11th grade Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) reading list
Books referenced by Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) at the 11th grade level. Source: www.cambridgeinternational.org.
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About the 11th grade Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) reading list
Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) is Cambridge Assessment International Education's English literature syllabus. ReadingList tracks 29 titles referenced by Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) at the 11th gradelevel, each tied to a primary-source citation on the book’s detail page. The framework is published at cambridgeinternational.org.
At the 11th grade level — the 9-12grade band — students are high-school readers, with the curriculum focused on close reading, literary analysis, and rhetoric for AP, IB, and college work. Per Common Core’s Appendix A complexity bands, text difficulty at this stage typically falls around roughly 900L to 1300L. A single Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) classroom can still span a wide range of reading levels.
Unlike a state reading list, a Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) list is portable: the same framework is taught across districts and, in the case of AP and IB, across countries. That makes these titles a reliable backbone for 11th grade planning whether you are a teacher mapping a unit, a homeschooler following a recognized sequence, or a parent checking what Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) expects.
How to use this list: treat the Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) titles as the core and layer in state-cited or thematically-related books to round out a 11th gradeyear. Each book’s page shows its Lexile measure, grade range, themes, and any challenge history, so you can match a text to a specific reader rather than to the grade label alone.
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29 books
A Handful of DustEvelyn Waugh
ArielSylvia Plath
Barber Shop ChroniclesInua Ellams
Collected Plays 2Wole Soyinka- Collected PoemsGabriel OkaraCollected PoemsGabriel Okara
- England's GreenZaffar KunialEngland's GreenZaffar Kunial
Henry IV, Part 1William Shakespeare
Jude the ObscureThomas Hardy
Mansfield ParkJane Austen
MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot
Night Sky with Exit WoundsOcean Vuong
Our Country's GoodTimberlake Wertenbaker
PoemsElizabeth Bishop
Selected PoemsChristina Rossetti- Selected PoetryLord ByronSelected PoetryLord Byron
Selected StoriesKatherine Mansfield
Shakespeare's Sonnets and PoemsWilliam Shakespeare
Songs of Ourselves: Volume 2Cambridge Assessment International Education (compiled)- Stories of Ourselves: Volume 3Cambridge University Press & Assessment (compiled)Stories of Ourselves: Volume 3Cambridge University Press & Assessment (compiled)
SweatLynn Nottage
The OverstoryRichard Powers
The RoverAphra Behn
The Taming of the ShrewWilliam Shakespeare
The TempestWilliam Shakespeare
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- The Underground Railroad · Colson Whitehead
- The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale · Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Yield · Tara June Winch
- Waiting for the Barbarians · J. M. Coetzee
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? · Edward Albee