The Gunston School \ Summer Reading \ 2014 THE GUNSTON SCHOOL Summer Reading 2014

Reading broadens your background and strengthens verbal skills. It is also a way to discover new ideas and philosophies. We advise you to read many books but require at least four books this summer: one book is selected for the entire school, one for each grade level, and two are your own choice. We have listed our recommendations on the following pages.

1. Community-Wide Read

The Isle of Youth, by Laura van den Berg, our special guest for the 2014 In Celebration of Books

2. English Class Reading

English as a World Language (EWL) & English Literature: Night by Elie Weisel

English 9: The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger

English 10: 1984, by George Orwell

English 11: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglass

English 12: They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan by Benjamin Ajak, Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng, with Judy A. Bernstein 3 & 4. Choice from “Summer Reading List

In addition, you must choose two books to read from the “Summer Reading List” in this booklet. You must complete a summer reading response journal for these two books. Your journals should be handed in to your English teacher no later than Friday, September 5th.

Please refrain from using outside and/or online sources. Your Eng- lish teacher will give you more specific assignments on your required grade-level reading and the community read once you return to school.

While reading your books, record your observations, critical judg- ments, opinions, questions, and feelings. For the two books you chose to read on your own, we ask that you write a journal response (Times Roman, 12 point, double spaced) of at least 500 words for each book. Please date each entry, and you may use first person (“I”) in your responses.

Directions for Summer Reading Response Journals:

Consider writing about different components of the work, including:

• Personal reaction to characters, events, themes, recurring imagery and/or symbolism

• Pose questions and attempt to respond to them

• Identify significant quotes and comment upon them

• Imagine you are one of the characters and then write from his or her perspective

You should avoid plot summary in your responses. Summer reading journals will be assessed in relation to the depth of engagement as well as clarity of writing. SUMMER READING LIST

NOTE: You may read any work by the authors listed below. E-mail your English teacher for approval of a book not on the list.

FICTION: NON-AMERICAN

Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart Adichie, Chimananda Ngozi Half of a Yellow Sun Alain-Fournier, Henri The Lost Domain Allende, Isabel The House of the Spirits Amado, Jorge The War of the Saints Atwood, Margaret The Handmaid’s Tale Austen, Jane Emma Pride and Prejudice Balzac, Honore de The Human Comedy Barrie, J.M. Peter Pan Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot Borges, Jorge L. Labyrinths A Personal Anthology Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre Burgess, Anthony A Clockwork Orange Campbell, Joseph The Power of Myth Camus, Albert The Stranger Carey, Peter Parrot and Olivier in America Chatwin, Bruce Songlines In Patagonia Chaucer,Geoffrey Canterbury Tales Chekov, Anton The Cherry Orchard Coetzee, J.M. Disgrace Collins, Wilkie The Moonstone Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness Lord Jim Conway, Jill Ker The Road from Coorain Courtenay, Bryce The Power of One Davies, Robertson The Deptford Trilogy deBernieres, Louis Corelli’s Mandolin Delderfield, R.F. To Serve Them All My Days Dinesen, Isak Out of Africa Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Crime and Punishment The Brothers Karamazov Doyle, Arthur Conan Sherlock Holmes Stories The Hound of the Baskervilles Dubus, Andre III House of Sand and Fog duMaurier, Daphne Rebecca Durrell, Gerald My Family and Other Animals Eco, Umberto The Name of the Rose Eliot, George Silas Marner Flaubert, Gustav Madame Bovary Fowles, John The French Lieutenant’s Woman Frank, Anne The Diary of a Young Girl Fromm, Erich The Art of Loving Fuentes, Carlos Death of Artemio Cruz Fugard, Athol Master Harold and the Boys Fuller, Alexandra Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight Gogol, Nikolai Short Stories Golding, William Lord of the Flies Gordimer, Nadine My Son’s Story Grahame, Kenneth The Wind in the Willows Grass, Gunter The Tin Drum Graves, Robert I, Claudius King Jesus Greene, Graham The Heart of the Matter The Quiet American Grushin, Olga The Dream Life of Sukhanov Hardy, Thomas Jude the Obscure Return of the Native Heaney, Seamus Beowulf Hesse, Hermann Siddhartha Hosseini, Khaled A Thousand Splendid Suns Hugo, Victor Les Miserables The Hunchback of Notre Dame Hulme, Keri The Bone People Huxley, Aldous Brave New World Island Ibsen, Henrik A Doll’s House An Enemy of the People Ionesco, Eugene Rhinoceros Ishiguro, Kazuo Remains of the Day Iweala, Uzodinma Beast of No Nation Japrisot, Sebastien A Very Long Engagement Joyce, James Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man Dubliners Kafka, Franz The Trial Kawabata, Yasunari Thousand Cranes Kincaid, Jamaica Annie John Kipling, Rudyard Captains Courageous King, Ross Brunelleschi’s Dome Koestler, Arthur Darkness at Noon Kosinksi, Jerzy The Painted Bird Kundera, Milan The Unbearable Lightness of Being Lagerkvist, Par Barabbas Lawrence, D.H. Sons and Lovers The Rainbow Lawhead, Stephen R. The Iron Lance Levi, Carlo Christ Stopped at Eboli Levi, Primo Survival in Auschwitz Lewis, C.S. The Space Trilogy Lahiri, Jhumpa The Namesake Llosa, Mario Vargas The Feast of the Goat Makine, Andrei Once Upon the River Love Mann, Thomas Death in Venice Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Autumn of the Patriarch Love in the Time of Cholera Maugham, Somerset Of Human Bondage Maupassant, Guy de Bel Ami Mauriac, Francois Therese Desqueyroux Maurice, Edward Beauclerk The Last Gentleman Adventurer Maxwell, Gavin Ring of Bright Water Mayle, Peter A Year in Provence McEwen, Ian Atonement Enduring Love Mistry, Rohinton A Fine Balance Mortimer, John The Rumpole Omnibus Mowat, Farley Never Cry Wolf Nabokov, Vladimir Pale Fire Orwell, George Animal Farm Ondaatje, Michael The English Patient Pasternak, Boris Dr. Zhivago Paton, Alan Cry, The Beloved Country Peters, Ellis A Morbid Taste for Bones Proust, Marcel Swann’s Way Prevost, L’Abbaye Manon Lescaut Remarque, Erich All Quiet on the Western Front Rilke, Rainer Maria Letters to a Young Poet Rhys, Jean Wide Sargasso Sea Roy, Arhudhati The God of Small Things Sartre, Jean-Paul No Exit Sayers, Dorothy The Nine Tailor Seraji, Mahbod Rooftops of Tehran Shaw, George Bernard Pygmalion Androcles and the Lion Shute, Nevil On the Beach Smith, Alexander McCall The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Smith, Zadie White Teeth Solzhenitsyn, Alexander One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Sophocles Oedipus Trilogy Stendhal The Red and the Black Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island Sun, Tzu The Art of War Suskind, Patrick Perfume Swift, Jonathan Gulliver’s Travels Tey, Josephine Daughter of Time Tolkien, J.R.R. Lord of the Rings Trilogy Tolstoy, Leo Anna Karenina Turgenev, Ivan Fathers and Sons Unsworth, Barry The Rage of the Vulture Voltaire Candide Waugh, Evelyn Brideshead Revisited The Loved One Wiesel, Elie All Rivers Run to the Sea The Gates of the Forest Wilde, Oscar The Importance of Being Earnest The Picture of Dorian Gray Winchester, Simon Krakatoa Woodhouse, P.G. Leave it to Psmith Woolf, Virginia To the Lighthouse Mrs. Dalloway Yeats, William Butler Collected Poems Zola, Emile L’Assommoir Zusak, Markus The Book Thief

