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Summer Reading |
Core Reading Book List |
Honors Reading |
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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. |
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Book Title |
Author |
Discipline |
Book Title |
Author |
Book Title |
Author |
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Great Expectations |
Dickens |
Literature |
Beowulf |
Anonymous |
Night - Required |
Weisel |
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Taliesin |
Lawhead |
Literature |
Canterbury Tales |
Chaucer |
The Chosen |
Potok |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Hurston |
Literature |
Jane Eyre |
Bronte |
Villette |
Bronte |
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Hamlet |
Shakespeare |
Literature |
Macbeth |
Shakespeare |
The Portrait of a Lady |
James |
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Why the Caged Bird Sings |
Angelou |
Literature |
Pride and Prejudice |
Austen |
Holy the Firm/Teaching a Stone to Talk |
Dillard |
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Much Ado About Nothing |
Shakespeare |
Literature |
Wuthering Heights |
Bronte |
Dragonseed |
Buck |
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Midsummer's Night's Dream |
Shakespeare |
Literature |
Moby Dick |
Melville |
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A Tale of Two Cities |
Dickens |
Literature |
A Tale of Two Cities |
Dickens |
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Vanity Fair |
Thackeray |
Literature |
Tess of the D'Urbervilles |
Hardy |
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1984 |
Orwell |
Literature |
The Awakening |
Chopin |
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Heart of Darkness |
Conrad |
Literature |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
Kesey |
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers |
Mary Roach |
Anatomy / Physiology |
Invisible Man |
Ellison |
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The Hot Zone |
Richard Preston |
Anatomy / Physiology |
Crime and Punishment |
Dostoyevsky |
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The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork |
John C. Maxwell |
Leadership |
The Age of Innocence |
Wharton |
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360 Leader |
John C. Maxwell |
Leadership |
The Joy Luck Club |
Tan |
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Talent is Never Enough |
John C. Maxwell |
Leadership |
Screwtape Letters |
Lewis |
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Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts |
Turner |
Art / Humanities |
Gulliver's Travels |
Swift |
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Five Equations that Changed the World |
Guillen |
Physics |
Murder on the Orient Express |
Christie |
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The Millionaire Next Door |
Stanley |
Math/Econ/Business |
The Trial |
Kafka |
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad |
Kiyosaki |
Math/Econ/Business |
Selected Stories |
Kafka |
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Frankenstein |
Shelley |
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