High School Summer Reading List Students may select any novel from the following authors:

Austen, Jane Christie, Agatha Grimes, Martha Rand, Any Bronte, Charlotte Dickens, Charles Hardy, Thomas Stewart, Mary Bronte, Emily Dostoyevesky, Fydor James, Henry Wells, H.G. Camus, Albert Eliot, George Joyce, James Wharton, Edith Carroll, Lewis

Title Author Suggested By A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court English 1984 Orwell English Lord of the Flies Tolkien English Brave New World Huxley English/Social Studies The Crystal Cave Stewart English Murder on the Orient Express Christie English Hound of the Baskervilles Conan Doyle English Lord of the Rings Tolkien English The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain English Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man Johnson English Beloved Morrison English Blue Highways Least Heat-Moon English Catcher in the Rye Salinger English The Color Purple Walker English Death of a Salesman Miller English Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston English The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck English The Innocents Abroad Twain English Moby Dick Melville English Mourning Becomes Electra O’Neill English Native Son Wright English A Raisin in the Sun Hansbury English The Scarlet Letter (excluding “The Custom House” section). Hawthorne English A Separate Peace Knowles English The Sound and the Fury Faulkner English Travels with Charlie Adams English Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Carroll English Call of the Wild London English Chronicle of a Death Foretold Marquez English Cry the Beloved Country Paton English Don Quixote Cervantes English Frankenstein Shelley English Friday Night Lights Bissinger English Haroun and the Sea Story Rushdie English The Heart is a Lonely Hunger McCullers English Heart of Darkness Conrad English A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But a Sandwich Childress English I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou English Into Thin Air Krakauer English Jane Eyre Bronte English The Pearl Steinbeck English The Poisonwood Bible Kingsolver English Profiles in Courage Kennedy English

High School Summer Reading List

Title Author Suggested By The Ryan White Story White & English Cunningham The Scarlet Pimpernel Orczy English The Three Musketeers Dumas English The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain English Animal Farm Orwell English/Soc. Studies A Day No Pigs Would Die Peck English An Enemy of the People Ibsen English As I Lay Dying Faulkner English The Death of Ivan Ilyich Tolstoy English Ethan Frome Wharton English Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury English Flowers for Algernon Keyes English The Hobbit Tolkien English The Joy Luck Club Tan English Life Among the Savages Jackson English Lord of the Flies Tolkien English The Miracle Worker Gibson English 1984 Orwell English Phantom of the Opera Leroux English Pigman Zindel English Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry Taylor English A Separate Peace Knowles English Shoeless Joe Kinsella English That Was Then, This is Now Hinton English Treasure Island Stevenson English Watership Down Adams English The Winter Room Paulsen English The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest Bronson Business Education Dot.com: The Greatest Story Ever Sold Cassidy Business Education Microserfs Coupland Business Education Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Covey Business Education Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Fallows Business Education Democracy Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance Inside IBM’s Historic Gerstner Business Education Turnaround Leadership Giuliani, & Business Education Kurston Mars and Venus in the Workplace: A Practical Guide for Gray Business Education Improving Communication and Getting Results at Work Tearing Down the Walls: How Sandy Weill Fought His Way to Langley Business Education the Top of the Financial World…and Then Nearly Lost it All. Next: The Future Just Happened Lewis Business Education The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and O’Reilly Business Education Famous in America The O’Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely O’Reilly Business Education Ridiculous in American Life. This Just In: What I Couldn’t Tell You on TV Schieffer Business Education The Gatekeepters: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier Steinberg Business Education College Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change Spencer, Johnson, Business Education in Your Work and in Your Life Blanchard

