11^th Grade Book List

# Audio tape in library

NOVELS

Required of all students:

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• # Ethan Frome
• Color of Water
• Glass Menagerie/ Street Car Named Desire
• Death of a Salesman
• # The Crucible

Honors will also read:

• # Scarlet Letter
• Cold Montain
• Sophie’s Choice
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Optional:

• All the Kings Men
• American Short Stories
• Beyond the Horizon
• # Billy Budd
• Brian’s Song
• Dances with Wolves
• # Farewell to Arms
• # Good Earth
• Grapes of Wrath
• # Great Gatsby
• Heart is a Lonely Hunter
• Inherit the Wind
• Jungle
• Killer Angels
• Natural
• Things they Carried
• # Red Badge of Courage
• Shoeless Joe
• # Sun Also Rises
• Turn of the Screw
• # Walden
• Willa Cather Stories

TEXTS

• The American Experience
• United States in Literature
• Major American Writers
• Vocabulary Workshop
• MLA Guide to Documentation

In addition to the aforementioned works, selections of poetry are

covered including, but not limited to, the following authors:

· William Auden

· Anne Bradsteet

· William Cullen Bryant

· Countee Cullen

· William Crane

· E.E. Cummings

· Emily Dickinson

· James Dickey

· Paul Laurence Dunbar

· T.S. Eliot

· Robert Frost

· Oliver Wendell Holmes

· Langston Hughes

· Sidney Lanier

· Denise Levertov

· Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

· Amy Lowell

· James Russell Lowell

· Archibald Macleish

· Edgar Lee Masters

· Claude McKay

· Edna St. Millay

· Marianne Moore

· Edgar Allen Poe

· Ezra Pound

· John Crowe Ransom

· Edwin Arlington Robinson

· Theodore Roethe

· Carl Sandburg

· Wallace Stevens

· Jean Toomer

· Walt Whitman

· John Greenleaf Whittier