
English Books

Please order only the specific editions of each title listed below (use publisher and ISBN to confirm). Alternate editions will have different page numbers (and, sometimes, completely different contents!) from the edition your teacher will be using. Using a different edition than what's listed below will make it harder for you to complete homework assignments or follow along with class discussions.
Year-Long Books
- ELL: Rhetoric & Composition
- English 9: Foundations of Critical Reading & Written Expression
- English 10: Society and the Self
- English 11: American Experiences in Literature & Composition
- English 11: AP English Language & Composition
- English 12: AP English Literature & Composition
- Multiliteracies
- Journalism 1
- Journalism 2
- English 12: Advanced Journalistic Writing & Reporting
ELL: Rhetoric & Composition
To Kill a Mockingbird
ISBN: 978-0060935467 Harper
The House on Mango Street
ISBN: 978-0679734772 Vintage
English 9: Foundations of Critical Reading & Written Expression
Macbeth
ISBN: 978-0198324003 Oxford School Shakespeare
The Odyssey
ISBN: 978-0393356250 Deckle Classics
Poet X
ISBN: 978-0062662811 Quill Tree Books
Raisin in the Sun
ISBN: 978-0679755333 Vintage
Students will also read short stories and poetry by such writers as Edgar Allen Poe, Haruki Murakami, Chimamanda Adichie Ngozi, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Jamaica Kincaid.
English 10: Society and the Self
The Metamorphosis
ISBN: 978-0393347098 W. W. Norton & Company
Interior Chinatown
ISBN: 978-0307948472 Vintage
When the Emperor Was Divine
ISBN: 978-0385721813 Anchor
The Nickel Boys
ISBN: 978-0345804341 Vintage
Friday Black
ISBN: 978-1328911247 Mariner Books
Pride and Prejudice
ISBN: 978-0141439518 Penguin
Students will also read short fiction and nonfiction by writers such as Margaret Atwood, Lucy Tan, Octavia Butler, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, George Saunders, Karen Russell, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, and Ta-Nahisi Coates.
English 11: American Experiences in Literature & Composition
Everything I Never Told You
This text is for summer reading. Please be sure to consult the summer reading page for more information.
ISBN: 978-0143127550 Penguin Books
The Great Gatsby
ISBN: 978-1982149482 Scribner
The Crucible
ISBN: 978-0142437339 Penguin Classics
Their Eyes Were Watching God
ISBN: 978-0061120060 Amistad
The Things They Carried
ISBN: 978-0618706419 Mariner
Students will read multiple short pieces by writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jhumpa Lahiri, Richard Blanco, and Robin Wall Kimmerer.
English 11: AP English Language & Composition
Jane Eyre
This text is for summer reading. Please be sure to consult the summer reading page for more information.
ISBN: 978-1593081171 OR 978-0486424491 Barnes & Noble Classics OR Dover Edition
Wide Sargasso Sea
ISBN: 978-0393352566 W. W. Norton & Company
The Great Gatsby
ISBN: 978-1982149482 Scribner
The Things They Carried
ISBN: 978-0618706419 Mariner
Students will also read a nonfiction book second semester (title to be determined).
Students will read multiple short pieces by writers such as Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Jamaica Kincaid, Rachel Carson, Annie Dillard, Deborah Tannen, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Patrick Henry.
English 12: AP English Literature & Composition
Apex Hides the Hurt
This text is for summer reading. Please be sure to consult the summer reading page for more information.
ISBN: 978-1400031269 Knopf
Other texts will be chosen by the individual instructors and announced at the start of the school year. Each section will read a Shakespeare play and 3-5 other works from a variety of time periods, literary styles, and perspectives. Past "instructor's choice" titles have included texts such as the following: Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman; Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse; Ursula K. LeGuin, The Dispossessed; Margaret Edson, Wit; Nella Larsen, Passing; Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence; Tom Stoppard, Arcadia; Tony Kushner, Angels in America; and William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying.
Multiliteracies
Heart of Darkness
ISBN: 978-0393358438 Norton
Annihilation
ISBN: 978-1250824042 Picador, The Anniversary Edition
Journalism 1
Journalistic Writing: Building the Skills and Honing the Craft, 3rd edition
ISBN:
978-1933338385
Marion Street Press
True or False: A CIA Analyst's Guide for Spotting Fake News
ISBN: 978-1250833082 Square Fish
Journalism 2
English 12: Advanced Journalistic Writing & Reporting
Semester-Long Books
- Asian Literature: Immigration & Integration
- Creative Writing
- Cuisine, Culture, & Community in Asian Literature
- English 12: Debate
- Get a Clue: True Crime Stories
- Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem in Detective Fiction
Asian Literature: Immigration & Integration
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
ISBN: 978-0812968378 Random House Trade Paperbacks
Interior Chinatown
ISBN: 978-0307948472 Vintage
Creative Writing
Cuisine, Culture, & Community in Asian Literature
Mango and Peppercorns: A Memoir of Food, an Unlikely Family, and the American Dream
ISBN: 978-1797202242 Chronicle Books
Kitchen
ISBN: 978-0802142443 Grove Press
English 12: Debate
Students must purchase a print copy, hardback or paperback – as indicated by the ISBN – of all texts for these courses.
Twelve Angry Men
ISBN: 978-0143104407 Penguin
Get a Clue: True Crime Stories
Into the Forest and All the Way Through
ISBN: 978-1735693613 Burial Day Books
Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem in Detective Fiction
And Then There Were None
ISBN: 978-0062073488 William Morrow Paperbacks