Suggested Reading List
Directions: Choose ONE of the following books to reading over the summer in addition to the assigned required book.
American Literature: Title Author Breakfast at Tiffany’s Truman Capote The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon Little Women Louisa May Alcott The Perks of Being a Wallflower Shephen Chbosky In Cold Blood Truman Capote The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett The Thin Man Dashiell Hammett Catch-22 Joseph Heller The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver A Separate Peace John Knowles Into the Wild (non-fiction) Jon Krakauer Elmer Gantry Sinclair Lewis Main Street Sinclair Lewis The Road Cormac McCarthy The Women of Brewster Place Gloria Naylor The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck Tortilla Flat John Steinbeck The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut March Geraldine Brooks A Girl of the Limberlost Gene Stratton-Porter
International Authors:
Title Author Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Watership Down Richard Adams House of Spirits Isabel Allende Cat’s Eye Margaret Atwood A Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë The Quiet American Graham Greene The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro The Life of Pi Yann Martel Atonement Ian McEwan Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Dai Sijie Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie All Creatures Great and Small James Herriot Cider with Rosie Laurie Lee
Science Fiction and Fantasy (Domestic and International Authors)
Title Author The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams Feed M.T. Anderson I, Robot Isaac Asimov Dune Frank Herbert The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury Stranger in a Strange Land Robert Heinlein The Fellowship of the Ring J.R. Tolkien The Hobbit J.R. Tolkien A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
History (Domestic and International Authors)
Title Author Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane A Lesson Before Dying Ernest Gaines Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Remarque
Selected Young Adult (YA) Fiction
Title Author Ship Breaker Paolo Bacigalupi Going Bovine Libba Bray Looking for Alaska John Green Esperanza Rising Pam Muñoz Ryan Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein Rose Under Fire Elizabeth Wein Story of a Girl Sara Zarr Boy in the Striped Pajamas John Boyne The Maze Runner James Dashner Shiver Maggie Stiefvater Where Things Come Back John Corey Whaley In Darkness Nick Lake Jellicoe Road Melina Marchetta The Pox Party M.T. Anderson The Book Thief Markus Zusak