Before
school opens in September, you are required to read five books. Since you will be
tested on this reading when you report to school in September, you should keep a reading
journal and take notes on a form similar to the one provided for you.Achebe,
Chinua. No Longer at Ease
Agee, James. A Death in the Family
Allende, Isabel. Eva Luna or House of Spirits
Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot
Bolt, Robert. Vivat! Vivat! Regina
Buck, Pearl. The Good Earth
Camus, Albert. The Stranger
Capote, Truman. Other Voices, Other Rooms
Catton, Bruce. A Stillness at Appomattox
Cheever, John. Collected Short Stories or The Wapshot Chronicle
Chekhov, Anton. Three Sisters
Cheng, Nien. Life and Death in Shanghai
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening
Desai, Anita. Baumgartner's Bombay
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House
Dostoevski, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov
Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy
Elliot, George. Adam Bede
Erdrich, Louise. Tracks
Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury
Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary
Friedman, Thomas. From Beirut to Lebanon
Fuentes, Carlos. The Death of Artemis Cruz
Fuller, Charles. A Soldier's Play
Gardner, John. Grendel
Golden Marita. A Woman's Place
Gordimer, Nadine My Son's Story
Hamilton, Virginia. A White Romance
Hardy, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hassler, Jon. Staggerford, A Green Journey, Simon's Night or Love
Hunter
Heller, Joseph. Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises
Hebert, Ernest. The Dogs of March
Hesse, Hermann. Demian or Steppenwolf
Hijuelos, Oscar. The Mambo King Plays Songs of Love
Hope, Christopher. A Separate Development
Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll's House
Joyce, James. Dubliners
Kadohata, Cynthia. The Floating World
Keneally, Thomas. To Asmara
Kennedy, William. Ironweed
Kerouac, Jack. On the Road
Kosinski, Jerzy. The Painted Bird
Lawrence, D. H. Sons and Lovers
Lewis, C. S. Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra or That
Hideous Strength
Mahfour, Naguib. Palace Walk
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. One Hundred Years of Solitude
McCarthy, Cormac. The Crossing
Moon, William Least Heat. Blue Highways
More, Thomas. Utopia
Morrison, Toni. Beloved
Mukherjee, Bharati. Jasmine
Naipaul, V. S. A Bend in the River
Ndlovic, Dama, ed. Woza Afrika
O'Neill, Eugene. A Long Day's Journey into Night
Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago
Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country
Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged
Rostand, Edmund. Cyrano de Bergerac
Sartre, Jean Paul. No Exit
Schell, Jonathan. The Fate of the Earth
Shakespeare, William. Henry IV, Part I
Shaw, George Bernard. Arms and the Man
Shirer, William. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Simon., Kate. A Renaissance Tapestry: The Gonzaga of Mantua
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles. Oedipus at Colonus
Stegner, Wallace. Angle of Repose
Steele, Shelby. The Content of Our Character
Stoppard, Tom. Travesties
Tan, Amy. The Kitchen God's Wife
Thomas, Lewis. The Lives of a Cell
Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina
Updike, John. The Centaur
Voltaire. Candide
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple
Wangerin, Walter. The Book of the Dun Cow
Warren, Robert Penn. All the King's Men
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilson August. Two Trains Running
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway
Wouk, Herman. The Caine Mutiny
Wright, Steven. Meditations in Green
NOTES ON SUMMER READING
Use this format for recording your notes on each of the five books you read this
summer.
Title:
Author:
Setting:
Major Characters:
Plot Summary (limited to three sentences):
Theme:
Personal Reaction/Evaluation: