Starmount Summer Reading List

Starmount Summer Reading List

In a few cases, reading is indicated as required. However, from the suggested list, students and parents should choose books which are appropriate for each individual student.

Summer Reading for AP Seniors (Taylor)
Required -- Portrait of a Lady
Invisible Man
Brave New World
King Lear
Wuthering Heights
Suggested -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Tale of Two Cities
Emma
The Grapes of Wrath
Song of Solomon
Things Fall Apart
Frankenstein
The Awakening
The Cider House Rules
Beloved
Hamlet

Summer Reading for Honors Seniors (Taylor)
Required -- Brave New World
Suggested -- Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man
Wuthering Heights
A Tale of Two Cities
A Thousand Splendid Suns

Summer Reading for Seniors (Pack)
Suggested -- The Stanger Albert Camus
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
Middlemarch George Eliot
Dreamland Sarah Dessen
The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
Rebecca Daphne DuMaurier
Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe
Persuasion Jane Austen
Thirteen Reasons Why Jay Asher
Hamlet William Shakespeare
Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott
Dracula Bram Stoker
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
The Crystal Cave Mary Stewart
The Hollow Hills Mary Stewart
The Last Enchantment Mary Stewart
The Wicked Day Mary Stewart
The Prince and the Pilgram Mary Stewart
Vanity Fair William Thackeray
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf
Time Machine H.G. Wells
Grendel John Gardner
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexander Dumas
Cold Mountain Charles Frazer
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
A Room With A View E.M. Forster

Summer Reading for Juniors (Collins)
Suggested -- Little Women Louisa May Alcott
Twilight Series Stephanie Meyer
DaVinci Code Dan Brown
Angels and Demons Dan Brown
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
Speak Laurie Halse Anderson
Deadline Chris Crutcher
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Gathering of Old Men Ernest Gaines
Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beacher Stowe
My Forbidden Face Latifa
Profiles in Courage John Kennedy
Longitude David Sobel
Summer Reading for Sophomores (Pack)
Honors English II Required -- The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
Suggested -- The Greatest Generation Tom Brokaw
The Alchemist Paulo Coehlo
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
Izzy Willy Nilly Cynthia Voight
Prince Across the Water Jane Yolen
Animal Farm George Orwell
If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince? Melissa Kantor
Kaffir Boy Mark Mathabane
Thou Shalt Not Dump the Skater Dude and Other
Commandments I Have Broken Rosemary Graham
How Do You Spell God Marc Gellman
The Girl With A Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier
Ties That Bind, Ties That Break Lensey Namioka
Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt
Damage A. M. Jenkins
Photo by Brady: A Picture of the Civil War Jennifer Armstrong
The Once and Future King T.H. White
Enthusiasm Polly Shulman
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Mary Roach
Cyrano De Bergerac Rostard
Wish You Well David Baldacci
Multicultural Manners: New Rules of Etiquette
for a Changing Society Narine Dresser
Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes
Falling Leaves Adeline Yen Ma
B for Buster Iain Lawrence
Photography: An Illustrated History Martin Sandler
The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck
Tomorrow When the War Began John Marsden
The Twilight Series Stephanie Meyer

Freshman Reading List (Collins)
Suggested -- A Lesson Before Dying Ernest Gaines
Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt
The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd
Romiette and Julio Sharon Draper
Forged by Fire Sharon Draper
Black Like Me John Griffin
The Miracle Worker William Gibson
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck