High School Summer Reading List Students may select any novel from the following authors: Austen, Jane Christie, Agatha Grimes, Martha Rand, Any Bronte, Charlotte Dickens, Charles Hardy, Thomas Stewart, Mary Bronte, Emily Dostoyevesky, Fydor James, Henry Wells, H.G. Camus, Albert Eliot, George Joyce, James Wharton, Edith Carroll, Lewis Title Author Suggested By A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court English 1984 Orwell English Lord of the Flies Tolkien English Brave New World Huxley English/Social Studies The Crystal Cave Stewart English Murder on the Orient Express Christie English Hound of the Baskervilles Conan Doyle English Lord of the Rings Tolkien English The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain English Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man Johnson English Beloved Morrison English Blue Highways Least Heat-Moon English Catcher in the Rye Salinger English The Color Purple Walker English Death of a Salesman Miller English Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston English The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck English The Innocents Abroad Twain English Moby Dick Melville English Mourning Becomes Electra O’Neill English Native Son Wright English A Raisin in the Sun Hansbury English The Scarlet Letter (excluding “The Custom House” section). Hawthorne English A Separate Peace Knowles English The Sound and the Fury Faulkner English Travels with Charlie Adams English Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Carroll English Call of the Wild London English Chronicle of a Death Foretold Marquez English Cry the Beloved Country Paton English Don Quixote Cervantes English Frankenstein Shelley English Friday Night Lights Bissinger English Haroun and the Sea Story Rushdie English The Heart is a Lonely Hunger McCullers English Heart of Darkness Conrad English A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But a Sandwich Childress English I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou English Into Thin Air Krakauer English Jane Eyre Bronte English The Pearl Steinbeck English The Poisonwood Bible Kingsolver English Profiles in Courage Kennedy English High School Summer Reading List Title Author Suggested By The Ryan White Story White & English Cunningham The Scarlet Pimpernel Orczy English The Three Musketeers Dumas English The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain English Animal Farm Orwell English/Soc. Studies A Day No Pigs Would Die Peck English An Enemy of the People Ibsen English As I Lay Dying Faulkner English The Death of Ivan Ilyich Tolstoy English Ethan Frome Wharton English Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury English Flowers for Algernon Keyes English The Hobbit Tolkien English The Joy Luck Club Tan English Life Among the Savages Jackson English Lord of the Flies Tolkien English The Miracle Worker Gibson English 1984 Orwell English Phantom of the Opera Leroux English Pigman Zindel English Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry Taylor English A Separate Peace Knowles English Shoeless Joe Kinsella English That Was Then, This is Now Hinton English Treasure Island Stevenson English Watership Down Adams English The Winter Room Paulsen English The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest Bronson Business Education Dot.com: The Greatest Story Ever Sold Cassidy Business Education Microserfs Coupland Business Education Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Covey Business Education Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Fallows Business Education Democracy Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance Inside IBM’s Historic Gerstner Business Education Turnaround Leadership Giuliani, & Business Education Kurston Mars and Venus in the Workplace: A Practical Guide for Gray Business Education Improving Communication and Getting Results at Work Tearing Down the Walls: How Sandy Weill Fought His Way to Langley Business Education the Top of the Financial World…and Then Nearly Lost it All. Next: The Future Just Happened Lewis Business Education The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and O’Reilly Business Education Famous in America The O’Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely O’Reilly Business Education Ridiculous in American Life. This Just In: What I Couldn’t Tell You on TV Schieffer Business Education The Gatekeepters: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier Steinberg Business Education College Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change Spencer, Johnson, Business Education in Your Work and in Your Life Blanchard High School Summer Reading List Title Author Suggested By Jack: Straight for the Gut Welch, Byrne Business Education The Machine that Changed the World Womack, Jones, Technology Educ. Roos How Cars Work Newton Technology Educ. Ford Thunderbird Anthology Iclaria Technology Educ. Patterns of Homes: 10 Essentials of Enduring Design Jacobson, Technology