Fukui, Isamu                     Truancy and Truancy:Origins
Gaiman, Neil                      The Graveyard Book
George, Jessica Day            Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
Harris, Joanne                    Runemarks
Knox, Elizabeth                   Dreamquake (Dreamhunter series)
LeGuin, Ursula                    A Wizard of Earthsea
Maguire, Gregory                Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Marr, Melissa                     Wicked Lovely (series)
Marriott, Zoë                      Daughter of the Flames
McCarthy, Cormac              The Road
McMann, Lisa                     Wake
Mead, Richelle                    Vampire Academy
Meyer, Stephanie                Twilight (series)
Moran, Katy                      Bloodline
Ness, Patrick                      The Knife of Never Letting Go
Nix, Joan                          Sabriel (series)
Noël, Alyson                      Evermore
Patterson, James                Maximum Ride (series)
Pfeffer, Susan Beth             Life As We Knew It; The Dead and the Gone
Pratchett, Terry                 Nation
Pullman, Philip                     His Dark Materials trilogy (Book #1: The Golden Compass)
Quinn, Daniel                     Ishmael
Shusterman, Neal               Unwind
Setterfield, Diane                The Thirteenth Tale
Swanwick, Michael               The Dragons of Babel

Graphic novels

Helfer, Andrew                   Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography
Jacobson, Sid                     The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation
Hinds, Garreth                    Merchant of Venice
Satrapi, Marjane                  Persepolis:  The Story of a Childhood
Small, David                       Stitches
Spiegelman, Art                  Maus I and Maus II
Tamaki, Mariko and Jillian      Skim
Thompson, Craig                Blankets
Vaughn, Brian                    Pride of Baghdad
Yang, Gene Luen                American Born Chinese; The Eternal Smile

Non-fiction 

Benanav, Michael                Men of Salt, Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold
Best, Joel                          Damned Lies and Statistics
Bloom, Stephen G.              The Oxford Project
Bowman, Robin                  It’s Complicated: The American Teenager
Callahan, David                   The Cheating Culture
Carson, Rachel                   Silent Spring
Casey, Susan                     The Devil’s Teeth: A True Story of Survival and Obsession among America’s Great White Sharks
Darwin, Charles                  Origin of the Species
Egan, Timothy                   The Worst Hard Time: The Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Ehrenreich, Barbara             Nickeled and Dimed
Finkel, David                      The Good Soldiers
Frank, Mitch                      Understanding September 11
Friedan, Betty                    The Feminine Mystique
Friedman, Thomas L.          The World is Flat:  A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Gladwell, Malcolm                 Blink, The Tipping Point, The Outliers
Goodwin, Doris Kearns         Team of Rivals, No Ordinary Time
Hillenbrand, Laura               Seabiscuit
Kingsolver, Barbara             High Tide in Tucson
Klein, Naomi                      Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Kunin, Madeline                  Pearls, Politics and Power: How Women Win and Lead
Larson, Erik                       Thunderstruck
Loewen, James                  Lies My Teacher Told Me
Margulies, Philip and Rosaler, Maxine Devil on Trial
Millman, Daniel                   Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives
McCullough, David               1776
McCullough, David               John Adams
Mortenson, Greg                Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time
Muir,   John                       My First Summer in the Sierra
Parrado, Nando                  Miracle in the Andes
Partridge, Elizabeth              Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary
Philbrick, Nathaniel                In the Heart of the Sea:  The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Pipher, Mary                      Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Pollan, Michael          The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Preston, Michael                 The Hot Zone
Roach, Roach                     Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers
Schlosser, Eric                    Fastfood Nation
Steinberg, Jacques.             The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College
Simmons, Rachel                Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
Tolle, Eckart                      Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Vowell, Sarah                     Assassination Vacation

Historical Fiction

Anderson, M.T.                  The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing vols. I and II
Bennioff, David                   City of Thieves
Bohjalian, Chris                   Skeletons at the Feast
Brooks, Geraldine                March, People of the Book, Year of Wonder
Brooks, Kevin                     The Road of the Dead
Chevalier, Tracy                 Girl with a Pearl Earring
Cunningham, Michael           The Hours
Diamant, Anita                   The Red Tent
Doig, Ivan                         The Whistling Season
Donnelly, Jennifer                A Northern Light
Dowd, Siobhan                   Bog Child
Eggers, Dave                     What is the What
Fletcher, Christine               Ten Cents a Dance
Follett, Ken                        Pillars of the Earth
Gaines, Ernest                    A Lesson Before Dying
Gardner, John                    Grendel
Godberson, Anna                The Luxe (series)
Gruen, Sara                       Water for Elephants
Gutterson, David                Snow Falling on Cedars
Hamamura, John                Color of the Sea
Hegi, Ursula                       Stones from the River
Hosseini, Khaled                 The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Irving, John                       The World According to Garp, Prayer for Owen Meany
Jordan, Hillary                    Mudbound
Naslund, Sena                    Ahab’s Wife
Otsuka, Julie                      When the Emperor Was Divine
Peet, Mal                          Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion and Betrayal
Smith, Sherri L.                   Flygirl
Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr         One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
Tinti, Hannah                     The Good Thief
Zusak, Markus                  The Book Thief

Realistic Fiction

Anderson, Laurie Halse         Winter Girls
Banks, Russell                    Rule of the Bone, The Sweet Hereafter
Bohjalian, Chris                   Midwives
Conner, Leslie                    Waiting for Normal
DiLillo, Don                         White Noise
Doctorow, Cory                  Little Brother
Downham, Jenny                Before I Die
Dunn, Mark                       Ella  Minnow  Pea
Efaw, Amy                        Battle Dress
Ellis, Ann Dee                     This is What I Did
Fielding, Helen                    Bridget Jones’s Diary
Fitch, Janet                       White Oleander
Gaarder, Jostein                 Sophie’s World
Gallo, Donald ed.                Destination Unexpected
Gibbons, Kaye                    Ellen Foster
Going, K. L.                       King of the Screwups
Green, John                       An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, Looking for Alaska
Haddon, Mark                    Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Hornby, Nick                      About a Boy
Jordan, Hillary                    Mudbound
Kidd, Sue Monk                  The Secret Life of Bees
Kincaid, Jamaica                 Annie John
Kingsolver, Barbara             Prodigal Summer,  Animal Dreams
Lahiri, Jhumpa                    The Namesake, Interpreter of Maladies
Letts, Billie                        Where the Heart Is
McEwan, Ian                     Atonement, Saturday
Monninger, Joseph              Baby
Mosher, Howard Frank         Stranger in the Kingdom
Myers, Walter Dean            Autobiography of my Dead Brother, Sunrise over Fallujah
Packer, Ann                       The Dive from Clausen’s Pier
Picoult, Jodi                        My Sister’s Keeper
Roy, Arundhati                   God of Small Things
Russo, Richard                             Empire Falls
Scott, Elizabeth                   Living Dead Girl
Shreve, Anita                     The Pilot’s Wife, Light on Snow
Smith, Cynthia, Leitich          Eternal
Smith, Roland                     Peak
Sittenfeld, Curtis                 Prep
Stork, Francisco                  Marcelo in the Real World
Toole, John                       Confederacy of Dunces
Tucker, Todd                     Over and Under
Zusak, Markus                   The Book Thief

