Summer Reading Requirement – Twelfth-Grade
I. Each regular English IV student is required to read Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, 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 2022-23: Each boy in grades seven through twelve is required to read The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba. All students will take a quiz on this book the first week of school.
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.
Arthur Miller, The Crucible
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
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