St. John Paul II Catholic High School Recommended Reading Lists

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American Literature

Author Book Comments Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird Eng 9 Summer Reading Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 Eng 9 The Martian Chronicles Eng 9 optional 4th qtr John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men Eng 9 optional 3rd qtr Ruta Sepetys Between Shades of Gray Eng 9 optional 3rd qtr Orson Scott Card Ender’s Game Eng 9 optional 3rd qtr Homer Hickam October Sky Eng 9 optional 3rd qtr memoir Jack Schaefer Eng 9 optional 4th qtr Louisa May Alcott Little Women Eng 9 optional 4th qtr Mark Twain Tom Sawyer Eng 9 optional 4th qtr John Knowles A Separate Peace All levels Betty Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn All levels Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon All levels Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea All levels Isaac Asimov I, Robot All levels Frank Herbert Dune All levels Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street All levels Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club All levels Barbara Kingsolver The Bean Trees All levels Pigs in Heaven All levels F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby All levels John Green The Fault in Our Stars All levels Suzanne Collins Hunger Games Series All levels Sue Monk Kidd The Secret Life of Bees All levels Zane Grey The Riders of the Purple Sage All levels Brian Selznick Wonderstruck All levels Kathryn Stockett The Help All levels Michael Crichton Jurassic Park All levels Zane Grey Riders of the Purple Sage All levels Leif Enger Peace like a River All levels, AP Comp Rick Bragg All Over but the Shoutin’ All levels, memoir Bill Bryson The World as Stage All levels, nonfiction Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Eng 10H summer reading Pudd’nhead Wilson Eng 10 summer reading Jeannette Walls The Glass Castle Eng 10H summer reading Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie Eng 10 summer reading Frederick Douglass The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Eng 10, memoir Arthur Miller The Crucible (play) Eng 10, play Willa Cather My Antonia Eng 10 research choice O Pioneers! Eng 10 research choice Bernard Malamud Death Comes to the Archbishop Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage Eng 10 research choice Kate Chopin The Awakening Eng 10 research choice mature Edith Wharton Ethan Frome Eng 10 research choice The Age of Innocence Jack London White Fang Eng 10 research choice The Call of the Wild Eng 10 research choice Upton Sinclair The Jungle Eng 10 research choice Carson McCullers The Member of the Wedding Theodore Dreiser An American Tragedy Sister Carrie Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind e.e. cummings The Enormous Room Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Allan Poe Collected Short Stories Ernest J. Gaines A Lesson before Dying Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms The Sun Also Rises Eudora Welty Collected Stories The Optimist’s Daughter Flannery O’Connor A Good Man Is Hard to Find Gordon Parks The Learning Tree Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin Herman Melville Moby Dick John Gunther Death Be Not Proud N. Scott Momaday House Made of Dawn Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible Charles Frasier Cold Mountain Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses AP Lit Sum Rdg choice Jodi Picoult The Storyteller Nineteen Minutes The Pact House Rules My Sister’s Keeper John Kennedy O'Toole A Confederacy of Dunces Patricia Highsmith The Talented Mr. Ripley Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar Tim O’Brien The Things They Carried Walker Percy The Moviegoer Geraldine Brooks March People of the Book Year of Wonders Lisa See Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Julia Alvarez In the Time of Butterflies Tom Clancy The Hunt for Red October Ralph Ellison Invisible Man William Faulkner As I Lay Dying Absalom, Absalom! The Unvanquished AP Lit Sum Rdg choice Robert Penn Warren All the King’s Men Ken Kesey One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest mature Kurt Vonnegut Slaughter-house Five mature Pat Conroy My Losing Season mature South of Broad Prince of Tides Beach Music Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain mature Tracy Chevalier The Girl with the Pearl Earring mature Ken Follett Pillars of the Earth mature Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie play A Streetcar Named Desire play Thornton Wilder Our Town play James McBride The Color of Water: memoir A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods memoir Norman Maclean A River Runs Through It memoir Pat Conroy The Water Is Wide memoir Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings memoir, mature Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God memoir, mature Laura Hillenbrand Unbroken nonfiction Seabiscuit nonfiction John Berendt Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil nonfiction John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage nonfiction Tom Wolfe The Right Stuff nonfiction Jon Krakauer Into the Wild AP Comp, nonfiction Elizabeth Kolbert The Sixth Extinction AP Comp Sum Rdg, nonfiction Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals AP Comp Sum Rdg, nonfiction

