2006 SENIOR SUMMER
READING LIST
During
the summer, all Curriculum I and II students are required to read ONE of the following biographies or
memoirs:
Fuller, Alexandra, Don't Let's Go to the
Dogs Tonight
Hornby, Nick, Fever Pitch
Karr,
Mary, The Liars' Club
MacDonald, Michael Patrick, All Souls
Obama, Barack, Dreams from My
Father
Orwell, George, Down and Out in Paris
and London
Wojnarowski,
Adrian, Miracle at St. Anthony: A Season with Coach Bob Hurley and Basketball's Most Improbable Dynasty
All
students are required to also read one book from the list below, and one book of their choice.
At the
beginning of the school year, you will be asked to summarize, compare, discuss,
or respond to these books verbally
and/or in written form. You will be required to bring either your books or
detailed notes to class sometime during the first weeks of school to enable you
to respond to the books with specifics from the texts. If you have read any of
these books previously, please choose another.
Have
a great summer and Read, Read, Read!
Ambrose,
Stephen, Undaunted Courage (nonfiction)
Angelou,
Maya, Heart of a Woman
Anonymous, It Happened to Nancy
Atwood,
Margaret, Cat's Eye or The Handmaid's Tale
Bauby,
Jean-Dominique, The Diving Bell
and the Butterfly (nonfiction)
Bellow,
Saul, Ravelstein
Bragg,
Rick, All Over But the
Shoutin'or Ava's
Man (biog.)
Brown,
Rita Mae, Rubyfruit
Jungle
Borroughs,
Augustus, Running with
Scissors
Camus,
Albert, The Stranger
Carver,
Raymond, Cathedral
Chai,
May-Lee, The Girl from
Purple Mountain
(biog)
Chekhov,
Anton, The Cherry Orchard
Conrad,
Joseph, The Secret Agent
Davies,
Robertson, Fifth Business
Dubus,
Andre, Dancing After Hours or Meditations From a
Movable Chair
Erdrich,
Louise, Tracks
Fadiman,
Anne, The Spirit Catches You
and You Fall Down (nonfiction)
Faulkner,
William, Intruder in the
Dust
Faulks,
Sebastian, Birdsong
Flaubert,
Gustav, Madame
Bovary
Foer,
Jonathan Safran, Everything
is Illuminated
Forster,
E. M., Passage to India
Golden,
Arthur, Memoirs of a Geisha
Goodall,
Jane, A Reason for Hope (nonfiction)
Goodwin,
Doris Kearns, Team of Rivals
Grisham,
John, The Chamber
Hardy,
Thomas, The Mayor of
Casterbridge
Heaney,
Seamus, Beowulf
Hegi,
Ursula, Stones from the
River
Heller,
Joseph, Catch-22
Hesse,
Herman, Demian or Siddhartha
Horwitz,
Tony, Confederates in the
Attic
Hulme,
Keri, The Bone People
Jamison,
Kay Redfield, An Unquiet
Mind
Kidder,
Tracy, Mountains
Beyond Mountains
Kogawa,
Joy, Obasan
Kurlansky,
Mark, Cod: a Biography of
the fish that changed the world
Lamb,
Wally, I Know This
Much Is True
Laurence,
Margaret, The Diviners
Lawrence,
D.H. , Sons and Lovers
Larson,
Erik, Devil in the White
City
Lee,
ChangRae, Native Speaker
Lee,
Gus, Tiger's Tail
Mandela,
Nelson, Long Walk to
Freedom
Marquez,
Gabriel Garcia, Love in
the Time of Cholera
Martel,
Yann, The Life of Pi
Martinez,
Demetria, Mother
Tongue
Mason,
Daniel, The Piano Tuner
Menocal,
Maria Rose, The
Ornament of the World:How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval
Spain
McCarthy,
Cormac, All
the Pretty Horses or
The Crossing
Morrison,
Toni, Song of
Solomon
Nemriovsky,
Irene, Suite
Francaise
O'Brien,
Tim, In the Lake of
the Woods
Peltzer,
David, A Child
Called It (nonfiction)
Proulx,
E. Annie, Shipping
News
Rodriguez,
Luis, Always Running
Roth,
Henry, Call It Sleep
Roth,
Phillip, The Human Stain
Rushdie,
Salman, East-West
Sacks,
Oliver, An Anthropologist
on Mars
Schlink,
Bernard, The Reader
Scott,
Sir Walter, Ivanhoe
Slater,
Lauren, Lying
Solzhenitsyn,
Alexander, A Day in
the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
Stephenson,
Neal, In The
Beginni...Was The Command Line (nonfiction)
Suskind,
Ron, A Hope in the
Unseen (biog.)
Tan,
Amy, The Hundred
Secret Senses
Thompson,
Hunter S., Fear and
Loathing on the Campaign Trail
Weart,
Spencer, The Discovery of
Global Warming
(nonfiction)
Wells,
Rebecca, The Divine
Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Wideman,
John Edgar, Philadelphia
Fire
Winterson,
Jeanette, Oranges are Not
the Only Fruit or
The Passion
Wolfe,
Tom, The
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Wright,
Richard, Native Son
Yen Mah, Adeline, Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted
Chinese Daughter(biog)
Revised May 2006