and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives
while reading it."
William Styron, Christchurch School Class of 1942
Start Here for Details on the Summer Reading Program:
Here is a letter from our English Department Chair, Stephen Kasold, and requirements and guidelines for the reading journal (with a sample journal entry).
SUMMER READING FOR ESL STUDENTS
SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS FOR HONORS COURSES
English III Honors students must read John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and two additional books from the following list. Of these two, one must be a title marked with a cross (+); the third text may be chosen at will.
English IV Honors students must read Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and two additional books from the following list. Of these two, one must be a title marked with a cross (+); the third text may be chosen at will.
All regular English students must read at least two books from the following list. For information about ordering books -- or to obtain an overview of a book or to gauge your interest -- you might go to www.amazon.com or www.barnesandnoble.com and search by title. All students in regular English may, of course, read books marked for Honors English should they wish.
Summer Reading 2010 By Grade Level
Grade 9
Adams, Richard, Watership Down
Card, Orson Scott, Ender’s Game
Cisneros, Sandra, The House on Mango Street
Dent, Jim, The Junction Boys
Forester, C.S., The Horatio Hornblower Series
Hemingway, Ernest, The Old Man and the Sea
Lewis, C.S., The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Also: The Space Trilogy
London, Jack, The Call of the Wild, White Fang
McCullers, Carson, The Member of the Wedding
Paolini, Christopher, Eragon
Peck, Scott, The Day No Pigs Would Die
Pratchett, Terry, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Pullman, Philip, The Golden Compass
Renault, Mary, The Charioteer, The Last of the Wine; The King Must Die; The Mask of Apollo
Rowling, J. K., The Harry Potter Series
Sachar, Louis, Holes
Stewart, Mary, The Crystal Cave
Verne, Jules, Around the World in Eighty Days, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Wells, H.G., War of the Worlds
Grade 10
Austen, Jane, Sense and Sensibility
Berger, Thomas, Little Big Man
Bradbury, Ray, Fahrenheit 451
Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights
Cormier, Robert, The Chocolate War, I Am the Cheese
Heinlein, Robert, Stranger in a Strange Land
Herbert, George, Dune
Hilton, James, Lost Horizon
Keyes, Daniel, Flowers for Algernon
King, Stephen, The Dark Tower Series; The Stand
Knowles, John, A Separate Peace
O’Brien, Patrick, Master and Commander; The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels
Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein
Shute, Nevil, On the Beach
Steinbeck, John, Tortilla Flat
Tan, Amy, The Joy Luck Club
Wells, H.G., The Time Machine
Grade 11
Ambrose, Stephen, Band of Brothers
Angelou, Maya, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Baldwin, James, Go Tell It on the Mountain
Bradbury, Ray, Fahrenheit 451
+Bellow, Saul, Seize the Day
Brokaw, Tom, The Greatest Generation
+Dillard, Annie, Pilgrim At Tinker Creek, An American Childhood
+Doctorow, E.L., Ragtime
+Dreiser, Theodore, Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy
Ellison, Ralph, The Invisible Man
Grisham, John, The Client
+Gruen, Sara, Water For Elephants
+Guterson, David, Snow Falling on Cedars
Hammett, Dashiell, The Maltese Falcon
Heller, Joseph, Catch – 22
Hemingway, Ernest, A Farewell to Arms
Hosseini, Khaled, The Kite Runner
James, Henry, The Turn of the Screw
Kesey, Ken, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Kingsolver, Barbara, The Poisonwood Bible
Lee, Harper, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Malamud, Bernard, The Natural
+McCarthy, Cormac, All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing
McCullers, Carson, The Heart is A Lonely Hunter
Melville, Herman, Billy Budd
+Morrison, Toni, The Bluest Eye, Beloved
O’Brien, Tim, The Things They Carried
+Otsuka, Julie, When the Emperor Was Divine
Petry, Ann, The Street
Puller, Lewis, Fortunate Son
+Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
+Stegner, Wallace, Angle of Repose
Steinbeck, John, Of Mice and Men
+Thurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Tyler, Ann, Searching for Caleb, A Slipping Down Life
Twain, Mark, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
+Walker, Alice, The Color Purple
Warren, Robert, All the King's Men
+Wharton, Edith, Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth
+ Wright, Richard, Native Son
Grade 12
+Christie, Agatha, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Ten Little Indians
+ Clarke, Arthur C., Childhood’s End
+ Dickens, Charles, Hard Times
+Doctorow, E.L., Ragtime
Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
+Du Maurier, Daphne, Rebecca
+ Faulkner, William, As I Lay Dying, A Light in August
Forster, E. M., A Room with a View
+Frost, Robert, North of Boston
Gaarder, Jostein, Sophie’s World
Gardner, John, Grendel
Gaines, Ernest, A Lesson Before Dying
+ Guterson, David, Snow Falling on Cedars
Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Herbert, George, Dune
+ James, Henry, The Portrait of a Lady
King, Stephen, The Dark Tower Series; The Stand
LeCarre, John, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
+ Maugham, Somerset, The Razor’s Edge
McCain, John, Faith of My Fathers
+ O’Brien, Patrick, Master and Commander; The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels
+Orwell, George, 1984
+Rand, Ayn, Anthem, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead
+Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein
+ Steinbeck, John, The Grapes of Wrath
Styron, William, Sophie’s Choice
+ Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver’s Travels
Tolkien, J. R. R., The Lord of the Rings; The Hobbit
+Twain, Mark, Pudd’nhead Wilson
Waugh, Evelyn, Brideshead Revisited
+ Wilde, Oscar, The Picture of Dorian Gray