High School Summer Reading List Title Author Suggested By Jack: Straight for the Gut Welch, Byrne Business Education The Machine that Changed the World Womack, Jones, Technology Educ. Roos How Cars Work Newton Technology Educ. Ford Thunderbird Anthology Iclaria Technology Educ. Patterns of Homes: 10 Essentials of Enduring Design Jacobson, Technology Educ. Silverstien, Winslow Fundamentals of Building Conservation Allen Technology Educ. Upgrading and Repairing, PCS 14th Mueller Technology Educ. Computer Organization and Design Patterson, Technology Educ. Hennessy Drawing and Designing with Confidence: A step-by-step Guide Lin Technology Educ. Profitable Woodworking: Turning Your Hobby into a Profession Edic Technology Educ. Science and Technology in World History McClellan, Dorn Technology Educ. Robots: Explore the Science of Robots and Build Your Own with Searle Technology Educ. Other Behind the Scenes of Television Programs Harris Technology Educ. Bitechnology Wells Technology Educ. Careers in High Teck Basta Technology Educ. Communications Hawkes Technology Educ. Industrial Revolution Technology Educ. The Last Hundred Years, Household Technology Cohen Technology Educ. Transportation on Land and Sea Hawkes Technology Educ. Things That Change the World and Some That Didn’t Parker Technology Educ. Small Invention that Make a Big Difference Technology Educ. Stephen Biesty’s Incredible Everything Biesty Technology Educ. Flatland Abbott Mathematics Chaos: Making a New Science Gleick Mathematics Surely Your Joking Mr. Feynman Hutchings Mathematics Ten Little Indians Christie Mathematics Going on a Dig Ford-Morrison Science Never Cry Wolf Mowat Science The Snow Walker Mowat Science Tales of a Dead King Myers Science This is a River Pringle Science Desert Solitaire Abbey Science Monkey Wrench Gang Abbey Science The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth Attenborough Science The Sea Around Us Carson Science Silent Spring Carson Science A Spit is a Piece of Land Coburn Science Flying to the Moon and Other Strange Places Collins Science The Talking Earth Craighead Science Madame Curie Curie Science Origin of the Species Darwin Science Voyage of the Beagle Darwin Science The Selfish Gene Dawkins Science Microbe Hunters DeKruif Science Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Dillard Science Teaching a Stone to Talk Dillard Science The Amateur Naturalist Durrell Science Disturbing the Universe Dyson Science

High School Summer Reading List Title Author Suggested By The Silent Sky: The Incredible Extinction of the Passenger Eckert Science Pigeon The Immense Journey Eiseley Science Reading the Mountains of Home Elder Science What Do You Care What Other People Think Feynman Science Frames of Mind: The Theories of Multiple Intelligences Gardner Science Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit Gore Science Mismeasure of Man Gould Science The Panda’s Thumb Gould Science A Passion to Know: Twenty Profiles in Science Hammond Science A Brief History of Time Hawking Science Science Matters Hanzen, Trefil Science All Creature Great and Small Herriot Science Legend Days Highwater Science Farewell to Manzanar Houston Science Crucibles: The Story of Chemistry Jaffe Science A Feeling for the Organism Keller Science Animal Dreams Kingsolver Science Inherit the Wind Lawrence, Lee Science Sand County Almanac Leopold Science King Solomon’s Ring Lorenz Science Healing Gaia Lovelock Science Digging Deeper Markle Science The Curve of Binding Energy McPhee Science Space Michener Science Naked Ape Morris Science The Song of the Dodo Quammen Science To Space and Back Ride Science Master of the Scalpel Riedman Science The Making of the Atomic Bomb Rhodes Science Cosmos Sagan Science Pale Blue Dot Sagan Science The Trouble with Testosterone Sapolsky Science Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers Sapolsky Science Reverence for Life Schweitzer Science Enrico Fermi, Physicist Segre Science Nature’s Events Serrao Science Tapped Out Simon Science Living Downstream Steingraber Science Life and Death of a Salt Marsh Teal, Teal Science The Lives of a Cell Thomas Science The Medusae and the Snail Thomas Science The Flying Circus of Physics Walker Science Beautiful Summers Warner Science The Double Helix Watson Science The First Three Minutes: A Modern view of the Origin of the Weinberg Science Universe The Break of the Finch Weiner Science Knowledge and Wonder: The Natural World as Man Knows It Weiskopf Science Study of the Earth White Science Naturalist Wilson Science Web of Life Wilson Science The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Sacks Science

High School Summer Reading List Title Author Suggested By A Short Walk Around the Pyramids and Through the World of Isaacson Art Art Color Theory Parramon Art Degas and the Dance Dellonyar, Art Campbell Drawing in the Right Side of the Brain Edwards Art Drawing with Pencils and Pastels Harrison Art Take a Look. An Intro to the Experience of Art Davidson Art The Annotated Mona Lisa Stickland Art The Painter’s Eye Greenburg, Jordan Art Van Gogh Face to Face- The Portraits Keyes, Rishel, Art Hackelford A Young Painter Zhensen, Low Art Architecture and Construction Scholastic Voyages Art Ashanti to Zulu, African Traditions Musgrove Art Buffalo Hunt Freedman Art Hidden Pictures Linda Bolton Art How to Draw Comics, The Marvel Way Lee Art Inside the Museum Richardson Art Masks of Black Africa Segy Art Painters of the Caves Lauber Art Roy Lichtenstein artist at Work Walker Art The History of Marking Books Scholastic Art The Traveler’s Guide to Ancient Rome Malam Art Usborne World History Chandler Art Drawing in the Right Side of the Brain Edwards Art SOCIAL STUDIES – AMERICAN STUDIES 2 (students entering 9th grade) The Invisible Thread Yoshiko Uchida The Jungle Upton Sinclair Leah’s Journey Gloria Goldreich The Greatest Generation Tom Brokaw O Pioneers Willa Cather Ragtime E.L. Doctorow The Grapes of Wrath John St einbeck Up from Slavery Booker T. Washington Barrio Boy Ernesto Galarza Johnny Got His Gun Trumbo The Killer Angels Shaara 1984 Orwell Power of One Courtnenay Watership Down Adams Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West Dee Brown The Autobiography of Malcolm X Alex Haley and Malcolm X Dispatches Michael Herr Truman David McCullough Hart Times: An oral history of the Great Depression Studds Terkel Rosa Parks Douglas Brinkley Woodrow Wilson Louis Auchincloss Crazy Horse Larry McMurtry Fighting for Honor: Japanese Americans I World War II Michael Cooper Profiles in Courage John Kennedy Women in History Portraits of American Women Volume I and II

High School Summer Reading List The American Women, Who Was She? Biographies on American Presidents Biographies on Martin Luther King, Jr. Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. Black Like Me John Howard Griffin Readings on a selected group of immigrants to America, like Angela’s Ashes SOCIAL STUDIES -WORLD STUDIES – EUROPE AND THE NON-WESTERN WORLD – (students entering grade 10) Animal Farm George Orwell Angela’s Ashes F. McCourt Hiroshima John Hersey Kiss the Dust Elizabeth Laird Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution Ji Li Jiang The Ear, the Eye, the Arm Farmer Women of the Silk Tsukiyama The Renaissance: A Short History Paul Johnson Hitler and the Holocaust Robert Wistrich Leonardo DaVinci Sherwin Nuland Dante R.W.B. Lewis A Man for all Seasons: A play in two acts Robert Bolt Dublin Girl: Growing up in the 1930’s Elaine Crowley The Balkins: A short history Mark Mazower Islam: A short history Karen Armstrong Buddha Karen Armstrong The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa’s Wildlife Kobie Kruger Bound Feet and Western Dress Pang-Mei Natasha Chang War and Our World John Keegan The Lexus and Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization T. Friedman Motherland Vineeta Visayareghaven From Beruit to Jerusalem Thomas Friedman Biographies: Otto von Bismarck Albert Einstein Queen Elizabeth I Gandhi Mandela Mao Zedong Indira Gandhi Anwar al-Sadat Simon Bolivar Hirohito Yassir Arafat Fidel Castro Ayatollah Khomeini Ho Chi Minh Mother Theresa Golda Meir Evita Peron Kwame Nkrumah SOCIAL STUDIES - AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND ECONOMICS –(Students entering grade 11) Jim Crow’s Children: the Broken Promise of the Brown Decision Peter Irons Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court of the American People Jamin Raskin The Courage of Their Convictions Peter Irons That Every Man Should be Armed the Evolution of a Constitutional Right Stephen Halbrook

