JOHN A. FERGUSON HIGH SCHOOL READING LIST, SUMMER 2012
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.
(Gifted and/or AP students are not additionally required to read the books listed under their
academies). Students will be given assessments based on their reading at the beginning of the school
year.
9th
Grade
City of Beasts by Isabel Allende
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
11th Grade
Captains and the Kings by Taylor Caldwell
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Gifted
10th Grade
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
12th Grade
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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
11th Grade
12th Grade
Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
9th
Information Technology
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
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
9th
Medical Skills and Biomedical
9th Grade
10th Grade
Coma by Robin Cook
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Barron’s AP English Literature and Composition 4th
Edition by George Ehrenhaft, Ed.D.
th
11 Grade
12th Grade
Fiela’s Child by Dalene Matthee
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by
Thomas C. Foster
9th
Advanced Placement
AP Language and Composition
Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
On Writing by Stephen King
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
AP Literature
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Intensive Reading Plus
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
9th