Young Adult Realistic Fiction

Alexie, Sherman                 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Anderson, Laurie H.             Catalyst, Twisted
Brooks, Kevin                     Lucas
Caletti, Deb                       Honey Baby Sweetheart, Searching for Prince Charming
Chbosky, Stephen               The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Clarke, Judith                     One Whole and Perfect Day
Crutcher, Chris                   Deadline
de la Pena, Matt                 Mexican Whiteboy
Dessen, Sarah                             Just Listen, Lock and Key, Along for the Ride
Down, Siobhan                   A Swift Pure Cry
Ellis, Ann Dee                     This is What I Did
Ellsworth, Loretta                In Search of Mockingbird
Forman, Gayle                             If I Stay
Green, John                       An Abundance of Katherines, Looking for Alaska, Paper Towns
Griffin, Paul                        The Orange Houses
Headly, Justina Chen           North of Beautiful
Hernandez, David               No More Us for You
Jenkins, A.M.                     Repossessed
Johnson, Maureen              Thirteen Little Blue Envelopes
Korman, Gordon                 Jake Reinvented, Born to Rock
Lockhart, E.                       The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Lynch, Chris                       Inexcusable
Marchetta, Melina               Jellicoe Road
McCormick, Patricia             Sold
Oates, Joyce Carol              Big Mouth Ugly Girl
O’Neill, Heather                  Lullabies for Little Criminals
Peters, Julie Anne               Luna
Rapp, Adam                      Under the Wolf, Under the Dog
Rebeck, Theresa                Three Girls and Their Brother
Reinhardt, Dana                 How to Build a House
Resau, Laura                     Red Glass
Stein, Tammar                             Light Years
Vizzini, Nick                        It’s Kind of a Funny Story
Voorhees, Coert                 The Brothers Torres
Weingarten, Lynn               Wherever Nina Lies
Weiss, Laura                      Such a Pretty Girl
Werlin, Nancy                    Impossible
Westerfeld, Scott                Uglies (series)
Wittlinger, Ellen                   Heart on my Sleeve, Hard Love
Yee, Lisa                          Absolutely Maybe

Cover Image Sports / Adventure 

Caldwell, Ian and Dustin Thomason  The Rule of Four
Capote, Truman                 In Cold Blood
Clancy, Tom                      The Hunt for Red October
Crutcher, Chris                   Deadline, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
de la Pena, Matt                 Mexican Whiteboy
D’Orso, Michael                  Eagle Blue: A Team, A Tribe, and A High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska
Fainaru-Wada                    Game of Shadows
Krakauer, John                    Into Thin Air
Krakauer, John                    Into the Wild
McCaughrean, Geraldine       The White Darkness
McKissack, Frederick            Shooting Star
Ortiz, David                       Big Papi
Tharp, Tim                        Knights of Hill Country
Volponi, Payul                     Black and White
Wallace, Rich                     One Good Punch

Suspense / Mystery

Brooks, Kevin                     Road of the Dead
Brown, Dan                       Angels and Demons
Christie, Agatha                  And Then There Were None
Crichton, Michael                 Congo
Ferguson, Alane                 The Christopher Killer
Ferraris, Zoë                      Finding Nouf
Giles, Gail                          What Happened to Cass McBride, Right Behind You
Haddon, Mark                    The Curious incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
James, P.D.                      An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Jinks, Catherine                  Evil Genius
King, Stephen                    Just After Sunset:Stories
King, Stephen                     Christine
Koonz, Dean                      The Face
Lanagan, Margo                 Red Spike
Larson, Erik                       Devil in the White City
Ludlum, Robert                   The Bourne Identity
McCaughrean, Geraldine       The White Darkness
Saylor, Steven                    Roman Blood
Smith, Alexander McCall       The Ladies Number One Detective Agency
VandeVelde, Vivian              All Hallows Eve (13 Stories)
Zusak, Markus                   I am the Messenger

Verse

Barlow, Toby                     Sharp Teeth
Collins, Billy                        Sailing Alone Around the Room
Dickinson, Emily                  Emily Dickinson’s Poems
Fehler, Gene                      Beanball
Frost, Helen                       Keesha’s House, The Braid, Diamond Willow, Crossing Stones
Frost, Robert                               The Poetry of Robert Frost
Hemphill, Stephanie             Your Own Sylvia (see also: Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar)
Hesse, Karen                     Out of the Dust
Hopkins, Ellen                     Crank, Glass
Keillor, Garrison                   Good Poems
McClatchy, J.D.                  The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
McCormick, Patricia             Sold
Nelson, Marilyn                   A Wreath for Emmett Till
Paine, Jeffrey                     Poetry of Our World
Plath, Sylvia                       The Collected Poems
Sones, Sonya                     What My Girlfriend Doesn’t Know, Stop Pretending
Webb, Charles Harper           Stand Up Poetry
Whitman, Walt                    Leaves of Grass
Wolff, Virginia                     Make Lemonade / True Believers
WritersCorps                       Paint Me Like I am  (poetry by contemporary teens)
Vrettos, Adrienne Maria        Skin
Welsh, T.K.                       The Unresolved