Summer Reading: [All books are the unabridged versions]
Class
Title
Author
______________________________________________________________________________
8
Across Five Aprils
Homecoming
Irene Hunt [Mr. Mitchell]
Cynthia Voigt [See Mrs. St. Angelo
for a copy]
_____________________________________________________________________________________
9
Tangerine
Edward Bloor
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
_____________________________________________________________________________________
10
The Battle for America 2008**
Tom Sawyer
Balz and Johnson [Mr. Mitchell]
Mark Twain
_____________________________________________________________________________________
British Lit.
Collision 2012**
Balz (Mr. Mitchell)
1984
George Orwell
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh
_____________________________________________________________________________________
AP English
Collision 2012**
1984
Cry, the Beloved Country
A Tale of Two Cities
Balz (Mr. Mitchell)
George Orwell
Alan Paton
Charles Dickens
[AP English Students: In a composition notebook, please annotate the books as you read them. Make
note of literary devices, important/intriguing passages, unfamiliar words, themes, symbolism, key plot
points, etc. Be prepared to discuss the books as well as take a test on each. Your annotations are due the
first day of school. NO EXCEPTIONS!]
____________________________________________________________________________________
**For both Government Classes
 Students must be prepared to take a test on the required titles and possibly complete a project the
first two weeks of the school year.
 A list of suggested titles for students who wish to read additional books is included.
1
Suggestions for additional summer reading options:




































A Bend in the River
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s
Court
A Doll’s House
A Hero Ain’t Nothing but a Sandwich
A Little Love
A Midsummer Night’s Dream [play]
A Prayer for Owen Meany
A Raisin in the Sun [play]
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Wizard of Earthsea
A&P
Absalom, Absalom!
Across the River and Into the Trees
Adam Bede
All Creatures Great and Small
All Quiet on the Western Front
All’s Well That Ends Well[play]
An American Tragedy
And Then There Were None
Anna Karenina
Anthem
As I Lay Dying
As You Like It [play]
Atlas Shrugged
Atonement
Babbitt
Back When We Were Grownups
Beloved
Black Boy
Breathing Lessons
Brideshead Revisited
Call it Courage
Call of the Wild
Catch-22
Choose a biography, autobiography, or
a collection of short stories or essays
Collected Stories by Jean Stafford



































Collected Stories by Katherine Anne
Porter
Crime and Punishment
Crossing to Safety
Daisy Miller
Dante’s Inferno
Dead Man Walking
Death Be Not Proud
Decline and Fall
Dicey’s Song
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Don Quixote
Dracula
Dune
East of Eden
Ender’s Shadow
Ethan Frome
Failure by Philip Schultz [book of
poetry]
Farewell to Manzanar
Flags of Our Fathers
Flowers in the Attic
Fountainhead
From Here to Eternity
Gilead
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Hamlet [play]
Henry V [play]
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their
Accents
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name
[book of essays]
In Cold Blood
Innocents Abroad
Invisible Man [Ellison]
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jude the Obscure
Keepers of the House
2









































Kim
King Lear [play]
Life on the Mississippi
Lolita
Lorna Doone
Macbeth [play]
Madame Bovary
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Mansfield Park
March
Member of the Wedding
Memory
Middlemarch
Moby Dick
Moll Flanders
Mrs. Dalloway
My Antonia
Native Son
Netherland (Vintage Contemporaries)
Olive Kitteridge
Oliver Twist
On the Road
One Fat Summer
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Ordinary People
Othello [play]
Our Town [play]
Out of Africa
Phantom of the Opera
Portrait of a Lady
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pride and Prejudice
Pudd’nhead Wilson
Push Not the River
Rebecca
Richard III [play]
Robinson Crusoe
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Saint Joan [play by Shaw]
Silas Marner
Sister Carrie







































Slaughterhouse-Five
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Sons and Lovers
Sounder
Swiss Family Robinson
Take Good Care of the Garden and the
Dogs [book of essays]
Taming of the Shrew [play]
Tarzan of the Apes
Tender is the Night
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
The Age of Innocence
The American
The Bell Jar
The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
by Kay Ryan
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brothers Karamazov
The Caine Mutiny
The Chocolate War
The Color Purple
The Contender
The Glass Menagerie [Play]
The Golden Notebook
The Good Earth
The Heart of the Matter
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The House of Mirth
The House on Mango Street
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Importance of Being Earnest [play]
The Innocents Abroad
The Jungle
The Known World
The Light in the Forest
The Maltese Falcon
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Merry Wives of Windsor [play]
The Mill on the Floss
The Mother’s Recompense
The Odyssey [epic]
3























The Old Man and the Sea
The Once and Future King
The Pathfinder
The Pigman
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Prince and the Pauper
The Quiet American
The Red Pony
The Republic
The Sea-Wolf
The Secret Life of Bees
The Skin of Our Teeth [play]
The Stranger
The Taming of the Shrew [play]
The Tempest [play]
The Things They Carried
The Time Machine
The Trial
The Upstairs Room
The War of the Worlds
The Yearling
Tinkers
Tom Jones



















Tortilla Flat
Treasure Island
Tristram Shandy
Twelfth Night [play]
Typee
Ulysses
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Vanity Fair
Versed by Rae Armantrout [poetry]
Walden
War and Peace
Watership Down
When I was a Child I Read Books:
Essays
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf [play]
Wicked
Winter Dreams
Wise Blood
Wuthering Heights
Year of Wonders
4