Summer Reading Requirement – Eleventh Grade
I. Each rising eleventh-grader is required to read Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These. This novel will be quizzed the first week of school and will be the basis of the year’s first theme. While reading, jot down character and place names, the key events in each chapter, and, if you own the book, underline passages that you think are essential to character and thematic development.
III. Each student will also read one book from the list below. Early in the year, 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.
Aravind Adiga, White Tiger
Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
Ian M. Banks, Consider Phlebas
Pat Barker, Regeneration
Julian Barnes, A Sense of an Ending
David Mitchell, Slade House
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm
Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
Ian McEwan, Saturday
Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
Bruce Holsinger, A Burnable Book
Susannah Clarke, Piranesi