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