GREENS FARMS ACADEMY UPPER SCHOOL ENGLISH SUMMER READING 2014

ASSIGNED SUMMER READING BOOKS BY GRADE AND COURSE TITLE:

ENGLISH 9: Travels with Charley: In Search of America, ISBN: 0-14-018741-3

ENGLISH 10: Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ISBN: 1-61620-241-6

Choice book titles (CHOOSE ONE from this list): Frankenstein, Mary Shelley Lord of the Flies, William Golding The Farming of Bones, Edwidge Danticat Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See

ENGLISH 11 and 11H: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald ISBN: 007432-7356-7

ENGLISH 12 FALL ELECTIVES and AP ENGLISH:

New World Voices A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini ISBN: 1-59448-385- X

Moby Dick and the Poetry of Perception The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Mark Haddon ISBN: 1-4000-3271-7

Creative Writing: Non- Fiction Slouching Toward Bethlehem, Joan Didion ISBN: 0-374-53138-2

Great Books Franny and Zooey, J. D. Salinger ISBN: 0-316-76949-5

A.P. English Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte ISBN: 0-14-143955-6

PLEASE SEE THE PAGES THAT FOLLOW FOR SUGGESTED SUMMER READING TITLES AND RECOMMENDATIONS.

9th I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou (F) The Dollmaker, Arnow (F) The Da Vinci Code, Brown (F) The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Chbosky (F) North of Beautiful, Chen (F) Sailing around the Room, Collins (poetry) My Losing Season, Conroy (A) The Chocolate War, Cormier (F) The Andromeda Strain, Crichton (SF) Rebecca, Du Maurier (M) Gandhi, Fisher (B) Mary Queen of Scots, Fraser (HF) y The Fault in Our Stars, Green (F) Death Be Not Proud, Gunther (B) L Mythology, Hamilton o Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry (D) s Narcissus and Goldmund, Hesse (F) i Rocket Boys, Hickam (A) n Harmonic Feedback, Kelly (F) g

Flowers for Algernon, Keyes (F) S The Secret Life of Bees, Kidd (F) e Shoeless Joe, Kinsella (F) a Annie John, Kincaid (F) s The Bean Trees- Kingsolver (F) o A Separate Peace, Knowles (F) n The Call of the Wild, London (F) Christy, Matthews (F) b y The Housekeeper and the Professor, Ogawa (F) The Chosen, Potok (F*) C Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Rushdie (F) o Collected Stories, Saki (F) n A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Smith (F) r Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck (F) o The Pearl, Steinbeck (F) y

Treasure Island, Stevenson (F) – The Crystal Cave, Stewart (HF) The Joy Luck Club, Tan (F) “ The Hobbit, Tolkien (FAN) i Journey to the Center of the Earth, Verne (SF) n One Writer’s Beginning, Welty (A) c The Bread Giver, Yezierska (F) r e d i b l y

f o 10th Emma, Austen (F) Mansfield Park, Austen (F) Northanger Abbey, Austen (F) Sense and Sensibility, Austen (F) City of Thieves, Benioff (HF) The Illustrated Man, Bradbury (SF) The Stranger, Camus from Corrain, Conway (A) Everything Matters!, Currie (F) Collected Stories, Dahl (F) The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens (F) Madame Bovary, Flaubert (F) A Passage to India, Forster (F) Howard's End, Forster (F) Where Angels Fear to Tread, Forster (F) Don’t Let’s Go to The Dogs Tonight, Fuller Paper Towns, Green (F) Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy (F) Return of the Native, Hardy (F*) Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Hardy (F*) Brave New World, Huxley (F) The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro (F) The Orphan Master’s Son, Johnson (F) The Namesake, Lahiri (F) The , Lahiri (F) First they Killed My Father, Luong Ung (B) Nectar in a Sieve, Markandaya (F) Razor's Edge, Somerset Maugham (F) 1984, Orwell (F) Good Morning Midnight, Rhys (F) The Way We Live Now, Trollope (F) Tyler (F) Haj, Uris (F) , Walker (F) The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde (F) Native Son, Wright (F)