British Literature George Orwell Animal Farm Eng 9 J.K. Rowling Harry Potter Series All levels T.H. White The Once and Future King All levels The Sword and the Stone All levels J.R. Tolkien The Hobbit All levels Lord of the Rings Agatha Christie And Then There Were None All levels Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe All levels, memoir Journal of the Plague Year Corrie Ten Boom The Hiding Place All levels, memoir James Herriott All Creatures Great and Small All levels, memoir Richard Sheridan The Rivals All levels Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray The Importance of Being Earnest play George Bernard Shaw Pygmalian play Arms and the Man play Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer play Mary Shelly Frankenstein Eng 11 C.S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters Eng 11 Summer Reading AP Comp Summer Reading Thomas Hardy Tess of the D’Urbervilles Far from the Madding Crowd AP Lit Sum Rdg choice James Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Rudyard Kipling Kim Puck of Pook’s Hill Robert Graves I, Claudius W. Somerset Maugham Cakes and Ale Moon and Sixpence William Thackeray Vanity Fair William Golding Lord of the Flies Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Emma Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels Daphne Du Maurier Rebecca Jamaica Inn Thomas Hardy The Return of the Native Far from the Madding Crowd H.G. Wells The Time Machine Neil Gaiman The Ocean at the End of the Lane P.G Wodehouse Any Barbara Pym Excellent Women K. Ishiguro The Remains of the Day Never Let Me Go AP Lit Sum Rdg choice Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights AP Lit Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre AP Lit Sum Rdg choice Great Expectations AP Lit Sum Rdg choice Oliver Twist David Copperfield George Eliot Silas Marner Middlemarch AP Lit Sum Rdg choice E.M. Forster A Passage to India AP Lit Sum Rdg choice, A Room With a View mature Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Language Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse mature Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited mature George Orwell 1984 mature Ian McEwen Atonement mature Graham Greene The Quiet American mature D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers mature Samuel Pepys Diary Eng 11, nonfiction Eric Lomax Railway Man memoir Gavin Pretor-Pinney The Cloud Spotter’s Guide nonfiction Mark Logue The King’s Speech nonfiction Stephen Budiansky Her Majesty’s Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis nonfiction Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage Andrew Morton 17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis, and the Biggest nonfiction Coverup in History Alex Berenson Avenue of Spies nonfiction Bedford Boys nonfiction William Manchester The Last Lion nonfiction and Paul Reid World Literature

Elie Wiesel Night All levels Paulo Coelho The Alchemist All levels Markus Zusak The Book Thief All levels Alan Paton Cry, The Beloved Country AP Lit Sum Rdg choice Anita Desai Fasting, Feasting Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment read in AP Lit Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy novel-in-verse excerpts in Eng 12 Nadine Gordimer July’s People Victor Hugo Les Miserables Yann Martel Life of Pi Franz Kafka The Trial Anton Chekhov The Cherry Orchard Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Front Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart Ivan Turgenev Fathers and Sons Herman Hesse Siddhartha Voltaire Candide Alexander Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Albert Camus The Stranger Karen von Blixen Out of Africa Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness Gustav Flaubert Madame Bovary mature Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner mature Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude mature Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale mature Naguib Mahfouz Respected Sir mature Immaculee Ilibagiza Left to Tell memoir Frank McCourt Angela’s Ashes memoir Vladimir Nabokov Speak, Memory memoir