What Should I Read Next?

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What Should I Read Next?

A selection of books that you might enjoy, if you liked the book you read.
This list is still "Under Construction" so if your book is not included, check back later.

9th grade list | 10th grade list | 11th grade list | 12th grade list

**9TH GRADE LIST**
IF YOU LIKED THIS BOOK:		TRY ONE OF THESE:
Annie John by Jamacia Kincaid		Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Armageddon Summer by Jane Yolen & , Bruce Coville		The Last Safe Place on Earth, by Richard Peck A Door Near Here by Heather Quaries
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya		How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, by Julia Alvarez Zia Summer by Rudolfo Anaya The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Casteneda
Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon		Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes		Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula Le Guin House of Stairs by William Sleator
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov		Forward the Foundation by Isacc Asimov The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer		Alive by Piers Paul Reid
Kitchen, Yoshimoto, Banana
My Dog Skip by Willie Morris		Growing Up by Russell Baker
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok		The Gift of Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene		A Promise to Keep by Eileen Van Kirk
This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff		Being With Henry by Martha Brooks All over but the shoutin' by Rick Bragg
You Can't Take It With You by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman		Three plays (Our Town, Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker, by Thorton Wilder

**10TH GRADE LIST**
IF YOU LIKED THIS BOOK:		TRY ONE OF THESE:
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt		A Drinking Life by Pete Hamill
Are You Experienced? by William Sutcliffe		Deep Dream of the Rain Forest by Malcom Bosse
Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver		Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton
Call of the Wild by Jack London		Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason		Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice		Dracula by Bram Stoker
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen		A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym
Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella		The Natural by Bernard Malamud For Love of the Game by Michael Shaara
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston		Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Travels With Charlie by John Steinbeck		Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon
When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago		The Color of Water by James McBride
Wishbones by Tom Perrotta		Election by Tom Perrotta

**11TH GRADE LIST**
IF YOU LIKED THIS BOOK:		TRY ONE OF THESE:
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines		These Same Long Bones by Gwendolyn Parker
Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez		Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat		Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller		Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Color Purple by Alice Walker
Goodbye Columbus and Five Short Stories by Philip Roth
House Made of Dawn by Scott Momaday		When the Legends Die by Hal Borland
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb		She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb Our Sometime Sister by Norah Labiner
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou		Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer		The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Jubilee by Margaret Walker
Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan		The Rain Catchers, by Jean Thesman
Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight by Sherman Alexie
My Antonia by Willa Cather		Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich Prairie Songs by Pam Conrad
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy		Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Patterson The Floatplane Notebooks by Clyde Edgerton
Rabbit, Run by John Updike		Rabbit Redux by John Updike Rabbit is Rich by John Updike Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
Smack by Melvin Burgess		Go Ask Alice by Anonymous A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich by Alice Childress Clockers by Richard Price
Snow falling on Cedars by David Guterson		Montana 1948 by Larry Watson Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Sula by Toni Morrison
Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris		When the Legends Die by Hal Borland House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

**12TH GRADE LIST**
IF YOU LIKED THIS BOOK:		TRY ONE OF THESE:
Black & Blue by Anna Quindlen		The book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
Down These Mean Streets by Thomas Piri		The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X with Alex Haley Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez
The Dubliners by James Joyce		Life is Funny by E.R. Frank
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad		Lord of the Flies by William Goldiing
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte		Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
Light in August by William Faulkner
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur S. Golden		Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest A. Gaines Color Purple by Alice Walker
Native Son by Richard Wright
No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre
On the Road by Jack Kerouac		The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Oresteia by Aeschylus
The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb		The Good Mother by Sue Miller Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem
Snow in August by Pete Hamil		Second hand Smoke byThane Rosenbaum Tunes for Bears To Dance To by Robert Cormier
Time Machine by H.C. Wells		Time and Again by Jack Finney
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Washington Square by Henry James

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