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The intention of this page is to help IPS students make informed decisions when choosing  books. Each of the following books has been chosen for literary value as well as reader enjoyment. The links on this page allow you to preview books and to find biographical information on the author quickly and easily. Click on the underlined titles to access a summary of the book and personal information on the author.

THE MASTER LIST
 

TITLE

AUTHOR

GRADE LEVEL


American Novels

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

- 7 8 -

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

- - 8 9

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

- - 8 9

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

- - 8 9

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

- - 8 9

The Pearl

John Steinbeck

6

7 - -

The Adventures of Huck. Finn

Mark Twain

6

7 - -

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

6

7 - -

Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger

- - 8 9

The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury

6

7 - -

Farhrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

- 7 8 9

The Outsiders

S. E. Hinton

6

7 - -

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

- - 8 9

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

- - 8 9

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

6

7 8 9

Night

Elie Wiesel

6

7 - -

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

6

7 - -

Beloved

Toni Morrison

- - - 9

Grendel

John Gardner

- - 8 9

A Prayer for Owen Meany

John Irving

- - 8 9

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey

- - - 9

The Last Unicorn

Peter S. Beagle

- - - 9

A Gathering of Days

Joan Blos

6

7 - -

Home Before Dark

Sue Ellen Bridgers

6

7 8 9

All Together Now

Sue Ellen Bridgers

6

7 8 9

The Wishsong of Shannara

Terry Brooks

6

7 8 9

Cold Sassy Tree

Olive Burns

- - 8 9

Seventh Son

Orson Scott Card

6

7 - -

The Chocolate War

Robert Cormier

- - 8 9

Ordinary People

Judith Guest

6

7 8 9

Smart Rats

Thomas Baird

6

7 - -

Summer of My German Soldier

Bette Greene

6

7 - -

The Blue Sword

Robin McKinley

6

7 - -

Z for Zachariah

Robert O'Brien

6

7 - -

A Day No Pigs Would Die

Robert Peck

6

7 - -

Rendezvous with Rama

Arthur C. Clarke

6

7 8 9

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card

6

7 - -

A Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula LeGuin

6

7 - -

Homecoming

Cynthia Voight

- - 8 9

Dicey's Song

Cynthia Voight

- - 8 9

British Novels

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

6

7 - -

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

6

7 - -

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

- - 8 9

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

- - 8 9

The Chronicles of Narnia

C. S. Lewis

6

7   - -

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

6

7 -  -

Emma

Jane Austen

-

7 8 9

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

6

7 - -

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift

-

7 8 9

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

6

7 8 9

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

-

- 8 9

The Hobbit

J. R. Tolkien

6

7 - -

The Lord of the Rings

J. R. Tolkien

6

7 8 9

1984

George Orwell

-

-

8 9

Animal Farm

George Orwell

6

7 - -

Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte

-

- 8 9

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte

-

- 8 9

Watership Down

Richard Adams

6

7 - -

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

6

7 - -

Le Morte D'Arthur

Sir Thomas Malory

6

7 - -

Brave New World

Aldus Huxley

- - 8 9

Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell

- - - 9

The Chrysalids

John Wyndham

-

- 8 9

A Cue For Treason

Geoffrey Trease

-

- 8 9

Nights at the Circus

Angela Carter

-

- - 9

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

-

- 8 9

Through the Looking-glass

Lewis Carroll

6

7 - -

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

6

7 - -

All Creatures Great and Small

James Herriot

6

7 - -

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

6

7

- -

The Day of the Triffids

John Wyndham

-

-

8

9

The Secret Garden

Francis Hodgson Bernett

6

-

-

-

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

-

-

-

9

The Canterbury Tales

Chaucer

-

-

8

9


British Plays

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

-

-

- 9

Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

6

7 - -

Saint Joan

George Bernard Shaw

-

- 8 9

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Tom Stoppard

-

- 8 9

Shakespeare

MacBeth

.

-

- 8 9

As You Like It

.

6

7

-

-

Hamlet

.

-

-

-

9

Julius Caesar

.

6

7

- -

Romeo and Juliet

.

6

7

- -

Henry IV

. - - -

9

Midsummer Night's Dream

. - -

8

-


Canadian Literature

I Heard the Owl Call My Name

Mari L. Robbins

6

7

- -

Never Cry Wolf

Farley Mowatt

6

7 - -

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

-

- 8 9

Alias Grace

Margaret Atwood

-

- 8 9

Cat's Eye

Margaret Atwood

-

- 8 9

Lives of Girls and Women

Alice Munroe

-

- - 9

Who Has Seen the Wind?

W. O. Mitchell

6

7 - -

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Mordecai Richler

6

7 - -

The Depford Trilogies

Robertson Davies

-

- - 9

The Lark in the Clear Air

Dinnis Patrick Sears

-

- 8 9

Anne of Green Gables

L.M. Montgomery

6

7 - -


World Literature

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

6

7 - -

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

- - 8 9

Antigone

Sophocles

- - 8 -

Oedipus

Sophocles

-

- - 9

The Odyssey

Homer

6

7 - -

Obasan

Joy Kogawa

6

7 - -

The Stranger

Albert Camus

-

- - 9

Like Water for Chocolate

Laura Esquivel

-

- 8 9

100 Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marques

-

-

-

9

 

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