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

To Kill A Mockingbird

Lee

Literature

Ethan Frome - Required

Wharton

Dream Thief

Lawhead

Literature

Huck Finn - Required

Twain

The Complete Poems of Robert Frost

Frost

Literature

The Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck

The Red Badge of Courage

Crane

Literature

House of Mirth

Wharton

O Pioneers

Cather

Literature

Death of a Salesman

Miller

Bridge of San Luis Rey

Wilder

Literature

The Last of the Mohicans

Cooper

From Sea to Shining Sea   

Peter Marshall

Social Studies / History

My Antonia

Cather

Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine

Candace B. Pert

Chemistry

The Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne

Salt, A World History

Mark Kurlansky

Chemistry

Moby Dick

Melville

The Problem of Pain

Lewis

Ethics / Bible

Color Purple

Walker

Miracles

Lewis

Ethics / Bible

Walden

Thoreau

A Grief Observed

Lewis

Ethics / Bible

Crucible

Miller

Our Town

Wilder

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership

John C. Maxwell

Leadership

The Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald

Spoon River Anthology

Masters

Developing the Leader Within You

John C. Maxwell

Leadership

Of Mice and Men

Steinbeck

The Glass Menagerie

Williams