Summer Reading Requirement – Twelfth Grade
I. Each regular English IV student is required to read Arthur Miller's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People (ISBN 978-0-14-048140-2). This book 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.
II. All School Read for 2024-25: Each boy in grades seven through twelve is required to read James Clear's Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones.
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.
James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
Richard Bausch, Peace
John Le Carre, The Night Manager
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword
Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed
Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
Michael Knight, The Typist
Jumpha Lahiri, The Namesake
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
Philip Roth, The Human Stain
Patrick Rothfuss, Name of the Wind
Zadie Smith, White Teeth
Ed Tarkington, Only Love Can Break Your Heart
John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle