| | The story of the unsinkable Titanic that went down with 1503 men, women, and children aboard. | Lord, Walter | 950 | History | 7.0 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | By falling down a rabbit hole and stepping through a mirror, Alice experiences unusual adventures. | Carroll, Lewis | 950 | Fantasy | 7.8 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | In a future world, only one man dares to think, strive, and love as an individual in the midst of a paralyzing collective humanity. | Rand, Ayn | 880 | Fiction | 6.1 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | True story of a Mexican boy who, with his family, made the journey from his mountain village to the barrio of Sacramento and how he observed, understood and accepted the reactions and feelings of others to the events they shared. | Galarza, Ernesto | 1140 | Autobiography | 6.8 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | Autobiography of a Southern Negro who yearned for intellectual and physical freedom. | Wright, Richard | 950 | Fiction | 7.4 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | Six adolescent boys staying at a camp in Arizona run away into the desert and learn much about themselves and the world. | Swarthout, Glendon | 970 | Fiction | 6.3 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | Recovering from the recent suicide of her ex-boyfriend, senior class president Keisha Montgomery finds herself attracted to a dangerous older man. | Draper, Sharon | 780 | Bio Fiction | 6.8 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | A biography of the author’s son, who died at seventeen after a fourteen-month illness caused by a brain tumor. | Gunther, John | 1160 | Biography | 8.0 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | The inspirational and semi-autobiographical remembrances of the author's Indian boyhood with his Eastern Cherokee Hill Country grandparents in the 1930's depression-era. | Carter, Forrest | 890 | Autobiography | 5.5 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | A play about a horribly deformed young man in 19th century England who becomes a favorite among the aristocracy and literati. | Pomerance, Bernard | | Drama | | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | A book burner in a future fascist state finds out books are a vital part of a culture he never knew. He clandestinely pursues reading, until he is betrayed. | Bradbury, Ray | 890 | Science Fiction | 5.2 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | An African-American teenager overcomes a home of addiction and abuse to save his sister and himself. | Draper, Sharon | 780 | Bio Fiction | 6.8 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | An unknown person has provided money for the education of Pip, a poor English boy, in nineteenth-century England. | Dickens, Charles | 1200 | Fiction | 9.2 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | When Sir Charles Baskerville is found mysteriously dead on the grounds of Baskerville Hall, everyone remembers the legend of the monstrous creature that haunts the moor, but Sherlock Holmes knows there must be a more rational explanation. | Doyle, Arthur Conan | 1096 | Mystery | 8.3 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | An adaptation of the Kathryn Forbes Book, Mama’s Bank Account, in which Mama, a loving and capable Norwegian woman, guides her son and three daughters through childhood in early twentieth century San Francisco. | Van Druten, John and Forbes, Kathryn | | Drama | | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | Chronicles the early attempts by humans to colonize an inhabited Mars by transforming the red planet into a mirror image of the world they left behind. | Bradbury, Ray | 740 | Science Fiction | 6.2 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | The play about blind, deaf, and mute Helen Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan. | Gibson, William | NP | Biography/ Drama | 5.2 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken. | Myers, Walter Dean | 670 | Fiction | 5.1 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | A New York lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with a simple Bohemian girl. | Cather, Willa | 1010 | Historical Fiction | 6.9 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | A collection of Greek, Roman, and Norse myths retold by the author. | Hamilton, Edith | 1040 | Mythology | 8.3 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | A young man struggles to find a life for himself in the turbulent depression of the 1930s. | Hunt, Irene | 930 | Historical Fiction | 5.6 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | The epic poem recounting the experiences of Odysseus during his return from the Trojan War. | Homer | 1050 | Epic Poem | 10.3 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | Terrible events follow the discovery of a magnificent pearl by a poor Mexican fisherman. | Steinbeck, John | 1010 | Fiction | 7.1 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | Two high school sophomores from unhappy homes form a close friendship with a lonely old man who has a terrible secret. | Zindel, Paul | 950 | Fiction | 5.5 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | Haunted by the memory of a dead friend, two teenagers join an old man in a series of