Summer Reading List 11th and 12th

SUMMER READING

All students must read ONE book from the grade level they will be entering in September. If students wish to read a book not listed below or wish to read another book for extra credit, they must get written authorization from their current English teacher. Students are expected to select books they have not read in class. A written assignment will be given in September based on the Summer Reading requirement. Note that the books for ENG 11AP and ENG 12AP are mandated as listed.

Grade 11

Title	Author
The Blithedale Romance	Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Connecticut Yankee	Mark Twain
The Prince And The Pauper	Mark Twain
Maggie, A Girl Of The Streets	Stephen Crane
The Grapes Of Wrath	John Steinbeck
East Of Eden	John Steinbeck
The Confessions Of Nat Turner	William Styron
Martin Eden	Jack London
The Sea Wolf	Jack London
The Swamp Fox	Noel Gerson
Back Bay	William Martin
Cape Cod	William Martin
Main Street	Sinclair Lewis
Long Day’s Journey into Night	Eugene O’Neill

Grade 12

Title	Author
Age of Innocence	E. Wharton
An American Tragedy	T. Dreiser
As I Lay Dying	W. Faulkner
Good Earth	P. Buck
Light In August	W. Faulkner
Lilies of the Field	W. Barrett
Meridian	A. Walker
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	J. Joyce
Trail	F. Kafka
The Beautiful and The Damned	F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Farewell to Arms	Ernest Hemingway
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs	Ishmael Beah
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Tennessee Williams
Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison
A Mercy	Toni Morrison
Wild Swans	Jung Chang

English 11AP (Choose One)

Title	Author
The Education of Henry Adams	Henry Adams
A Rumor of War	Philip Caputo
Out of Africa	Isak Dinesen
All the Strange Hours	Loren Eisely
Goodbye to All That	Robert Graves
When Heaven and Earth Change Places	Lely Hayslip
Pentimento: Or An Unfinished Woman	Lillian Hellman
Dust Tracts on a Road	Zora Neale Hurston
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl	Harriet Jacobs
Autobiography	Thomas Jefferson
The Woman Warrior: Memories of a Girlhood Among Ghosts	Maxine Hong Kingston
An Only Child	Frank O’Connor
Down and Out in Paris and London	George Orwell
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez	Richard Rodriguez
Walden	Henry David Thoreau
A Mountainous Journey: A Poet’s Autobiography	Fadwa Tuqan
Up From Slavery	Booker T. Washington
The Double Helix	James Watson
One Writer’s Beginnings	Eudora Weltly
In Pharoh’s Army, or This Boy’s Life	Tobias Wolff
This Boy’s Life	Tobias Wolff
A Sketch of the Past	Virginia Woolf
Rosa Lee	Leon Dash
Lives on the Boundry	Mike Rose
The Souls of Black Folk	W.E.B. Dois
Dharma Bums	Jack Kerouac

English 11 AP (Both Required)

Pudd’nhead Wilson	Mark Twain
Freakonomics	Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubney

English 12AP (Both Required)

Jude the Obscure	Thomas Hardy
The Merchant of Venice	William Shakespeare

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