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 Don’t let your reading skills atrophy as you sit poolside.
Remember, even if you’re just entering grade 9, high school
assessment tests and AP English classes are right around the corner.
Summer is a great time to get jump on your classmates and relax
with some truly great literature.
The titles below will offer your literary palate some
rich and rigorous reading. They
appear here based on teacher recommendations and careful consideration of
their connectedness to grade level curriculum and ability to help you
prepare for national tests.*
We hope you enjoy the titles on your summer reading
bookmark, and if you’re up for a real challenge, try one of these…
Grade
9
The Reivers by William Faulkner
Emma by Jane Austen
Fences by August Wilson
The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
A Death in the Family by James Agee
The Misanthrope by
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière
The Human Comedy by William Saroyan
Grade
10
1984 by George Orwell
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
Crime and Punishment
by
Fyodor Dostoevsky
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
The Republic by Plato
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
as
told to Alex Haley
Grade
11
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Beloved by Toni Morrison
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtz
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Grade
12
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
* All of these titles have been approved for high
school by Library Media Services.
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