Honors Summer Reading:
ELA 1 Honors: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
ELA 2 Honors: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
ELA Junior AP: Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
ELA Junior IB: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
ELA Senior AP: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
ELA Senior IB: Macbeth by William Shakespeare
General Suggestions For ALL Lancers Summer Reading:
Go Set A Watchman-Harper Lee
The Help-Katheryn Stockett
And Then There Were None-Agatha Christie
All the Light We Cannot See-Anthony Doerr
Good Omens-Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
The Poisonwood Bible OR Animal Dreams-Barbara Kingsolver
Redwall-Brian Jacques
Truly Devious-Maureen Johnson
The Hazel Wood-Melissa Albert
The Magicians-Lev Grossman
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell-Susanna Clarke
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith-Jon Krakauer
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey OR Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President-Candice Millard
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary-Simon Winchester
Kindred-Octavia E. Butler
Nine Perfect Strangers -Lianne Moriarty
Cutting for Stone-Abraha Vargese
In Cold Blood-Truman Capote
The Count of Monte Cristo-Alexandre Dumas
Foundation-Isaac Asimov
The Martian Chronicles-Ray Bradbury
2001: A Space Odyssey-Arthur C. Clarke
The Autobiography of Malcolm X-Alex Haley
White Oleander - Janet Fitch
Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd
The Kitchen House Grissom Cane River Tademy
The Year the Colored Sisters Came to Town Guidry
The Turnaround Pelecanos
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel Murphy
Sarah’s Key De Rosnay
Dove Keepers Hoffman
Poisonwood Bible Kingsolver
Daughter of Fortune Allende
Turtle Warrior Ellis
The Ha Ha King
The Shoemaker’s Wife Trigiani
Garden of Stones Littlefield
Snowflower and the Secret Fan See
The Tumbling Turner Sisters Fay
A Lesson Before Dying Gaines
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek Richardson
Before We Were Yours Wingate
Water for Elephants Gruen
Snow Falling on Cedars Guterson
Kite Runner Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini
Where the Crawdads Sing Owens
Bear Town Backman
Us Against You (sequel to Bear Town) Backman A Man Called Ove Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me… Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here Backman All-American Boys Reynolds
The Hate You Give Wells
The Boy in the Black Suit Reynolds
Dear Martin Stone
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Edwards Dumplin’ Murphy
The Art of Racing in the Rain Stein
The Lovely Bones Sebold
The Lost Symbol Dan Brown
I Know This Much is True Lamb
Black and Blue Quindlan
Blessings Quindlan
Snow in August Hamill
Where the Heart Is Letts
Plainsong Haruf
Bright Angel Time McPhee
The Deep End of the Ocean Mitchard
The Color of Water McBride
Bleachers Grisham
Playing for Pizza Grisham
A Painted House Grisham
The Street Lawyer Grisham
19 Minutes Picoult
The Silver Star Walls
The Last Child Hart
The Thirteenth Tale Setterfield
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Honeyman The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell Dugoni
Monster Myers
Unplugged Freitas
Lock In Scalzi
Warcross Lu
They Cage the Animals at Night Birch
Autobiography of a Face Grealy
Hillbilly Elegy Vance
Born a Crime Noah
On Writing King
Rocket Boys Hickman
Educated Westover
Beyond the Beautiful Forevers Boo
The Day the World Came to Town Defede