# 9th grade Memoir books

**4** memoir books commonly assigned to 9th grade students in US schools. Every title's grade range covers 9th grade, so each is grade-appropriate by curriculum placement. Sourced from Common Core exemplars, AP, IB, Cambridge, and 50 state ELA curricula.

**Reading difficulty:** the typical 9th grade band is 1050–1335L (Common Core Appendix A). Of the 4 titles here with a Lexile score, 1 is grade-level, 3 more accessible, and 0 a stretch.

**Grade:** 9th grade  ·  **Genre:** Memoir
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**Primary source — Common Core ELA exemplars:** https://achievethecore.org/page/2699

## 9th grade Memoir reading list

- [Black Boy](https://readinglist.school/book/black-boy) by Richard Wright _(950L · Grades 9–12 · pub 1945)_
- [I Am Malala (Young Readers Edition)](https://readinglist.school/book/i-am-malala-young-readers) by Malala Yousafzai _(830L · Grades 6–10 · pub 2014)_
- [Night](https://readinglist.school/book/night) by Elie Wiesel _(590L · Grades 9–12 · pub 1960)_
- [The Diary of a Young Girl](https://readinglist.school/book/the-diary-of-a-young-girl) by Anne Frank _(1080L · Grades 7–10 · pub 1947)_

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