In-Coming 11th & 12th Grade Summer Reading List
For ISM Language & Literature 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 and media texts!
Expectations:
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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:
In-coming juniors enrolled in the IB A Language and Literature course:
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.
2. You are required to bring to the first class of the year three texts. They must be:
- different text types
- Mass communication text types (see text list at the bottom of this file)
- about holidays/vacations
In-coming seniors enrolled in the IB A Language and Literature course:
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:
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Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
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The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
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East of Eden, John Steinbeck
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As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
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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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Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
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One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Love in the Time of Cholera, 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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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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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
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Short Stories by Flannery O’Conner
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A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
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The Guide, R.K. Narayan
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Midnight’s Children, Salman 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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Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
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Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Saffron Foer
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
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The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
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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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The Life of PI, Yann Martel
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Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
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Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
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Cat’s Cradle OR The Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
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Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
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The Painted Girls, Cathy Marie Buchanan
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In the Shadow of the Banyan, Vaddey, Ratner
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The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers
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Jonny Got his Gun, Dalton Trumbo
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White Noise, Don DeLillo
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Short Stories, Borges
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The Interpreter of Maladies, Namesake, and/or Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
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Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloane
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The Imperfectionist, Tom Rachman
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The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
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Frontline, David Loyn
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Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
Non-Fiction:
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman
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How to be a Woman, Caitlin Moran
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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
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Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg
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Wild, Cheryl Strayed
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Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo
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You Talking to Me? Sam Leith
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The Kindness of Strangers, Kate Adie
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The Road Taken, Michael Buerk
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Strange Places, Questionable People, John Simpson
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A Little Book of Language, David Crystal
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The Story of English in 100 Words, David Crystal
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Hitch-22: A Memoir, Christopher Hitchens
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Here I am: The Story of Tim Hetherington, War Photographer, Alan Huffman
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 (Australian)
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The Places Between, Rory Stewart (British Journalist walks across Afghanistan)
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Riding the Iron Rooster, Paul Theroux
List of Possible Text Types:
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Advertisement
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Appeal
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Biography
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Blog
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Brochure/leaflet
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Cartoon
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Diagram
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Diary
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Editorial
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Electronic texts
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Encyclopedia entry
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Essay
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Film/television
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Guide book
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Interview
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Letter
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Magazine article
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Memoir
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News report
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Opinion column
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Parody
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Pastiche
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Photographs
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Radio broadcast
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Report
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Screenplay
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Set of inst
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ructions
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Song lyric
Speech
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Textbook
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Travel writing
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