| GRADE 9 | |
| Armitage, Kimo | *The Healers. |
| Bok, Francis | Escape from Slavery. |
| Brennert, Alan | Molokai. |
| Cisneros, Sandra | House of Mango Street. |
| Collins, Malia | Pele and Poliʻahu: A Tale of Fire and Ice. |
| Figiel, Sia | The Girl in the Moon Circle. |
| Frank, Anne | The Diary of Anne Frank. |
| Frazier, Frances | *The True Story of Kaluaikoʻolau. |
| Guwell, Erin | The Freedom Writers Diary. |
| Hari, Daoud | The Translator. |
| Homer | The Odyssey. |
| Kaopio, Matthew | Written in the Sky. |
| Kawaharada, Dennis | Hawaiian Fishing Legends. |
| Nakuina, Moses | *Wind Groud of Laʻamaomao. |
| Nogelmeier, Puakea | The Epic Tale of Hiʻiakaikapoliopele. |
| Opdyke, Irene | In My Hands. |
| Potok, Chaim | The Chosen. |
| Pratchett, Terry | Nation. |
| Savage, Deborah | Kotuku. |
| Sexton, Adam | Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. |
| Shakespeare, William | *Romeo and Juliet. |
| Shakespeare, William | *Twelfth Night. |
| Taylor, Theodore | The Bomb. |
| Ung, Loung | First They Killed My Father. |
| Varez, Dietrich | Pele and Hiʻiaka: A Tale of Two Sisters. |
| Wilson, August | Fences. |
| Wood, Margaret | Penelopiad. |
| Woodson, Jacqueline | Brown Girl Dreaming. |
| Yousafzai, Malala | I Am Malala. |
| Zusak, Markus | *The Book Thief. |
| GRADE 10 | |
| Achebe, Chinua | *Things Fall Apart. |
| Alexie, Sherman | Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. |
| Grace, Patricia | *Potiki. |
| Haleole, S. N. | *Lāʻieikawai. |
| Hansberry, Lorraine | A Raisin in the Sun. |
| Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World. |
| Ibsen, Henrik | A Doll’s House and Other Plays. |
| Kneubuhl, Victoria | Murder Casts a Shadow. |
| Lee, Harper | *To Kill A Mockingbird. |
| Lowry, Lois | The Giver. |
| Markandaya, Kamamala | Nectar in a Sieve. |
| Marquez, Gabriel | 100 Years of Solitude. |
| Mason, Herbert | Gilgamesh. |
| McCormak, Patricia | *Sold. |
| McKinney, Chris | *The Tattoo. |
| Orwell, George | *Animal Farm. |
| Pak, Gary | A Rice paper Airplane. |
| Read, Piers | Alive. |
| Rosa, John P | Local Story: The Massie Kahahawai Case and the Culture of History. |
| Rushdie, Salman | Haroun and the Sea of Stories. |
| Shakespeare, William | *Macbeth. |
| Shakespeare, William | *The Tempest. |
| Steinbeck, John | Of Mice and Men. |
| Thiongo, Ngugi | The River Between. |
| Wiesel, Elie | Night with Connections. |
| Zentner, Jeff | The Serpent King. |
| GRADE 11 | |
| Albom, Mitch | The Time Keeper. |
| Apio, Alani | Kamau. |
| Bok, Francis | Escape from Slavery. |
| Coelho, Paulo | The Alchemist. |
| Cohen, Samuel | 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology. |
| Davenport, Kiana | House of Many Gods. |
| Douglass, Frederick | *Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Great Gatsby. |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Scarlet Letter. |
| Hogan, Linda | Mean Spirit. |
| Hurston, Zora | Their Eyes Were Watching God. |
| Kameeleihiwa, Lilikala | Kamapuaʻa: The Hawaiian Pig God. |
| Kanahele, George | Pauahi: The Kamehameha Legacy. |
| Lum, Darrell | Sun. |
| Manu, Moses | Keaomelemele. |
| Miller, Arthur | The Crucible. |
| Miller, Arthur | An Enemy of the People. |
| Miller, Arthur | Death of a Salesman. |
| Miller, Frank | Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. |
| Momaday, Scott | The Way to Rainy Mountain. |
| Morales, Rodney | Hoihoi Hou: A Tribute to George Helm and Kimo Mitchell. |
| Morals, Rodney | The Speed of Darkness. |
| Murayama, Milton | All I Asking For Is My Body. |
| Nerburn, Edited | The Wisdom of the Native Americans. |
| Nye, Naomi | I’ll ask you three times, are you OK? |
| Nye, Naomi | Words Under the Words. |
| Paton, Alan | Cry, The Beloved Country. |
| Phillips, Christopher | Six Questions of Socrates. |
| Satrapi, Marjane | The Complete Persepolis. |
