AMERICAN SCHOOL OF GUATEMALA ENGLISH DEPARTMENT SUGGESTED READINGS 2019-2020

Here is the suggested summer reading list for high school English:

9th Grade: 1. Of Mice and Men-John Steinbeck 2. Joy Luck Club-Amy Tan 3. The Hobbit-J.R. Tolkien 4. The Help-Kathryn Stockett 5. The Monstrumologist-Rick Yancey 6. Speak-Laurie Halse Anderson 7. Life of Pi-Yann Martel 8. Turtles All the Way Down-John Green 9. All American Boys-Jason Reynolds 10. The Sun is Also a Star-Nicola Yoon

10th Grade:

1. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan 2. Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger 3. The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown 4. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 5. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson 6. Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff 7. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 8. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 9. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 10. The Maze Runner by James Dashner 11. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon 12. Crank by Ellen Hopkins 13. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 14. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer 15. Divergent by Veronica Roth

11th Grade: 1. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak 2. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd 3. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien (Any/all of the trilogy) 4. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver 5. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 6. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 7. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini 8. East of Eden - John Steinbeck 9. Life of Pi - Yann Martel 10. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 11. The Help - Kathryn Stockett 12. Turtles All the Way Down - John Greene 13. A Separate Peace - Knowles 14. Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell 15. Angela’s Ashes - Frank McCourt 16. Sarah’s Key - Tatiana de Rosnay 17. Watership Down - Richard Adams 18. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque 19. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 20. The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros

12th Grade: ​ 1. The Hitchhiker´s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 2. Foundation by Isaac Asimov 3. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 5. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 7. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 8. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 9. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 10. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee 11. Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad 12. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 13. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 14. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 15. Paddy Clarke, ha ha ha by Roddy Doyle 16. The Circle: a novel by Dave Eggers 17. What is What: the Autobiography of Valentino Achak 18. Silas Marner by George Eliot 19. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 20. Still Alice by Lisa Genova 21. The Long Night of White Chickens by Francisco Goldman 22. The Magicians: a novel by Lev Grossman 23. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 24. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy 25. Tinkers by Paul Harding 26. Siddhartha by Hemann Hesse 27. Slam by Nick Hornby 28. The Razor´s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 29. Atonement: a novel by Ian McEwan 30. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 31. Dracula by Bram Stoker 32. Gulliver´s Travels by Jonathan Swift 33. Brideshead Revisited: the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh 34. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

** To access the reading lists, go to the CAG homepage, mouse over Community, click on Library and then click on Destiny on the right side. Click on Colegio Americano de Guatemala. You will find the grade level lists on the right side after clicking on Resource Lists. Scroll down until you find the names Summer Reading Grade 12, Grade 11, etc. Click on the list you want ​ to see.