Suggested Summer Reading

Mandatory and Suggested Summer Reading Selections Approved by the Alemany English Department Updated June 21, 2010

In an effort to inspire students to read for both enrichment and pleasure, the English Department has approved the following summer reading selections. Alemany’s English teachers have carefully chosen literary works that have both academic and recreational value. Students are encouraged to read as many of these works as they wish. In the fall, they will have various opportunities to use any approved summer reading they have completed to benefit them in their English classes.

**Honors and AP students have mandatory summer reading, as indicated below.

9th Grade The Chosen – Chaim Potok (ISBN: 9780449911549) **mandatory for honors students** Lord of the Flies – Golding The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton April Morning – Howard Fast Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe Little Women – Louisa May Alcott Little Men - Louisa May Alcott Bless Me – Rudolfo Anaya Ultima – Rudolfo Anaya The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank The Princess Bride – William Goldman Farewell to Manzanar - Jeanne Watasuki Houston The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes The Call of the Wild – Jack London Holes – Louis Sachar A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Mildred D. Taylor Skeleton Man – Jay Bennett Medea - Euripides Agamemnon - Aeschylus The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes The Collected Poems of Anne Bradstreet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson Washington Square – Henry James Zlata's Diary - Zlata Filipovic A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Ishmael Beah

10th Grade The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald **mandatory for honors students** House on Mango Street - Cisneros A Separate Peace - Knowles The Book of Bright Ideas – Kring Stargirl – Spinelli Parallel Journeys – Eleanor Ayers Girl With a Pearl Earring – Tracy Chevalier We All Fall Down – Robert Cormier Are You In the House Alone? - Richard Peck Beekeeper’s Apprentice – Laurie King Watership Down – Richard Adams Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne

11th Grade Nordic Gods and Heroes - Padraic Colum **mandatory for honors students** Please visit the following URL for required reading: http://www.alemany.org/apps/classes/show_class.jsp?classREC_ID=324930

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë Emma – Jane Austen Persuasion – Jane Austen A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens Brave New World – Aldous Huxley Grendel – John Gardner Animal Farm – George Orwell The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien Idylls of the King – Tennyson Julius Caesar – William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare Hamlet – William Shakespeare Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw Anthony and Cleopatra – William Shakespeare As You Like It – William Shakespeare Caesar and Cleopatra – Shaw David Copperfield – Charles Dickens Henry IV – William Shakespeare Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde The Inimitable Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie The Dark is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy Emmuska Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys Dracula - Bram Stoker Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie Tarzan - E. R. Burroughs The Once and Future King - T.H. White Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling

12th Grade The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway **mandatory for AP students** The Iliad - Homer The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton Dracula - Bram Stoker The Thousand and One Nights – Unknown Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu Oedipus the King – Sophocles Antigone – Sophocles Christopher Marlow: The Complete Plays