Summer Reading List
Summer 2014
May, 2014
Dear Students,
We are delighted to bring you the new summer reading list. We hope that you will read many of
these books and many others, in addition. Please do read from lists for other grade levels, if any
book seems appealing. Although you are required to read a few books for school (see each grade
level for details), we expect that you will read all summer long. You are in a demanding bilingual
program and one great way to remain fully bilingual is to read in English.
It is particularly important for those of you who will not be spending your summer speaking,
writing and hearing English to keep up your fluency with daily reading. However, regardless of
how Anglophone your summer is, reading will make each and every one of you more educated,
more relaxed, more curious and more understanding of people who are different from you.
There is a lot of research to suggest that reading is not only the least expensive way to become a
worldly and more compassionate person, it is also one of the most efficient. Just keep a book
with you everywhere you go this summer; there are often opportunities to leave the world behind
when you are in transit from one place to another, in the backseat of the car or waiting for the
weather to change.
For those of you who need a more practical and obvious motivation to read a lot this summer,
here it is: good readers do much better in school. Their stress levels are lower and their grades are
higher.
Your careful reading of the required books for your incoming grade level will be evaluated in a
written graded essay (or essays) in the second week of school in September. We strongly
recommend that you take notes in your books as you read. (Needless to say, do not take notes in
books you borrow from the school’s library!) These notes will be very useful to you when you
prepare to write your first essay in September.
Choose books that you think sound interesting. If you would like some help picking books to suit
your taste, please just ask any of your teachers (past or present) or the librarians. We all look
forward to hearing what you have to say about the books you read!
Happy reading and enjoy the summer.
Sincerely, your classroom teachers and the librarians,
Catherine Reed, Michele Silvestri, Amy Crist, Charlotte Jarquin, Adrienne Covington, Ben
Hecksher, Lili Zimmett, Michelle Green, Terry Hershey, Andrew McGovern, Scot Hicks, Mike
Whitacre, Lucas Mennella and Catherine Boalch
Summer Reading Instructions:
Middle School:
Read the one required book for History (assigned for the class at each grade level) and
read the one required text for English (assigned for the class at each grade level).
Upper School:
Read the one book required for the grade level in English and any another from the
optional list for your grade. This second text will also be assessed in English class.
One required film for History.
We strongly encourage all of you to read many, many more.
For students entering:
6ème English: The Wednesday Wars, Gary Schmidt,
6ème History: A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
5ème English: King of Shadows, Susan Cooper,
5ème History: The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civl Rights by Steve Sheinkin
4ème English: The Book Thief, Markus Zusak,
4ème History: The Next Eco Warriors, Emily Hunter
3ème English: Zeitoun, Dave Eggers,
3ème History: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass
2nde English: The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien (plus at least one from the recommended list
for Seconde),
2nde History: (movie) “Glory”
Première English: Swamplandia!, Karen Russell (plus at least one book from the recommended
list for Première),
Première History: (movie) “Europa, Europa”
Terminale English: The Secret History, Donna Tartt, (plus at least one from the recommended list
for Terminale)
Terminale History: (movie) “The Fog of War
Reading List
2014
Incoming Sixième Students
Required Reading:
The Wednesday Wars, Gary Schmidt (English)
A Long Walk to Water, Linda Sue Park (History)
Recommended Reading
Bloomability, Sharon Creech
Book of Three, Lloyd Alexander
The Watsons Go to Birmingham, C. Curtis
Skellig, David Almond
D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths, D'Aulaire
Before We Were Free, Alvarez
The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet, E.
