GPISD High School Summer Reading Choice List 2017 [PDF]

GPISD High School Summer Reading Choice List 2017 In addition to the course-specific required text, students in Pre-AP English I, Pre-AP English II, AP Language, and AP Literature classes are required to read one book of choice and be prepared to do an assignment over the reading when they return to class in the Fall. The students may use this list as a guide for choosing an appropriate title or they may choose to read a book written by an author not on this list. The summer reading book of choice should be something that the student wants to read. The selection can be from any genre if the content and reading level are appropriate to the age and ability of the student. The titles on this list encompass a variety of genres and content, so it is the responsibility of the student and parent to make an appropriate selection. To help you pick a selection, you can:  read reviews and a synopsis at http://www.goodreads.com or www.commonsensemedia.org  read a synopsis on the Young Adults’ Choices Reading List | International Literacy Association (ILA) at https://www.literacyworldwide.org/get-resources/readinglists/young-adults-choices-reading-list  ask family, friends, neighbors, or teachers for their recommendations *Indicates titles suggested for incoming 9th and 10th graders Drama Arcadia by Tom Stoppard Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams The Cherry Orchard by Anton Checkhov The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen Dutchman by Amiri Baraka Fences by August Wilson The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Hamlet by William Shakespeare The Harvest Festival by Sean O'Casey Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen Homecoming by Harold Pinter The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde King Lear by William Shakespeare The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang The Misanthrope by Moliere Oedipus Rex by Sophocles Othello by William Shakespeare Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

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She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Tartuffe by Moliere Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett The Way of the World by William Congreve Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee Fiction (Novel & Short Story) The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Antelope Wife by Louise Erdich As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner The Awakening by Kate Chopin The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino Bee Season by Myla Goldberg Beloved by Toni Morrison Billy Budd by Herman Melville Bleak House by Charles Dickens Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Cane by Jean Toomer Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai The Color Purple by Alice Walker A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas Corelli's Mandolin by Louis DeBernieres Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky *Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton Dandelion Wine by Ray Brandbury Death Be Not Proud by John Gunthar *Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee Dubliners by James Joyce Emma by Jane Austen A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev Far From the Maddening Crowd by Thomas Hardy The Fixer by Bernard Malamud Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

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The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood *The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick How Green was my Valley bv Richard Llewellyn The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton *The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison *Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Jazz by Toni Morrison The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Libra by Don DeLillo The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis The Magus by John Fowles A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury *The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka The Miracle Worker by William Gibson Native Son by Richard Wright The Natural by Bernard Malamud *1984 by George Orwell No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky Obasan by Joy Kogawa *One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez O Pioneers! by Willa Cather The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty A Passage to India by E.M. Forster Persuasion by Jane Austen The Plague by Albert Camus *Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen *Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow *The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

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The Return of the King by J R.R. Tolkein Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Serafina's Stories by Rudolfo Anaya Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence The Stranger by Albert Camus *The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway *Surfacing by Margaret Atwood A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy *Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas Time's Arrow by Martin Amis Tom Jones by Henry Fielding To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Tree Bride by Bharati Mukherjee The Two Towers by J R.R. Tolkein The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera The Wapshot Scandal by John Cheever We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor *Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Modern 2001: A Space Odyssey by Clarke, Arthur C. A Clash of Kings by Gearge R.R. Martin Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz Ashfall by Mike Mullin. Astronaut Academy: Zero Gravity by Dave Roman Audacity by Melanie Crowder Awaken by Katie Kacvinsky Babe in Boyland by Jody Gehrman Between by Jessican Warman Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift’s “Chocolate Pilot” by Michael O. Tunnell The Cider House Rules by John Irving

