Maret School—10th-12th Grade Summer Reading 2017

English 10 & U.S. History Select any two books from the following list as joint reading for English 10 and U.S. History: Contemporary Literature • The Road by Cormac McCarthy Sula by • Americanah by Chimamanda Adichie • Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee • by • No-No Boy by John Okada • How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia • Alvarez • The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers Elijah Visible by Thane Rosenbaum • Another Country by James Baldwin • Caucasia by Danzy Senna • Jam on the Vine by LaShonda Katrice Barnett • Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan • Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt • • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Michael Chabon • Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward • River Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke • Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead • A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan • The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead • Tracks by Philadelphia Fire by • Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides • Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan • Safran Foer Nonfiction & Memoirs • Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford • Fairyland by Alysia Abbott I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya • Billy Flynn’s Long Half Time Walk by Ben Fountain • Angelou • Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez • The Liars’ Club by Mary Karr • The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini • The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong • Loving Day by Mat Johnson Kingston • The Known World by Edward P. Jones • The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore • Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones • Once Upon a Time When I Was Puerto Rican Redeployment by Philip Kay • by Esmeralda Santiago • On the Road by Jack Kerouac • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey Rebecca Skloot The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd • • Just Kids by Patti Smith The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver • • The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami • • This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff • Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee

Humanities Electives *Not all electives have summer reading. Courses not listed here have no summer reading.

Accelerated U.S. History The first two chapters of A People’s History of the United States: 1942 – Present by Howard Zinn

African History Choose one of the following memoirs or biographies: • The Devil that Danced on Water by Aminatta • Dreams in a Time of War by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Forna • Emperor Haile Selassie by Bereket Habte • One Day I Will Write About This Place by Selassie Binyavanga Wainaina • Thabo Mbeki by Adekeye Adebajo • Unbowed by Wangari Maathai • Ken Saro-Wiwa by Roy Doron and Toyin Falola

Civil Liberties The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution by David O. Stewart

Comedy and Satire Viewing: Select any film (except Dr. Strangelove) from AFI’s list of “100 Funniest American Movies of All Time”: http://www.afi.com/100years/laughs.aspx Reading: Select one of the following books: • Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling • Bossypants by Tina Fey • The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae • Sleepwalk with Me by Mike Birbiglia • Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson • Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari

Coming of Age in the Modern World Recommended reading (optional): Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Comparative Literature Cien Años de Soledad by Gabriel García Márquez

Contemporary by Sherman Alexie

Creative Writing How Fiction Works by James Wood

Human Geography Recommended readings (optional): • The Grand Idea: George Washington's Potomac • The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian and the Race to the West by Joel Achenbach Odyssey by Dawn Anahid MacKeen • Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond • 1491 by Charles C. Mann • How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer • Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi • Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip by Peter • Walkable City by Jeff Speck Hessler • The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner • A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz • The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson • Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder • Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky

Imperialism and Empire Choose one of the following books: • Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie • The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver • How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer • 1493 by Charles C. Mann • Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara • Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Law, Culture, and Society Reading: A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr Viewing: Choose one film from the following list: Class Action, Kramer vs. Kramer, Philadelphia, Presumed Innocent, The Runaway Jury, or True Believer

Literature and Theories of Knowledge Required viewing: The Matrix by Andy and Lana Wachowski AND Inception by Christopher Nolan Recommended viewings (optional): • 2001, A Space Odyssey (Perception of Reality) • The Incredible Shrinking Man (Math/Logic) • Big Fish (Perception of Reality) • Pi (Math/Logic) • Interstellar (Perception of Reality) • Wings of Desire (Aesthetics/Ethics) • Run, Lola, Run (Perception of Reality)

Recommended readings (optional): • The Anatomy of Dreams by Chloe Benjamin • The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by (Perception of Reality) Aimee Bender (Aesthetics/Ethics) • Neuromancer by William Gibson (Perception of • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Reality) (Aesthetics/Ethics) • Blindsight by Peter Watts Math (Math/Logic)

The Power of Story Choose one memoir AND one graphic memoir from the following lists (full titles and book summaries can be found by going to this short link: goo.gl/rWpY6B): Memoirs • Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali • The Story of My Life by Helen Keller • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou • Under the Same Sky by Joseph Kim • A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah • Power Forward by Reggie Love • Ball Four by Jim Bouton • The Home that Was Our Country by Alia • Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain Malek • Hunger Makes a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein • Becoming Maria by Sonia Manzano • Down City by Leah Carroll • Do No Harm by Henry Marsh • Black Ice by Lorene Cary • The Color of Water by James McBride • Brain on Fire by Susannah Catalan • Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt • Stop-Time by Frank Conroy • Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi • Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen • Born a Crime by Trevor Noah • The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank • Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama • Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos • In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park • Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Houston • Trying to Float by Nicolaia Rips • Lab Girl by Hope Jahren • You Can’t Touch My Hair and Other Things I • Decoded by Jay-Z Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson • Negroland by Margo Jefferson • Out of Place by • The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr • Just Kids by Patti Smith • Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen • Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson • We Should Hang Out Sometime by Josh Sundquist • This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff • Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance • Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson • The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls • I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai • Night by Elie Wiesel

Graphic Memoirs • A Game for Swallows by Zeina Abirached • A Chinese Life by Li Kunwu and Philippe Otie • Fun Home by Alison Bechdel • Dare to Disappoint by Ozge Samanci • The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui • Persepolis 1 & 2 by Marjane Satrapi • Fist Stick Knife Gun by Geoffrey Canada • The Arab of the Future 1 & 2 by Riad Sattouf • Relish by Lucy Knisley • Awkward and Definition by Ariel Schrag • Flying Couch by Amy Kurzweil • Stitches by David Small

Graphic memoirs continued on next page Graphic memoirs, continued Such a Lovely Little War by Marcelino Truong • Blankets by Craig Thompson • Infinite Wait by Julia Wertz • Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash • Everything Is Teeth by Evie Wyld • Vietnamerica by G. B. Tran •

Languages Caesar-Vergil Aeneid by Stanley Lombardo with an introduction by W. R. Johnson (Hackett Publishing) Littérature Française La Peste by Albert Camus

Math Accelerated Algebra 2 and Trigonometry Complete levels 0-19 of the game Portal by Valve, available for download via Steam.

Science Advanced Environmental Science Choose one of the following memoirs or biographies: • Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel • The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by by Carl Safina Elizabeth Kolbert • The Invention of Nature: Alexander von • Water: A Natural History by Alice Outwater Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf