Grade Summer Reading List ism ib language A: Literature sl & hl, Year 1

ISM IB Language A: Literature SL & HL, Year 1

Expectations: In-coming juniors enrolled in IB A Literature read 2 books:

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  Shakespeare, Bill Bryson
  
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  AND at least one title OR author from the list below
  
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    We also strongly recommend students entering Higher Level Literature read TWO works by the same author to get a sense of authorial style, themes, and context
    
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  We will start with a “Screenplay into Film Unit” and thus we suggest you also simply watch some cool movies and / or filmed adaptations of novels – we have asterisked novels with film adaptations for you!
  
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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.
  

Classic Novels and Commonly Taught IB Texts:

1. 
   Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert*
   
2. 
   Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy*
   
3. 
   War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy*
   
4. 
   The Brothers Karmazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
   
5. 
   Great Expectations, Charles Dickens*
   
6. 
   Frankenstein, Mary Shelley*
   
7. 
   Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen*
   
8. 
   The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne*
   
9. 
   The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck*
   
10. 
    East of Eden, John Steinbeck
    
11. 
    As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
    
12. 
    The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
    
13. 
    A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway*
    
14. 
    The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway*
    
15. 
    Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
    
16. 
    Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad*
    
17. 
    Inferno, Dante
    
18. 
    Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
    
19. 
    Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Faust
    
20. 
    Candide, Voltaire
    
21. 
    One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    
22. 
    Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez*
    
23. 
    The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende*
    
24. 
    Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
    
25. 
    Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
    
26. 
    Catch 22, Joseph Heller*
    
27. 
    All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren*
    
28. 
    The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald*
    
29. 
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey*
    
30. 
    Short Stories by Flannery O'Connor
    
31. 
    Short Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
    
32. 
    A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess*
    
33. 
    Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift*
    

Contemporary Classics:

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. 
   The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, A Plague of Doves, OR The Round House Louise Erdrich
   
10. 
    Fool’s Crow, James Welsh
    
11. 
    Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko
    
12. 
    House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday
    
13. 
    The Help, Kathryn Stockett*
    
14. 
    Let Great World Spin, Colum McCann
    
15. 
    The Road, Cormac McCarthy*
    
16. 
    No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy*
    
17. 
    Blood Meridian, Cormac 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 Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Mary Ann Schaffer & Annie Barrows
    
28. 
    The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
    
29. 
    The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
    
30. 
    Atonement, Ian McEwan*
    
31. 
    On the Road, Jack Kerouac
    
32. 
    The Life of PI, Yann Martel*
    
33. 
    Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini*
    
34. 
    The Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
    
35. 
    Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell*
    
36. 
    The Painted Girls, Cathy Marie Buchanan
    
37. 
    In the Shadow of the Banyan, Vaddey Ratner
    
38. 
    The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers
    
39. 
    Johnny Got his Gun, Dalton Trumbo*
    
40. 
    White Noise, Don DeLillo*
    
41. 
    Short Stories, Jorge Luis Borges
    
42. 
    The Interpreter of Maladies, Namesake*, and/or Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
    
43. 
    A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole.
    
44. 
    Snow, Orhan Pamuc
    
45. 
    At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Peter Matthiessen*
    
46. 
    Grendel, John Gardner
    
47. 
    Deliverance, James Dickey*
    
48. 
    The Butcher Boy, Patrick McCabe*
    
49. 
    Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding*
    
50. 
    In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
    

Non-Fiction:

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*
   

Memoirs

6. 
   Breaking the Silence, Lourdes Montinola (Filipino writer)
   

6. 
   Chino and His Time, Vergel O. Santos (Filipino writer)
   

6. 
   A Country Not Even His Own, Steve Psinakis (Filipino writer)
   

6. 
   When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, Le Ly Hayslip (Vietnamese)*
   

6. 
   Red Azalea, Anchee Min (Chinese/Cultural Revolution)
   

6. 
   When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge: A Memoir, Chanrithy Him
   

6. 
   Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi (female freedom/literature issues in Iran)
   

6. 
   Alicia, My Story, Alicia Appleman-Jurman (WWII holocaust survivor)
   

6. 
   Our Street, Gilda O’Neill (London during WWII)
   

6. 
   If I Die in a Combat Zone, Tim O’Brien (US Vietnam War veteran)
   

Travelogues

16. 
    Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, David Sedaris
    

16. 
    Bitter Lemons of Cyprus: Life on a Mediterranean Island, Lawrence Durrell
    

16. 
    A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
    

16. 
    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, Robert M. Pirsig
    

16. 
    Green Hills of Africa, Ernest Hemingway
    

16. 
    Endurance: Shakleton’s Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing
    

16. 
    Red Dust: A Path Through China, Ma Jian
    

16. 
    Songlines, Bruce Chatwin (Austrialian)
    

16. 
    The Places Between, Rory Stewart (British Journalist walks across Afghanistan)
    

16. 
    Riding the Iron Rooster, Paul Theroux
    

16. 
    The Happy Isles of Oceania, Paul Theroux
    

16. 
    The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen