English Department Reading Lists: Freshman Freshman Honors English I Required: Watership Down by Richard Adams A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur s Court by Mark Twain A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriott The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingslover The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Snow in August by Pete Hamill The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson To be Young, Gifted and Black by Lorraine Hansberry Trouble by Gary Schmidt Freshman College Prep English I Required: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary Schmidt. April Morning by Howard Fast Black Like Me by J. H. Griffin Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther Ender s Game by Orson Scott Card Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin The Yearling by M. K. Rawlings Freshman Foundations Required: Monster by Walter Dean Myers
English Department Reading Lists: Sophomore Sophomore Honors American Literature Required: My Antonia by Willa Cather Also choose TWO books to read from the following list (only one may be a play): A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Color of Water by James McBride The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (You may never eat meat again!) The Last of the Mohicans by J. F. Cooper (for the advanced reader) The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers Peace Like a River by Leif Enger The Scarlet Letter or The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Sophomore College Prep American Literature Required: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Chosen by Chaim Potak Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury Hiroshima by John Hersey Jim, the Boy by Tony Earley Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck O, Pioneers by Willa Cather The Final Four by Paul Volponi The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel Sophomore Foundations No Required Summer Reading book Students are required to complete one independent reading assignment each semester.
English Department Reading Lists: Junior Honors British Literature Required: 1984 by George Orwell Also choose TWO books to read from the following list: (only one may be a play) A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt A Passage to India by E. M. Forster Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Dracula by Bram Stoker Emma by Jane Austin Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier The Once and Future King by T. H. White The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene The Road to Avalon by Joan Wolf The Tragedy of Othello by William Shakespeare Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte College Prep British Literature Required: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 1984 by George Orwell A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie Dracula by Bram Stoker Emma by Jane Austin The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare The Time Machine by H. G. Wells The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins College Readiness Required reading: The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
English Department Reading Lists: Senior AP English Literature and Composition Required: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway Also choose TWO books to read from the following list (only one may be a play): A Doll s House by H. Ibsen A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by J. Joyce A Streetcar Named Desire by T. Williams A Thousand Acres by J. Smiley Catch 22 by J. Keller Crime and Punishment by T. Dostoevsky Don Quixote by M. Cervantes For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende The Iliad by Homer The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan One Hundred Years of Solitude by G. G. Marquez The Poisonwood Bible by B. Kingsolver Slaughterhouse-Five by K. Vonnegut Jr. The Taming of the Shrew by W. Shakespeare Their Eyes Were Watching God by Z. N. Hurston The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak HACC Dual Credit Required: The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston College Prep College Composition Required reading: The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Dramaturgy Honors Required reading: Inherit the Wind by J. Lawrence and R. Lee 2007 ed.) The Tempest by William Shakespeare The following books are required textbooks that must be purchased prior to the first day of class: Creative Writing On Writing by S. King The Elements of Style by W. Strunk and E. B. White