Reading for Knowledge and
Pleasure
Brick Township Public Schools
English Department
Summer Reading
for High School Students
FRESHMEN
Fiction
Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart
Alvarez, Julia How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Anaya, Rudolfo Bless Me, Ultima
Anderson, Laurie Halse Fever 1793
Bradbury, Ray The Martian Chronicles
Chevalier, Tracy Girl with a Pearl Earring
Colfer, Eoin Artemis Fowl Series
Collier, Kristi Jericho Walls
Crutcher, Chris Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Dessen, Sarah Just Listen
Flinn, Alex Breathing Underwater
Geras, Adele Troy
Giles, Gail Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters/Shattering Glass
Haddon, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Kass, Pnina Moed Real Time
Kidd, Sue Monk The Secret Life of Bees
McNamee, Graham Acceleration
Myers, Walter Dean Fallen Angels/Amiri and Odette
Orlev, Uri Run, Boy, Run
Paolini, Christopher Eragon/Eldest
Paton, Alan Cry, The Beloved Country
Picoult, Jodi My Sister’s Keeper/House Rules
Plum-Ucci, Carol The Body of Christopher Creed
Rawls, Wilson Where the Red Fern Grows
Rockwood, Joyce To Spoil the Sun
Sones, Sonya One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies
Steinbeck, John The Moon Is Down
Trueman, Terry Stuck in Neutral
Wallace, Richard Restless
Werlin, Nancy Double Helix
Woodson, Jacqueline If You Come Softly
Freshmen, Page 1
Nonfiction
Capuzzo, Mike Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
Covey, Sean The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens
Crowe, Chris Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
Freedman, Russell In Defense of Liberty: The Story of America’s Bill of Rights
Gore, Al An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About
It
Hamilton, Bethany Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board
McBride, James The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother
Opdyke, Irene Gut In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
Pollan, Michael In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
Roach, Mary Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Simmons, Rachel Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
Wiesenthal, Simon The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
Wright, Richard Black Boy
Drama
Fugard, Athol My Children! My Africa!
Guare, John Six Degrees of Separation
O’Neill, Eugene Beyond the Horizon
Rogers, Richard The King and I
Shakespeare, William Much Ado About Nothing
Freshmen, Page 2
SOPHOMORES
Fiction
Anderson, Laurie Halse Winter Girls
Boulle, Pierre Bridge over the River Kwai
Bradbury, Ray Dandelion Wine
Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights
Carroll, Lewis Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland
Collins, Suzanne Hunger Games
Cormier, Robert The Chocolate War/The Rag and Bone Shop
Doyle, Arthur Conan Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Flinn, Alex Fade to Black
Hilton, James Lost Horizon
Lowry, Lois Gathering Blue
Markandaya, Kamala Nectar in a Sieve
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia One Hundred Years of Solitude
Marsh, Ngaio Dead Water
Maugham, William Somerset The Moon and Sixpence
McCormick, Patricia Sold
Mishima, Yukio The Sound of Waves
Myers, Walter Dean Monster/Sunrise over Fallujah
O’Connor, Edwin The Last Hurrah
Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front
Shute, Nevil On the Beach
McCall Smith, Alexander The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Smith, Betty A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Spark, Muriel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Sparks, Nicholas At First Sight
Steinbeck, John The Winter of Our Discontent
Tashijan, Janet The Gospel According to Larry
Warren, Robert Penn All the King’s Men
Westerfeld, Scott The Uglies
Wilder, Thornton The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Zusak, Marcus I am the Messenger/The Book Thief
Sophomores, Page 1
Nonfiction
Angelou, Maya I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Aronson, Mac Witch Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials
Beah, Ishmael A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Bryson, Bill A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering the American Appalachian Trial
Eagan, Eileen Such a Vision on the Street: Mother Teresa: The Spirit and the Work
Grogan, John Marley and Me
Herriot, James All Creatures Great and Small
Hersey, John Hiroshima
Kingsolver, Barbara Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Krakauer, Jon Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
McCourt, Frank Teacher Man
Murphy, Jim An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
Obama, Barack Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Drama
Hellman, Lillian Watch on the Rhine
Miller, Arthur A View from the Bridge
Shakespeare, William A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Simon, Neil Brighton Beach Memoirs
Wilde, Oscar The Importance of Being Earnest
Sophomores, Page 2
JUNIORS
Fiction
Agee, James A Death in the Family
Asimov, Issac I, Robot
Brown, Dan Digital Fortress
Callenbach, Ernest Ecotopia
Cather, Willa My Antonia
Clancy, Tom Red Storm Rising
Crane, Stephen Maggie: a Girl of the Streets
Cisneros, Sandra The House On Mango Street
Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans
Doctorow, Cory Little Brother
Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man
Farmer, Nancy The House of Scorpion
Gaines, Ernest A Lesson Before Dying
Haley, Alex Roots
Hicks, Robert Widow of the South
Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God
Kerouac, Jack On the Road
Kovic, Ron Born on the Fourth of July
Levithan, David Wide Awake
Malamud, Bernard The Natural
Meyer, Stephenie The Host
Mitchell, Margaret Gone With the Wind
Morrison, Toni Beloved
Patterson, James Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas
Picoult, Jodi Nineteen Minutes
Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar
Sinclair, Upton The Moneychangers/The Jungle
Smiley, Jane The All True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
Steinbeck, John Tortilla Flat
Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tan, Amy The Kitchen God’s Wife/The Bonesetter’s Daughter
Vonnegut, Kurt Breakfast of Champions
Walker, Alice The Color Purple
Wright, Richard Native Son
Wolfe, Tom Right Stuff
Juniors, Page 1
Nonfiction
Armstrong, Lance It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Dumas, Tim A Wealth of Evil: The True Story of the Murder of Martha Moxley in America’s Richest
Community
Edelman, Bernard, ed. Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Franklin, Benjamin Poor Richard’s Almanack
Friedman, Thomas L. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Hunt, Davis, et.al. The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream
Jacob, Iris, ed. My Sisters’ Voices: Teenage Girls of Color Speak Out
Kennedy, J. F. Profiles in Courage
Mortenson, Greg and Relin, David Oliver Three Cups of Tea: One’s Man Mission to Promote Peace . . . One
School at a Time
Pirsig, Robert M. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Torre, Joe Chasing the Dream: My Lifelong Journey to the World Series: An Autobiography
Drama
Chase, Mary Harvey
Kaufman and Hart You Can’t Take it With You: A Comedy in Three Acts
Shaw, George Bernard Pygmalion
Simon, Neil Barefoot in the Park
Williams, Tennessee The Glass Menagerie
Juniors, Page 2
SENIORS
Fiction
Anderson, M.T. Feed
Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice
Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre
Christie, Agatha Death on the Nile
Clark, Walter The Oxbow Incident
Cobb, Humphrey Paths of Glory
Collins, Wilkie The Woman in White
De la Pena, Matt Ball Don’t Lie
du Maurier, Daphne Rebecca
Dostoevsky, Fyodor The Brothers Karamazov
Dreiser, Theodore Sister Carrie
Eliot, George The Mill on the Floss
Faulkner, William The Sound and the Fury
Flinn, Alex Beastly
Gruen, Elizabeth Water for Elephants
Hardy, Thomas The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hesse, Hermann Steppenwolf
Hosseini, Khaled A Thousand Splendid Suns
Johnson, Louanne Muchacho
Kim, Richard The Martyred
Kingsolver, Barbara The Poisonwood Bible
Koestler, Arthur Darkness at Noon
Lawrence, D.H. Sons and Lovers
Mann, Thomas The Magic Mountain
McCarthy, Cormac The Road
Niffenegger, Audrey Her Fearful Symmetry
Picoult, Jodi The Tenth Circle
Porter, Katherine Anne Ship of Fools
Steinbeck, John East of Eden
Stockett, Kathryn The Help
Styron, William Sophie’s Choice
Thackeray, William M. Vanity Fair
Tolstoy, Leo Anna Karenina
West, Morris The Devil’s Advocate
Wharton, Edith The Age of Innocence
Woolf, Virginia Mrs. Dalloway
Seniors, Page 1
Nonfiction
Alexander, Caroline The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Barry, John The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
Brown, Dee Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Bryson, Bill Life and times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
Camus, Albert The Myth of Sisyphus
Conroy, Pat My Losing Season
Frankel, Viktor Man’s Search for Meaning
Gibran, Kahlil The Prophet
Greenberg, Judith, et al Journal of a Revolutionary War Woman
Goodwin, Doris Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Plato Republic
Sedaris, David Me Talk Pretty One Day
Tuchman, Barbara A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
Drama
Brecht, Bertolt Mother Courage and Her Children
Lorca, Federico Garcia The House of Bernarda Alba: A Drama About Women in the Villages of Spain
O’Neill, Eugene Mourning Becomes Electra
Shaw, George Bernard John Bull’s Other Island
Shakespeare, William The Tempest
Revised May 2012
Rev
Seniors, Page 2