Please notice that this list is not packed with the kind of difficult, classical literature that we study during the school year.  Summer reading should be fun - something you can do at the beach.  The books on this list include mysteries, science fiction, romance, adventure, intrigue, and sports.  Look hard, choose carefully, and don't be afraid to challenge yourself.

You must have read at least five books, three from this list and two of your own choice.

A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
TENDER IS THE NIGHT  by F. Scott Fitzgerald
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN  by James Baldwin
THE MISTS OF AVALON  by Marion Zimmer Bradley
A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ  by Walter Miller, Jr.
BURR  by Gore Vidal
TRINITY  by Leon Uris
CENTENNIAL  by James Michener
THE MAN WITH A LOAD OF MISCHIEF  by Martha Grimes
ACCIDENTAL TOURIST  by Ann Tyler
THE KITCHEN GOD'S WIFE  by Amy Tan
WITHOUT REMORSE  by Tom Clancy
ICARUS AGENDA  by Robert Ludlum
DEVICES AND DESIRES  by P.D. James
THE NATURAL  by Bernard Malamud
SULA   by Toni Morrison
THE MALTESE FALCON  by Dashiell Hammett
KAFFIR BOY by Mark Mathabane
SEEING RED  by Dan Shaughnessy
REMEMBERING ME  by Mary Higgins Clark
THE CHAMBER  by John Grisham
EVERYTHING TO GAIN  by Barbara Taylor Bradford
HAVING OUR SAY  by Sara L. & A. Elizbeth Delany
THE GLASS LAKE  by Maeve Binchy
A ROOM WITH A VIEW  by E.M. Forster
HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENTS  by Julia Alvarez
HARMFUL INTENT  by Robin Cook
ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH  by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
FOOLS CROW  by James Welch
THE GRAPES OF WRATH  by John Steinbeck
THE ILIAD  by Homer
TYPEE  by Herman Melville
TILL WE HAVE FACES  by C.S. Lewis
IVANHOE  by Walter Scott
ELEANOR AND THE FOUR KINGS  by Amy Kelly
THE COLOR PURPLE  by Alice Walker
SMALL VICES  by Robert Parker
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT  by Robert Cormier
THE HIDING PLACE  by Corrie Ten Boom