JOHN A. FERGUSON HIGH SCHOOL READING LIST, SUMMER 2011
In an effort to maintain high academic standards, summer reading is a requirement at John A.
Ferguson Senior High. Required books are listed below for each grade level, academic level and
academy. Students will be held responsible for all the books listed under their appropriate category.
Students will be given assessments based on their reading at the beginning of the school year.
Gifted
Grade
10th Grade
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
City of Beasts by Isabel Allende
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
11th Grade
12th Grade
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
9th
International Business and Finance
Grade
10th Grade
The Firm by John Grisham
Freakonomics by Steven Levitt
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
11th Grade
12th Grade
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
9th
Design and Architecture
Grade
10th Grade
Speak by Laurie Anderson
The Pat Hobby Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
th
11 Grade
12th Grade
Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
9th
Information Technology
9th Grade
10th Grade
The Art of Intrusion by Kevin Mitnick
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
th
11 Grade
12th Grade
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Prey by Michael Crichton
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Medical Skills and Biomedical
9th Grade
10th Grade
Coma by Robin Cook
It’s Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
th
11 Grade
12th Grade
The Adromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Experimental Heart by Jennifer L. Rohn
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Hospitality and Tourism
Grade
10th Grade
Married to the Mouse by Richard E.
Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Foglesong
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
11th Grade
12th Grade
Three Weeks with my Brother by Nicholas
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Sparks
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
9th
International Baccalaureate
Grade Pre IB
AP Literature/10th Grade Pre IB
The City of Beasts by Isabel Allende
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Barron’s AP English Literature and Composition 3rd
Edition by George Ehrenhaft, Ed.D.
th
11 Grade
12th Grade
1984 by George Orwell
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Fiela’s Child by Dalene Matthee
Kiss of the Spiderwoman by Manuel Puig
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by
Thomas C. Foster
9th
Advanced Placement
AP Language and Composition (all)
Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
On Writing by Stephen King
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
AP Literature (all)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Intensive Reading Plus
9th Grade
10th Grade
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B.
Street Pharm by Allison Van Diepen
Cooney
11th Grade
12th Grade
The Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks
Crank by Ellen Hopkins