Summer Reading List – Twelfth-Grade 2019-20
I. Each regular English IV student is required to read the two books below. These works 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.
· Arthur Miller The Crucible (any edition)
· Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms, Scribner Paperback Fiction, ISBN 0-684-80146-9
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.
James Baldwin, Go Tell It On a Mountain
Richard Bausch, Peace
John Le Carre, The Little Drummer Girl
Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
Lauren Groff, The Monsters of Templeton
Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed
Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
P.D. James, The Murder Room
Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Phil Klay, Redeployment
Michael Knight, The Typist
Jumpha Lahiri, The Namesake
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
Walter Mosley, The Devil in a Blue Dress
V. S. Naipaul, A
Tom Rachman, The Imperfectionists
Philip Roth, The Human Stain
Patrick Rothfuss, Name of the Wind
Zadie Smith, On Beauty
Ed Tarkington, Only Love Can Break Your Heart
John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
