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1 High School Reading List ENGLISH DEPARTMENT: English 4: Grendel, John Gardner A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini In Cold Blood, Truman Capote A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens A Doll s House, Henrik Ibsen AP English Literature: Beowulf (Seamus Heaney translation) /ref=tmm_pap_used_olp_sr? ie=utf8&condition=used&sr=1-1&qid= Canterbury Tales (Burton Raffel translation) /ref=tmm_hrd_used_olp_sr? ie=utf8&condition=used&sr=1-1&qid= Grendel, John Gardner Macbeth, William Shakespeare Hamlet, William Shakespeare Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini Hedda Gabbler, Henrik Ibsen A Doll s House, Henrik Ibsen Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Roddy Doyle Frankenstein, Mary Shelley English 3: The Awakening by Kate Chopin The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway AP English Language: Brighton Rock by Graham Greene Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Slouching Towards Bethlethem by Joan Didion The Awakening by Kate Chopin

2 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare English 2: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond de Rostand translated by Lowell Bair Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare Advanced English 2: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare English 1: Choice Novel from Mrs. Ramsey s Sign-up List: Mythology by Edith Hamilton Animal Farm by George Orwell Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Advanced English 1: Choice Novel from Mrs. Ramsey s Sign-up List: Mythology by Edith Hamilton Animal Farm by George Orwell The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien Visual Story Telling: (Elective) Filmmaking for Teens by Troy Lanier and Clay Nichols Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud Maus I: A Survivorʼs Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman

3 HISTORY DEPARTMENT: U.S. Government: All the Presidentʼs Men by Woodward and Bernstein Economics: The Invisible Heart by Russell Roberts Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich AP Government: All the Presidentʼs Men by Woodward and Bernstein AP Macroeconomics: The Price of Everything by Russell Roberts The Invisible Heart by Russell Roberts The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman American History: All Year: Eyewitness to America edited by David Colbert Choice of books first quarter: Common Sense by Thomas Paine Rise to Rebellion: A Novel of the American Revolution by Jeff Shaara Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick Captured by Indians: 15 Firsthand Accounts edited by Frederick Drimmer Duel with the Devil:The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed up to Take On America s First Sensational Murder Mystery by Paul Collins The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down by Colin Woodward Choice of books second quarter: Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs Company Aytch by Samuel R. Watkins Junius and Albert s Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey by Peter Carlson 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

4 Choice of books third quarter: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson The Johnston Flood by David McCullough The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World by Greg King and Sue Woolmans Choice of books fourth quarter: In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler s Berlin by Erik Larson Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy K Blows Top: A Cold War A Comic Interlude, Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America s Most Unlikely Tourist by Peter Carlson Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe AP United States History: American History: A Survey (11th or 12th edition) by Alan Brinkley A Documentary History of the United States by Richard Heffner American Colonies by Alan Taylor The Jungle by Upton Sinclair World History 2: The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton Night by Elie Wiesel Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19 Year Old GI by Ryan Smithson AP European History: The Return of Martin Guerre (classroom set) by Natalie Zemon Davis Candide (classroom set) by Voltaire Pere Goriot (classroom set) by Balzac The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton World History 1 and Adv. World History 1: Brief History of Medicine by Paul Strathern

5 Oedipus Rex by Sophocles The Gladiator by Alan Baker 100 Mistakes that Changed History by Bill Fawcett Introduction to Pre-Law Studies: (Elective) The Firm or A Time to Kill by John Grisham

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