11th , Agee (F*) Persuasion, Austen (F) Winesburg Ohio, Anderson (F) Growing Up, Baker (A) The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer, Benson (B) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Brent (NF) Angels and Demons, Brown (F) Manchild in the Promised Land, Brown (A) A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bryson (NF) , Buck (F) My Antonia, Cather (F) Ten Little Indians, Christie (M) The Red Badge of Courage, Crane (F) An American Childhood, Dillard (A) The Beet Queen, Erdrich (F) Babylon Revisited and Other Stories, Fitzgerald (F) Cold Mountain, Frazier (F) Ordinary People, Guest (F) Snow Falling on Cedars, Guterson (F) Roots, Haley (NF) Pentimento, Hellman (F) A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway (F) For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway (F) The Nick Adams Stories, Hemingway (F) , Hemingway (F) A Prayer for Owen Meaney, Irving (F) Until I Find You, Irving (F) Typical American, Jen (F) The Poisonwood Bible, Kingsolver (F) Into Thin Air, Krakauer (NF) Into the Wild, Krakauer (NF) The History of Love, Krauss (F) Laughing Boy, Lafarge (F) A Girl in Winter, Larkin (F) A Sense of Where You Are, McPhee (B) Coming into the Country, McPhee (NF) Zelda, Mitford (B) The Way to Rainy Mountain, Momaday (poetry) The Nuclear Age, O'Brien (F) The Soul of an Indian, Ohiyesh (F) A Long Day's Journey into Night, O'Neill (D) Atlas Shrugged, Rand (F) The Fountainhead, Rand (F) Catcher in the Rye, Salinger (F) Shanghai Girls, See (HF) Dreams of Joy, See (HF) Bronx Primitive, Simon (NF) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Sparks (F) , Steinbeck Blooming, Toth (A) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Twain (F) Innocents Abroad, Twain (F) Life on the Mississippi, Twain The Accidental Tourist, Tyler (F) Rabbit Run, Updike (F) Cat's Cradle, Vonnegut (SF) Slaughterhouse Five, Vonnegut (F) Welcome to the Monkey House, Vonnegut (F) Meridian, Walker (F) Hearing Birds Fly, Waugh (NF) Up from Slavery, Washington (A) The House of Mirth, Wharton Roman Fever and Other Stories, Wharton (F) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Williams (F) Black Boy, Wright (F) The Shadow of the Wind, Zafon (F)

12th No Longer at Ease, Achebe (F) The White Tiger, Adiga (F) Side Effects, Allen (F) Cat’s Eye, Atwood (F) Over the Edge of the World, Bergreen (NF) Jane Eyre, Bronte (F) Invisible Cities, Calvino (F) Lord Jim, Conrad (F*) Bleak House, Dickens (F) Great Expectations, Dickens (F) Ragtime, Doctorow (F) What is the What, Eggers (F) Middlemarch, Eliot (F) The Mill on the Floss, Eliot (F) Four Souls, Erdrich (F) Flags in the Dust, Faulkner (F*) Anomaly, Fleming (F) Waiting, Ha Jin (F) Catch-22, Heller (F) Unbroken, Hillenbrand (NF) The Cider House Rules, Irving (F) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce (F*) Legs; Billy Phelan, Kennedy (F) On the Road, Kerouac (F) One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Kesey (F) Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid (F) The Woman Warrior, Kingston (NF) Sons and Lovers, Lawrence (F) Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner (NF) In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India, Luce (NF) The Natural, Malumud (F) Wedding Song, Malfouz (F) Death in Venice, Mann (F) Magic Mountain, Mann (F) Love in the Time of Cholera, Marquez (F) One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez (F) Let the Great World Spin, McCann (F) Atonement, McEwan (F) Song of Solomon, Morrison (F) Jasmine, Mukherjee (F) The Last Laugh, Perlman (F) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Pirsig (NF) The Bell Jar, Plath (F) Robinson (F) Everything is Illuminated, Safran Foer (F) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Safran Foer (F) Nine Stories, Salinger (F) Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenter, Salinger (F) Seymour, An Introduction, Salinger (F) Betsy Brown, Shange (F) East of Eden, Steinbeck Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas, Thompson (F) Anna Karenina, Tolstoy (F) Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Tyler (F) Lucky Child, Ung (B) Breakfast of Champions, Vonnegut (F) Mother Night, Vonnegut (F) The Right Stuff, Wolfe (NF) A Room of One’s Own, Woolf (NF) The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Wroblewski (F)