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  Reading List 2008-2009 Grade - 9 and 10  
  Required Reading  
 
Title Author
  • Good Earth
  • The Complete Sherlock Holmes
  • Mother
  • The Black Tulip
  • The Interpreter of Maladies
  • A Beautiful Mind
  • A Fine Balance
  • Three Comrades
  • Sophie’s World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
  • The Glass Menagerie
  • Return of the Native
  • Things Fall Apart
  • Rebecca
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four
  • The Alchemist
  • Murder in the Cathedra
  • The Catcher in the Rye
  • Selected Poems
  • Samskara

  • Importance of Being Ernest
  • Strange Pilgrims
  • God of Small Things
  • The Outsider
  • Siddhartha
  • The Fire and the Rain
  • Wuthering Heights
  • Women in Love
  • Portrait in Sepia
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Travels with My Aunt

Pearl S. Buck
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Maxim Gorky
Alexandre Dumas
Jhumpa Lahiri
Sylvia Nasar
Rohinton Mistry
Erich Maria Remarque
Jostein Gaardner
Tennessee Williams
Thomas Hardy
Chinua Achebe
Daphne du Maurier
George Orwell
Paulo Coelho
T.S. Eliot
J.D. Salinger
Pablo Neruda
U.R. Ananthamurthy (translated by A.K. Ramanujan)
Oscar Wilde
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Arundhati Roy
Albert Camus
Hermann Hesse
Girish Karnad
Emily Brontë
D.H. Lawrence
Isabel Allende
Jane Austen
Graham Greene

 
     
     
  Recommended Reading  
 
Title Author
  • Angela’s Ashes
  • Eugene Grandet
  • Death of a Salesman
  • Complete Tales and Poems
  • Pygmalion
  • The Discovery of India
  • The Early Stories
  • The Devil’s Dictionary
  • Selected Poems
  • Stories
  • Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo
  • The Return of the Native
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  • The Hungry Stones
  • 2001, A Space Odyssey
  • Jane Eyre
  • The Diary of A Nobody
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • The Prisoner of Zenda
  • A Passage to India
  • A Death in the Family
  • he Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  • Song of Solomon
  • Two Leaves and a Bud
  • Gone with the Wind
Frank McCourt
Honoré de Balzac
Arthur Miller
Edgar Allan Poe
G.B. Shaw
Jawaharlal Nehru
John Updike
Ambrose Bierce
W.B.Yeats
Anton Chekhov
Filipovic Zlata
Thomas Hardy
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Rabindranath tagore
Arthur C. Clarke
Charlotte Brontë
George Grossmith
Oscar Wilde
Anthony Hope
E.M. Forster
James Agee
Benjamin Franklin
Toni Morrison
Mulkraj Anand
Margaret Mitchell
 
     
     
  Reading List 2008-2009 Grade - 11 and 12  
  Required Reading      
 
Title Author
  • Old Goriot
  • Silas Marner
  • Great Expectations
  • Short Stories
  • Selected Poems
  • Ariel
  • Macbeth
  • Madame Bovary
  • Waiting for Godot
  • Tess of the D’Urbervilles
  • Emma
  • The Namesake
  • My Childhood
  • Siddhartha
  • The Sun Also Rises
  • Women in Love
  • The Untouchable
  • Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry
  • Palgrave’s Golden Treasury
  • Crime and Punishment
  • Beloved
  • The Collected Stories
  • As I Lay Dying
  • Catch 22
  • The Handmaid’s Tale
  • Like the Flowing River
  • The Threepenny Opera
  • Death of Ivan Ilych
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude

Honoré de Balzac
George Eliot
Charles Dickens
Saki
John Keats
Sylvia Plath
William Shakespeare
Gustave Flaubert
Samuel Beckett
Thomas Hardy
Jane Austen
Jhumpa Lahiri
Maxim Gorky
Hermann Hesse
Ernest Hemingway
D.H. Lawrence
Mulkraj Anand


Fyodor Dostoevsky
Toni Morrison
Alexander Pushkin
William Faulkner
Joseph Heller
Margaret Atwood
Paulo Coelho
Bertolt Brecht
Leo Tolstoy
Ernest Hemingway
G. Garcia Marquez

 
     
     
  Recommended Reading  
 
Title Author
  • Middlemarch
  • Disgrace
  • A Room of One’s Own
  • The Metamorphosis
  • The Bell Jar
  • The Color Purple
  • Ender’s Game
  • The Crucible
  • Notes from Underground
  • The Overcoat and Other Short Stories
  • The Wild Duck
  • The Great Gatsby
  • The Agony and the Ecstasy
  • Life is Elsewhere
  • The Rainbow
  • The Fountainhead
  • The Sound and the Fury
  • Gitanjali
  • The Shadow Lines
  • The Guide
  • The Mill on the Floss
  • The Plague
  • The House of Spirits
  • Saint Joan
  • Songs of Innocence and Experience

George Eliot
J.M. Coetzee
Virginia Woolf
Franz Kafka
Sylvia Plath
Alice Walker
Orson Scott Card
Arthur Miller
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nikolai Gogol
Henrik Ibsen
Scott Fitzgerald
Irving Stone
Milan Kundera
D.H. Lawrence
Ayn Rand
William Faulkner
Rabindranath Tagore
Amitabh Ghosh
R.K. Narayan
George Eliot
Albert Camus
Isabel Allende
G.B. Shaw
William Blake

 
     
     
     
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