In-Coming 11th & 12th Grade Summer Reading List
for ISM English 3 and 4 students
ISM English teachers have collaborated on a master book list for in-coming upperclassmen. Here you will find a variety of contemporary and classic novels, as well as a range of compelling nonfiction. Please see recommendations as follows below. Be sure to pack your books this summer and surround yourself with great literature!
Expectations:
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Regardless of course selection, students are expected to read quality literature this summer
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Students may be assessed on this reading. English classes will begin the year with summer reading discussions and activities, so please be prepared!
Specific Course Reading Requirements:
In coming juniors enrolled in English 3 and 4:
Read at least one book from the list below. You are encouraged to choose from those texts listed in the section English 3 and 4, although you are free to choose any book.
Classic Novels and Commonly Taught IB Texts:
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Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
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The Brothers Karamozov, Fydor Dostoevsky
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Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
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Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice
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The Scarlet Letter, Nathanial Hawthorn
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The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
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A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemmingway
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The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemmingway
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
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Candide, Voltaire
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One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
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Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
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Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
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Catch 22, Joseph Heller
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All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
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The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Short Stories by Flannery O’Conner
Contemporary Classics:
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The Guide, R.K. Narayan
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Midnight’s Children, Salmon Rushdie
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Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh
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The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, Daniyal Mueenuddin (short stories)
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Games at Twilight, Anita Desai, (short stories)
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The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
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Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguo
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Waiting, Ha Jin
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The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, Louise Erdrich
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Fool’s Crow, James Welsh
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Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko
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House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday
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The Help, Kathryn Stockett
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Let Great World Spin, Colum McCann
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The Road, Cormack McCarthy
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No Country for Old Men, Cormack McCarthy
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Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
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Jazz, Toni Morrison
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Beloved, Toni Morrison
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Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
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Native Son, Richard Wright
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The Color Purple, Alice Walker
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Mary Ann Schaffer & Annie Barrows
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The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
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Atonement,arkness, Joseph Conradnwayendercia Marquezsh classes will begin the year with usmmer studenjts ten language, she stil Ian McEwan
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On the Road, Jack Kerouac
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Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
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Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
Non-Fiction:
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Shakespeare, Bill Bryson
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In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
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Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
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Into thin Air, Jon Krakauer
Memoirs
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Breaking the Silence, Lourdes Montinola (Filipino writer)
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Chino and His Time, Vergel O. Santos (Filipino writer)
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A Country Not Even His Own, Steve Psinakis (Filipino writer)
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, Le Ly Hayslip* (Vietnamese)
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Red Azalea, Anchee Min (Chinese/Cultural Revolution)
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When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge: A Memoir, Chanrithy Him*
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Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi* (female freedom/literature issues in Iran)
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Alicia, My Story, Alicia Appleman-Jurman (WWII holocaust survivor)
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Our Street, Gilda O’Neill (London during WWII)
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If I Die in a Combat Zone, Tim O’Brien (US Vietnam War veteran)
Travelogues:
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Green Hills of Africa, Ernest Hemingway
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Endurance: Shakleton’s Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing
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Red Dust: A Path Through China, Ma Jian
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Songlines, Bruce Chatwin (Austrialian)
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The Places Between, Rory Stewart (British Journalist walks across Afghanistan)
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Riding the Iron Rooster, Paul Theroux
Suggestions for English 3 and English 4 students:
Novels
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I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
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How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
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White Teeth by Zadie Smith
More Challenging Novels
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Non-Fiction
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Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
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Fire Season by Philip Connors
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
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The Story of Art by E. Gombrich
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The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
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