11th grade IB Diploma Programme — English A: Literature reading list
Books referenced by IB Diploma Programme — English A: Literature at the 11th grade level. Source: www.ibo.org.
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About the 11th grade IB Diploma Programme — English A: Literature reading list
IB Diploma Programme — English A: Literature is the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme's Language A literature syllabus. ReadingList tracks 30 titles referenced by IB Diploma Programme — English A: Literature at the 11th gradelevel, each tied to a primary-source citation on the book’s detail page. Across the list, Lexile measures span 670L–1420L. The framework is published at ibo.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. Measured against that 1185–1385L range, of the 18 titles here with a Lexile score 0 are grade-level, 17 are more accessible, and 1 is a stretch text. A single IB Diploma Programme — English A: Literature classroom can still span a wide range of reading levels.
Unlike a state reading list, a IB Diploma Programme — English A: Literature 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 IB Diploma Programme — English A: Literature expects.
How to use this list: treat the IB Diploma Programme — English A: Literature 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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30 books
1984George Orwell · 1090L
A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare
A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens · 1170L
Black BoyRichard Wright · 950L
Death of a SalesmanArthur Miller
FencesAugust Wilson
Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens · 1150L
Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad · 1070L
I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsMaya Angelou · 1070L
Julius CaesarWilliam Shakespeare
King LearWilliam Shakespeare
MacbethWilliam Shakespeare
Much Ado About NothingWilliam Shakespeare
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American SlaveFrederick Douglass · 1080L
OthelloWilliam Shakespeare
Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen · 1100L
Purple HibiscusChimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 920L
PygmalionGeorge Bernard Shaw
Slaughterhouse-FiveKurt Vonnegut · 850L
The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain · 980L
The AwakeningKate Chopin · 960L
The Color PurpleAlice Walker · 670L
The CrucibleArthur Miller
The Handmaid's TaleMargaret Atwood · 750L
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- The Odyssey · Homer
- The Scarlet Letter · Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Tempest · William Shakespeare
- The Things They Carried · Tim O'Brien
- Their Eyes Were Watching God · Zora Neale Hurston
- Twelfth Night · William Shakespeare