Grade 9 Recommended Reading

Literature

• Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson
  
• Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
  
• Mr. Blue by Myles Connolly
  
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  
• Treason by Dena Hunt
  
• The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
  
• The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
  
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
  
• The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz
  
• Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
  
• The Warden by Anthony Trollope
  
• Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
  
• The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
  
• The Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel
  
• The Once and Future King by Terence H. White

Medieval and Early Modern History

• The Galleys at Lepanto by Jack Beeching
  
• Characters of the Reformation by Hilaire Belloc
  
• The Rule of St. Benedict by Benedict of Nurcia
  
• The Great Siege: Malta 1565 by Ernle Bradford
  
• The History of Christendom by Warren Carroll     (6 volumes, each volume counts as one book)
  
• The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity by Richard Fletcher
  
• The Making of Europe: An Introduction to the History of European Unity by Christopher Dawson
  
• Chronicles of the Crusades by Joinville and Villehardouin
  
• Those Terrible Middle Ages by Regine Pernoud
  
• Plutarch’s Lives
  
• Thomas More: A Portrait of Courage by Gerard B. Wegemer
  
• The Song of Roland by an anonymous author