11th grade Suggested Fiction and Non-Fiction Summer Reading 2017
Fiction Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale Block Francesca Lia: Weetzie Bat (and others) Cameron, Peter: Someday this Pain will be Useful to You Capote, Truman: Breakfast at Tiffany's: a Short novel and Three Stories Carr, Caleb: The Alienist Christie, Agatha: Murder on the Orient Express (and others) Cline, Ernest: Ready Player One Dickens, Charles: Dombey and Sons, Great Expectations, Hard Times for These Times, Oliver Twist Doctorow, E. L.: Billy Bathgate: a Novel, Loon Lake, The March: a Novel, Ragtime, The Waterworks, World's Fair Doerr, Anthony: All the Light We Cannot See: a Novel Eggers, Dave: The Circle: a Novel Ellison, Ralph: Invisible Man Golden, Arthur: Memoirs of a Geisha: a Novel Guterson, David: Snow Falling on Cedars Haddon, Mark: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Hartman, Rachel: Seraphina, Shadow Scale Hemingway, Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea Hosseini, Khaled: A Thousand Splendid Suns Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World Irving, John: The Cider House Rules: a Novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany: a Novel Kidd, Sue Monk: The Invention of Wings : a Novel, The Mermaid Chair, The Secret Life of Bees King, Stephen: Carrie, Cujo, The Dark Half, Four Past Midnight, The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon, The Green Mile, The Gunslinger, Insomnia, Pet Sematary, Rose Madder, The Shining, The Talisman LaValle, Victor D.: The Devil in Silver: a Novel Moore, Alan: V for Vendetta, Watchmen Morrison, Toni: The Bluest eye, Paradise, Song of Solomon, Sula, Tar Baby Tim O’Brien: The Things They Carried Orwell, George: 1984: a Novel, Down and Out in Paris and London Shields, Carol: The Stone Diaries Sinclair, Upton: The Jungle Stockett, Kathryn: The Help Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom's Cabin Tartt, Donna: The Goldfinch Tolkien, J. R. R: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Hobbit or There and Back Again Toole, John Kennedy: A Confederacy of Dunces Twain, Mark: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, The Innocents Abroad, or, The New Pilgrims' Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land Updike, John: Rabbit at Rest, Rabbit, Run Vonnegut, Kurt: Bluebeard: a Novel, Cat's Cradle, Galápagos: a Novel, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine, Jailbird: a Novel, Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan: an Original Novel, Slapstick or Lonesome No More! : a Novel, Slaughterhouse-Five Walker, Alice: The Color Purple: a Novel Warren, Robert Penn: All the King's Men Weisberger, Lauren: The Devil wears Prada Wright, Richard: Native Son
Non-Fiction Abel, Jessica: Drawing Words & Writing Pictures: Making Comics: Manga Graphic Novels, and Beyond Agassi, Andre: Open: an Autobiography Anderson, Lars: Carlisle vs. Army: Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the Forgotten Story of Football's Greatest Battle Bauby, Jean-Dominique: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Berendt, John: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: a Savannah Story Bissell, Tom: Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter Brookhiser, Richard: Alexander Hamilton, American Burrows, Edwin G.: Gotham: a History of New York City to 1898 Cain, Susan: Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World that can't Stop Talking Campbell, Greg: Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones Capote, Truman: In Cold blood: a True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences Cheng, Eugenia: How to Bake π: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics Collins, Gail: When Everything Changed: the Amazing Jjourney of American Women from 1960 to the Present Cramer, Richard Ben: Joe DiMaggio: the Hero's Life Davis, Miles: Miles, the Autobiography DeGeneres, Ellen: Seriously--I'm Kidding Diamond, Jared M.: Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies Douglas, Susan J.: The Rise Enlightened Sexism: How Pop Culture Took Us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild Duckworth, Angela: GRIT: The Power of Passion and Perseverance Eggers, David: Zeitoun, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Ellis, Joseph J.: Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation Tina Fey: Bossypants Fischer, David Hackett: Paul Revere's Ride, Washington's Crossing Flora, Carlin: Friendfluence: the Surprising Ways Friends Make Us Who We Are Foner, Eric: The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery Fox, Margalit: The Riddle of the Labyrinth: the Quest to Crack an Ancient Code Friedman, Thomas L.: Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution-- and How it can Renew America, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, The World is Flat: a Brief History of the Twenty-First Century Galeano, Eduardo: Soccer in Sun and Shadow Gladwell, Malcolm: Blink: the Power of Thinking without Thinking, Outliers: the Story of Success, The Tipping Point : How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Goff, M. Lee: A Fly for the Prosecution: How Insect Evidence Helps Solve Crimes Gonzales, Laurence: Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why: True Stories of Miraculous Endurance and Sudden Death Goodwin, Doris Kearns: The Bully pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, No Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the Home Front in World War II, Team of Rivals : the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln Gordon-Reed, Annette: The Hemingses of Monticello: an American Family Grandin, Temple: Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior Greenberg, Michael: Hurry Down Sunshine Greene, B.: The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory Halberstam, David: Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World he Made, Teammates Halperin, Mark: Double Down: Game Change 2012 Harris, M. A.: The Black Book Harvey, Miles: The Island of Lost Maps: a True Story of Cartographic Crime Hawking, S. W.: A Brief History of Time Hendrix, Jimi: Starting at Zero: His Own Story Herr, Michael: Dispatches Hillenbrand, Laura: Seabiscuit: an American Legend, Unbroken : a World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Hochschild, Adam: King Leopold's Ghost: a Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa Hopkins, Jerry: No One Here Gets out Alive James, LeBron: Shooting Stars Jay-Z: Decoded Joravsky, Ben: Hoop dreams: a True Story of Hardship and Triumph Kaku, Michio: Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 Kamkwamba, William: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope Kanfer, Stefan: Serious Business: the Art and Commerce of Animation in America from Betty Boop to Toy Story Keegan, Marina: The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories Kidder, Tracy: House or The Soul of a New Machine Kiernan, Denise: The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II King, Stephen: On Writing: a Memoir of the Craft Koff, Clea: The Bone Woman: a Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo Kolata, Gina Bari: Flu: the Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused it Kolbert, Elizabeth: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Kovic, Ron: Born on the Fourth of July Krakauer, Jon: Into the Wild Krauss, Lawrence Maxwell: The Physics of Star Trek Lang, Ling: Journey of a Thousand Miles: My Story Lawrence, Jerome: The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail; a Play Lewis, Michael: The Blind side: Evolution of a Game, Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World, Flash Boys: a Wall Street Revolt, Moneyball: the Art of Winning an Unfair Game McCloud, Scott: Reinventing Comics, Understanding Comics: [the Invisible Art] McCourt, Frank: Angela's Ashes a Memoir McCullough, David G.: 1776, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, John Adams, The Johnstown Flood Nathan, Susan: The Other side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish-Arab Divide Parker, David C. W.: Battle for the Big sky: Representation and the Politics of Place in the Race for the U.S. Senate Patchett, Ann: Truth & Beauty: a Friendship Peterson, Ivars: The Jungles of Randomness: a Mathematical Safari Philbrick, Nat: In the Heart of the Sea: the Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex Pinker, Steven: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined, The Blank Slate: the Modern Denial of Human Nature, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, Words and Rules: the Ingredients of Language Rakove, Jack N.: Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution Randall, David K.: Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep Remnick, David: King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero Rhodes, Richard: The Making of the Atomic Bomb Richards, Keith: Life Roach, Mary: Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, Packing for Mars: the Curious Science of Life in the Void, Stiff: the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Ronson, Jon: The Psychopath Test: a Journey Through the Madness Industry Sacks, Oliver W.: Hallucinations, The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood Sales, Nancy Jo: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers Schwartz, John: Oddly Normal: One Family's Struggle to Help their Teenage Son Come to Terms with his Sexuality Shachtman, Tom: Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold Shales, Tom: Live from New York: an Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live Simmons, Rachel: Odd Girl Out: the Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls Singer, Michael: A Cut Above: 50 Film Directors Talk About their Craft Singh, Simon: The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets Skloot, Rebecca: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks St. John, Warren: Outcasts United: an American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference Strayed, Cheryl: Wild Sullivan, Robert: Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants Suskind, Ron: A Hope Unseen: an America Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League Tannen, Deborah: Talking From 9 to 5: Women and Men in the Workplace, Language, Sex and Power, You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, You're Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation Thomas, Bob: Walt Disney: an American Original Thompson, Hunter S.: Fear and Loathing, on the Campaign trail '72, Hell's Angels: a Strange and Terrible Saga Tolinski, Brad: Light & shade: Conversations with Jimmy Page Townshend, Pete: Who I am: a Memoir Turkle, Sherry: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each other Vermette, Margaret: The Musical world of Boublil & Schönberg: the Creators of Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, Martin Guerre, and The Pirate Queen Vonnegut, Kurt: Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions) Walker, Alice: Anything We Love Can be Saved: a Writer's Activism, In search of our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose Weiner, Jonathan: The Beak of the Finch: a Story of Evolution in Our Time White, Timothy: Catch a Fire: the Life of Bob Marley Yousafzai, Malala: I am Malala: the Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot By the Taliban
For the Computer Geek in You: Suggested Summer Reading – some classics and some new ones
Brooks, Jr., Frederick: Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering Gray, Dave et al: Gamestorming Hafner, Katie and Matthey Lyon: Where Wizards Stay Up Late: the Origins of the Internet Hunt, Andrew and David Thomas: The Pragmatic Programmer Kidder, Tracy: The Soul of a New Machine Krug, Steve: Don’t Make Me Think Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web and Mobile Usability Martin, Robert C.: Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship Schell, Jesse: The Art of Game Design Seibel, Peter: Coders At Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming (Interviews with top programmers.)