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Summer Watermelon High School Honors & AP Summer Reading List

Please note that this is a generalized, advanced high school level suggested reading list. For Specific current AHS Regents, Honors and Advanced Placement English Class Assignments, see the Program page.

 

Adams, Richard, Watership Down
Agee, James, A Death in the Family
Agnon, Samuel Y., A Dwelling Place of My Own
Asturias, Miguel Angel, The Talking Machine
Atwood, Margaret, Alias Grace, also Cat's Eye
Austen, Jane, Emma, also Persuasion
Azimov, Isaac, Foundation, also I, Robot


Baldwin, James, Another Country
Beal, Merrill D., "I Will Fight No More Forever": Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War
Bell, William, Forbidden City
Bloom, Allan, The Closing of the American Mind
Bradbury, Ray, The Illustrated Man, also The Martian Chronicles


Campbell, Joseph & Bill Moyers, The Power of Myth
Camus, Albert, The Stranger
Cather, Willa, Death Comes for the Archbishop, also My Antonia
Chopin, Kate, The Awakening
Clark, Walter V., The Ox-Bow Incident
Clarke, Arthur C., 2001: A Space Odyssey
Clavell, James, Shogun
Cormier, Robert, After the First Death
Covey, Stephen, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Crane, Stephen, Maggie: Girl of the Streets


Dickens, Charles, David Copperfield also Hard Times
Dostoyevski, Fyodor, The Brothers Karamazov
Douglass, Frederick, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore, An American Tragedy
Drury, Allen, Advise and Consent
Dubois, W.E.B., The Souls of Black Folk
Dumas, Alexandre, The Count of Monte Cristo


Eliot, George, Middlemarch
Erdrich, Louise, Love Medicine
Faulkner, William, As I Lay Dying
Forster, E.M., A Passage to India
Frank, Pat, Alas, Babylon
Gide, Andre, The Counterfeiters
Goldman, William, The Princess Bride
Gordimer, Nadine, Burger's Daughter


Hardy, Thomas, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Hawking, Stephen, A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
Heat-Moon, William Least, Blue Highways: A Journey into America
Heinlein, Robert, Stranger in a Strange Land
Hellman, Lillian, Pentimento
Hemingway, Ernest, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Herbert, Frank C., Dune
Hurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God, also Dust Tracks on a Road


Jackson, Jesse, A Time to Speak: The Autobiography of Reverend Jesse Jackson
James, Henry, The Turn of the Screw
Kennedy, William, Ironweed
King, Martin Luther, Stride Toward Freedom
Kingston, Maxine Hong, Woman Warrior
Kipling, Rudyard, Kim
Kogawa, Joy, Obasan
Laurence, Margaret, The Stone Angel
Levitz, Mitchell, Count Us In: Growing Up With Down Syndrome
Lewis, C.S., Out of the Silent Planet
Lewis, Sinclair, Main Street


Machiavelli, Niccolo, The Prince
Mahfouz, Naguib, Respected Sir
Mann, Thomas, A Death in Venice
Marquez, Gabriel, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Massie, Robert, Nicholas and Alexandra
Mc Bride, James, Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
Mc Cullers, Carson, The Member of the Wedding, also The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Mc Caffrey, Anne, Dragonflight
Mc Carthy, Cormac, All the Pretty Horses
Melville, Herman, Redburn
Momaday, N. Scott, House Made of Dawn, also The Way to Rainy Mountain
Morrison, Toni, Song of Solomon, also Sula
Nabakov, Vladimir Pmin


Paulsen, Gary, Canyons
Portis, Charles, True Grit
Potok, Chaim, Davita's Harp
Proulx, E. Annie, The Shipping News
Richardson, Samuel, Pamela
Rodriquez, Richard, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriquez


Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie, Ceremony
Sinclair, Upton, The Jungle
Singer, Isaac Baalshevis, Shosha
Spark, Muriel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Styron, William, The Confessions of Nat Turner


Terkel, Studs, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression in America
Thackeray, William, Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David, Walden
Trollope, Anthony, The Warden
Truchman, Barbara W., The Guns of August
Twain, Mark, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Undset, Sigrid, The Axe
Updike, John, Rabbit, Run, also The Centaur
Uris, Leon, Exodus


Verne, Jules, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Voltaire, Francois-Marie, Candide
Waugh, Herbert George, The Time Machine
Welty, Eudora, The Golden Apples, also The Optimist's Daughter
White, Patrick, The Tree of Man
Woolf, Virginia, To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard, Native Son
Yolen, Jane, Briar Rose


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