Jamesville-DeWitt High School Summer Reading Suggestions – Students Entering 11th & 12th Grades

Biographies & Memoirs

The Liars’ Club by Mary Karr Nicholas & Alexandra by Robert K. Massie When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis

Nonfiction

Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

1776 by David McCullough

Evolve Your Brain: The science of Changing Your Mind by Joe Dispenza

Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life's Ordeals by Thomas Moore

Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss

Fiction

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Eventide by Cindy McCormick Martinusen Safran Foer Plainsong by Kent Haruf The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Mystik Lake by Martha Brooks Atonement by Ian McEwan Einstein’s Dream by Alan Lightman Peace Like a River by Leif Enger Messenger of Truth by Janet Winspeare A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving Some Danger Involved by Well Thomas The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova by Sophie’s Choice by William Styron A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane T is for Trespass by Sue Grafton by Dennis Lehane Plum Lucky by Janet Evonovich Daddy’s Little Girl by Mary Higgins Clark The Alienist by Caleb Carr The Apprentice Lover by Jay Parini

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A Passage to India by E.M. Forster Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

All the Kings’ Men by Robert Penn Warren A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway What Girls Learn by Karin Cook

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Poetry

Electric Light by Seamus Heaney

The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath

A Book of Lumininous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry with introduction by Czeslaw Milosz

How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry by Edward Hirsch

Graphic Novel

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Suggested Authors: • Michael Crichton • Kurt Vonnegut • Tim O’Brien • Toni Morrison • Margaret Atwood • Dennis Lehane • Robin Cook

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