Grade Summer Reading List for ism english 3 and 4 students

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:

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:

1. 
   Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
   
2. 
   The Brothers Karamozov, Fydor Dostoevsky
   
3. 
   Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
   
4. 
   Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice
   
5. 
   The Scarlet Letter, Nathanial Hawthorn
   
6. 
   The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
   
7. 
   A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemmingway
   
8. 
   The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemmingway
   
9. 
   Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
   
10. 
    Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
    
11. 
    Candide, Voltaire
    
12. 
    One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    
13. 
    The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
    
14. 
    Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
    
15. 
    Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
    
16. 
    Catch 22, Joseph Heller
    
17. 
    All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
    
18. 
    The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
    
19. 
    Short Stories by Flannery O’Conner
    

Contemporary Classics:

1. 
   The Guide, R.K. Narayan
   
2. 
   Midnight’s Children, Salmon Rushdie
   
3. 
   Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh
   
4. 
   The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
   
5. 
   In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, Daniyal Mueenuddin (short stories)
   
6. 
   Games at Twilight, Anita Desai, (short stories)
   
7. 
   The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
   
8. 
   Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguo
   
9. 
   Waiting, Ha Jin
   
10. 
    The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, Louise Erdrich
    
11. 
    Fool’s Crow, James Welsh
    
12. 
    Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko
    
13. 
    House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday
    
14. 
    The Help, Kathryn Stockett
    
15. 
    Let Great World Spin, Colum McCann
    
16. 
    The Road, Cormack McCarthy
    
17. 
    No Country for Old Men, Cormack McCarthy
    
18. 
    Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
    
19. 
    Jazz, Toni Morrison
    
20. 
    Beloved, Toni Morrison
    
21. 
    Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
    
22. 
    Native Son, Richard Wright
    
23. 
    The Color Purple, Alice Walker
    
24. 
    The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Mary Ann Schaffer & Annie Barrows
    
25. 
    The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
    
26. 
    Atonement,arkness, Joseph Conradnwayendercia Marquezsh classes will begin the year with usmmer studenjts ten language, she stil Ian McEwan
    
27. 
    On the Road, Jack Kerouac
    
28. 
    Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
    
29. 
    Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
    

1. 
   Shakespeare, Bill Bryson
   
2. 
   In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
   
3. 
   Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
   
4. 
   Into thin Air, Jon Krakauer
   

5. 
   Breaking the Silence, Lourdes Montinola (Filipino writer)
   
6. 
   Chino and His Time, Vergel O. Santos (Filipino writer)
   
7. 
   A Country Not Even His Own, Steve Psinakis (Filipino writer)
   
8. 
   When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, Le Ly Hayslip* (Vietnamese)
   
9. 
   Red Azalea, Anchee Min (Chinese/Cultural Revolution)
   
10. 
    When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge: A Memoir, Chanrithy Him*
    
11. 
    Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi* (female freedom/literature issues in Iran)
    
12. 
    Alicia, My Story, Alicia Appleman-Jurman (WWII holocaust survivor)
    
13. 
    Our Street, Gilda O’Neill (London during WWII)
    
14. 
    If I Die in a Combat Zone, Tim O’Brien (US Vietnam War veteran)
    

15. 
    Green Hills of Africa, Ernest Hemingway
    
16. 
    Endurance: Shakleton’s Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing
    
17. 
    Red Dust: A Path Through China, Ma Jian
    
18. 
    Songlines, Bruce Chatwin (Austrialian)
    
19. 
    The Places Between, Rory Stewart (British Journalist walks across Afghanistan)
    
20. 
    Riding the Iron Rooster, Paul Theroux
    

Suggestions for English 3 and English 4 students:

1. 
   I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
   
2. 
   The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
   
3. 
   Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
   
4. 
   The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
   
5. 
   How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
   
6. 
   White Teeth by Zadie Smith
   

7. 
   Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
   
8. 
   Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
   
9. 
   Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
   

21. 
    Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
    
22. 
    Fire Season by Philip Connors
    
23. 
    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
    
24. 
    The Story of Art by E. Gombrich
    
25. 
    The Periodic Table by Primo Levi