Wantagh High School Summer Reading List 2015
For Students Entering Grade 11 or 12 AP or College English
11 AP English Literature and Composition
Students are required to read all three of the following titles:
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
12 AP English Language and Composition
Required Reading (Purchase is optional; available in libraries and book stores or through the school;
annotations are encouraged; Post-It Note annotations on borrowed books are acceptable):
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Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
Choose One (Purchase is optional; available in libraries and book stores; annotations are encouraged; Post-It
Note annotations are acceptable):
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schossler
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver
The Cost of Hope by Amanda Bennett
12 College English
Students are required to read both of the following titles:
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Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
12 World Literature
Students are required to read both of the following titles:
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Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien