9-12 Literature Reading List

Great Books high school literature anthologies combine outstanding fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from classic and contemporary masters with interpretive activities that engage students throughout the reading process.

Now available from the Great Books Foundation—Perfection Learning’s Many Voices Literature series, supported by three new discussion guides.

Series 9

Miriam Truman Capote

Zoo Island Tomás Rivera

At the Pitt-Rivers Penelope Lively

New African (from Sarah Phillips) Andrea Lee

Sponono Alan Paton

Bobby's Room Douglas Dunn

A Bird in the House Margaret Laurence

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson

The Little Cousins Peter Taylor

The Idealist Frank O'Connor

The Time Machine H. G. Wells

 

IGB First Series

Why War? Sigmund Freud

The Melian Dialogue Thucydides

The Social Me William James

Rothschild's Fiddle Anton Chekhov

Concerning the Division of Labor Adam Smith

Chelkash Maxim Gorky

How an Aristocracy May Be Created by Industry Alexis de Tocqueville

Observation and Experiment Claude Bernard

Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery O'Connor

An Essay in Aesthetics Roger Fry

An Outpost of Progress Joseph Conrad

On Studying José Ortega y Gassett

 

IGB Second Series

Politics Aristotle

Of Commonwealth Thomas Hobbes

Barn Burning William Faulkner

Of Civil Government John Locke

In Exile Anton Chekhov

The Declaration of Independence

Equality Isaiah Berlin

Sorrow-Acre Isak Dinesen

Why Americans Are Often So Restless Alexis de Tocqueville

After the Ball Leo Tolstoy

Habit William James

The Overcoat Nikolai Gogol

 

IGB Third Series 

On Happiness Aristotle

Habits and Will John Dewey

Happiness Mary Lavin

Crito Plato

On Liberty John Stuart Mill

Conscience Immanuel Kant

A Hunger Artist Franz Kafka

Of the Limits of Government John Locke

Antigone Sophocles

Why Great Revolutions Will Become Rare Alexis de Tocqueville

A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities Delmore Schwartz

 

Modern American Poetry

This collection highlights more than 40 American poets, including

  • Walt Whitman 
  • Emily Dickinson 
  • Robert Frost 
  • William Carlos Williams 
  • E. E. Cummings 
  • Langston Hughes 
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Allen Ginsberg
  • Anne Sexton
  • Sylvia Plath 
  • Ray A. Young Bear 
  • Rita Dove
  • Gary Soto
  • Li-Young Lee

Many Voices Literature Series 

 Three comprehensive anthologies of outstanding literature with teacher support materials that make literature more meaningful and enjoyable for students and teachers alike.
 
 Great Books Discussion Guides provide all you need to support students through the reading process, including activities, writing prompts, and interpretive questions for Shared Inquiry discussions. And Teaching and Assessment workbooks help you differentiate instruction and assess student performance.