FICTION: AMERICAN

Abbey, Edward Desert Solitaire Abernathy, Ralph And the Walls Came Tumbling Down Albee, Edward The American Dream The Zoo Story Alcott, Louisa May Little Women Ambrose, Stephen Undaunted Courage Angelou, Maya I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Asimov, Isaac Foundation Baldwin, James Go Tell it on the Mountain Ball, Edward Slaves in the Family Barrett, Andrea Ship Fever Barth, John The Sot-Weed Factor The Floating Opera Baum, L. Frank The Wizard of Oz Bellow, Saul Henderson, The Rain King Boo, Katherine Behind the Beautiful Forevers Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451 A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories Brinkley, David Washington at War Brokaw, Tom The Greatest Generation Brooks, Geraldine Nine Parts of Desire Brooks, Gwendolyn Selected Poems Brown, Dee Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Bryson, Bill The Lost Continent Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth Cahill, Thomas The Gift of the Jews Capote, Truman Breakfast at Tiffany’s Carson, Rachel Silent Spring Carver, Raymond Where I’m Calling From Cather, Willa My Antonia Chappell, Helen Oysterback Tales Cheever, John The Short Stories Chin, Staceyann The Other Side of Paradise Chopin, Kate The Awakening Cisneros, Sandra The House on Mango Street Clark, Walter The Ox-Bow Incident Conroy, Pat The Great Santini The Lords of Discipline Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage Cummings, E.E. Selected Poems Diamant, Anita The Red Tent Diaz, Junot Drown The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao Dickey, James Deliverance Dickinson, Emily Collected Poems Doctorow, E.L. The March Dorris, Michael A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Dreiser, Theodore Sister Carrie Durrow, Heidi The Girl Who Fell from the Sky Egan, Timothy The Worst Hard Times Eggers, Dave The Circle Eisley, Loren Immense Journey Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man Equiano, Olaudah The Interesting Narrative & Other Writ- ings Erdrich, Louise The Beet Queen Eugenides, Jeffrey Middlesex Faulkner, William The Reivers Sartoris Fitzgerald, F. Scott Tender is the Night Flynn, Nick Another Bull---- Night in Suck City Foer, Jonathan Safran Everything is Illuminated Ford, Richard Independence Day Fountain, Ben Billie Lynn’s Long Half Time Walk Franzen, Jonathan Freedom Frederic, Harold The Damnation of Theron Ware Frost, Robert Selected Poems Gaines, Ernest J. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman A Gathering of Old Men Gibbon, Boyd Wye Island Gilman, Charlotte P. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings Gladwell, Malcolm Outliers Grann, David The Lost City of Z Gruen, Sara Water for Elephants Haley, Alex Roots Hansberry, Lorraine A Raisin in the Sun Hawthorne, Nathaniel House of Seven Gables Heinlein, Robert Stranger in a Strange Land Helfer, Ralph Modoc Heller, Joseph Catch 22 Hemingway, Ernest For Whom the Bell Tolls The Old Man and the Sea Garden of Eden Hersey, John Hiroshima A Single Pebble Horton, Tom Turning the Tide Horwitz, Tony A Voyage Long and Strange Howells, William The Rise of Silas Lapham Hume, Ivor Noel Martin’s Hundred Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God Irving, John Cider House Rules A Prayer for Owen Meany Jacobs, Harriet Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl James, Henry The Turn of the Screw Johnson, Charles Middle Passage Kerouac, Jack On the Road Kesey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Kingsolver, Barbara Poisonwood Bible Kingston, Maxine H. The Woman Warrior Knowles, John A Separate Peace Krakauer, Jon Into Thin Air Under the Banner of Heaven Krauss, Nicole The History of Love Lahiri, Jhumpa Interpreter of