Catherine McAuley High School
2015-2016 English I – IV (CP, HONORS, AP)
Summer Reading and School Year Novels to Purchase:
ENGLISH I:
College Prep and Honors
Summer Reading
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
School Year
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
The Odyssey (Homer, translated by Robert Fagles)
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare - FOLGER edition only!
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Animal Farm by George Orwell
ENGLISH II:
College Prep
Summer Reading
Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
School Year
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Fences by August Wilson
Honors
Summer Reading
Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
School Year
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Fences by August Wilson
ENGLISH III:
College Prep
Summer Reading
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
School Year
Beowulf Translated by Seamus Heaney
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Honors
Summer Reading
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
School Year
Beowulf Translated by Seamus Heaney
Grendel by John Gardner
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Jude the Obscure by Aldous Huxley
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
AP Language and Composition
Summer Reading
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
School Year
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
Stick Figure by Lori Gottlieb
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
ENGLISH IV:
College Prep
Summer Reading
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
School Year
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Honors
Summer Reading
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
School Year
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
AP Literature and Composition
Summer Reading
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
School Year
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Awakening by Kate Chopin