ENGLISH NOVELS FOR LONG READING IN CLASSES IX TO XII

CBSE under its Examination Specifications and as per revised guidelines for the Curriculum 2014 in English has introduced at each class (IX to XII) novels for detailed reading.

As per Examination Specifications these novels are introduced from Academic Session 2012-2013 for classes IX and XI.
In the Academic Session 2013-14, classes X and XII would take up the prescribed novels

The prescribed novels are:

Class IX

 Gulliver’s Travels (2005 edition) by Jonathan Swift

Or

Three Men in a Boat (1889 edition) by Jerome. K. Jerome

Class X

The Diary of a Young Girl (1947 edition) by Anne Frank

Or

The Story of My Life (1903 edition) by Helen Keller

Class XI

The Canterville Ghost (1906 edition) by Oscar Wilde

Or

Up from Slavery( 2000 edition) by Booker T. Washington

Class XII

The Hounds of Baskerville ( 1902) Arthur Conan Doyle

Or

Lord of the Flies (1954) William Golding

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The following points need to be followed:
1. There are two novels prescribed at each level. The schools have the option to choose only one out of
the two for writing the examination.
2. All the novels have been introduced in the unabridged form.
3. No publisher has been specified for the novels.