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City of Glass by Cassandra Clare Crossed by Ally Condie The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin Death Sentence: Escape From Furnace 3 by Alexander Gordon Smith Department 19 byWill Hill The Devine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King Dragonflight by Ann McCaffery Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy Dune by Frank Herbert Elenor & Park by Rainbow Rowell Enclave by Ann Aguirre Everyone Sees the Ants by A.S. King Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon Exposed by Kimberly Marcus Faceless by Alyssa B. Sheinmel Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin Flawless by Lara Chapman Flip by Martyn Bedford Forever (Wolves of Mercy Falls, Book 3) by Maggie Stiefvater Small as an Elephant by Jennifer Richard Jacobson Zitface by Emily Howse A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin The Girl on Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson Halo by Alexandra Adornetto Happyface by Stephen Emond Haven by Kristi Cook How to Save a Life by Sarah Zarr Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick I Am Legend by Richard Matheson I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore If You Live Like Me by Lori Weber In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez Incarceron by Catherine Fisher Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Leverage by Joshua Cohen Life of Pi by Yann Martel Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera My Antonia by Willa Cather A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger The Weight of Feathers by Anna-Marie McLemore Under the Painted Sky by Stacy Lee World War Z by Max Brooks

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Poetry The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Ben Johnson by Ben Johnson Beowulf by Anonymous The Best Poems of the English Language compiled by Harold Bloom A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry compiled by Czeslaw Milosz The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Collected Poems by Philip Larkin Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats Collected Poems, 1943-2004 by Richard Wilbur Collected Poems, 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes The Complete English Poems by George Herbert The Complete Poems of John Keats by John Keats The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poems and Tales by Edgar Allan Poe Helen in Egypt by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) How We Became Human by Joy Harjo Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson In Memoriam by Alfred, Lord Tennyson John Donne's Poetry by John Donne Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Life Studies/For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell Lord Byron: Poems by George Gordon, Lord Byron The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake Mortal Beauty, God's Grace by Gerard Manley Hopkins The Norton Anthology of Poetry (5th edition) compiled by Margaret Ferguson On the Bus with Rosa Parks by Rita Dove Opened Ground: Selected Poems by Seamus Heaney Paradise Lost by John Milton Paterson by William Carlos Williams Picture Bride by Cathy Song The Poems of Marianne Moore by Marianne Moore Poems of W.H. Auden by W.H. Auden Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (4th edition) compiled by R.S. Gwynn Poetry for the Spirit compiled by Alan Jacobs The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert Browning's Poetry by Robert Browning Roots by Edward Kamau Brathwaite The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 by Adrienne Rich Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks Shelley's Poetry and Prose by Percy Bysshe Shelley Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake The Sonnets by William Shakespeare Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Storyteller by Leslie Marmon Silko "To His Coy Mistress" & Other Poems by Andrew Marvell The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot William Wordsworth — the Major Works: Including the Prelude by William Wordsworth Works of Anne Bradstreet by Anne Bradstreet

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Yellow Light: Poems by Garrett Hongo Spanish Language Jenni Rivera: The Incredible Story of a Warrior Butterfly / Jenni Rivera: La increible vida de una mariposa guerrera by Leila Cobo The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Chasing the Sun / Persiguiendo el sol by Juanes The Black Minutes / Los minutos negros by Martin Solares My Beloved World / Mi mundo adorado by Sonia Sotomayor Nonfiction 1176 by David McCullough And Still We Rise by Miles Corwin The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley Being Mortal by Atul Gawande Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston The Big Year by Mark Obmascik Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott Blink by Malcolm Gladwell The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown The Color of Water by James McBride Colored People: A Memoir by Henry Louis Gates Complications by Atul Gawande The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson Dreams From My Fathr by Barack Obama Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger The Future of Freedom by Fareed Zakaria A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon The Monuments Men by Robert Edsel and Bret Witter Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer Isaac's Storm by Eric Larson I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou *In Cold Blood by Truman Capote In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson John Adams by David McCullough Lies Across America by James W. Loewen Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks Manhunt by James L. Swanson Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass Nickel & Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich Not for Profit by Martha Nussbaum Olympics by Daniel Brown Out of Africa by Isak Dineson

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Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi The Republic of Imagination by Azar Nafisi Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf Seabiscuit by Lauren Hildebrand Stiff by Shane Maloney A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Story of My Life by Helen Keller Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolfe Top Dog--The Science of Winning and Losing by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin West with the Night by Beryl Markham What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell The Whole Shebang by Timothy Ferris Why We Can’t Wait by Martin Luther King Jr. The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind & The Renaissance by William Manchester The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

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