| See, Lisa | Shanghai Girls. |
| Black, Catherine M. | Facing Hawaiʻi’s Future. |
| Shelly, Mary | *Frankenstein. |
| Silko, Leslie | Ceremony. |
| Ung, Loung | First They Killed My Father. |
| Veary, Nana | Change We Must. |
| Wagamese, Richard | Him Standing. |
| Wharton, Edith | Ethan Frome. |
| Wilder, Thorton | Our Town. |
| GRADE 12 | |
| Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart. |
| Aristophanes | *Lysistrata. |
| Austen, Jane | *Pride and Prejudice. |
| Baum, Frank L. | *Wizard of Oz. |
| Bissinger, H | Friday Night Lights. |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey | The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics Black). |
| Chricton, Michael | *Jurassic Park. |
| Figiel, Sia | The Girl in the Moon Circle. |
| Forster, E. M. | A Passage to India. |
| Gaiman, Neil | Stardust. |
| Gaiman, Neil | Norse Mythology. |
| Gaines, Ernest | A Gathering of Old Men. |
| Grace, Patricia | Cousins. |
| Hamilton, Virginia | In the Beginning. |
| Hoff, Benjamin | The Tao of Pooh. |
| Holt, John | Waimea Summer. |
| Howard, Robert | *Conan the Barbarian. |
| Hwang, David | Madame Butterfly. |
| Ihimaera, Witi | Women Far Walking. |
| Kesey, Ken | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. |
| King, Stephen | On Writing. |
| King, Stephen | The Running Man. |
| Kneubuhl, Victoria | Hawaiʻi Nei: Island Plays. |
| LeGuin, Ursula | A Wizard of Earthsea. |
| Lowry, Lois | The Giver. |
| Makereti, Witi | Black Marks On the White Page. |
| McGregor, Lurline | Between the Deep Blue Sea and Me. |
| Melville, Herman | Typee. |
| Morales, Rodney | Hoihoi Hou: A Tribute to George Helm and Kimo Mitchell. |
| Orwell, George | *1984 |
| Reeve, Simon | One Day in September. |
| Shakespeare, William | *King Lear. |
| Shakespeare, William | *Much Ado About Nothing. |
| Sophocles | The Three Theban Plays. |
| Sproul, Barbara | Primal Myths. |
| Stoppard, Tom | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. |
| Thomas, Christine | Don’t Look Back: Hawaiian Myths Made New. |
| Trask, Haunani | Light in the Crevice Never Seen. |
| Volataire | Candide. |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Galapagos. |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Welcome to the Monkey House. |
| Wells, H. G. | The Time Machine/The War of the Worlds. |
| Wendt, Albert | *Pouliuli. |
| Wendt, Albert | Out of the Vaipe, A Writer’s Early Life. |
| Wendt, Albert | The Songmaker’s Chair |
| Wilde, Oscar | The Importance of Being Earnest . |
| Wood, Margaret | Penelopiad. |
| ANTHOLOGIES | |
| Akana, Leimomi | Hānau Ka Ua. |
| Barclay, Roberty | Hawaiʻi Smiles. |
| Dudoit, Mahealani | Oiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal 1. |
| Dudoit, Mahealani | Oiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal 2 . |
| Dudoit, Mahealani | Oiwi 3. |
| Dudoit, Mahealani | Oiwi 4. |
| Harden, MJ | Voices of Wisdom. |
| Harstad, Cheryl | Island Fire: An Anthology of Literature from Hawaiʻi. |
| Harstad, Erick | Growing Up Local. |
| Kaopua, Aiko | The Value of Hawaiʻi 2. |
| Landgraf, Anne | E Nā Hulu Kūpuna Na Puna Ola Maoli No. |
| Lum, Erick | The Best of Bamboo Ridge. |
| Makereti, Witi | Black Marks On the White Page. |
| Perez, Brandy | Home (Is)Lands. |
| Pukui, Mary | Olelo Noeau. |
| Pukui, Mary | Place Names of Hawaiʻi. |
| Pukui, Pukui | Nānā I Ke Kumu Volume I. |
| Pukui, Pukui | Nānā I Ke Kumu Volume II. |
| Sterling, Elspeth | Sites of Oʻahu. |
| Westervelt, W.D. | Legends of Old Honolulu. |
| Kailua. | |
| POETRY | |
| Alexie, Sherman | First Indian on the Moon. |
| Berry, Wendell | The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry. |
| McDougall, Brandy | The Salt Wind – Ka Makani Paʻakai. |
| Milosz, Czeslaw | A Book of Luminous Things. |
| Nye, Naomi | 19 Varieties of Gazelle. |
| Perez, Craig | Saina. |
| Sullivan, Albert | Mauri Ola. |