Vermont Academy Summer Reading 2020 Required for ALL students and faculty – Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Required for all 9th Graders – Turtles All the Way Down by John Green Required for all 10th Graders – They Called Us Enemy by George Takei Required for all 11th Graders – Kindred by Octavia E. Butler Required for all 12th Graders and postgraduates – Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Additional requirement for HONORS ENGLISH 10 (10th grade): Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Additional requirement for AP ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION (11th grade): Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Any contemporary story collection (email [email protected] if you need help selecting) Additional requirement for HONORS WORLD LITERATURE (12th grade & PG): Half A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Students can find support and information about the texts on the summer reading website https://vasummerreading2020.weebly.com/. Students must bring summer reading books to school in the fall for use in English classes. Suggestions for further reading are below. Many of these titles are often found on the English Literature and Composition AP Exam. A Streetcar Named Desire The Goldfinch No Country for Old Men Alias Grace Grapes of Wrath One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest The Awakening Great Expectations Orlando Black Boy Hiroshima Oryx and Crake The Bluest Eye House of Mirth Picture of Dorian Gray The Bonesetters Daughter The Importance of Being Earnest Portrait of a Lady Brave New World Jane Eyre Power of One Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao The Kite Runner Prayer for Owen Meany Candide Lord of the Flies Pride and Prejudice Catch – 22 Metamorphosis Their Eyes Were Watching God Catcher in the Rye My Ántonia To Kill a Mockingbird The Color Purple Native Son To the Lighthouse Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Never Let me Go .