Hickory Christian Academy
Rising 9th – 12th Grade Summer Reading Assignment
(Summer 2015)
All HCA high school students are required to complete a summer reading assignment. This list is slightly
different for each grade and each level within the grade. A detailed explanation of the reading for each and level
can be seen in the table below. After reading the books each student must fill out a form responding to several
questions about each book they read. Students are to select books that they have not read before that are on
the list below. Students are to read these books completely and submit the completed forms on the first
day of class in order to receive credit for the assignment.
There are two forms; one for fiction books and one for non-fiction. Please be sure to fill out the appropriate
form. The forms must be completed on a computer and printed for submission on the first day of class.
Each student will have one book that is required. The required book for each year is listed under the
requirement below. These required books will be used in the first two weeks of class. It is imperative that the
students be familiar with the content of the book when they start the year. If the book was read early in the
summer it should be reviewed before coming to class. Several of the early discussions and assessments in the
class will be based on content from the required novel.
PLEASE NOTE: Parents and students should use caution in selecting a book from this list. While each of the
books below has been chosen because of its distinct merit or its distinguished reputation, many of the books are
not written from a Christian worldview and contain elements that conflict with Christian behavior, values, and
thought. Books that deal substantially with such elements are marked with an asterisk.
This assignment does not need to be an added financial burden. Most of these books are available in print and
electronic version through the public library system. If a student cannot find a book they would like to read,
and they do not want to purchase the book, they should ask their English teacher if there are any copies
available. Obviously students who wait till the last weeks of summer will have far fewer options available.
Book Requirements:
9th Grade
Honors English I
Read Oliver Twist and select one book from the following list.
10th Grade
English II
Edith Hamilton’s
Mythology
Honors English II
Edith Hamilton’s Mythology and
one book selected from below
11th Grade
English III
Beowulf
Honors English III
Beowulf and one book selected
from below
AP English Language
The Consequences of Ideas
and 2 books selected from the
list below. (Selections must be
approved by teacher.)
12th Grade
English IV
Wuthering
Heights
Honors English IV
Wuthering Heights and one book
selected from below
AP English Literature
Wuthering Heights and two
books selected from the list
(Selections must be approved
by teacher.)
Approved Book Selection
(AP students must also seek their teacher’s approval for the books they choose off this list.)
Title
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (min. 200 pages)
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The
Age of Innocence, The
All Quiet on the Western Front
Anna Karenina
Anthem
Any Academic Bible Commentary 0ver 200 pages
Please discuss this with your English teacher if you are interested in doing this.
9. Any book by C.S. Lewis (Except: The Discarded Image, Till We Have Faces, or
The Chronicles of Narnia )
10. Any Book By David McCullough that is over 200 pages
11. Any Book by Francis Schaeffer
12. Any Book by J. R. R. Tolkien
F/N
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction *
Fiction*
Fiction*
Fiction
Non-fic.
Author
Vern, Jules
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Twain, Mark
Wharton, Edith
Remarque, Erich Maria
Tolstoy
Rand, Ayn
Various
Non-fic.
Fiction
Non-fic.
Non-fic.
Fiction
Lewis, C.S.
13. Any Book by Tim Keller over 200 pages (He has a great book on prayer)
14. Any Book by Ravi Zacharias over 200 pages
15. Any play by Shakespeare play except the ones we read in class (Midsummer
Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet,
Henry V, Julius Caesar, or Richard III)
16. As I Lay Dying
17. Atlas Shrugged
18. Awakening, The
19. Basic Economics
20. Bell Jar, The
21. Beloved
22. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
23. Brothers Karamazov
24. Can Man live Without God?
25. Candide
26. Catcher in the Rye, The
27. Cherry Orchard, The
28. Chosen, The
29. Christian Imagination, The
30. Cost of Discipleship, The
31. Count of Mote Crisco
32. Counterfeit Gods
33. Crime and Punishment
34. Crucible, The
35. Cyrano de Bergerac
36. Deliver us From Evil
37. Desiring God
38. Doctor Zhivago
39. Don Quixote
40. Don’t Waste Your Life
41. Dug Down Deep
42. Dumb Ox, The
43. Emma
44. Explicit Gospel, The
45. Fahrenheit 451
46. Farewell to Arms, A
47. Father Brown Stories, The
48. Fathers and Sons
49. Flames of Rome, The
50. For Whom the Bell Tolls
51. Frankenstein
Non-fic
Non-fic
Fiction
Keller, Timothy
Zacharias, Ravi
Shakespeare, William
Fiction*
Fiction*
Fiction*
Non-fic.
Fiction*
Fiction*
Non-fic.
Fiction*
Non-fic.
Fiction
Fiction*
Fiction
Fiction
Non-fic.
Non-fic.
Fiction
Non-fic.
Fiction*
Fiction
Fiction*
Non-fic.
Non-fic.
Fiction*
Fiction
Non-fic.
Non-fic
Non-fic.
