Easton Middle School
All students entering grades 6, 7, and 8 are required to read:
RESTART
by Gordon Korman
Oliver Ames High School
Entering grade 12 AP literature:
Required Reading:
The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
Students will take an assessment the first week of school.
Humanities (Honors, elective):
Required Reading:
The Handmaid’s Tale
by Margaret Atwood
Students will take an assessment the first week of school.
Students may choose one or more books from these lists, and during the first few weeks of school, students will engage in class discussions about their reading.
The books are listed by recommended age appropriateness, but students may choose from either list:
Grades 9-10 Recommendations:
Half of the Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Solo by Kwame Alexander
Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Radium Girls by Kate Moore
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Dumplin' by Julie Murphy
This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Mattias Ripa
Overturned by Lamar Giles
Aristotle and Dante by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Vincent and Theo: the Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman,
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely
Glass Castle by Jeannette Wells
Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella
The Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Warcross by Marie Lu
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Grades 11 and 12 Recommendations:
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
1984 by George Orwell
Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Deadline by Chris Crutcher
I'm Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez
A Stolen Life by Jaycee Lee Dugard
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Bossypants by Tina Fey
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea by Melissa Fleming
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Sway by Kat Spears
Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
They All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach
Every Day by David Levithan
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
March: Book Three by John Lewis
American Street by Ibi Zoboi