Maladies Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird Leopold, Aldo A Sand County Almanac Lewis, Sinclair Elmer Gantry London, Jack Call of the Wild Lopez, Barry Crossing Open Ground Northrup, Solomon Twelve Years a Slave Maclean, Norman F. A River Runs Through It Manchester, William Young Lion McBride, James The Color of Water McCarthy, Cormac The Road No Country for Old Men All the Pretty Horses McCourt, Frank Angela’s Ashes McCullough, David Mornings on Horseback Meloy, Maile Both Ways is the Only Way I Want it. Melville, Herman Moby Dick Mendelsohn, Daniel The Lost Meyer, Philipp American Rust Michener, James Chesapeake Milford, Nancy Zelda Miller, Arthur The Crucible Mitchell, Margaret Gone with the Wind Morrison, Toni Beloved The Bluest Eye McPhee, John Encounters with the Archdruid Looking for a Ship Moore, Wes The Other Wes Moore Morrow, James Towing Jehovah Mortenson, Greg Three Cups of Tea Mosher, Howard Frank On Kingdom Mountain Naylor, Gloria The Women of Brewster Place Nichols, Peter Evolution’s Captain O’Brien, Tim If I Die in A Combat Zone O’Connor, Edwin The Last Hurrah O’Connor, Flannery Short Stories O’Neill, Eugene The Iceman Cometh Patchett, Ann Bel Canto Percy, Benjamin Red Moon Philbrick, Nathaniel Mayflower Phillips, J.B. Your God is Too Small Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar Poe, Edgar Allan Short Stories Pollan, Michael The Omnivore’s Dilemma Potok, Chaim The Chosen Powers, Kevin Yellow Birds Richter, Conrad The Light in the Forest Ridley, Matt Genome Robbins, Tom Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Russell, Karen Vampires in the Lemongrove St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves Russo, Richard Empire Falls Ryan, W. & Pitman, W. Noah’s Flood Salinger, J.D. Franny and Zooey Nine Stories Salter, James Dusk and Other Stories Santayana, George The Last Puritan Saroyan, William The Human Comedy Saunders, George Tenth of December Bad Decline in CivilWarLand Schama, Simon Rough Crossings Shaara, Michael The Killer Angels Shteyngart, Gary Absurdistan Simon, Neil The Good Doctor Sinclair, Upton The Jungle Skloot, Rebecca The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Smith, Betty A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Sobel, Dava Longitude Galileo’s Daughter Starita, Joe The Dull Knives of Pine Ridge: A Lakota Odyssey Stegner, Wallace Angle of Repose Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom’s Cabin Strayed, Cheryl Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Strout, Elizabeth Olive Kitteridge Styron, William Lie Down in Darkness The Confessions of Nat Turner Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club Tartt, Donna The Goldfinch Teal, J. and M. Life and Death of the Salt Marsh Thoreau, Henry D. Walden Thomas, Lewis Lives of the Cell Tilghman, Christopher Right Hand Shore Tubman, Harriet The Moses of her People Tuchman, Barbara A Distant Mirror Twain, Mark The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Pudd’nhead Wilson Updike, John Rabbit, Run van den Berg What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughter-House Five Cat’s Cradle Walker, Alice The Color Purple Walls, Jeanette The Glass Castle Wallis, Velma Two Old Women Warner, William Beautiful Swimmers Warren, Robert Penn All the King’s Men Watkins, Paul Stand Before Your God Welty, Eudora The Robber Bridegroom Wharton, Edith Ethan Frome Wilder, Thornton The Bridge of San Luis Rey Our Town Williams, Tennessee The Glass Menagerie Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Wilson, August Fences Winch, Julie A Gentleman of Color Wolfe, Tom The Right Stuff Wolff, Tobias This Boy’s Life Wouk, Herman The Caine Mutiny Wright, Richard Black Boy Native Son Wright, Austin Tappan Islandia Yoon, Paul Once the Shore Snow Hunters

Happy Reading!