Summer Reading List – Ninth Grade 2019-20
I. Each rising ninth-grader is required to read the two books below. These novels will be quizzed the first week of school and will be the basis of the year’s first theme:
English I Regular & Honors
Sherman Alexie The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Ernest Gaines A Lesson Before Dying
II. Each boy in grades seven through twelve will read our All School Read, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyange, by Alfred Lansing. All students will finish a project related to this book due on Monday, August 19th, to each student’s advisor (not English teacher, though they might be the same teacher). Use the following link for instructions regarding the project: https://libguides.
III. Each student will also read one book from the list below. On the second day of school, students will write a short in-class essay on a topic from this book. Please have access to a copy of this novel when school starts.
Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
Bernard Malamud,The Natural
Bram Stoker, Dracula
C. S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
David Benioff, City of Thieves
David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Frank Herbert, Dune
Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
H. G. Wells, War of the Worlds
Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky
James Welch, Fools Crow
Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
Laura Ruby, Bone Gap
Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
Louise Erdrich, The Round House
Mark Harris, Bang the Drum Slowly
Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Naomi Novik, Temeraire: His Majesty’s Dragon
Pat Conroy, Lords of Discipline
Pat Frank, Alas Babylon
Paul Zindel, The Pigman
Richard Bradford, Red Sky at Morning
Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War
Robert Heinlein, Tunnel in the Sky
Russell Banks, Rule of the Bone
Tobias Wolff, This Boy’s Life
Tony Hillerman, Dance Hall of the Dead
