AUSTIN WALDORF HIGH SCHOOL 12th SUMMER READING 2018
Dear students,
Listed below are the summer reading requirements. Please have these read before school starts:
REQUIRED READINGS: 1. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (all school summer reading for first day of school. Please see questions for discussion. Seniors will be expected to facilitate breakout groups. Be ready!) 2. Song of Myself by Walt Whitman 3. Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King 4. Raisin in the Sun a play by Lorraine Hansberry
OPTIONAL SUPPLEMENTAL READING and Activities: (All are optional and not required. Book titles are in relevant to 12th grade Humanities blocks). 1. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 2. On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder 3. Watch a Ted Talk and write or record a commentary 4. Read or listen to the daily news from various legitimate sources; domestic and international 5. Go for a nature walk or to a museum and sketch a scene 6. Go visit an architectural site and write a descriptive essay of your experience 7. Go to the symphony, opera or theatre and write or record a commentary 8. Begin to read/research for your senior projects! Keep notes. You will be glad later.
For your own enjoyment-student choice from list below: TWELFTH GRADE RECOMMENDED READING LIST Fiction: House of the Spirits, Eva Luna, Daughter of Fortune or any others Isabel Allende In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez Collected Fictions Jorge Luis Borges Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague Geraldine Brooks In Patagonia Bruce Chatwin The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories Anton Chekhov The Awakening Kate Chopin Woman Hollering Creek (Stories) Sandra Cisneros Crime and Punishment, or The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers Invisible Man Ralph Ellison The Death of Artemio Cruz Carlos Fuentes The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls and others Ernest Hemingway Glass Bead Game Herman Hesse Brave New World Aldous Huxley A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving The Remains of the Day or Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man or Dubliners James Joyce The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver On the Road Jack Kerouac Native Speaker Chang-Rae Lee Palace Walk or any in Cairo trilogy Naguib Mahfouz The Assistant Bernard Malamud My Traitor’s Heart Riaan Malan Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez Atonement Ian McEwen Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Jazz Toni Morrison The English Patient Michael Ondaatje Bel Canto Ann Patchett The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand Gilead Marilyn Robinson The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith White Teeth Zadie Smith Bonesetter’s Daughter Amy Tan Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Player Piano, Cat's Cradle , Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The Color Purple Alice Walker The Time Machine H.G. Wells The Waves, To the Lighthouse and others Virginia Woolf Native Son Richard Wright The Journey to the West (aka Monkey or The Monkey King) Ch’Eng-En Wu Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Book Thief Markus Zusak
Drama, Poetry, and Sacred Writing: Lorca & Jimenez: Selected Poems trans. Robert Bly Mother Courage and Her Children, Threepenny Opera(drama) Bertolt Brecht The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters, The Seagull (drama) Anton Chekhov Death of a Naturalist (poems) Seamus Heaney Death of a Salesman (drama) Arthur Miller Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus (poems) Rainer Maria Rilke Othello, King Lear, The Tempest William Shakespeare The Glass Menagerie (drama) Tennessee Williams Miracle Fair (poems) Wislawa Szymborska
Non-Fiction: It’s Not About the Bike Lance Armstrong Narrow Road to the Interior Matsuo Basho Silent Spring Rachel Carson The Souls of Black Folk W.E.B. Dubois My Land, My People: The Original Autobiography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet An American Childhood or Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard Guns, Germs and Steel Jared Diamond Waiting for Snow in Havana Carlos Eire Wild Health: Lessons in Natural Wellness from the Animal Kingdom Cindy Engel The Essential Gandhi Louis Fischer, ed. Coal: A Human History Barbara Freese A Reason for Hope Jane Goodall Black Like Me John Howard Griffin A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes Stephen Hawking The Legacy of Luna Julia Butterfly Hill The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts Maxine Hong Kingston Napoleon’s Buttons: 17 Molecules That Changed History Penny Le Couteur and Hay Burreson. Taking on the World: A Sailor's Extraordinary Solo Race Around the Globe Ellen MacArthur Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA Brenda Maddox Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela Blue Peninsula: Essential Words for a Life of Loss and Change Madge McKeithen Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books Azar Nafisi Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod Gary Paulsen The Evolution of Useful Things Henry Petroski Mark Twain-a Life Ron Powers Hunger of Memory Richard Rodriguez A Texas Cowboy, or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony Charles A Siringo Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War William Stafford The Devil's Highway: A True Story Luis Alberto Urrea The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls