Grade Summer Reading List For ism language & Literature Students

For ISM Language & Literature Students

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  Regardless of course selection, students are expected to read quality and enjoyable literature this summer
  
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  Be prepared! Be aware that some teachers will assess this reading; and all teachers will begin the year with summer reading discussions and activities.
  

Specific Course Reading Requirements:

1. You are required to read a book of your choosing from the list below and select a 25-45 line passage that you will use for an oral or written commentary. The passage can be either fiction or non-fiction. You must photocopy or type the passage.

- different text types

- Mass communication text types (see text list at the bottom of this file)

- about holidays/vacations

You are required to bring in three texts related to one of the following themes:

Language and Gender, Language and Social Relations or Language and Taboo (Refer to the handout you were given before the end of the school year).

Novels:

1. 
   Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
   
2. 
   The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
   
3. 
   East of Eden, John Steinbeck
   
4. 
   As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
   
5. 
   The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
   
6. 
   A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemmingway
   
7. 
   The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemmingway
   
8. 
   Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
   
9. 
   One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
   
10. 
    Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    
11. 
    The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
    
12. 
    Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
    
13. 
    Catch 22, Joseph Heller
    
14. 
    All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
    
15. 
    The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
    
16. 
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
    
17. 
    Short Stories by Flannery O’Conner
    
18. 
    A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
    

1. 
   The Guide, R.K. Narayan
   
2. 
   Midnight’s Children, Salman 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. 
    Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
    
25. 
    Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Saffron Foer
    
26. 
    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
    
27. 
    The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
    
28. 
    Atonement,arkness, Joseph Conradnwayendercia Marquezsh classes will begin the year with usmmer studenjts ten language, she stil Ian McEwan
    
29. 
    On the Road, Jack Kerouac
    
30. 
    The Life of PI, Yann Martel
    
31. 
    Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
    
32. 
    Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
    
33. 
    Cat’s Cradle OR The Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
    
34. 
    Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
    
35. 
    The Painted Girls, Cathy Marie Buchanan
    
36. 
    In the Shadow of the Banyan, Vaddey, Ratner
    
37. 
    The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers
    
38. 
    Jonny Got his Gun, Dalton Trumbo
    
39. 
    White Noise, Don DeLillo
    
40. 
    Short Stories, Borges
    
41. 
    The Interpreter of Maladies, Namesake, and/or Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
    
42. 
    Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloane
    
43. 
    The Imperfectionist, Tom Rachman
    
44. 
    The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
    
45. 
    Frontline, David Loyn
    
46. 
    Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
    

1. 
   The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman
   
2. 
   How to be a Woman, Caitlin Moran
   
3. 
   In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
   
4. 
   Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
   
5. 
   Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
   
6. 
   Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg
   
7. 
   Wild, Cheryl Strayed
   
8. 
   Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand
   
9. 
   Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo
   
10. 
    You Talking to Me? Sam Leith
    
11. 
    The Kindness of Strangers, Kate Adie
    
12. 
    The Road Taken, Michael Buerk
    
13. 
    Strange Places, Questionable People, John Simpson
    
14. 
    A Little Book of Language, David Crystal
    
15. 
    The Story of English in 100 Words, David Crystal
    
16. 
    Hitch-22: A Memoir, Christopher Hitchens
    
17. 
    Here I am: The Story of Tim Hetherington, War Photographer, Alan Huffman
    

18. 
    Breaking the Silence, Lourdes Montinola (Filipino writer)
    
19. 
    Chino and His Time, Vergel O. Santos (Filipino writer)
    
20. 
    A Country Not Even His Own, Steve Psinakis (Filipino writer)
    
21. 
    When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, Le Ly Hayslip* (Vietnamese)
    
22. 
    Red Azalea, Anchee Min (Chinese/Cultural Revolution)
    
23. 
    When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge: A Memoir, Chanrithy Him*
    
24. 
    Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi* (female freedom/literature issues in Iran)
    
25. 
    Alicia, My Story, Alicia Appleman-Jurman (WWII holocaust survivor)
    
26. 
    Our Street, Gilda O’Neill (London during WWII)
    
27. 
    If I Die in a Combat Zone, Tim O’Brien (US Vietnam War veteran)
    

28. 
    Green Hills of Africa, Ernest Hemingway
    
29. 
    Endurance: Shakleton’s Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing
    
30. 
    Red Dust: A Path Through China, Ma Jian
    
31. 
    Songlines, Bruce Chatwin (Australian)
    
32. 
    The Places Between, Rory Stewart (British Journalist walks across Afghanistan)
    
33. 
    Riding the Iron Rooster, Paul Theroux
    

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