Are You Well-Read?
Grades 10-12 English Reading List
This list was pulled from a July, 1970 Saskatchewan reading list for the public school system. Grade 10 and 11 students were required to read a minimum of 6 books for each grade. Grade 12s were required to read a minimum of 3 books. Can you check-off at least 15 of these books?
See also the reading list for Grades 7-9
Adamson, Joy. Born Free (Collins & Harwell), 1960
Aldrich, B.S. A Lantern in Her Hand (Grosset), 1956
Anderson, Marian. My Lord, What a Morning (Ma), 1956
Anderson, W.A. Angel of Hudson Bay (Ci),(Clarke Irwin Canadian paperback), 1961
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice (Dm),(Great illustrated classics), 1945
Baker, Louise. Out on a Limb (Mh), 1946
Barber, E.O. The Trembling Years (Ma), (N.Y.), 1949
Barrett, W.E. The Lilies of the Field (Do), 1962
Barrie, J.M. The Admirable Crichton (Ci), (Pilot books), n.d.
Baumann, Hans. Sons of the Steppe (Ox), 1957
Bennett, Lerone. What Manner of Man (Johnston), 1964
Bentley, E.C. Trent's Last Case (Ne), (Nelson's classics), n.d.
Besier, Rudolf. The Barretts of Wimpole Street (Little), 1930
Blackmore, R.D. Lorna Doone (Dm), (Great illustrated classics), 1943
Bodsworth, Fred. Last of the Curlews (Ms), (New Canadian library), 1954
Bodsworth, Fred. The Strange One (Dm), 1959
Bonham, Frank. Durango Street (Ci), 1965
Brickhill, Paul. Reach for the Sky (Co), 1954
Bridgeman, William. The Lonely Sky (Hr), 1955
Bro, M.H. Sarah (Do), 1949
Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights (Dm), (Great illustrated classics) 1942
Buchan, John. The Thirty-Nine Steps (De) (Dent's children's illustrated classics) London, 1964
Buck, Pearl. The Good Earth (Grosset), 1931
Burgess, Alan. The Small Woman (Evans), (Cadet ed.), 1959
Burgess, Perry Who Walk Alone (Hr), 1940
Calder-Marshall, Arthur. Lone Wolf (Me), (Story biography series), 1961
Camus, Albert. The Outsider (Hamish Hamilton), 1946
Carr, Emily. Klee Wyck (Ci), (Clarke Irwin Canadian paperback), 1941
Cather, Willa. My Antonia (Ne), (Sentry edition), 1961
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock (Knopf), 1931
Cavanna, Betty. Going on Sixteen (Westminster), 1946
Christie, Agatha. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Collins), (Modern authors series), 1964
Chute, Marchette. The Innocent Wayfaring (Ci), 1943
Chute, Marchette. The Wonderful Winter (Ci), 1954
Clarke, Tom E. The Big Road (Lothrop), 1965
Cleary, Jon. The Sundowners (Scribner), (Young people's edition), 1952
Collins, Wilkie. The Moonstone (Fu), (New and slightly abr. ed.), n.d.
Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim (Dm), 1961
Cooper, J.F. The Last of the Mohicans (Sa), (Scribner illustrated classics), 1919
Corbett, Jim. Man-Eaters of Kumaon (Ox), 1952
Costain, T.B. The Black Rose (Do), 1945
Coulter, John. The Trial of Louis Riel (Ob), 1968
Cousy, Robert. Basketball is My Life (Ph), 1958
Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage (Grosset), 1925
Cronin, A.J. The Green Years (Lb), 1944
Cronin, A.J. The Citadel (Grosset), 1937
Daly, Maureen. Seventeenth Summer (Dm), 1942
Daugherty, James. Abraham Lincoln (Ma), 1943
Davies, W.H. The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (Cape), 1955
Day, Clarence. Life With Father (Knopf), 1935
Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist (Dm), (Great illustrated classics), 1941
Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities (Grosset), (Illustrated junior library), 1948
Dooley, T.A. The Night They Burned the Mountain (Farrar), 1960
Doss, Helen. The Family Nobody Wanted (Lb), 1954
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment (Dm), (Titan ed.), (Great illustrated classics), 1963
Doyle, A.C. The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Modern Library), 1921
Drinkwater Abraham Lincoln (Cc), Required Reading for Grade 12
Dumas, Alexandre. The Count of Monte Cristo (Dm), n.d.
Dumas, Alexandre. The Three Musketeers (Dm), (Great illustrated classics), 1941
Du Maurier, Daphne. Rebecca (Do), 1938
Durrell, Gerald. My Family and Other Animals (Gh), 1962
Durrell, Gerald. The Whispering Land (Gh), 1961
Eaton, Jeanette. David Livingstone: Foe of Darkness (Morrow), 1947
Eliot, George. Silas Marner (Dm), (Great illustrated classics), 1948
Eliot, T.S. Murder in the Cathedral (Qu), 1963
Erdman, L.G. The Wind Blows Free (Dm), 1952
Ferber, Edna. Cimarron (Grosset), 1939
Fisher, Aileen. We Dickinsons (Ms), 1965
Forester, C.S. Captain Horatio Hornblower (Lb), 1939
Forster, E.M. A Passage to India (De), 1962
Frank, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl (Do), 1952
Freedman, Benedict. Mrs. Mike (Coward), 1947
Frost, Robert. You Come Too (Hr), 1959
Fuller, Iola. Loon Feather (Lg), 1940
Gallico, Paul. The Snow Goose (Knopf), 1940
Gallico, Paul. Thomasina: The Cat Who Thought She Was God (Do), 1957
Gibson, William. Miracle Worker (Knopf), 1957
Gilbreth, Frank B. Cheaper by the Dozen (Crowell), (Updated ed.), 1963
Godden, Rumer. An Episode of Sparrows (Ma), (London), 1966
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies (Qu), 1954
Gollomb, Joseph. Albert Schweitzer: Genius in the Jungle (Cc), 1949
Gorsline, Douglas Farm Boy (Ma), 1950
Graham, Shirley. Dr. George Washington Carver (Mu), 1944
Griffin, John Howard. Black Like Me (Ne), 1961
Groves, Cy. Plays on a Human Theme (Ry), 1967
Gurko, Miriam. Clarence Darrow (Crowell), 1965
Haig-Brown, R.L. Starbuck Valley Winter (Collins), 1957
Hardy, Thomas. The Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge (Ma), (Greenwood edition), (London), 1966
Harris, Christie. You Have to Draw the Line Somewhere (Ms), 1965
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter (Ne), (Riverside library), n.d.
Haycraft, Howard. The Boys' Second Book of Great Detective Stories (Fw), 1940
Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls (Sa), 1940
Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea (Sa), 1952
Hemon, Louis. Maria Chapdelaine (Ma), (St. Martin's classics), 1965
Hersey, John A Bell for Adana (Knopf), 1965
Hersey, John. A Single Pebble (Knopf), 1956
Herzberg, Max J. A Treasure Chest of Sport Stories (Mu), 1951
Heyer, Georgette. Frederica (Qu), 1965
Heyerdahl, Thor. The Kon-Tiki Expedition (Goerge Allen), 1950
Hickok, L.A. The Touch of Magic (Dm), 1961
Hiemstra, Mary. Gully Farm (Ms), (Canadian Best Seller Libary), 1955
Hilton, James. Good-By, Mr. Chips (Lb), 1934
Hilton, James. Lost Horizon (Ma), (School ed), 1965
Hinton, S.E. The Outsiders (Ma), 1967
Holt, Victoria. Mistress of Mellyn (Collins), 1960
Huffman, Grant 15 Stories (Ms), 1960
Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Dm), (Great illustrated classics), 1947
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World (Ci), 1960
Hyman, Mas. No Time for Sergeants (Rh), 1954
Innes, Hammond. The Land God Gave to Cain (collins), 1966
Irwin, Margaret. Young Bess (Ci), 1944
Jackson, H.H. Ramona (Lb), 1939
James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw, and, The Lesson of the Master (Modern Library), 1957
Jelinek, Henry. On Thin Ice (Ph), 1965
Johnson, Annabel. Torrie (Fw), 1960
Judson, C.I. Benjamin Franklin (Ry), 1957
Kaufman, Bel. Up the Down Staircase (Ph), 1964
Keith, Agnes Newton. Three Came Home (Lb), 1946
Kilbourn, William. The Firebrand (Ci), (Clark Irwin Canadian paperbacks), 1956
Killilea, M.L. Karen (Ph), 1952
King, Carlyle. Saskatchewan Harvest (Ms), 1955
King, M.L. Why We Can't Wait (Fw), 1964
Kipling, Rudyard Kim
Kirby, William. The Golden Dog (Ma), (St. Martin's classics), 1931
Klein, A.M. The Second Scroll (Ms), (New Canadian library), 1966
Knowles, John. A Separate Peace (Bs), (School ed.), 1959
Kreisel, Henry. The Betrayal (Ms), 1964
Kugelmass, A. Ralph J. Bunche (Mu), (Rev. ed), 1962
Laurents, Arthur. West Side Story (Rh), 1958
Leacock, Stephen. Nonsense Novels (Ms), (New Canadian library), 1963
Le Carre, John. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (Do), 1963
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird (Ms), 1960
L'Engle, Madeleine. And Both Were Young (Lothrop), 1949
Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith (Lg), 1925
Llewellyn How Green Was My Valley (Michael Joseph), 1939
MacEwan, Grant. Between the Red and the Rockies (Ut), (Canadian university paperbooks), 1952
MacLean, Alistair. The Guns of Navarone (Co), 1957
MacLennan, Hugh. Two Solitudes (Ma), (School ed.), 1951
McNally, G.F. A Book of Good Stories (Ma), (St. Martin's classics),1934
McPhedron, Marie. Golden North (Ma), 1948
Markandaya, Kamala. Nectar in a Sieve (John Day), 1954
Martin, Betty. No One Must Ever Know (Do), 1959
Maugham, W.S. Of Human Bondage (Do), 1936
Maule, Tex. The Quarterback (Mu), 1962
Mayerson, Leon. Two Blocks Apart (Hr), 1965
Medearis, Mary. Big Doc's Girl (Ms), 1942
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick, or, The White Whale
Miller, Arthur. The Crucible (Ma), (Compass books), 1964
Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With the Wind (Ma), (N.Y.), 1936
Mitchell, W.O. Who Has Seen the Wind (Ma), (School ed.), 1947
Mosarrat, Nicholas. The Cruel Sea (Cassell), 1951
Mowat, Farley. The Dog Who Wouldn't Be (Lb), 1957
Mowat, Farley. Never Cry Wolf (Ms), 1963
Nash, Ogden. Everybody ought to Know (Ms), 1961
Nathan, Robert. Potrait of Jennie (Knopf), 1940
Newell, L.H. Short Stories of Distinction (Bs), 1960
Nicoll, Eric. The Roving I (Ry), 1950
Noble, Iris. The Doctor Who Dared: William Osler (Cc), 1959
Nordhoff, Charles. The Bounty Trilogy (Lb), 1951
Norton, Andre. Moon of Three Rings (Ma), 1966
O'Neill, Eugene. Ah, Wilderness! and Two Other Plays (Modern Library), 1964
Orwell, George. Animal Farm (Secker & Warburg), (Collected ed.), 1965
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four (Secker & Warburg), (Collected ed.), 1965
Oursler, Fulton. The Greatest Book Ever Written (Do), 1951
Oursler, Fulton. The Greatest Book Ever Told (Co), 1949
Parker, Gilbert. The Seats of the Mighty (Cc), 1896
Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country (Sa), 1948
Peare, C.O. Albert Einstein (Hr), 1949
Phillips, Alan The Living Legend (Lb), 1955
Piersall, Jim Fear Strikes Out (Lb), 1955
Plimpton, George. Paper Lion (Fw), 1965
Pratt, E.J. Here the Tides Flow (Ma), (School ed.), 1962
Rama, Rau, Santha. Home to India (Fw), 1944
Reid, P.R. The Colditz Story (University of London), 1957
Richardson, Grace. Douglas (Fw), 1966
