Summer Reading Suggestions Please avoid these selections as they will be read as part of the curriculum this year. English 2 CP: A Long Way Gone, To Kill a Mockingbird English 2 H: A Long Way Gone English 3 CP/H: The Great Gatsby, The Crucible English 4: Othello, Canterbury Tales, Beowulf, Grendel
English 2 - World Literature Top Teacher Picks: Fiction: - Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adoabi Tricia Nwaubani - Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein - Magic Has No Borders edited by Sony Charaipotra and Samira Ahmed - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi - An Uninterrupted View of the Sky by Melanie Crowder - Under the Broken Sky by Mariko Nagai - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende - The Queen of Water by Laura Resau and María Virginia Farínango - In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez - Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Nonfiction: - The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea - Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario - How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child by Sandra Uwiringiyimana - Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden - Born a Crime by Trevor Noah - I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai - Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina by Michaela DePrince - The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming - Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-Li Jiang - Americanized: A Rebel Without a Greencard by Sara Saedi - Flowers in the Gutter: The True Story of the Edelweiss Pirates, Teenagers Who Resisted the Nazis by K.R. Gaddy
English 3 - American Literature Top Teacher Picks Fiction: -The Jungle by Upton Sinclair -Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston -Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury -Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut -The Awakening by Kate Chopin -Catch-22 by Joseph Heller -The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien -The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton -A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry -Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko -The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Nonfiction: -The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell -Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer Lee -Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand -Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand -Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin -A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold -The World-Ending Fire by Wendell Berry -Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
English 4 - British Literature Top Teacher Picks: Fiction
Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt
The Life of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Any work by Agatha Christie
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Robinson Crusoe, Defoe, Daniel
Any work by Charles Dickens
Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur C. Doyle,
Murder in the Cathedral, T. S. Eliot
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Jungle Book or Kim, Rudyard Kipling
Le Morte d' Arthur, Thomas Malory
Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
The Razor's Edge, Somerset Maugham
Paradise Lost, John Milton
Utopia, Sir Thomas More
1984, George Orwell
Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
Any work by William Shakespeare (except Othello, Macbeth, or Romeo & Juliet)
Kidnapped, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson