Easton Area High School: 9th Grade Summer Reading List
All titles are alphabetical by the author’s last name.
Most titles are available at the branches of the Easton Area Public LIbrary.
Titles can be requested from other libraries (including the Allentown and Bethlehem Public Libraries) for $0.50.
Watership Down – Richard Adams
Nightfall – Joan Aiken
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Alabama Raider – B.B. Anderson
Abe Lincoln and the River Robbers – Lavere Anderson
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
Go Ask Alice – Anonymous
Alicia: My Story – Alicia Appleman-Jurman
Sounder – William Armstrong
Words from the Myths – Isaac Asimov
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Lilies of the Field – William Barrett
The Devil and Daniel Webster – Stephen Vincent Benet
Lorna Doone – R.D. Blackmore
Brian's Song – William Blinn
Tiger Eyes – Judy Blume
Man for All Seasons – Robert Bolt
Durango Street – Frank Bonham
When Legends Die – Hal Borland
Dandelion Wine – Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Illustrated Man – Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
Red Sky at Morning – Richard Bradford
To Sir, with Love –E.R. Braithwaite
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Incredible Journey – Sheila E. Burnford
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Black Ice – Lorene Cary
Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather
My Antonia – Willa Cather
A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich – Alice Childress
And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
Ten Little Indians – Agatha Christie
The Ox-Bow Incident – Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Childhood's End – Arthur Clarke
Where the Lilies Bloom – Bill Cleaver
My Brother Sam is Dead – James Lincoln Collier
Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
I Am The Cheese – Robert Cormier
The Chocolate War – Robert Cormier
I Hear the Own Call My Name – Margaret Craven
Lost World – Michael Crighton
Sphere – Michael Crighton
Dorp Dead – Julia Cunningham
The Cat Ate My Gymsuit – Paula Danziger
Life with Father – Clarence Day
Door in the Wall – Marguerite de Angeli
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Cricket on the Hearth – Charles Dickens
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
Deliverance – James Dickey
P.T. 109 – Robert Donovan
The Night They Burned the Mountain – Dr. Thomas Dooley
Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
Tears of a Tiger – Sharon Draper
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
I Know What You Did Last Summer – Lois Duncan
Kidnapped – Lois Duncan
Killing Mr. Griffin – Lois Duncan
Adventures of Ulysses – Bernard Evslin
Heroes, Gods, and Monsters of Greek Myths – Bernard Evslin
April Morning – Howard Fast
Cimarron – Edna Ferber
Saratoga Trunks – Edna Ferber
Johnny Tremain – Esther Forbes
Slave Dancer – Paula Fox
Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
Alas, Babylon – Pat Frank
Mrs. Mike – Benedict Freedman
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman – Ernest Gaines
My Side of the Mountain – Jean Craighead George
Miracle Worker – William Gibson
Cheaper by the Dozen – Frank Gilbreth
Old Yeller – Fred Gipson
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Carnage of the Realm – C.A. Goodrum
I Never Promise You a Rose Garden – Joanne Greenburg
Summer of My German Soldier – Bette Greene
Black Like Me – John Howard Griffin
Ordinary People – Judith Guest
Death Be Not Proud – John Gunther
Man Without a Country – Edward Hale
Roots – Alex Haley
Mythology – Edith Hamilton
Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry
Outcasts of Poker Flat – Bret Hart
Endless Steppe – Esther Hautzig
House of Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mr. And Mrs. Bo Jo Jones – Ann Head
Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Snows of Kilimanjaro – Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
All Creatures Great and Small – James Herriot
Hiroshima – John Hersey
Kon-Tiki – Thor Heyerdahl
Good-bye, Mr. Chips – James Hilton
Lost Horizon – James Hilton
Rumble Fish – S.E. Hinton
Tex – S.E. Hinton
That Was Then, This Is Now – S.E. Hinton
The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton
Prisoner of Zenda – Anthony Hope
Farewell to Manzanar – Jeanne Houston
Across Five Aprils – Irene Hunt
No Promises in the Wind – Irene Hunt
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Rip Van Winkle – Washington Irving
Mossflower – Brian Jacques
Walk Across America – Peter Jenkins
Acorn People – Ron Jones
Patch of Blue – Elizabeth Kata
Story of My Life – Helen Keller
Profiles in Courage – John F. Kennedy
Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack – M.E. Kerr
Gentlehands – M.E. Kerr
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Ken Kesey
Arsenic and Old Lace – Joseph Kesselring
Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
A Separate Peace – John Knowles
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – E. L. Konigsburg
Let the Hurricane Roar – Rose Wilder lane
Inherit the Wind – Jerome Lawrence
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
My Fair Lady – Alan J. Lerner
The Stepford Wives – Ira Levin
The Contender – Robert Lipsyte
How Green Was My Valley – Richard Llewellyn
Call of the Wild – Jack London
White Fang – Jack London
A Night to Remember – Walter Lord
Eric – Doris Lund
Christy – Catherine Marshall
Walkabout – James Marshall
Teacupful of Roses – Sharon Bell Mathis
Piece of String – Guy de Maupassant
Snowbound – Harry Mazer
Member of the Wedding – Carson McCullers
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
The Blue Sword – Robin McKinley
Guns of Navaronne – Alistair McLean
Billy Bud – Herman Melville
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
Bridges at Toko-Ri – James Michener
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
Canticle for Leibowitz – Walter Miller
Brian Piccolo: A Short Season – Jeannie Morris
Girl Who Owned a City – O.T. Nelson
Edgar Allen – John Neufeld
Lisa, Bright and Dark – John Neufeld
Mutiny on the Bounty – Charles Nordhoff
Rascal – Sterling North
Black Pearl – Scott O’Dell
Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell
Sing Down the Moon – Scott O’Dell
The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Orczy
1984 – George Orwell
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The Learning Tree – Gordon Parks
Jacob Have I Loved – Katherine Paterson
Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
Remembering the Good Times – Richard Peck
Something for Joey – Richard Peck
The Day No Pigs Would Die – Robert Peck
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors – Paul Piers
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
True Grit – Charles Portis
The Chosen – Chaim Potok
The Yearling – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Summer of the Monkeys – Wilson Rawls
Where the Red Fern Grows – Wilson Rawls
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Marie Remarque
Light in the Forest – Conrad Richter
Northwest Passage – Kenneth Roberts
Giants in the Earth – O.E. Rolvaag
Cyrano de Bergerac – Edmond Rostand
Gods, Heroes, and Men of Ancient Greece – W.H.D. Rouse
Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Shane – Jack Schaefer
Ivanhoe – Walter Scott
Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
Arms and the Man – Geroge Bernard Shaw
West Side Story – Irving Shulman
On the Beach – Nevil Shute
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Witch of Blackbird Pond – Elizabeth Speare
Heidi – Johanna Spyri
The Little Prince – Antoine de St. Exupery
Fiddler of the Roof – Joseph Stein
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Moon is Down – John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
The Pearl – John Steinbeck
The Red Pony – John Steinbeck
Travels with Charley – John Steinbeck
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Uncle Tom's Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Wave – Todd Strasser
Hie to the Hunters – Jesse Stuart
Bless the Beasts and Children – Glendon Swarthout
Gulliver's Travels – Jonathan Swift
Seventeen – Booth Tarkington
Let the Circle Be Unbroken – Mildred Taylor
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry – Mildred Taylor
The Cay – Theodore Taylor
Hiding Place – Corrie Ten Boom
Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Johnny Got His Gun – Dalton Trumbo
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court – Mark Twain
Huck Finn – Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi – Mark Twain
Pudd'nhead Wilson – Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
I Remember Mamma – John van Druten
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne
Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne
Dicey's Song – Cynthia Voigt
Homecoming – Cynthia Voigt
Ben Hur – Lew Wallace
Night – Elie Weisel
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
Car Thief – Theodore Wessner
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
Deathwatch – Robb White
The Once and Future King – T.H. White
The Sword and the Stone – T.H. White
Mouse that Roared – Leonard Wibberley
Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
Our Town – Thornton Wilder
The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Thornton Wilder
Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams
Caine Mutiny – Herman Wouk
Black Boy – Richard Wright
Native Son – Richard Wright
The Swiss Family Robinson – Johann Wyss
Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds – Paul Zindel
My Darling, My Hamburger – Paul Zindel
Pardon Me, You're Stepping on my Eyeball – Paul Zindel
The Pigman – Paul Zindel
The Pigman's Legacy – Paul Zindel