High School Summer Reading List Gideon’s Trumpet Anthony Lewis Eye on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 Juan Williams The Turning Point Jimmy Carter Turning Right: The Making of the Rehnquist Supreme Court David Savage A Child of Fortune Jeffrey St. John Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980 Charles Murray The Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson Joseph Califano, Jr. Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow John Adams David McCullough James Madison (The American Presidents Series) Garry Wills The Enemy Within: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on our Schools, Michael Savage Faith and Military Founding Brothers Joseph J. Ellis Maestro: Greenspan’s Fed and the American Boom Bob Woodward The Great Game: The Myth and Reality of Espionage Frederick Hitz Move On’s 50 Ways to Love Your Country: How to Find your Political Voice and Become a Catalyst Nickel and Dimed: On(NOT) Getting by in America Barbara Ehrenreich Game Plans for Success: Winning Strategies for Business and Life from 10 Top Ray Diinger NFL Head Coaches Top Dog: A Different Kind of Book about Becoming an Excellent Leader J. David Pincus The Best Defense Alan Dershowitz Presumed Innocent Scott Turow Dot.com John Cassidy Environment: The Rise and Fall Henry Mintzbert SOCIAL STUDIES – PSYCHOLOGY (Students entering grade 1 2) Sacred Hoops Phil Jackson Cry in the Night Mary Higgins Clark All Around the Town Mary Higgins Clark Murphy’s Boy Torey Hayden Sybil Flora Schroeber The Gift of Fear – Survival Signals that Protect us from Violence Gavin DeBecker Brave New World Aldous Husley The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks SOCIAL STUDIES – SOCIOLOGY (Students entering grade 12) Black Like Me John Howard Clan of the Cave Bear Jean Auel Fair Game Erika Tamar Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams Darcy Frey The Other Side of the River Alex Kotlowitz There are no Children Here Alex Kozal Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools Jonathan Kozol SOCIAL STUDIES – PEACE STUDIES (Students entering grade 12) Somewhere Today: A Book of Peace Shelley Moore Thomas Memories: My Life as an International Leader in Women’s Health, Suffrage and Aletta Jacobs Peace Children in War Alan Raymond and Susan Raymond SOCIAL STUDIES – GEOGRAPHY (Students entering grade 12) National Geographic Magazine Publications A Weekend in September John Edward Weems The Hot Zone Richard Preston Silent Spring Rachel Carson SOCIAL STUDIES – AP UNITED STATES HISTORY (Students entering grades 11 and 12)

High School Summer Reading List Undaunted Courage Stephen Ambrose Founding Fathers Harlem Renaissance Nathan Irvin Huggins The Invasion of America Francis Jennings Only Yesterday Frederick Lewis Allen Since Yesterday Frederick Lewis Allen Hidden Heroism Robert Edgerton A People’s History of the United States Howard Zinn The American Revolution Edward Countryman Stakes of Power: 1845-1877 Roy Nichols and Eugene Berwanger SOCIAL STUDIES – AP EUROPEAN HISTORY (Students entering grades 11 and 12) A History of Western Society (Chapters 12-15; 27, 30-31) John McKay The Prince Machiavelli Communist Manifesto Karl Marx Man’s Search for Meaning Victor Frankl SOCIAL STUDIES – AP ECONOMICS (Students entering grade 12) The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith Road to Serfdom Frederick Hayek

Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich Lexus and the Olive Tree Thomas Friedman Saving Adam Smith Jonathan Wight SOCIAL STUDIES – POP CULTURE (Students entering grades 11 and 12) Bright Lights, Big City Jay McInerney On the Beach Nevin Shute SOCIAL STUDIES – NEW VISIONS (Students entering grades 11 and 12 Dot.com John Cassidy The E-Myth Revisited – Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Michael Gerber do About it Harvard Business Review Direct from Dell: Strategies that Revolutionized an Industry Michael Dell and Catherine Fredman

High School Summer Reading List

Title Author Suggested Level The Age of Innocence Wharton 9-12 All Creatures Great and Small Herriott 9-10 Angela’s Ashes McCourt 9-12 Annals of the Former World McPhee 9-12 The Assistant Malamud 9-12 The Awakening Chopin 9-12 Babitt Lewis 9-12 Bean Trees Kingsolver 11-12 Black Boy Wright 9-10 Boy’s Life McCammon 9-10 A Breach of Promise Perry 11-12 Crime and Punishment Dostoevski 9-12 Death in Venice Mann 9-12 Dreaming in Cuban Garcia 9-12 Dune Herbert 9-10 East of Eden Steinbeck 11-12 Ellen Foster Gibbons 11-12 Embracing Defeat Dower 9-12 Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr. Puller 9-12 Go Tell it on the Mountain Baldwin 9-12 God: A Biography Miles 9-12 The God of Small Things Roy 9-12 A Good Man Is Hard to Find O’Connor 9-12 Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck 11-12 The Great Train Robbery Crichton 9-10 Gulliver’s Travel Swift 9-12 Guns, Germs, and Steel Diamond 9-12 Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life Hedrick 9-12 Heart of Darkness Conrad 9-12 A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Adams 9-10 Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle 9-10 How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Alvarez 9-12 Invisible Man Ellison 11-12 Ivanhoe Scott 9-12 Jason Pollock: An American Saga Naifeh/Whit 9-12 The Kitchen-God’s Wife Tan 11-12 To the Lighthouse Woolf 9-12 Like Water for Chocolate Esquivel 9-12 Lindberg Berg 9-12 London Rutherford 11-12 Lonesome Dove McMurtry 9-10 Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe Donald 9-12 Lord of the Flies Golding 9-12 Lords of Discipline Conroy 11-12 A Lost Lady Cather 11-12 Machiavelli in Hell De Grazia 9-12 The Mill on the Floss Eliot 9-12 Murders on the Orient Express Christie 11-12 My Antonia Catcher 9-10 Native Son Wright 9-10 Nectar in a Sieve Markandaya 11-12

