Summer Reading

Core Reading Book List

Honors Reading

Students must read two books over the course of the summer. The first book on the list is required reading. Students may choose one additional book from the list to read before the start of the school year.

Students will be evaluated on this reading with an objective test the second day of school and a written assignment during the first two weeks of school.

The following books will be read by all students during the school year.

Honors students will read between two and four books from the following list during the school year. Students may choose to get a head start by beginning their reading over the course of the summer.

Book Title

Author

Discipline

Book Title

Author

Book Title

Author

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Stevenson

Literature

Kristen Lavransdatter

Undset

Gehenna

Thigpen

Literature

Selected Plays

Ibsen

The Last Sin Eater

Rivers

Literature / Bible

Plays

Chekhov

Song of the Silent Harp

Hoff

Literature

The Cherry Orchard

Chekhov

The Zion Chronicles

Theone

Literature

Anna Karenina

Tolstoy

A Separate Peace

Knowles

Literature

Hiroshima

Hersey

The Old Man and The Sea

Hemingway

Literature

The Metamorphosis

Kafka

Kim

Kipling

Literature

Cyrano de Bergerac

Rostand

Mere Christianity

Lewis

Bible

The Iliad

Homer

The Screwtape Letters

Lewis

Bible

Alice in Wonderland

Carroll

The Great Divorce

Lewis

Bible

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Orczy

The Abolition of Man

Lewis

Bible

The Good Earth

Buck

Count of Monte Cristo

Dumas

Leadership Challenge

James M. Kovzes

Leadership

Lord of the Flies

Golding

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Doyle

Servant: A Simple Story &endash; about the true essence of Leadership

James C. Hunter

Leadership

All Quiet on the Western Front

Remarque

Don Quixote

Cervantes

Lets Review Biology: The Living Environment

G. Scott Hunter

Biology

Julius Caesar

Shakespeare

Mythology

Hamilton