Summer Reading List

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Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart 6, 9
Ackerman, Diane A Natural History of the Senses 3
Adams, Douglas Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 3, 6
Adams, Richard Watership Down 3, 6
Allende, Isabel Eva Luna 2, 7
Ambrose, Stephen Undaunted Courage 8, 9
Anaya, Rudolfo Bless Me, Ultima 9
Austen, Jane Pride and Preudice 1, 4
Baker, Russell Growing Up 8
Bolt, Robert A Man for all Seasons 8
Bradbury, Ray Dandelion Wine 5, 8
Branch, Taylor Parting the Waters 9
Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre 1, 7
Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth 3
Card, Orson Scott Ender’s Game 9
Carroll, Lewis Alice in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass 3, 4
Cather, Willa My Antonia 1, 9
Chaucer, Geoffrey The Canterbury Tales 1, 4
Chekhov, Anton The Cherry Orchard
Clark, Walter V.T. The Ox-Bow lncident 4
Clarke, Arthur Childhood’s End 8, 9
Conan Doyle, Arthur Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 4
Crichton, Michael Jurassic Park 1, 10
De Bemieres, Louis Corelli’s Mandolin 2, 7
Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities 1, 4, 7, 10
Dickens, Charles Great Expectations 1, 4, 7
Dickens, Charles Oliver Twist 1, 4, 7
Du Mauner, Daphne Rebecca 7, 8
Dumas, Alexander The Count of Monte Cristo 8
Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man 4, 9
Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying 5
Fitzgerald, F. Scott Tender is the Night 5
Forster, E.M. A Passage to India 4, 8, 9
Forster, E.M. A Room with a View 7
Frazier, Charles Cold Mountain 8
Friedman, Thomas The World is Flat 11
Gates, Henry Louis Colored People 8
Goldin, William Lord of the Flies 4
Guterson, David Snow Falling on Cedars 1, 2, 7
Hardy, Thomas Far from the Madding Crowd 1, 7
Hardy, Thomas Tess of the d'Ubervilles 1, 7
Hawthorne, Nathaniel Twice Told Tales 4
Hegi, Ursula Stones from the River 9
Heinlein, Robert Stranger in a Stranqe Land 8
Helprin, Mark A Soldier of the Great War 7
Hemingway, Ernest For Whom the Bell Tolls 7
Herbert, Frank Dune 1, 10
Hillenbrand, Laura Seabiscuit: An American Legend 9
Horwitz, Tony Confederates in the Attic 5
Huxley, Aldous Brave New World 1, 3
Kafka, Franz Metamorphosis 6
Kafka, Franz The Castle 1, 6, 10
Kingsolver, Barbara Animal Dreams 2, 7
Kinsella, W. P. Shoeless Joe 8
Kipling, Rudyard Kim 9
Krakauer, John Into Thin Air 5, 7, 8
Llewellyn, Richard How Green Was My Valley 7
London, Jack The Call of the Wild 7, 9
Lord, Betty Bao Spring Moon 1, 9
Lord, Walter A Night to Remember 4
Mahfouz, Naguib The Journey of Ibn Fattouma 6, 7
Mann, Thomas Death in Venice 6
Mann, Thomas Dr. Faustus 6
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia A Hundred Years of Solitude 1, 9
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Love in the Time of Cholera 1, 3
Martel, Yann Life of Pi 7, 8, 9
Monaco, Richard Parsival or A Knight’s Tale 1, 10
Morrison, Toni Beloved 1, 2, 7
Orwell, George Animal Farm 4
Patchett, Ann BeI Canto 6
Potok, Chaim Davita’s Harp 7
Potok, Chaim The Chosen 3, 7, 9
Robinson, Marilynne Housekeeping 2, 7, 9
Rolvaag, O.E. Giants in the Earth 7
Roth, Henry Call it Sleep 5, 8
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter (any in the series) 1, 3, 10
Rushdie, Salman Midnight’s Children 1, 9
Sacher, Louis Holes 1, 8, 10
Sacks, Oliver An Anthropologist on Mars 8
Salinger, J.D. Catcher in the Rye 1, 10
Salinger, J.D. Raise High the Roofbeam CarpenterA 5
Shakespeare, William Henry IV 1, 4
Shakespeare, William Julius Caesar 1, 4
Shakespeare, William Richard II 1, 4
Shakespeare, William Richard III 1, 4
Shakespeare, William Twelfth Night 1, 4
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein 1, 10
Sholokhov, Mikhail Quiet Flows the Von 6, 9
Smith, Betty A Tree Grows In Brooklyn 7
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander First Circle 6
Sone, Monica Nisei Daughter 9
Spark, Muriel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 9
Stegner, Wallace Angle of Repose 7
Steinbeck, John The Pearl 7
Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island 9
Stewart, Mary The Crystal Cave 1, 10
Stoker, Bram Dracula 4, 8
Swift, Jonathan Gulliver’s TraveIs 4
Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club 1, 2, 9
Thurber, James My Life and Hard Times 4, 8
Thurber, James Thurber’s Carnival 4
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit 1, 10
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings (any in the series) 1, 10
Toole, John Kennedy A Confederacy of Dunces 3
Townsend, Sue The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole 8
Twain, Mark The Prince and the Pauper 8
Tyler, Anne Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant 9
Uris, Leon Trinity 7
Vonnegut, Kurt Cat’s Cradle 3
Vonnegut, Kurt Welcome to the Monkey House 3, 8
Warren, Robert Penn All the King’s Men 9
Welty, Eudora The Optimist’s Daughter 7, 9
Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth 8
White, T.H. The Sword in the Stone 8
Wiesel, Elie Dawn 1, 10
Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray 7
Wilder, Thornton The Bridge of San Luis Rey 8
Wilson, August Fences 8
Winchester, Simon The Professor and the Madman 8
Woodhouse, P.G. Jeeves (any in the series) 4
Woolf, Virginia Mrs. Dalloway 1, 4, 8
Woolf, Virginia To The Lighthouse 1, 4
Wouk, Herman The Winds of War 7
Wright, Richard Black Boy 9
Wright, Richard Native Son 8

Key:
  1. Challenging Language
  2. Very contemporary language
  3. Especially enjoyed by Ms. Blatt
  4. Especially enjoyed by Mr. Hesse
  5. Especially enjoyed by Dr. Jones
  6. Especially enjoyed by Mr. Kaufman
  7. Especially enjoyed by Ms. Roberts
  8. Especially enjoyed by Mr. Stiffelman
  9. Especially enjoyed by Ms. Weese
  10. Especially enjoyed by students
  11. Recommended by Mr. Azose