Dionne
Fever, 1793, L. H. Anderson
City of Ember, DuPrau
The One and Only Ivan, Applegate
The Birchbark House, Louise Erdrich
Sounder, Armstrong
Zlata’s Diary, Filipovich (nonfiction)
Seer of Shadows, Avi
Anything But Typical, Baskin
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Judy
Blume
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of
Amelia Earhart, Candace Fleming
(nonfiction)
Christian the Lion, Anthony Bourke
The Dogs of War, Nathan Fox and Shiela
Keenan (graphic novel)
Cosmic, Boyce
One-Eyed Cat or The Slave Dancer, Paula Fox
The Manny Files, Burch
Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
Blood on the River, E. Carbone
Wonder of Charlie, Fusco
My Brother Sam is Dead, J. Lincoln and C.
Collier
Darby, Fuqua
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Coerr
The Dark is Rising, S. Cooper
Coraline, N. Gaiman
Dead End in Norvelt, Gantos
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows
Embraced Autism and Changed the World,
Grandin (nonfiction)
Leonardo's Shadow, C. Grey
Among the Hidden, M. Haddix
Misty of Chincoteague, Henry
Witness, Hesse
Hoot, C. Hiassen
The Water Seeker, Kimberly Willis Holt
The Vacation, Polly Horvath
Blizzard: The Storm that Changed America, J.
Murphy (nonfiction)
Sunrise Over Fallujah, Walter Dean Myers
Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice
for the USS Indianapolis, Pete Nelson (nonfiction)
My Friend Flicka, Mary O'Hara
Wonder, Ron Palacio
When My Name Was Keoko, Park
Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
Higher Power of Lucky, Susan Patron
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, Jacqueline
Kelly
Dangerous Days of Daniel X, J. Patterson
The View from Saturday, E L Konigsberg
The Transall Saga, Paulsen
Skullduggery Pleasant, Landry
Wolf Brother, Michelle Paver
Girls to the Rescue, Lansky
A Long Way to Chicago and A Year Down
Yonder, Richard Peck
Savvy, Scumble, Law
Meet the Austins or A Wrintkle in Time, M.
L'Engle
Zane and the Hurricane: A Story of Katrina, or
Freak the Mighty, Philbrick
Where the Red Fern Grows, Rawls
The Brothers Lionheart, Mio My Son or Ronja the
Robber's Daughter, Astrid Lindgren
Or Give Me Death or Girl in Blue, Ann Rinaldi
Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
Losers, Matthue Roth
Little White Duck : A Childhood in China, Na
Liu and Andres Vera Martinez (non-fiction
graphic novel)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Rowling
Rules, Lord
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, G.
Schmidt
City: A Story of Roman Planning and
Construction, David Macaulay (nonfiction)
Endangered, Eliott Schrefer
Every Soul a Star, W. Mass
Bomb: The Race to Build the World’s Most
Dangerous Weapon, Sheinkin (nonfiction)
The Apothecary, Maile Meloy
Esperanza Rising, Pam Munoz Ryan
The Schwa Was Here, Neal Shusterman
Dear Olly or Kensuke's Kingdom or War Horse,
M. Monpurgo
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Silverstein
Anne of Green Gables, Montgomery
Georges and the Jewels, Jane Smiley
A Summer Life, Soto
Three Times Lucky, Turnage
Crash or Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli
The Running Dream or Flipped, von Draanen
Heidi, Johanna Spyri
Moon Over Manifest or Navigating Early,
Vanderpool
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
So B It, Weeks
Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee
Stewart
Almost Astronauts: 113 Women Who Dared to
Dream, Stone (nonfiction)
One Crazy Summer, Rita Williams
Feathers, J. Woodson
Dragonwings, Laurence Yep
Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious
Inventions by Women, C. Thimmesh
(nonfiction)
Fellowship of the Ring, Tolkien
Devil's Arithmetic, Jane Yolen
Breaking Stalin’s Nose, Yelchin
Incoming Cinquième Students
Required Reading:
King of Shadows, Sharon Cooper
The Port Chicago 50: Diaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civl Rights, Steve Sheinkin
Recommended Reading:
Down the Rabbit Hole, Abrahams
I Am a Taxi, Deborah Ellis
Sea of Trolls, Nancy Farmer
Forge, Laurie Halse Anderson
Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi
Broken Bridge, L. R. Banks
The Boy Who Dared, Bartoletti
The Year of the Hangman, Gary L. Blackwood
Tangerine, E. Bloor
Serendipity Market, Penny Blubaugh
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne
The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy,
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Secrets of the Terra-Cotta Soldier, Ying Chang
Compestine and Vinson Compestine
The Reluctant Assassin, Colfer
Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech
Shakespeare on Toast, Ben Crystal (nonfiction)
Boy, R. Dahl
By the Great Horn Spoon, Sid Fleischman
90 Miles to Havana, Flores-Galbis
The Graveyard Book, Neal Gaiman
My Side of the Mountain, J G George
Blood Sun, Gilman
Once, Morris Gleitzman
Scat, C. Hiassen
Olive’s Ocean, Henkes
All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot
Chomp, Hiassen (nonfiction)
Northward to the Moon, Polly Horvath
Redwall, Brian Jacques
Weedflower, Kadohata
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, Kelly
Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid
The Maze Runner, James Dashner
Leonardo da Vinci, Kathleen Krull
(nonfiction)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, A. C. Doyle
A Little Piece of Ground, Elizabeth Laird
The Disreputable History of Frankie LandauBanks, E. Lockhart
The Westing Game, Raskin
Heat, Mike Lupica
The View from the Cherry Tree, Willo Davis
Roberts
So Silver Bright, Lisa Mantchev
Divergent, Roth
Mango Shaped Space, Wendy Mass
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the
Universe, Saenz
Ghost at the Window, Margaret McAllister
The Grimm Legacy, Schulman
Running Wild, M. Monpurgo
Between Shades of Grey, R. Sepetys
Saving the Ghost of the Mountain, Montgomery
(nonfiction)
Everlost or Unwind, Neal Shusterman
Ashfall, Mike Mullin
Baseball in April, Soto
Riot, Walter Dean Myers
Milkweed, Jerry Spinelli
Schooled, Norman
A Taste of Salt: A Novel of Modern Haiti,
Frances Temple
Lyddie, Katherine Paterson
Elijah of Buxton, Christopher Paul
The Island, Paulsen
The Running Dream, W. Van Draanen
Climbing the Stairs, Padma Venkatraman
Dicey's Song, Cynthia Voigt
My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece, Pitcher
Dragon’s Blood, Jane Yolen
Freak, Pixley
The Golden Compass, Pullman
Pardon Me, You’re Stepping on My Eyeball, Paul
Zindel
Incoming Quatrieme Students
Required Reading:
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak (English)
The Next Eco Warriors: 22 Young Men and Women Who Are Saving the Planet, Emily
Hunter (History)
Recommended Reading:
George Washington, Spymaster: How the
Americans Outspied the British and Won the
Revolutionary War, Thomas B. Allen (nonfiction)
My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir, Samantha
Abeel (non-fiction)
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya
Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing,
Anderson
Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher
Proof, David Auburn (play)
Hitler Youth : Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow,
Susan Campbell Bartoletti (non-fiction)
The Nazi Hunters, Bascomb
Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the
Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High,
Melba Patillo Beals (non-fiction)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other
Stories, Ambrose Bierce
Shift, Jennifer Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray
Bradbury
Ask Me No Questions, Marina Budhos
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
O! Pioneers, Willa Cather
Murder on the Orient Express, Christie
Family, J. California Cooper
I Am the Cheese, Robert Cormier
The Red Badge of Courage, Crane
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Chris Crutcher
Oliver Twist, C. Dickens
Little Brother, Cory Doctorow
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
My Name is Not Easy, Debby Dahl
Edwardson
Obsidian Mirror, Fisher
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra
Fuller (nonfiction)
The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
Uprising, Maragaret Haddix
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time,
Haddon
A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry (play)
Brass Ankle Blues, Rachel Harper
Seraphina, R. Hartman
Crimes of the Heart, Henley (play)
Hoop Dreams, Ben Jaravsky (nonfiction)
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural
Revolution, Ji-li Jiang (nonfiction)
At the Bottom of the River and Other Stories,
Jamaica Kincaid
Enchanted, Alethea Kontis
Peak, Roland Smith
A Separate Peace, John Knowles
Curveball, Sonnenblick
March: Book One, John Lewis (nonfiction
graphic novel)
Chanda’s Wars, Allan Stratton
Into Thin Air, John Krakauer (nonfiction)
The Disreputable History of Frankie LandauBanks, E. Lockhart
Chinese Cinderella, Mah
Gulliver’s Travels, Swift
Growing Up in Slavery: Stories of Young Slaves as
Told by Themselves, Yuval Taylor (nonfiction)
The Hobbit, Tolkien
The Natural, Bernard Malamud
The Glass Castle (nonfiction) or Half Broke
Horses, Jeannette Walls
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
Countdown, Deborah Wiles
The Cheat, Koss
This Boy’s Life, Tobias Wolff (nonfiction)
Jasmine, Bahrati Mukerjee
A Young Person’s History of the United States:
Two Volume Set, Rebecca Stefoff and Howard
Zinn (nonfiction)
Monster, Walter Dean Myers
Carver, A Life in Poems, Nelson
The Chosen, Chaim Potok
The Wild Trees, Richard Preston
Boy 21, Quick
The Persian Boy, Mary Renault
In My Father’s House, Ann Rinaldi
Sarah’s Key, Tatiana de Rosnay
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (graphic novel)
Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (nonfiction)
Incoming Troisième Students
A Dog’s Purpose, Cameron
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen
Chbosky
Required Reading:
Zeitoun, Dave Eggers (English)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass, Frederick Douglass (History)
The Great Santini, Pat Conroy
The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier
After the Snow, Crockett
Recommended Reading:
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100
Years, Sarah and Elizabeth Delany (nonfiction)
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Michael Dorris
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Adams
The Commitments, Roddy Doyle
Half A Yellow Sun, C. Adichie
The Iliad and The Odyssey, Homer, Robert
Fagles, translation
In the Time of Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
Speak, Laurie Anderson
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, J. Andrews
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
If I Stay, Forman
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight or Cocktail
Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, Alexandra
Fuller
Shipbreaker, Bacigalupi
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ernest
Gaines
Growing Up, Russell Baker (nonfiction)
Bee Season, Myra Goldberg
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier,
Ishmael Beah (non-fiction)
Lord of the Flies, Golding
Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury
Will Grayson, Will Grayson and The Fault in
Our Stars, John Green
Going Bovine, Libba Bray
The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
The Best Short Stories of O. Henry, O. Henry
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
The Summer Book, Tove Jansson
Junk, Burgess
Obasan, Joy Kagawa
Swim the Fly, Calame
The Secret Life of Bees, Kidd
Death Comes to the Archbishop, Cather
On Writing, Stephen King
Pigs in Heaven or The Bean Trees, Barbara
Kingsolver
The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two
Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma, Alex
Kotlowitz (non-fiction)
Into the Wild, John Krakauer (nonfiction)
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
In Darkness, Nick Lake
The Emigrants, Moberg
Mama Day, Gloria Naylor
1984, George Orwell
The Raven and Other Poems, Poe (poetry)
Eleanor and Park, Rowling
The Bookseller of Kabul, Asne Sairstad (nonfiction)
Every Day, David Levithan
Imprisoned the Betrayal of Japanese Americans
During World War II, Martin W. Sandler
(non-fiction)
We Were Liars, Lockhart
Equus, Schaffer (play)
The Latent Powers of Dylan Fontaine, April
Lurie
Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld
Bird by Bird, Ann Lamott (nonfiction)
Nelson Mandela: The Authorized Comic Book,
The Nelson Mandela Foundation (nonfiction graphic novel)
Brown Girl, Brown Stones, Paule Marshall
Sold, Patricia McCormick
The Is What Happy Looks Like, Smith
Dracula, Bram Stoker
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
Cane, Jean Toomer
Code Name Verity, Wein
Far, Far Away, McNeal
The Crucible, Miller
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Lives of Girls and Women, Alice Munro
Fallen Angels, Walter Dean Myers
Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One
of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII,
Chester Nez (non-fiction)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter or A Member of the
Wedding, Carson McCullers
The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde (play)
Fences, August Wilson (play)
Parrotfish, Wittlinger
Malice, Wooding
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This, J. Woodson
Black Boy, Richard Wright
Incoming Seconde Students
Required Reading:
 The Things They Carried,Tim
O’Brien
 Choose one more book from the
Recommended list!
 Required movie: “Glory”
Recommended Reading:
Purple Hibiscus, C. Adichie
The White Tiger, Arvind Adiga
Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas
Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West,
Stephen Ambrose (non-fiction)
What Girls Learn, Karin Cook
After the First Death, Robert Cormier
Anna in the Tropics, N. Cruz (play)
Reading in the Dark, Seamus Deane
The Hare with Amber Eyes, Edmund de Waal
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Ragtime, Doctorow
Room, Emma Donoghue
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas
Jefferson, Joseph J. Ellis (non-fiction)
Middlesex, J. Eugenides
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, M. Angelou
Light in August, William Faulkner
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
A Coney Island of the Mind, Ferlinghetti
(poems)
Collected Stories, Isaac Babel
The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Bender
Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer
(nonfiction)
The Diviners, Libba Bray
Effi Briest, T. Fontane
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Rock Springs, Richard Ford
The Year Of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks
Cold Mountain, Ian Frasier
The Painted Girls, Cathy Marie Buchanan
Stumbling on Happiness, Gilbert
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that
Can't Stop Talking, Susan Cain
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay,
Michael Chabon
The Lady with the Lapdog and Other Stories,
Chekhov
The Road From Coorain, Jill Ker Conway
(nonfiction)
The Cartoon History of the United States, Larry
Gonick (non-fiction graphic novel)
Looking for Alaska, John Green
Waiting, Ha Jin
Hunger, Hamsun
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
The Bone People, Keri Hulme
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
The Best of It, Kay Ryan (poems)
The Metamorphosis, Kafka
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
(nonfiction)
Flight Behavior, Kingsolver
Boxers and Saints, Gene Yuen Lang (graphic
novel)
Doubt, John Patrick Shanley (play)
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Native Speaker, Lee
Bronx Primitive, Kate Simon
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, Mathis
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Skloot
(nonfiction)
Never Fall Down, McCormick
The River of Doubt : Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest
Journey, Candice Millard (nonfiction)
Stiches: A Memoir, David Small (graphic
novel)
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? Lorrie Moore
Olive Kittredge or The Burgess Boys, Elizabeth
Strout
Someone, McDermott
Anna Karenina, Tolstoy
Christmas is Miles Away, Chloe Moss (play)
The Palm Wine Drinker and My Life in the Bush
of Ghosts, A. Tutuola
The Elephant Vanishes, Haruki Murakami
A Grain of Wheat, Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Dreams from my Father, Barack Obama
(nonfiction)
The Aeneid, Virgil, transl. Robert Fagles
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian
Collected Stories, Eudora Welty
The Famished Road, Ben Okri
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
Down and Out in Paris and London, Orwell
(nonfiction)
The Doctor Stories, William Carlos Williams
Metamorphoses, Ovid
A Tale for the Time Being, Ozeki
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
The Feast of All Saints, Rice
The God of Small Things, Roy
Saint Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised By Wolves,
Russell
The Piano Lesson, August Wilson
Parrotfish, Ellen Wittlinger
Native Son, Richard Wright
Red Sorghum, Yan
When I was a Slave : Memoirs From the Slave
Narrative Collection, Norman R. Yetman (nonfiction)
Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto
Incoming Première Students
Required Reading:
 Swamplandia!, Karen Russell
 Choose one more book from the Recommended Reading list!
 Watch the film, “Europa, Europa”
Recommended Reading:
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,
Junot Diaz
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward
Albee (play)
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
War Dances, Sherman Alexie
Townie, Andre Dubus III (nonfiction)
The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius or
What is the What, Dave Eggers
Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the
Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of
Germany, Stephen Ambrose (nonfiction)
Go Down Moses, William Faulkner
Life After Life, Atkinson
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan
Safran Foer
Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
The Sportswriter, Richard Ford
If Beale Street Could Talk, Baldwin
Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest Gaines
White Boy Shuffle, Paul Beatty
The Tipping Point, Blink or Outliers, Malcolm
Gladwell (nonfiction)
XO Orpheus, Fifty New Myths, Bernheimer
An Ice-Cream War, William Boyd
Mother Courage, Berthold Brecht (play)
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their
Epic Quest for gold at the 1936 Olympics, Brown
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, Jung
Chang (nonfiction)
The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 2:
From the Bastille to Baghdad, Larry Gonick
(non-fiction graphic novel)
The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass
Six Degrees of Separation, John Guare (play)
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin
American Journey, Ernesto Che Guevara (nonfiction)
Prince of Tides, Conroy
Waiting for an Angel, Helon Habila (nonfiction)
Breath, Eyes, Memory or Krik! Krak! Edwige
Danticat
Roots : The Saga of an American Family, Alex
Haley (non-fiction)
The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, Daniyal
Mueeniddin
Crimes of the Heart, Henley (play)
Song of Solomon, Morrison
Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand
Lives of Girls and Women, Alice Munro
The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler or A Doll’s
House, Henrik Ibsen (plays)
Skippy Dies, Murray
The Europeans, Henry James
Linden Hills, Gloria Naylor
The Known World, Edward P. Jones
Ruined, Lynn Nottage (play)
Ill Fares the Land, Tony Judt (nonfiction)
Appointment at Samarra, John O'Hara
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
Long Day's Journey into Night, O'Neill (play)
Why We Can’t Wait, Martin Luther King, Jr.
(nonfiction)
Fight Club, C. Palahniuk
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
The Woman Warrior, Kingston
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two
Boys Growing Up in the Other America, Alex
Kotlowitz (nonfiction)
Angels in America, Kushner (play)
Unaccustomed Earth or The Lowland, Lahiri
Banding Together: How Communities Create
Genres in Popular Music, Lena (nonfiction)
Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers
American Pastoral, Philip Roth
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Hallucinations, Oliver Sacks (nonfiction)
Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X
(non-fiction)
Ten of December, Saunders
Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet (play)
Monster: The Autobiography of a L.A. Gang
Member, Sanyika Shakur (non-fiction)
Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, Mantel
The Good Lord Bird, James McBride
One Hundred Years of Solitude, G. G. Marquez
War Brothers: The Graphic Novel, Sharon
McCay (graphic novel)
1776, David G. McCullough (non-fiction)
Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories, Isaac
Bashevis Singer
Just Kids, Patti Smith
Travels with Charlie in Search of America,
Steinbeck (nonfiction)
Thinking in Numbers, Tammet
How to Read the Air, D. Mengestu
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S.
Thompson
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea,
Mishima
Twenty Under Forty: Stories from the New Yorker,
Treisman, editor
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
Cutting for Stone, A. Verghese
How I Learned to Drive, Paula Vogel (play)
All the King’s Men, Warren
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are used
Against Women, Naomi Wolf (nonfiction)
Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman (poetry)
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Sloan Wilson
Native Son, Richard Wright
Première students planning to take the Advanced Placement Examination in English
Literature are advised to also read two of the following:
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
A Room with a View or Howard’s End, E. M. Forster
The Children’ Hour or Little Foxes, Lilian Hellman (plays)
Moby-Dick or Billy Budd, Herman Melville
Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom or Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, August Wilson (plays)
Incoming Terminale Students
Required Reading:
 The Secret History, Donna Tartt
 Watch the film, “The Fog of War”
 Choose one book from the Recommended Reading list!
Recommended Reading:
Harvard Square, André Aciman
Americanah, Adichie
You Shall Know Our Velocity or The Circle, D.
Eggers
Middlemarch, George Eliot
The Oresteia, Aeschyllus
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee
and Walker Evans (nonfiction)
Bless Me, Ultima, R. Anaya
Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood
Slaves in the Family, E. Ball (nonfiction)
The Roundhouse or The Master Butcher’s Singing
Club, Louise Erdrich
At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays, Anne
Fadiman
Backlash: The Undeclared War against American
Women, Susan Faludi (nonfiction)
Regeneration, Pat Barker
Light in August or The Sound and the Fury,
Faulkner
Ways of Seeing, Berger
The West and the Rest, Niall Ferguson
Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Boo
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm
Ravaged Hospital, Fink
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin
Song of the Lark, Willa Cather
Don Quixote, Cervantes
Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever
The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekov (play)
The Farming of Bones, Edwidge Danticat
Wave, Sonali Deraniyagala
The Inheritance of Loss, Desai
This is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz
Bleak House, Dickens
Ragtime, Doctorow
USA trilogy, John Dos Passos
Sister Carrie, Theodor Dreiser
Rock Springs, Richard Ford
Grendel, John Gardner
Howl and Other Poems, A. Ginsberg
David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell
July's People, Nadine Gordimer
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became
Shakespeare, Stephen Greenblatt (nonfiction)
The Coldest Winter : American and the Korean
War, David Halbertstam (nonfiction)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
The American, Henry James
The Orphan Master's Son, Johnson
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man or
Ulysses, James Joyce
The Laramie Project, Moises Kaufman (play)
The Soccer War, Ryzchard Kapucynsky
(nonfiction)
Biography of the Dollar, Craig Karmin (nonfiction)
A Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John
Perkins (nonfiction)
Ariel, Plath (poems)
Housekeeping, M. Robinson
The Human Stain, Roth
The Liars' Club or Lit, Mary Karr (nonfiction)
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Kundera
The Life of an Amorous Woman, Saikaku
Lean In, Sandberg
Testimony, Anita Shreve
Almost Gone, Brian Sousa
Angels in America, Tony Kushner (play)
Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
The Flamethrowers, Kushner
Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner
August, Osage County, T. Letts (play)
Wild: From Found to Lost on the Pacific Trail,
Cheryl Strayed (nonfiction)
The Father or Miss Julie, August Strindberg
(plays)
Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi (nonfiction)
Blueprints for Building Better Girls, E. Schappell
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the
Hidden Side of Everything, Steven Levitt (nonfiction)
Letters to a Young Doctor, Seltzer (nonfiction)
Flashboys, M. Lewis
Illness as Metaphor or On Photography, Susan
Sontag (nonfiction)
A Map of Tulsa, Benjamin Lyttal
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
Dr. Faustus, T. Mann
View with a Grain of Sand, W. Szymborska
(poems)
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
The Barbarian Nurseries, Hector Tobar
Other People’s Countries: A Journey into Memory,
McGuiness (nonfiction)
Vietnamerica : A Family’s Journey, GB Tran
(nonfiction graphic novel)
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, Daniel
Mendelsohn (nonfiction)
Baltics, Transtromer (poems)
Bark, Lorrie Moore
Rabbit, Run, John Updike
Beloved, Toni Morrison
One Day I Will Write About This Place,
Wainaina
The Love of a Good Woman, Alice Munro
Spring Awakening, Wedekind (play)
Lolita or Pale Fire, Nabokov
Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich
and Poor in an Interconnected World, Jacqueline
Novogratz (nonfiction)
Mrs. Dalloway or To the Lighthouse, Virginia
Woolf
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates