6 book suggestions
10th grade reading list
Tenth graders can compare perspectives, expose assumptions, and develop arguments that acknowledge real uncertainty.
- 1
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
Layered cultural conflict supports analysis of narrative perspective, tradition, and disruptive historical change.
- 2
Night
by Elie Wiesel
The memoir’s compressed witness demands attentive reading about dehumanization, memory, and ethical testimony.
- 3
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
A bounded social experiment gives students a clear arena for competing claims about authority and human behavior.
- 4
Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
Graphic memoir makes visual rhetoric central to studying political upheaval, family, and self-representation.
- 5
Born a Crime
by Trevor Noah
Humor and memoir structure offer compelling material for analyzing tone, law, language, and adaptation.
- 6
Antigone
by Sophocles
A concentrated dramatic conflict sharpens arguments about conscience, authority, kinship, and civic duty.
Pair reading with writing
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