Summer Reading Lists

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All incoming freshmen must read To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, plus one book from the list, and one book of their own choosing.

• A Thousand Steps Into Night by Traci Chee
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
• Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
• Growing Up by Russell Baker
• I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
• Laughing Boy by Oliver LaFarge
• My Antonia by Willa Cather
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Profiles in Courage by John Kennedy
• Return from Tomorrow by George Ritchie
• Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman
• Story of My Life by Helen Keller
• Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Fariza
• The Art of Blending In by Angelo Surmelis
• The Chosen by Chaim Potok
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• The Human Comedy by William Saroyan
• The #1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
• Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck
• Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Read three selections: two from the following list and one individual selection.

• At Risk by Alice Hoffman
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Black Boy by Richard Wright
• Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
• Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
• Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
• House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
• Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
• Ironweed by William Kennedy
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
• Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• The Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
• The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan
• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

Incoming juniors will read three books over the summer. All juniors must read Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, one book from the list (see below) and one book of your choice. On the first day of class, all juniors should be prepared to be tested on their summer reading.

• Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
• Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
• Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
• Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
• Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
• Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
• I Am Malala by Malala Myousafzai and Patricia McCormick
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
• Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• Night by Elie Weisel
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
• Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
• The Stars and the Blackness Between by Junauda Petrus
• Tracks by Louise Erdrich
• Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel
• We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Read three selections: two from the following list and one individual selection.

The following books count as two selections: Anna Karenina, The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois, and The Stand.

• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• And There Was Light by Jacques Lusseyran
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• The Autobiography of Charles Darwin by Charles Darwin
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
• A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• Cider House Rules by John Irving
• The Color of Water by James McBride
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• A Doll’s House & Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
• The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
• Franny & Zooey by J.D. Salinger
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• Iran Awakening: One Women’s Journey to Reclaim Her Life and Her Country by Shirin Ebadi
• Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
• Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
• A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
• Roots by Alex Haley
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• The Stand by Stephen King
• Steppenwolf: A Novel by Hermann Hesse
• A Taste of Power:  A Black Woman’s Story by Elaine Brown
• Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
• 1984 by George Orwell
• 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Adventure by Lewis Hancock
• Kindred by Octavia Butler
• Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
• Yonder by Jabari Asim
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers