AUSTIN WALDORF HIGH SCHOOL 10th SUMMER READING 2018

Dear students,

Listed below are the summer reading requirements. Please have these read before school starts:

REQUIRED READINGS: 1. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (all school summer reading for first day of school) 2. Helen by Euripedes

OPTIONAL SUPPLEMENTAL READING and Activities: (All are optional and not required. Book titles are in order of relevance to 10th grade Humanities blocks). 1. The Republic Plato 2. 1066: The Year of Conquest David Howarth 3. Siddhartha Herman Hesse 4. Go see a play or symphony or opera, and write a brief commentary 5. Write a poem or an ode

For your own enjoyment choose as you wish from the list below: TENTH GRADE RECOMMENDED READING LIST: Fiction: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Edwin Abbott The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Any or all of series) Douglas Adams Watership Down Richard Adams The Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven Sherman Alexie How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent or others Julia Alvarez Fantastic Voyage Isaac Asimov Emma, Pride and Prejudice or any others Jane Austen Forgotten Fire Adam Bagdasarian Pere Goriot Honoré de Balzac Oroonoko Aphra Behn A Dry White Season Andre Brink Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte The Son of Laughter Frederick Buechner My Antonia or The Song of the Lark Willa Cather Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Childhood's End Arthur C. Clark The Woman in White Wilkie Collins Oliver Twist, David Copperfield Charles Dickens Ireland Frank Delaney The Count of Monte Cristo or The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas Silas Marner George Eliot Lord of the Flies William Golding The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night Time Mark Haddon The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway Selected Stories O. Henry Not Without Laughter Langston Hughes At Risk Alice Hoffman A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving The Secret Life of Bees. Sue Monk Kidd Einstein’s Dreams Alan Lightman My Traitor’s Heart Riaan Malan Zenzele J. Nozipo Maraire The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers The Old Order (Short stories) Katherine Anne Porter The Chosen Chaim Potok Gilead Marilyn Robinson The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger. Frankenstein Mary Shelley The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck The Hobbit; The Lord of the Rings; Sillmarillion J.R.R Tolkien A Story Like the Wind or others Laurens van der Post Slaughterhouse-Five or others Kurt Vonnegut The Once and Future King Theodore H. White Black Boy Richard Wright The Journey to the West (aka Monkey or The Monkey King) Ch’Eng-En Wu

Drama, Poetry, and Sacred Writing: Worldly Hopes (Poems) A.R. Ammons Even a Fist Was Once an Open Palm with Fingers (Poems) Yehuda Amichai Lorca & Jimenez: Selected Poems trans. Robert Bly The Ramayana, The Bhagavad-Gita, The Mahabharata Trans. William Buck The Koran: A Very Short Introduction Michael Cook 100 Selected Poems e.e. cummings Death of a Naturalist Seamus Heaney The Rumi Collection ed. Kabir Helminski The Poetry of Robert Frost You and Yours or others Naomi Shihab Nye A Poetry Handbook or others Mary Oliver King Lear, Julius Caesar or others William Shakespeare Miracle Fair (Poems) Wislawa Szymborska Girl in Hyacinth Blue Susan Vreeland Siddhartha Herman Hesse

Non-Fiction: Narrow Road to the Interior Matsuo Basho Waiting for Snow in Havana Carlos Eire Silent Spring Rachel Carson Talking Peace Jimmy Carter Wild Health: Lessons in Natural Wellness from the Animal Kingdom Cindy Engel Stradivari’s Genius Toby Faber The Essential Gandhi Louis Fischer, ed. Coal: A Human History Barbara Freese A Reason for Hope Jane Goodall Black Like Me John Howard Griffin

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All Creatures Great and Small James Harriot Profiles in Courage John F Kennedy Taking on the World: A Sailor's Extraordinary Solo Race Around the Globe Ellen MacArthur Blue Peninsula: Essential Words for a Life of Loss and Change Madge McKeithen Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod Gary Paulsen 1066: The Year of Conquest David Howarth The Evolution of Useful Things Henry Petroski Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love Dava Sobel Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War William Stafford Brothers and Keepers John Edgar Wideman

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