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All of the booklists come from the curriculum Build Your Library
Grade 9
Grade 10
Grade 11
History
Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth by DK
Evolution: The Human Story by Dr. Alice Roberts
The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet by Robert M. Hazen
The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Robert Dawkins
The Story of Life in 25 Fossils: Tales of Intrepid Fossil Hunters and the Wonders of Evolution by Donald R. Prothero
Science
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The Practical Geologist: The Introductory Guide to the Basics of Geology and to Collecting and Identifying Rocks by Dougal Dixon
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA by Mark Schultz
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
Literature
The Last of the Sandwalkers by Jay Hosler
Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakspeare
Ashfall by Mike Mullen
Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker
Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande
A Bone from a Dry Sea by Peter Dickinson
The Inheritors by William Golding
Eva by Peter Dickinson
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Kin by Peter Dickinson
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
Poetry
Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry by Billy Collins
A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver
Intro. to Lit. Analysis
How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
Figuratively Speaking by Delana Heidrich
Art
You Can Draw in 30 Days by Mark Kistler
History
Cartoon History of the Universe v. 1 by Larry Gonick
Cartoon History of the Universe v. 2 by Larry Gonick
Cartoon History of the Universe v. 3 by Larry Gonick
Atlas of World History by Patrick O’Brien
World History in Documents by Peter N. Stearns
Africa by John Reader
The Ancient Near East by Amanda H. Podany
The Woman Who Would Be King by Kara Cooney
The Life of Alexander the Great by Victor Davis Hanson
1066: The Year of the Conquest by David Howarth
A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman
Biology
The Curious Naturalist by Sy Montgomery
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
The Violinist’s Thumb by Sam Kean
Climate Changed by Philippe Squarzoni
What a Plant Knows by Daniel Chamovitz
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Literature
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Gilgamesh the King by Robert Silverberg
Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarivs McGraw
The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
Mother of the Believers by Kamran Pasha
Enchantress from the Stars by Sylvia Engdahl
Norse Mythology by Niel Gaiman
Grendel by John Gardner
The Inquisitor’s Tales by Adam Gidwitz
The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
Poetry
The Epic of Gilgamesh by N. K. Sanders
The Iliad by Homer
Julius Cesar by Willian Shakespeare
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffery Chaucer
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by J. R. R. Tolkien
Mythology and World Religion
The Illustrated World’s Religion by Huston Smith
Myths & Legends by Philip Wilkinson
A History of God by Karen Armstrong
History
Cartoon History of the Modern World v. 1 by Larry Gonick
Cartoon History of the Modern World v. 2 by Larry Gonick
The History Book by DK
Atlas of World History by Patrick O’Brien
World History in Documents by Peter N. Stearns
Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
The Tudor Tutor by Barb Alexander
Shakespeare: The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson
Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel
The Lost King of France by Deborah Cadbury
King Lepold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild
Tesla vs. Edison by Nigel Cawthorne
The War to End All Wars by Russell Freedman
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler by Phillip Hoose
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
Chemistry
Periodic Tales by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Napoleon’s Buttons by Penny LeCouteur & Jay Burreson
Caesar’s Last Breath by Sam Kean
Radium Girls by Kate Moore
Literature
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
The Gold Eaters by Ronald Wright
Queen’s Own Fool by Jane Volen & Robert J. Harris
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Rebel Queen by Michelle Moran
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe
Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa
Revolution is not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaimen
Poetry
Why Poetry by Mathew Zapruder
The Making of a Poem by Mark Strand & Eavan Boland
History of the English Language
Excavating English by Ruth A. Johnston
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynne Truss
The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Word by Word: Secret Lives of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper