2011 Thomaston High School Summer Reading
Incoming 11th Grade
Honors: You must read any 3 from the list of books
College Prep (3): You must read any 2 from the list
Genre / Title
Author
Realistic Fiction
Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
Hilton
The Shipping News
Proulx
Buried Onions
Soto
Classics
Emma
Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Austen
Jane Eyre
Bronte
Oliver Twist
Dickens
The History of Tom Jones
Fielding
Far from the Madding Crowd
Hardy
Historical Fiction
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Gaines
In Country
Mason
Mystery - Suspense
The Name of the Rose
Eco
Grendel
Gardner
Snow Falling on Cedars
Guterson
The Beekeeper's Apprentice
King, L
Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
King, S
White House Pantry Murder
Roosevelt
Murder at the National Cathedral
Truman
Murder in Georgetown
Truman
Murder in the White House
Truman
Fantasy - Science Fiction
Mists of Avalon
Bradley
A Clockwork Orange
Burgess
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Carroll
The Gunslinger
King
Gulliver's Travels
Swift
Biography - Autobiography - Memoir
Growing Up
Baker
The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival
Bernstein
The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Carr
An Autobiography
Christie
Eleanor Roosevelt: Vol. 1: 1884-1933
Cook
Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters' First 100 Years
Delaney
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Freedman
Barrio Boy
Galarza
The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Gaskell
Africa in My Blood
Goodall
Booker T. Washington
Harlan
Grandma Moses: The Artist Behind the Myth
Kallir
Profiles in Courage
Kennedy
P. T. Barnum
Kunhardt
Spirit of St. Louis
Lindbergh
The Sound of Wings: The Biography of Amelia Earhart
Lovell
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Death of a President
Manchester
Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman
Miller
Coming of Age in Mississippi
Moody
The Whole World in His Hands: A Pictorial Biography of Paul Robeson
Robeson
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
Rodriguez
Ditchdigger's Daughter
Thornton
Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth
Wright
War - Conflict - Nonfiction
I Am Fifteen - And I Don't Want to Die
Amothy
The Greatest Generation
Brokaw
Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Chang
The Dangerous Game
Dank
American Service Personnel: Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam Edelman
Mister Roberts
Heggen
Catch-22
Heller
Born on the Fourth of July
Kovic
The Naked and the Dead
Mailer
Chickenhawk
Mason
Fallen Angels
Myers
The Flying Tigers
Toland
The Road Home
White
Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
Williams
The Caine Mutiny
Wouk
The Winds of War
Wouk
Health - Life Choices
Whirlgig
Fleishman
Stick Figure
Gottlieb
Girl, Interrupted
Kaysen
Parenthood by Proxy
Schlessinger
The Girl Within
Schultz, Marion
Crosses
Stoehr
Rats Saw God
Thomas
Drama
A Man for All Seasons
Bolt
Mousetrap
Christie
Blithe Spirit
Coward
Murder in the Cathedral
Eliot
My Fair Lady
Lerner
King Lear
Shakespeare
Othello
Shakespeare
The Importance of Being Earnest
Wilde
Poetry
Poems
Browning, R
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Browning, E
Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States
Carlson
The War Poets
Giddings
Crow: From the Life and Times of the Crow
Hughes
The Complete Sonnets
Shakespeare
Sports - Fiction - Nonfiction
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
Asinof
Baseball Chronicles
Gallen (editor)
Black Diamond: The Story of the NegroBaseball Leagues
McKissack
Hoops
Myers
Road Swing
Rushin