Bishop Miege SUMMER READING LIST

Bishop Miege SUMMER READING LIST All students are required to read the selections AdditionAl optionAl reAding suggestions listed for their grades and levels of English. Testing over summer reading will take place the first week To encourage reading throughout the summer, the Bishop Miege English Department has put together a list of titles that students should have read before they go to college. of school. Students will not be responsible for Novels that will be required reading throughtout the students’ four years at Miege are taking notes along with their reading. However, indicated by an asterisk (*). The list is intended not only to prepare students for college highlighting and annotating in your own book but also to encourage a lifelong reading habit. We hope you make the rest of the list a goal is highly encouraged. for your own completion. Happy reading! Junior level AP students must write a paper based on their reading within the first quarter To Kill a Mockingbird, *Othello, William *The Scarlet Letter, of school. It is helpful to take chapter notes Harper Lee Shakespeare Nathaniel Hawthorne Of Mice and Men, The Old Man and the Sea, The Piano Lesson, marking specific quotes and literary devices to John Steinbeck Ernest Hemingway August Wilson be used in their paper. A notebook of summaries Lord of the Flies, Brave New World, The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan might help note specific passages without having William Golding Aldous Huxley *The Glass Menagerie, *Night, Elie Weisel *Siddhartha, Tennessee Williams to review the entire text. *The Catcher in the Rye, Hermann Hesse Miracle Worker, J.D. Salinger A Lesson Before Dying, William Gibson The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton Ernest J. Gaines Hiroshima, John Hersey *Animal Farm, Their Eyes Were Watching Maus, Art Spiegelman George Orwell God, Zora Neale Hurston *The Taming of the Shrew, required reAding *Fahrenheit 451, A Midsummer Night’s William Shakespeare Ray Bradbury Dream, William Angela’s Ashes, Freshmen *The Great Gatsby, Shakespeare Frank McCourt Animal Farm by George Orwell F. Scott Fitzgerald *And Then There Were Kindred, Octavia Butler *The House on Mango None, Agatha Christie *Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison sophomores Street, Sandra Cisneros One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s *Grendel, John Gardner The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho *Death of a Salesman, Nest, Ken Kesey Our Town, Thornton Wilder Arthur Miller Flowers for Algernon, As I Lay Dying, HONORS LEVEL: *A Raisin in the Sun, Daniel Keyes William Faulkner 1. Anthem by Ayn Rand Lorraine Hansberry Bodega Dreams, Slaughterhouse Five, 2. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho The Pearl, John Steinbeck Ernesto Quinonez Kurt Vonnegut *The Crucible, Arthur Miller The Hobbitt, J.R.R. Tolkien *Frankenstein, Mary Shelley Juniors The Things They Carried, The Chosen, Chaim Potok Pride and Prejudice, Night by Elie Weisel Tim O’Brien *Ethan Frome, Jane Austen AP LEVEL: *Romeo and Juliet, Edith Wharton *The Odyssey, Homer 1. The Last of the Mohicans William Shakespeare In Cold Blood, Beloved, Toni Morrison *Macbeth, William Truman Capote Cry, the Beloved Country, by James Fenimore Cooper Shakespeare The Count of Monte Cristo, Alan Paton 2. A Raisin in the Sun *Hamlet, William Alexandre Dumas *Beowulf, Seamus Heaney by Lorraine Hansberry Shakespeare *Inherit the Wind, J. Malcolm X, Alex Haley 3. Non-Fiction Essay Packet: This will Speak, Laurie Halsey Lawrence and Robert Lee *Oedipus the King, be distributed at the end of the year Anderson Bless Me, Ultima, Sophocles to those sophomores who have signed A Separate Peace, Rudolfo Anaya The Bean Trees, up for an AP-level course for junior John Knowles Montana 1948, Barbara Kingsolver year. You may also pick this up in the The Color of Water, Larry Watson The Handmaid’s Tale, Guidance Office over the summer. James McBride *The Stranger, Margaret Atwood *A Streetcar Named Desire, Albert Camus *The Alchemist, seniors Tennessee Williams *Huckleberry Finn, Paulo Coelho Tuesdays with Morrie *Things Fall Apart, Mark Twain A Farewell to Arms, Chinua Achebe Black Boy, Richard Wright Ernest Hemingway by Mitch Albom 1984, George Orwell Julius Caesar, William The Sun Also Rises, AP LEVEL: Twelve Angry Men, Reginald Shakespeare Ernest Hemingway 1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Rose The Color Purple, Catch 22, Joseph Heller 2. The Great Gatsby Fences, August Wilson Alice Walker The Natural, by F. Scott Fitzgerald *All Quiet on the Western Hatchet, Gary Paulsen Bernard Malamud 3. Death of a Salesman Front, Erich Maria *Anthem, Ayn Rand The Red Badge of Courage, by Arthur Miller Remarques The Diary of a Young Girl, Stephen Crane The Grapes of Wrath, Anne Frank John Steinbeck.

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