Ringuet Thirty Acres (Ms), (New Canadian library), 1960
Rolvaag, O.E. Giants in the Earth (Fw), 1927
Rosen, Sidney. Doctor Paracelsus (Lb), 1959
Rostand, Edmond. Cyrano de Bergerac (Hr), (School ed.), 1923
Rublowsky, J. Popular Music (Basic Books), 1967
Russell, S.M. A Lamp is Heavy (Ms), 1950
St. Pierre, Paul. Breaking Smith's Quarterhorse (Ry), 1966
Salinger, J.D. Catcher in the Rye (Lb), 1951
Sansan. Eighth Moon (Fw), 1964
Sayers, Dorothy. The New Sayers Omnibus (Do), 1963
Schecter, Betty. The Dreyfus Affair (Ne), 1965
Scoggin, M.C. The Edge of Danger (Knopf), 1951
Scott, Sir Walter. Quentin Durward (Dm), (Great illustrated classics), 1944
Seventeen (Periodical) Stories from Seventeen (Ms), 1955
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet Required Reading for Grade 12
Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar Required Reading for Grade 10
Shakespeare, William. Macbeth Required Reading for Grade 11
Shaw, Bernard. Arms and the Man (Lg), 1955
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein (De), 1960
Shepherd, George. West of Yesterday (Ms), 1965
Shute, Nevil. On the Beach (Ml), 1957
Sillitoe, Alan. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (W.H. Allen), 1959
Speare, E.G. Calico Captive (Ne), 1957
Sprague, Rosemary. Forever in Joy (Chilton Books), 1965
Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men (Modern Library), 1937
Steinbeck, John. The Pearl (Ma), 1945
Stewart, Mary. The Moon-Spinners (Hodder), 1962
Stolz, Mary. A Love, or a Season (Fw), 1964
Stolz, Mary. Who Wants Music on Monday? (Fw), 1963
Stone, Irving. Lust for Life (co), 1937
Stoutenburg, Adrien. Explorer of the Unconscious (Sa), 1965
Sullivan, W. We Are Not Alone (Mh), (Rev. ed.), 1966
Sutcliff, Rosemary. The Mark of the Horse Lord (Ox) 1965
Tey, Josephine. The Daughter of Time (Peter Davies), 1951
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Fellowship of the Ring (Allen & Unwin), 1954
Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina (Dm), (Titan ed.), (Great illustrated classics), 1966
Trapp, M.A. The Story of the Trapp Family Singers (Ms), 1949
Tunis, J.R. Iron Duke (Lg), 1938
Turnbull, A.S. The Rolling Years (Ma), (N.Y.), 1936
Twain, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Fw), 1917
Ullman, J.R. Banner in the Sky (Ms), 1954
Uris, Leon. Exodus (Do), 1958
Verne, Jules. Around the World in Eighty Days (Dm), (Great illustrated classics), 1956
Walker, Mildred. Winter Wheat (Lg), 1944
Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery (Dm), (Great illustrated classics), 1965
Westheimer, David. Von Ryan's Express (Do), 1964
Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Grosset), 1927
Wilder, Thornton. Three Plays (Fw), 1957
Wister, Owen. The Virginian (Ma), (N.Y.), 1929
Wong, J.S. Fifth Chinese Daughter (Fw), 1945
Woodham-Smith, Cecil. Lonely Crusader (Mh), (Abridged ed.), 1951
Wouk, Herman. The Caine Mutiny (Do), 1951
Wren, P.C. Beau Geste (John Murray), 1924
Wyndham, John. The Chrysalids (Michael Joseph), 1955
Wyndham, John. The Day of the Triffids (Michael Joseph), 1951
Yates, Brock. The Indianapolis 500 (Fw), 1961
Yates, Elizabeth. Prudence Crandall: Woman of Courage (Ci), 1955
Young, P.B. Psyche (Lg), 1959
