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 2023-24: Each boy in grades seven through twelve is required to read The Race of the Century: The Battle to Break the Four-Minute Mile by Neal Bascomb. 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.
James Baldwin, Go Tell It On a Mountain
Richard Bausch, Peace
John Le Carre, The Night Manager
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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
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