9th – 12^th grade Summer Reading List

2008-2009 School year

Title	Author
The Once and Future King	T.H. White
Wuthering Heights	E. Bronte
Jane Eyre	C. Bronte
Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe
Catch 22	Joseph Heller
Atlas Shrugged	Ayn Rand
In the Name of the Father	Gerry Conlon
The Killer Angels	M. Shaara
The Chocolate War	Robert Cormier
Great Expectations	Charles Dickens
Silas Marner	George Eliot
Ithaka	Adele Geras
As I lay Dying	William Faulkner
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent	Julia Alvarez
The Jungle	Upton Sinclair
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley
A Clockwork Orange	Anthony Burgess
Grendel	John Gardner
The Hours	Michael Cunningham
Galileo’s Daughter	Dava Sobel
Black Boy	Richard Wright
Angela’s Ashes	Frank McCourt
Far From the Madding Crowd	Thomas Hardy
Their Eyes Were Watching God	Zora Neale Hurston
The God of Small Things	Arundhati Roy
The Sea	John Banville

Students will be required to read any three books of their choice over the summer. During the

first week-two weeks of school, the students will be doing follow-up assignments associated with

the books that they’ve read over the summer. This list provides a variety of book topics. I encourage

parents peruse this list and help choose books for their students.