Emmaus High School
SUMMER READING BOOK LIST
A Child Called It, David Pelzer
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Mark Twain
A Farewell to Manzanar, James&Jeanne Houston
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, D.Eggers
A Million Little Pieces, James Frey
A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Michael Dorris
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
Atonement, Ian McEwan
Augustus, Anthony Everitt
Auschwitz Explained to My Child, Annette Wieviorka
Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy
Ball Don’t Lie, Matt De la Pena
Before and After, Rosellen Brown
Big Mouth and Ugly Girl, Joyce Carol Oates
Bleachers, John Grisham
Borges: Selected Poems, Jorge Luis Borges
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
Children of Men, P.D. James
Cicero, Anthony Everitt
Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
Counting Coup: A True Story of B’ball and Honor, L. Colton
Crooked Little Heart, Anne Lamott
Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family,
Y. Uchida
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris
E=mc2: A Biography, David Bodanis
Einstein’s Dreams, Alan Lightman
Empire Falls, Richard Russo
Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
Endless Forms Most Beautiful, Sean B. Carroll
Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
Feed, M.T. Anderson
Fever, 1793, Laurie Haise Anderson
Five Quarters of the Orange, Joanne Harris
For the Glory, Ken Denlinger
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell
Gods and Generals, Jeff Shaara
Going for the Record, Julie Swanson
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Hacker Cracker, David Chanoff and Ejovi Nuwere
Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie
Head Above Water, S.L. Rottman
Heart of a Chief, Joseph Bruchac
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Hip Hop High School, Alan Sitomer
How to Be Good, Nick Hornby
I am the Cheese, Robert Cormier
If I Die in a Combat Zone, Tim O’Brien
In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
It’s Not About the Bike, Lance Armstrong
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Jarhead, Anthony Swofford
Jennifer Government, Max Barry
Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
Keeper, Mal Peet
Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain
Last Orders, Graham Swift
Leap of Faith:Memoirs of an Unexpected Life, Queen Noor
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
Marley and Me, John Grogan
Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
My Antonia, Willa Cather
My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult
Native Son, Richard Wright
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
Nothing But the Truth, Avi
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
On Call in Hell:A Doctor’s Irag War Story, R.Jadick, T.Hayden
One for the Money, Janet Evanovich
Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
Pigs in Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver
Prep, Curtis Sittenfield
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Property Of, Alice Hoffman
Rabbit Proof Fence, Doris Pilkington
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
Richard II, William Shakespeare
Richard III, William Shakespeare
Rocket Boys, Homer Hickam
Shakespeare Bats Cleanup, Ron Koertge
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, S. Freedman
Songs in Ordinary Time, Mary McGarry Morris
Soul Surfer, Bethany Hamilton
Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
The Last Amateurs, John Feinstein
The Life of Pi, Yann Martel
The Nanny Diaries, E. McLaughlin and N. Kraus
The Odyssey, Homer
Teacher Man, Frank McCourt
Tess of the D’Ubervilles, Thomas Hardy
The Art of War, Sun Tzu
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
The Painted Veil, Somerset Maugham
The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger
The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain
The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy
The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
The Caddie Who Knew Ben Hogan, John Coyne
The Complete Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen
The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
The Fallen Man, Tony Hillerman
The First Eagle, Tony Hillerman
The Forbidden Schoolhouse, Suzanne Jurmain
The Freedom Writers Diary, Zlata Filipovic
The Good Earth, Pearl Buck
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Great Santini, Pat Conroy
The Grizzly Maze, Nick Jans
The Sea Wolf, Jack London
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
The Stories of Eva Luna, Isabel Allende
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
The Teammates, David Halberstam
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
The True Account, Howard Frank Mosher
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
This Boy’s Life: A Memoir, Tobias Wolff
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Twisted, Laurie Halse Anderson
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Heart of a Chief, Joseph Bruchac
The Hoopster, Allan Sitomer
The Hot Zone, Richard Preston
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
When I Was Puerto Rican, Esmerelda Santiago
Where the Heart Is, Billie Letts
Whirlwind, James Clavell
White Oleander, Janet Fitch
Wicked, Gregory McGuire
Wrestling Sturbridge, Rich Wallace