Educ. Silverstien, Winslow Fundamentals of Building Conservation Allen Technology Educ. Upgrading and Repairing, PCS 14th Mueller Technology Educ. Computer Organization and Design Patterson, Technology Educ. Hennessy Drawing and Designing with Confidence: A step-by-step Guide Lin Technology Educ. Profitable Woodworking: Turning Your Hobby into a Profession Edic Technology Educ. Science and Technology in World History McClellan, Dorn Technology Educ. Robots: Explore the Science of Robots and Build Your Own with Searle Technology Educ. Other Behind the Scenes of Television Programs Harris Technology Educ. Bitechnology Wells Technology Educ. Careers in High Teck Basta Technology Educ. Communications Hawkes Technology Educ. Industrial Revolution Technology Educ. The Last Hundred Years, Household Technology Cohen Technology Educ. Transportation on Land and Sea Hawkes Technology Educ. Things That Change the World and Some That Didn’t Parker Technology Educ. Small Invention that Make a Big Difference Technology Educ. Stephen Biesty’s Incredible Everything Biesty Technology Educ. Flatland Abbott Mathematics Chaos: Making a New Science Gleick Mathematics Surely Your Joking Mr. Feynman Hutchings Mathematics Ten Little Indians Christie Mathematics Going on a Dig Ford-Morrison Science Never Cry Wolf Mowat Science The Snow Walker Mowat Science Tales of a Dead King Myers Science This is a River Pringle Science Desert Solitaire Abbey Science Monkey Wrench Gang Abbey Science The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth Attenborough Science The Sea Around Us Carson Science Silent Spring Carson Science A Spit is a Piece of Land Coburn Science Flying to the Moon and Other Strange Places Collins Science The Talking Earth Craighead Science Madame Curie Curie Science Origin of the Species Darwin Science Voyage of the Beagle Darwin Science The Selfish Gene Dawkins Science Microbe Hunters DeKruif Science Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Dillard Science Teaching a Stone to Talk Dillard Science The Amateur Naturalist Durrell Science Disturbing the Universe Dyson Science High School Summer Reading List Title Author Suggested By The Silent Sky: The Incredible Extinction of the Passenger Eckert Science Pigeon The Immense Journey Eiseley Science Reading the Mountains of Home Elder Science What Do You Care What Other People Think Feynman Science Frames of Mind: The Theories of Multiple Intelligences Gardner Science Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit Gore Science Mismeasure of Man Gould Science The Panda’s Thumb Gould Science A Passion to Know: Twenty Profiles in Science Hammond Science A Brief History of Time Hawking Science Science Matters Hanzen, Trefil Science All Creature Great and Small Herriot Science Legend Days Highwater Science Farewell to Manzanar Houston Science Crucibles: The Story of Chemistry Jaffe Science A Feeling for the Organism Keller Science Animal Dreams Kingsolver Science Inherit the Wind Lawrence, Lee Science Sand County Almanac Leopold Science King Solomon’s Ring Lorenz Science Healing Gaia Lovelock Science Digging Deeper Markle Science The Curve of Binding Energy McPhee Science Space Michener Science Naked Ape Morris Science The Song of the Dodo Quammen Science To Space and Back Ride Science Master of the Scalpel Riedman Science The Making of the Atomic Bomb Rhodes Science Cosmos Sagan Science Pale Blue Dot Sagan Science The Trouble with Testosterone Sapolsky Science Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers Sapolsky Science Reverence for Life Schweitzer Science Enrico Fermi, Physicist Segre Science Nature’s Events Serrao Science Tapped Out Simon Science Living Downstream Steingraber Science Life and Death of a Salt Marsh Teal, Teal Science The Lives of a Cell Thomas Science The Medusae and the Snail Thomas Science The Flying Circus of Physics Walker Science Beautiful Summers Warner Science The Double Helix Watson Science The First Three Minutes: A Modern view of the Origin of the Weinberg Science Universe The Break of the Finch Weiner Science Knowledge and Wonder: The Natural World as Man Knows It Weiskopf Science Study of the Earth White Science Naturalist Wilson Science Web of Life Wilson Science The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Sacks Science High School Summer Reading List Title Author Suggested By A Short Walk Around the Pyramids and Through the World of Isaacson Art Art Color Theory Parramon Art Degas and the Dance Dellonyar, Art Campbell Drawing in the Right Side of the Brain Edwards Art Drawing with Pencils and Pastels Harrison Art Take a Look. An Intro to the Experience of Art Davidson Art The Annotated Mona Lisa Stickland Art The Painter’s Eye Greenburg, Jordan Art Van Gogh Face to Face- The Portraits Keyes, Rishel, Art Hackelford A Young Painter Zhensen, Low Art Architecture and Construction Scholastic Voyages Art Ashanti to Zulu, African Traditions Musgrove Art Buffalo Hunt Freedman Art Hidden Pictures Linda Bolton Art How to Draw