misadventures. | Zindel, Paul | 1010 | Fiction | 5.7 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | Two lovers are destroyed by the hatred of their families for one another. | Shakespeare, William | NP | Drama | | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | An ethnically diverse group of all ages unites to create a community garden in a city's vacant lot. | Fleischman, Paul | 710 | Fiction | 5.0 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | Embittered by a false accusation and disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a life alone with his loom and his gold. Fate steals his gold and replaces it with a golden-haired foundling child. | Eliot, George | 1330 | Fiction | 9.7 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school. Contains mature material. | Anderson, Laurie Halse | 680 | Fiction | 4.5 | 9 | January 2004 | | This selection should be taught only after careful consideration and principal approval. |
| | An autobiography of Helen Keller, written while she was a young woman, in which she tells of her early life, her relationship with her teacher Anne Sulllivan, and her struggles to triumph over blindness and deafness. | Keller, Helen | 1150 | Autobiography | 6.8 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | A young African-American boy has difficulty coming to terms with the death of a friend who died in a car accident that resulted from drinking and driving. | Draper, Sharon | 780 | Bio Fiction | 6.8 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace. | Adams, Richard | 880 | Fantasy | 6.2 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | Violent feuds separate two star-crossed lovers. | Laurents, Arthur | | Drama | | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | Nora, a woman whose husband expects her to be his petted little songbird, is hiding a deceptive secret. | Ibsen, Henrik | NP | Drama | | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school. | Knowles, John | 1110 | Fiction | 6.9 | 9 | January 2004 | | |
| | Tells the story of the adventures of Don Quixote, the visionary idealist and Sancho Panza, the practical realist. | Cervantes, Saavedra, Miguel de | 1500 | Fiction | 13.2 | 10 | January 2004 | | H |
| | Virgil’s epic poem describing the fall of Troy and the legendary origin of Rome. | Virgil | NP | Epic Poem | | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | Depicts the experiences of a group of young German soldiers fighting and suffering during the last days of World War I. | Remarque, Erich Maria | 830 | Fiction | 6.0 | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | A Norwegian doctor is shunned by the townspeople after he discovers their famous spring water is really poisoned. | Ibsen, Henrik | | Play | | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | King Creon of Thebes refuses to allow the burial of his nephew, whom he has declared a traitor and whose sister, Antigone, is betrothed to Creon’s son. | Sophocles | 1090 | Drama | | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | The story of a simple, optimistic man whose travels take him from one disaster to another. | Voltaire | 1110 | Fiction | 7.3 | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | Eighteen-year-old Kate, who sometimes chafes at being a preacher's daughter, finds herself losing control in her senior year as she faces difficult neighbors, the possibility that she may not be accepted by the college of her choice, and an unexpected dea | Anderson, Laurie Halse | 680 | Fiction | 4.0 | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | Reflects the stirring of the Russian people against despotism. | Chekhov, Anton | | Drama | | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | In this extraordinary memoir, the author transforms the story of an Irish-Catholic childhood lived in poverty, misery, and despair into a mesmerizing tale filled with wit, love, and forgiveness. | McCourt, Frank | 1110 | Autobiography | 5.9 | 10 | January 2004 | | H and Starred |
| | After escaping from the island where he has been in prison, Dantes plots his revenge on the people responsible for his imprisonment. | Dumas, Alexandre | 930 | Fiction | 8.8 | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | Accused of murdering a white man, a young black South African turns to his minister father and a white attorney for help, but the racial problems of the country prevent justice from being served. | Paton, Alan | 860 | Fiction | 6.2 | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | A new translation of the French drama set in seventeenth-century France telling of Cyrano de Bergerac’s secret love for Roxanne. | Rostand, Edmond | NP | Play | 7.6 | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts the trials of the following five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe. | Hautzig, Esther Rudomin | 940 | Autobiography | 6.3 | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | Epic poem which dates from the third millennium B.C., telling of the adventures of Gilgamesh, the great king of Uruk, and his search for immorality. | | | Epic Poetry | | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | Story of a woman who has married beneath herself and becomes trapped in a prison of her own making when she tries to advance his career by driving his competitor to suicide. | Ibsen, Henrik | | Play | | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | The story of Reuven Malter and Danny Saunters, one an orthodox Jew, the other the son of a Hasldic rabbi, and the course of their friendship as they grow up in Brooklyn. | Potok, Chaim | 970 | Fiction | 6.6 | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | Set in medieval Paris, Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed. | Hugo, Victor | 1340 | Fiction | 11.8 | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | The memoirs of a Dutch woman who was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp during World War II as a result of her activities in the anti-Nazi underground. | Ten Boom, Corrie | 900 | Memoirs | 6.4 | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | Shakespeare’s tragedy about betrayal in ancient Rome. | Shakespeare, William | | Play | 10.8 | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | Traces the life of Jean Valjean, a peasant who steals a loaf of bread to feed his starving children and thereby becomes a convict. | Hugo, Victor | 990 | Fiction | 9.8 | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who is seeking the secret of what is important in life. | Saint Exupery, Antoine de | 710 | Play | 5.0 | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | Autobiography of the South African leader discussing his childhood, political career, and imprisonment. | Mandela, Nelson | | Memoir | | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | The tragedy in which Medea, betrayed by her husband and banished from her home, plots insane and violent revenge. | Euripides | | Play | | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | A young man wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant beetle-like insect. He becomes an object of disgrace to his family and an alienated man. | Kafka, Franz | 1320 | Fantasy | | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | Alceste is against duplicity and false flattery, but the woman he loves, Celimene, is the embodiment of all that he abhors which makes this a comedy of manners. | Moliere | | Play | | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | Details daily life inside Taliban-controlled Afghanistan from the perspective of a young Afghani woman, who was abruptly denied freedom to go to school, or ever leave home without an escort. | Latifa | 970 | Autobiography | 7.1 | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | A true account of the author’s experiences as a Jewish boy with his family in a Nazi concentration camp. | Wiesel, Elie | 590 | History | 4.8 | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | A young girl living in an Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends. | Cisneros, Sandra | 870 | Fiction | 4.5 | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | Sophocles’ play of a king prophesied to kill his father and marry his mother. | Sophocles | NP | Drama | | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | Recounts the experiences of Shukhov, a prisoner at a Soviet work camp in Siberia, as he struggles for survival. | Solzhen-Syn, Aleksandr Isaevich | 900 | Fiction | 5.5 | 10 | January 2004 | | H |
| | A moral allegory, set in ancient India, about one soul’s quest for the ultimate answer to the enigma of man’s role in this world. The hero, Siddhartha, undergoes a series of experiences to emerge in a state of peace and wisdom. | Hesse, Hermann | 1010 | Fiction | 7.1 | 10 | January 2004 | | H |
| | The story of an attempt by a hypocrite to destroy the domestic happiness of a citizen who has received him as a guest. | Moliere | | Play | | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | Account of Hee, who was arrested and tried for the bombings of Korean Air 858, in which 115 people died. She was acquitted as the court ruled she was a victim of North Korean indoctrination. | Hee, Kim Hyun | | Autobiography | | 10 | January 2004 | | H & Principal Approval |
| | An exiled duke magically shipwrecks several of his former countrymen on his island to teach them a lesson about treachery. | Shakespeare, William | | Play | | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | Set in an Ibo village in Nigeria, the novel recreates pre-Christian tribal life and shows how the coming of the white man led to the breaking up of the old ways. | Achebe, Chinua | 890 | Fiction | | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | An American ambulance driver serving on the Austro-Italian front in World War I becomes entangled with an English nurse and deserts to join her after the retreat of Caparetto. | Hemingway, Ernest | 730 | Fiction | 6.0 | 11 | January 2004 | | |
| | Two black men -- one a teacher, the other a death row inmate -- struggle to live and die with dignity. | Gaines, Ernest J. | 750 | Fiction | 4.4 | 11 | January 2004 | | Principal Approval |
| | Naomi Nakane, a child of Japanese immigrant parents, is interned by Canadians at the beginning of World War II. | Kogawa, Joy | 990 | Fiction | 6.6 | 10 | January 2004 | | |
| | A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a middle-class African-American family living on Chicago’s Southside in the 1950s. | Hansberry, Lorraine | | Play | 4.9 | 11 | January 2004 | | |
| | Young Francie Nolan experiences the problems of growing up in a Brooklyn, New York slum. | Smith, Betty | 810 | Fiction | 5.8 | 11 | January 2004 | | |
| | A young boy and an escaped slave float down the Mississippi River and have many adventures along the way. | Twain, Mark | 990 | Fiction | 6.6 | 11 | January 2004 | | |
| | It is the story of a young matron’s gradual awakening to her own individual "being", and longing for an independence that society would not permit her. | Chopin, Kate | 960 | Fiction | 8.5 | 11 | January 2004 | | |
| | Narrates the hatred of petty officer Claggart for Billy, a handsome Spanish sailor. Billy strikes and kills Claggart, and is condemned by Captain Vere even though the latter senses Billy’s spiritual innocence. | Melville, Herman | 1450 | Fiction | 10.6 | 11 | January 2004 | | |
| | The author, a white man, recounts his experiences when he darkened his skin and traveled through the south as an African-American man. | Griffin, John Howard | 990 | Non-Fiction | 7.0 | 11 | January 2004 | | |
| | An eleven-year-old African-American girl in Ohio in the early 1940s prays for her eyes to turn blue so she will be beautiful (contains mature material). | Morrison, Toni | 870 | Fiction | 5.2 | 11 | January 2004 | | H & Principal Approval |
| | An adolescent boy, knowing he is about to be dropped by his school, spends three days and nights in New York City. | Salinger, J. D. | 790 | Fiction | 4.7 | 11 | January 2004 | | H & Principal Approval |
| | Depicts a Native American's struggle to re-enter his tribal world after returning from the war-torn South Pacific. | Silko, Leslie | 890 | Fiction | 7.4 | 11 | January 2004 | | H & Principal Approval |
| | After her father dies within hours of being married to a white woman, a ten-year-old black girl learns with her new mother to overcome grief and to adjust to a new place in their rural African-American South Carolina community. | Sanders, Doris | 820 | Fiction | 5.1 | 11 | January 2004 | | |
| | A Civil War soldier and a lonely woman embark on parallel journeys of danger and discovery. | Frazier, Charles | 1210 | Fiction | 6.9 | 11 | January 2004 | | |
| | Grandpa Blakeslee marries a young milliner just three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward. Young Will is boggled by this act but becomes the newlyweds’ conspirator and confidant; meanwhile he does some growing up on his own. | Burns, Olive Ann | 930 | Fiction | 5.3 | 11 | January 2004 | | |
| | Classic play about the witch hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, illuminating the destructive power of fears and suspicion in a community. | Miller, Arthur | NP | Play | 4.9 | 11 | January 2004 | | |
| | A monumental novel which covers the passionate lives of two turbulent families. | Steinbeck, John | 700 | Fiction | | 11 | January 2004 | | H & Principal Approval |
| | Cast adrift after the death of her drunken father and sadly misused mother, Ellen moves from one woebegone situation to another until she finally finds a friend. | Gibbons, Kaye | 870 | Fiction | 4.7 | 11 | January 2004 | | |
| | Ender, who is the result of genetic experimentation, may be the military genius Earth needs in its war against an alien enemy. | Card, Orson Scott | 780 | Science Fiction/ Fantasy | 5.5 | 11 | January 2004 | | |
| | The tragic story of Ethan Frome, a New England farmer married to a hypochondriac and in love with his wife’s lively cousin, Mattie. | Wharton, Edith | 1160 | Fiction | 7.6 | 11 | January 2004 | | |
| | The story of one black teenager's twelve month tour of duty in Vietnam. Includes realistic language. | Myers, Walter Dean | 650 | Fiction | 4.2 | 11 | January 2004 | | H & Principal Approval |
| | After being mentally retarded for all of his thirty-two years, Charlie Gordon undergoes an operation designed to change his life. | Keyes, Daniel | 910 | Fiction | 5.8 | 11 | January 2004 | | |
| | The story of Robert Jordan, an American fighting during the Spanish Civil War with the anti-fascist guerillas in the mountains of Spain. | Hemingway, Ernest | 840 | Fiction | 5.8 | 11 | January 2004 | | |
| | Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother’s schemes and reality by | Williams, Tennessee | | Play | 5.3 | 11 | January 2004 | | |
| | The story of a Chinese peasant and his passionate, dogged accumulation of land during famine, drought, and revolution. | Buck, Pearl S. | 1530 | Fiction | 6.8 | 11 | January 2004 | | |
| | Pulitzer-Prize-winning play in which Willy Loman, a sixty-three-year-old traveling salesman, is forced to face the reality he has avoided all his life. | Miller, Arthur | NP | Play | 6.2 | 11 | January 2004 | | |
| | The tragic story of the wealthy Jay Gatsby and his attempt to win back the love of Daisy Buchanan. | Fitzgerald, F. Scott | 1070 | Fiction | 7.3 | 11 | January 2004 | | |
| | A deaf mute who has lost his only friend to a hospital for the insane becomes the recipient of the confidences of several other town residents. | McCullers, Carson | 760 | Fiction | 6.3 | 11 | January 2004 | | |
| | In 1949, four Chinese women began meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong. They called their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Forty years later they look back and remember. | Tan, Amy | 930 | Fiction | 5.7 | 11 | January 2004 | | |
| | Describes the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young immigrant struggling in America. | Sinclair, Upton | 1170 | Fiction | 8.0 | 11 | January 2004 | | |