Fiction
Non-fic.
Fiction
Fiction*
Fiction
Fiction*
Hist. Fic.
Fiction
Fiction
Faulkner, William
Rand, Ayn
Chopin, Kate
Sowell, Tomas
Plath, Sylvia
Morrison, Toni
Metaxas, Eric
Dostoevsky, Leo
Zacharias, Ravi
Voltaire
Salinger, J.D.
Chekhov, Anton
Potok, Chaim
Ryken, Phillip
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
Dumas, Alexander
Keller, Tim
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Miller, Arthur
Rostand, Edmond
Zacharias, Ravi
Piper, John
Pasternak, Boris
de Cervantes, Miguel
Piper, John
Harris, Josh
G. K. Chesterton
Austen, Jane
Chandler, Matt
Bradbury Ray
Hemingway, Ernest
G. K. Chesterton
Turgenev, Ivan
Maier, Paul L.
Hemingway, Ernest
Shelley, Mary
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
McCullough, David
Schaeffer, Francis
Tolkien, J. R. R.
52.
53.
54.
55.
56.
57.
58.
59.
60.
61.
62.
63.
64.
65.
66.
67.
68.
69.
70.
71.
72.
73.
74.
75.
76.
77.
78.
79.
80.
81.
82.
83.
84.
85.
86.
87.
88.
89.
90.
91.
92.
93.
94.
95.
96.
Glass Menagerie, The
Grapes of Wrath, The
Great Expectations
House of Mirth, The
House of Seven Gables, The
How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The
I Would Die for You
In His Steps
Invisible Man
Ivanhoe
Jane Eyre
Jungle, The
Justice Game, The
Killer Angels, The
Knowing God
Last of the Mohicans, The
Les Miserables
Lit!: A Christian Guide to Reading Books
Lord of The Flies
Mansfield Park
Metamorphosis, The
Moby Dick
My Antonia
Narrative… Life of Frederick Douglass
Native Son
Northanger Abby
O Pioneers!
Of Mice and Men
Old Man and The Sea, The
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Orthodoxy
Paradise Lost
Passage to India
Picture of Dorian Gray, The
Pleasures of God, The
Pontius Pilate: A Novel
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A
Power of Words and The Wonder of God, The
Pride and Prejudice
Prodigal God, The
Raisin in The Sun, A
Recapturing the Wonder
Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (read 200 pages)
Robinson Crusoe
Fiction*
Fiction*
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Non-fic.
Fiction
Non-fic.
Non-fic.
Fiction*
Hist. fic.
Fiction
Fiction*
Fiction
Hist. Fic.
Non-fic.
Fiction
Fiction
Non-fic.
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction*
Fiction
Fiction*
Fiction
Fiction*
Fiction*
Fiction
Fiction*
Non-fic.
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Non-fic.
Hist. fic.
Fiction*
Non-fic.
Fiction
Non-fic.
Fiction*
Non-fic.
Non-fic.
Fiction
Williams, Tennessee
Steinbeck, John
Dickens, Charles
Wharton, Edith
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Stuart & Fee
Hugo, Victor
Higgins, Brent & Deanna
Sheldon Charles
Ellison, Ralph
Scott, Walter
Brontë, Charlotte
Sinclair, Upton
Singer, Randy
Saara. Michael
Packer J. I.
Cooper, James Fennimore
Hugo, Victor
Reinke Tony
Golding, William
Jane Austen
Kafka, Franz
Melville, Herman
Cather, Willa
Douglass, Frederick
Wright, Richard
Austen, Jane
Cather, Willa
Steinbeck, John
Hemmingway, Ernest
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
G. K. Chesterton
Milton John
Forester, E. M.
Wilde, Oscar
Piper, John
Maier, Paul L.
Joyce, James
Piper, Taylor
Austen, Jane
Keller, Timothy
Hansberry, Lorraine
Zacharias, Ravi
Carson etal.
Defoe, Daniel
97.
98.
99.
100.
101.
102.
103.
104.
105.
106.
107.
108.
109.
110.
111.
Scarlet Pimpernel, The
Sense and Sensibility
Silas Marner
Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
Sound and the Fury, The
Stranger, The
Sun Also Rises, The
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Things Fall Apart
Three Musketeers, The
Through Gates of Splendor (biography)
Turn of the Screw, The
Twenty Five books that Shaped America
War and Peace
Wooster and Jeeves (any 200 pages)
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction*
Fiction*
Fiction*
Fiction*
Fiction*
Fiction*
Fiction*
Fiction*
Non-fic.
Fiction
Non-fic.*
Fiction*
Fiction
Orczy, Emmuska
Austen, Jane
George Elliot
Gaarder, Jostin
Faulkner, William
Camus, Albert
Hemingway, Ernest
Hurston, Zora Neale
Achebe, Chinua
Dumas, Alexandre
Elliot, Elisabeth
James, Henry
Foster, Thomas
Tolstoy
Woodhouse P. G.