Honors English – 9th Grade Summer Reading Project Requirements 1. Read Of Mice and Men and complete the pamphlet. 2. Choose one book from the suggested list below and read it (DO NOT choose any books from the back, as they will be used in class) 3. Choose an essay topic for your second book choice and write it.
SUGGESTED to read:
The Awakening Mrs. Dalloway Madame Bovary Sula The Sun Also Rises A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations David Copperfield Cannery Row Slaughterhouse Five House of Mirth Summer Tess of the D’Urbervilles Jude the Obscure Return of the Native Last of the Mohicans House of the Seven Gables Absalom, Absalom Emma Sense and Sensibility Pride and Prejudice Crime and Punishment Anna Karenina The Brothers Karamazov The Taming of the Shrew Richard III Much Ado About Nothing Henry V Titus Andronicus The Tempest the Merchant of Venice Antigone Gulliver’s Travels Don Quixote Doctor Faustus Moby Dick Obasan A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead The Sound and the Fury Their Eyes Were Watching God The Things they Carried The Turn of the Screw Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Beloved Billy Budd An Enemy of the People Equus The Glass Menagerie A Streetcar Named Desire Death of a Salesman The Mayor of Casterbridge Agnes of God All the King’s Men Bleak House Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Ghosts Hedda Gabbler Lord Jim The Remains of the Day Snow Falling on Cedars Tom Jones Trifles Catch 22 Ceremony Medea One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Waiting for Godot A Doll’s House The Importance of Being Earnest The Piano Lesson The Bible
DO NOT READ any of these titles: The Martian Chronicles O’Pioneers Romeo and Juliet Lord of the Flies To Kill a Mockingbird The Taming of the Shrew Cyrano de Bergerac The Scarlet Letter The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights Les Miserables A Farewell to Arms Three Musketeers The Invisible Man Candide The Grapes of Wrath Hamlet A Raisin in the Sun Oliver Twist Catcher in the Rye Jane Eyre The Great Gatsby Othello (unless we don’t get to it) Cold Sassy Tree A Lesson Before Dying The Crucible Heart of Darkness Beowulf Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Stranger Frankenstein Canterbury Tales Macbeth Huckleberry Finn