Summer Reading for rising
ninth graders:
English I: Choose any novel, play or biography of at
least 200 pages.
English IH: Choose two of
the following literary works.
The
Death Be Not Proud
Edith Hamilton’s Mythology
Fahrenheit 451
The Good Earth
The Hobbit
The House on
The House of Seven Gables
Inherit the Wind
Member of the Wedding
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Of Mice and Men
The Old Man and the Sea
Watership Down
Summer Reading for rising
tenth graders:
English II: Choose any novel, play or biography of at
least 200 pages.
English IIH: Choose two selections from the list below.
Pre AP: Choose three selections from the list below.
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Andromeda Strain
As You Like It
Atlas Shrugged
David Copperfield
Frankenstein
Ethan Frome
Jane Eyre
Joy Luck Club
Merchant of
Mists of Avalon
Oedipus Rex
Oliver Twist
Once and Future King
Rebecca
Silas Marner
Snow Falling on Cedars
A Tree Grows in
Walking Across
Their Eyes were Watching God
Summer
reading for rising eleventh graders:
English
III: Choose any novel, play or biography
of at least 250 pages.
English
IIIH: Choose two selections from the
list below.
AP English
III: Choose two novels and other
selections to be determined by the teacher.
Absalom, Absalom
A River Runs Through It
All My Sons
All the King’s Men
As I Lay Dying
The Awakening
Babbit
Catcher in the
Daisy Miller
Desire Under
the Elms
A Farewell to Arms
The Glass Menagerie
Grapes of Wrath
The Hairy Ape
The Iceman Cometh
A Light in August
A Long Day’s Journey into Night
Look Homeward Angel
Martian Chronicles
Mourning Becomes Electra
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Our Town
A Streetcar Named Desire
Turn of the Screw
Walden
The Water is Wide
Into the Wild
Stephen
King’s On
Writing
Hunger of Memory: The Education of
Richard Rodriguez
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of
the All-American Meal
Nickel and Dimed:
On (not) Getting by in
Vertical Alignment
Twelfth Grade
Summer
Reading:
English
IV: Choose any novel or biography of at least 250 pages.
English IV
honors: Choose two selections from the
list below.
English IV
AP: Choose four selections from the list below.
All’s Well that Ends Well
Brave New World
Catch 22
Ceremony
Cry the Beloved Country
Enemy of the People
For Whom the
The Frogs
Ghosts
Hedda Gabbler
The Importance of Being Earnest
Jude the Obscure
Les Miserables
Madame Bovary
Medea
Merchant of
Mill on the Floss
Much
Native Son
1984
No Exit
The Orestia
A Passage to
Picnic
Portrait of the Artist
Pride and Prejudice
Saint Joan
The Sound and the Fury
The Stranger
Waiting for Godot
A Woman of Importance