Summer Reading Lists

 

Recommended reading for 9th grade

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Ancient and Medieval Literature

 

 

Below are stories and poetry, both classic and contemporary, which complement the 9th grade curriculum.


 

The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer

Theogony by Hesiod

The Oresteia by Aeschylus

Oedipus the King by Sophocles

The Voyage of the Argo by Apollonius of Rhodes

The Metamorphoses by Ovid

The Aeneid by Virgil

Antony and Cleopatra and Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare

The Bhagavad Gita

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tze

Monkey by Wu Ch’eng-en

The Book of Job

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

Barabbas by Par Lagerkvist

Grendel by John Gardner

A Thousand and One Nights

The Once and Future King and The Book of Merlyn by T.H. White

The Song of Roland

Confessions by Saint Augustine

The Inferno by Dante Aligheri

The Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

                                               

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