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High School Summer Reading List






The Crossover - Kwame Alexander

Tears of a Tiger - Sharon M. Draper


Foul Trouble - John Feinstein


The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - Ernest J. Gaines


Lord of the Flies - William Golding


The Princess Bride - William Goldman


Life of Pi - Yann Martel


Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery


Jim Thorpe, Original All-American - Joseph Bruchac






Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


Mosquitoland - David Arnold


Tyrell - Coe Booth


A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest J. Gaines


A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini


Big Mouth and Ugly Girl - Joyce Carol Oates


White Teeth - Zadie Smith


The Bonesetter’s Daughter - Amy Tan


I Feel Like Going On: Life, Game, and Glory - Ray Lewis, Daniel Paisner





The Awakening - Kate Chopin

Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source - Scott Dikkers (editor)


The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway


47 - Walter Mosley


The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien


The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath


Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck


The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan


The Rule of Four - Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason


I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou


Great Speeches by African Americans - James Daley (editor)


Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup


Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris






Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


The Impossible Knife of Memory - Laurie Halse Anderson


Bronxwood - Coe Booth


The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon


The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks - E. Lockhart


The Things a Brother Knows - Dana Reinhardt


The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood


A Raisin in the Sun - Loraine Hansberry


Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller


The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne


The Color Purple - Alice Walker


In Cold Blood - Truman Capote


Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival - Anderson Cooper






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