Point Loma High School
Advanced English 3-4 Seminar
Summer Reading List
Summer is the perfect time to catch up on some independent reading. In addition to reading all of those books you didn’t have time to reading during the school year for entertainment, you can also take time to read some great works of literature and non-fiction. It is important to continue to expand the breadth and depth of your individual reading list in preparation for AP Language and Composition (11th) and AP Literature and Composition (12th). Challenge yourself to read at least two works from this list. Parents and other adults are also a good source for reading suggestions. The first Booktalk of your sophomore year will be in September.
Key: F=fiction; NF= non-fiction; A= autobiography; M= memoir; B= biography; D= drama; P= poetry; *= a long book which will count for two selections for Book Talks in the fall.
Maya Angelou (F) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Julia Alvarez (F) How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent
In the Time of Butterflies
Jane Austen (F) Pride and Prejudice
Ishmael Beah (M) A Long Way Gone
Charlotte Bronte (F) Jane Eyre
Daniel James Brown (NF) The Boys in the Boat
Ray Bradbury (F) Fahrenheit 451
(F) The Martian Chronicles
Willa Cather (F) My Antonia
Anton Chekov (SS) Selected Short Stories of Chekov
Kate Chopin (F) The Awakening
Stephen Crane (F) The Red Badge of Courage
Daniel DeFoe (F) Robinson Crusoe
Dante (P) The Inferno, Robert Pinsky translation
Charles Dickens (F) Oliver Twist*
Great Expectations*
David Copperfield*
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (F) Sister of My Heart
Fyodor Dostoevsky (F) Crime and Punishment
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (F) The Complete Short Stories of Sherlock Holmes
Alexandre Dumas (F) The Count of Monte Cristo*
George Eliot (F) Silas Marner
Ralph Waldo Emerson (NF,P) The Writings of Emerson
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Lorraine Hansberry (D) A Raisin in the Sun
Thomas Hardy (F) Far from the Madding Crowd
Nathaniel Hawthorne (F) The Scarlet Letter
Ernest Hemingway (SS) The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
John Hersey (F) Hiroshima
Homer (P) Iliad
Odyssey
Khaled Hosseini (F) The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
And the Mountains Echoed
Victor Hugo (F) The Hunchback of Notre Dame*
Aldous Huxley (F) A Brave New World
Henrik Ibsen (D) An Enemy of the People
A Doll's House
Helen Keller (NF) The Story of My Life
W.P. Kinsella Shoeless Joe
Jon Krakauer (NF) Into the Wild
John Knowles (F) A Separate Peace
Harper Lee (F) To Kill a Mockingbird
Jack London (F) The Call of the Wild and White Fang
Niccolo Machiavelli (NF) The Prince
Bernard Malamud The Natural
Kamala Markandaya F) Nectar in a Sieve
Carson McCullers (F) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Adeline Yen Mah (B) Falling Leaves
Anchee Min (F) Pearl of China
George Orwell (F) 1984
Plato (NF) The Great Dialogues of Plato
Edgar Allan Poe (SS) The Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
Michale Pollan (NF) The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Erich Maria Remarque (F) All Quiet on the Western Front
The Road Back (sequel to All Quiet)
J.D. Salinger A Catcher in the Rye
William Shakespeare (D) Macbeth
The Merchant of Venice
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
George Bernard Shaw (D) Pygmalion (My Fair Lady is based on this play)
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Betty Smith (F) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Robert Louis Stevenson (F) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Bram Stoker (F) Dracula
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (F) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Amy Tan (F) The Joy Luck Club
The Bonesetter’s Daughter
Henry David Thoreau (NF) Walden and “Civil Disobedience”
Mark Twain (F) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Sun Tzu (NF) The Art of War
Virgil (P) Aeneid
Jeannette Walls (M) The Glass Castle
Edith Wharton (F) Ethan Frome
Oscar Wilde (F) A Picture of Dorian Gray
Tennessee Williams (D) The Glass Menagerie
Richard Wright (A) Black Boy
Hedges/Adv Eng 3-4 Sem/2015