Anticipated Texts 23-24
Anticipated Texts for the North Haven High School English Department 23-24
9th Grade
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon
Mythology, Edith Hamilton
It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Ned Vizzini
The Odyssey, Homer (translated by Emily Wilson)
All American Boys, Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely
A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo
How It Went Down, Kelkla Magoon
Finding Audrey, Sophie Kinsella
More Happy Than Not, Adam Silvera
I am not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Erika Sanchez
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
10th Grade
The Tragedy of Macbeth, William Shakespeare
The Other Wes Moore, Wes Moore
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Genesis, Bernard Becket
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Oedipus the King, Sophocles (Translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald)
The Epic of Gilgamesh, (Translated by Andrew George)
The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Feed, M.T. Anderson
The Circle, Dave Eggers
Never Let me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
Reconstructing Amelia, Kimberly McCreight
Twelve Angry Men, Reginald Rose
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka
A Separate Peace, John Knowles
Blackfish City, Miller
EXO, Fonda Lee
Black River Falls, Hirsch
Prodigy, Marie Lu
Rule of One, Saunders
Vox, Dalcher
Inferno, Dante
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Beowulf
Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng
11th Grade
Kindred, Octavia Butler
Fences, August Wilson
There, There, Tommy Orange
Black Boy, Richard Wright
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
Dear Martin, Nic Stone
Narrative of the LIfe of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglas
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
In Love & Trouble, Alice Walker
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
Deliverance, James Dickey
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Transcendentalism Essays, Emerson & Thoreau
Various Speeches
Ordinary Light, Smith
Warriors Don’t Cry, Pattillo
Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng
12th Grade
Native Son, Richard Wright
The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
Wool, Hugh Howey
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
Beautiful Boy, David Sheff
Born a Crime, Trevor Noah
The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
Tweak (Excerpts), Nic Sheff
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare
King Lear, William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare
The Winter’s Tale, William Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part 1, William Shakespeare
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen
A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
Different Seasons, Stephen King
Carrie, Stephen King
Dolores Claiborne, Stephen King
Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
Disappearing Earth, Julia Phillips
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
Lives and Loves of a She-Devil, Fay Weldon
American Earth, Bill McKibben
Slaughterhouse V, Kurt Vonnegut
1984, George Orwell
Brave New World, Arduous Huxley
In their North Haven High School classes, students experience a variety of grade-level appropriate texts, including novels, poetry, short stories, essays, articles, textbooks, and plays. These texts may span a range of time from the classical period to the modern era. They also will span a range of topics and perspectives designed to foster learning aligned with the curriculum.
If a student or parent has a concern about any text, they should contact the course teacher and/or the department coordinator. If the concern is not resolved, the parent has the right to request an alternative text provided by the course teacher.