Summer Reading List 2012
Students entering grades 9-12 will read two books from their grade-level list.
Rising 9th Graders
Fiction 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger The Chosen, Chaim Potok The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card The Guns of Navarone, Alistair McLean Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths, Bernard Evslin The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Canon Doyle How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez The Jungle, Upton Sinclair The King Must Die, Mary Renault The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury Nation, Terry Pratchett The Princess Bride, William Goldman Rebecca, Daphne DuMaurier The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd Watership Down, Richard Adams
Non-Fiction This Boy's Life, Tobias Wolff Endurance, Alfred Lansing Flight of Passage, Rinker Buck Never Cry Wolf, Farley Mowat Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand
Summer Reading 2012
Summer Reading List 2012
Students entering grades 9-12 will read two books from their grade-level list.
Rising 10th Graders
Fiction The Alchemist, Paul Coelho Brave New World, Aldous Huxley China Boy, Gus Lee Colors of the Mountain, Da Chen Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh Donald Duk, Frank Chin Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin Abbott The Good Earth, Pearl Buck Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini Kristin Lavransdatter, Sigrid Undset Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel Lost Names, Richard E. Kim Mary Reilly, Valerie Martin
Non-Fiction The Hot Zone, Richard Preston How Many Licks?, Aaron Santos In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall Justinian’s Flea, William Rosen Longitude, Dava Sobel Night, Elie Wiesel Rocket Boys (October Skies) by Homer Hickham The Lost City of Z, David Grann The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty, K.C. Cole An Imaginary Tale: The Story of Pi, Paul Nahin A History of the World in 6 Glasses, Tom Standage Genghis Khan, Jack Weatherford
Summer Reading 2012
Summer Reading List 2012
Students entering grades 9-12 will read two books from their grade-level list.
Rising 11th Graders
Fiction A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest Gaines A Lost Lady, Willa Cather All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy Jim the Boy, Tony Earley Killer Angels, Michael Shaara Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck The Help, Kathryn Stockett The Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri True Grit, Charles Portis Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Non-Fiction A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson Amazing Grace, Jonathon Kozol America, 1908, Jim Rasenberger Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser Firehouse, David Halberstam Founding Brothers, Joseph Ellis Founding Mothers, Cokie Roberts I Wish I’d Been There, Byron Hollinshead, ed. Imagine, Jonah Lehrer In Code: A Mathematical Journey, Sarah Flannery Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, Lawrence Goldstone Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Midnight Rising, Tony Horwitz Opening Skinner’s Box, Lauren Slater Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty, K.C. Cole
Summer Reading 2012
Summer Reading List 2012
Students entering grades 9-12 will read two books from their grade-level list.
Rising 12th Graders
Fiction A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving Childhood’s End, Arthur Clarke Old School, Tobias Wolff One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula Le Guin The Road, Cormac McCarthy Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
Non-Fiction A User’s Guide to the Brain, John Ratey Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman Forty Studies That Changed Psychology, Roger R. Hock Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder Naked Economics, Charles Wheelan Near a Thousand Tables, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of Elements, Sam Kean The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Lawrence Wright The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, Paul Hoffman The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Faidiman The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy (Revised Edition), Pietra Rivoli
Summer Reading 2012