SUMMER READING

Wilder

Rising 9th

Required: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

Choose one additional title from the list below:

Adams, Douglas The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Bradbury, Ray The Martian Chronicles
Cormier, Robert The Chocolate War
Du Maurier, Daphne Rebecca
Farmer, Nancy House of the Scorpion
Grisham, John A Painted House
Kingsolver, Barbara The Bean Trees
Myers, Walter Dean Fallen Angels
Paolini, Christopher Eragon or its sequel Eldest
Pullman, Phillip The Golden Compass
Ruark, Robert The Old Man and the Boy
Taylor, Mildred D The Land

Rising 10th

Required: The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Choose one additional title from the list below:

Angelou, Maya I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Bissinger, HG Friday Night Lights
Bryson, Bill A Walk in the Woods
Conway, Pat My Losing Season
Edgerton, Clyde Walking Egypt Across
Gaines, Ernest J A Lesson before Dying
Gibbons, Kaye Charms for the Easy Life
Guest, Judith Ordinary People
Irving, John A Prayer for Owen Meany
Kidd, Sue Monk The Secret Life of Bees
Krakaur, Jon Into the Wild
Silverstein, Ken The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of the
Boy and his Backyard Nuclear Reactor
Steinbeck, John Cannery Row
Wolff, Tobias Old School
 Rising 11th

Required: Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte

Choose one additional title from the list below:

Abbott, E.A. Flatland

Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice
Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities
Haddon, Mark Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Hartley, L.P. The Go-Between
Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner
Huxley, Aldous Brave New World
Lansing, Alfred Endurance
McCourt, Frank Teacher Man: A Memoir
McEwan, Ian Atonement
Trevor, William The Story of Lucy Gault

Rising 12th

Required: The Trial, by Franz Kafka

CP Choose one additional title from the list below:
*Honors/AP Seniors must choose two from the list below

Abby, Edward The Monkey Wrench Gang

Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart
Armstrong, Lance It’s Not About the Bike
Carey, Lorene Black Ice
Chevalier, Tracy The Girl with a Pearl Earring
Fuentes, Carlos The Good Conscience
Golden, Arthur Memoirs of a Geisha
Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner
Martel, Yann The Life of Pi
O’Brien, Tim The Things They Carried
Rawicz, Slavomir The Long Walk
Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front
Simpson, Joe Touching the Void
Speigelman, Art Maus: A Survivor’s Tale Vols. I and II
Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights
Dickens, Charles Oliver Twist
Dickens. Charles A Tale of Two Cities
Hardy, Thomas The Return of the Native
Hardy, Thomas Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Conrad, Joseph Lord Jim
Conrad, Joseph The Heart of Darkness
Foster, E.M. A Passage to India