High School Summer Reading List October Sky Hickum 9-10 On the Road Kerouac 11-12 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Solzhenitsyn 11-12 Of Love and Other Demonds Garcia-Marquez 9-12 One Hundred Years of Solitude Marquez 9-12 A Passage to India Forster 9-12 Personal History Graham 11-12 The Pillars of the Earth Follett 11-12 Rabbit, Run Updike 9-12 Rebecca duMaurier 9-10 Restoration Tremain 11-12 Robinson Crusoe Defoe 9-12 Run with the Horseman Sams 9-10 St. Maybe Tyler 11-12 Sacred Hunger Unsworth 11-12 Seize the Day Bellow 9-12 Slaughterhouse 5 Vonnegut 11-12 The Sound and the Fury Faulkner 9-12 The Stranger Camus 9-12 Steppenwolf Hesse 11-12 Tell Me a Riddle Olsen 9-12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles Hardy 9-12 Thirteen Stories Welty 9-12 Tom Jones Fielding 9-12 The Trial Kafka 9-12 Truman McCullough 9-12 Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston 9-12 The Turn of the Screw James 11-12 Vanity Fair Thackery 9-12 War and Peace Tolstoy 9-12 W.E.B. DuBois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919 Levering 9-12 Winesburg, Ohio Anderson 11-12 The Woman Warrior Kingston 11-12 Ulysses Joyce 10-12 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce 9-11 Brave New World Huxley 9-12 The Sound and the Fury Faulkner 9-12 “Catch-22” Heller 9-12 Darkness at Noon Koestler 9-12 Sons and Lovers Lawrence 11-12 Under the Volcano Lowry 9-12 To the Lighthouse Woolf 11-12 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter McCullers 9-12 Henderson the Rain King Bellow 9-12 Appointment in Samarra O’Hara 9-12 Howard’s End Forster 9-12

High School Summer Reading List

The Heart of the Matter Greene 9-12 Deliverance Dickey 11-12 Point Counter Point Huxley 9-12 The Secret Agent Conrad 9-12 Nostromo Conrad 9-12 Pale Fire Nabokov 9-12 Light in August Faulkner 9-12 The Maltese Falcon Hammett 9-12 Parade’s End Maddox-Ford 9-12 Zuleika Dobson Beerbohm 9-12 The Moviegoer Percy 9-12 Death Comes for the Archbishop Cather 9-12 From Here to Eternity Jones 9-12 The Wapshot Chronicles Cheever 9-12 Of Human Bondage Maugham 9-12 Heart of Darkness Conrad 9-12 Main Street Lewis 9-12 The House of Mirth Wharton 9-12 The Alexandria Quartet Durrell 9-12 A High Wind in Jamaica Hughes 9-12 A House for Mr. Biswas Naipaul 9-12 The Day of the Locust West 9-12 Scoop Waugh 9-12 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Spark 9-12 Kim Kipling 9-12 A Room With a View Forster 9-12 Brideshead Revisited Waugh 9-12 The Adventures of Augie March Bellow 9-12 Angle of Repose Stegner 9-12 The Death of the Heart Bowen 9-12 Lord Jim Conrad 9-12 Ragtime Doctorow 9-12 The Old Wives Tale Bennett 9-12 Loving Green 9-12 Midnight’s Children Rusdie 9-12 Ironweed Kennedy 9-12 The Magus Fowles 9-12 Under the Net Murdoch 9-12 The Sheltering Sky Bowels 9-12 The Ginger Man Donleavy 9-12 The Magnificent Ambersons Tarkington 9-12