Students entering English 10 Honors must read the following:

O'Brien, Tim  The Things They Carried
O'Neill, Eugene  Mourning Becomes Electra
Rodriquez, Richard  The Hunger of Memory
Steinbeck, John  The Grapes of Wrath
Thoreau, Henry David  Walden

A. Fiction

Asimov, Isaac  Nemesis
Atwood, Margaret  Cat's Eye
Baldwin, James  Go Tell it on the Mountain
Bellow, Saul    Adventures of Augie March or Seize the Day
Binchy, Maeve  Light a Penny Candle
Brown, Charles Brockden  Wieland
Burns, Olive Ann  Cold Sassy Tree
Cather, Willa  Death Comes for the Archibishop or O Pioneers!
Clarke, Arthur C.  Childhood's End
Clark,Walter Van Tilburg  The Ox-Bow Incident
Cooper, James Fenimore  The Deerslayer or The Pioneers or The Praire
Dickinson, Peter  Eva
Dinesen, Isak  Seven Gothic Tales
Emecheta, Buchi  The Bride Price
Faulkner, William  As I Lay Dying or Intruder in the Dust or The Reivers
Fitzgerald, F. Scott  Tender Is the Night or This Side of Paradise
Garcia, Cristina  Dreaming in Cuban
Greenberg, Joanne  I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Hassler, Jon  Grand Opening
Havemann, Ernst  Bloodsong and Other Stories of South Africa
Hawthorne, Nathaniel  The House of the Seven Gables
Hemingway, Ernest  A Farewell to Arms
Howells, William Dean  The Rise of Silas Lapham
James, Henry  Daisy Miller or The Turn of the Screw
Kesey, Ken  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
LeGuin Ursula  The Left Hand of Darkness
Lewis, Sinclair  Main Street or Babbitt
London, Jack  Martin Eden
Marquand, John  Point of No Return
McCullers, Carson  Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Melville, Herman  Typee
Mitchell, Margaret  Gone with the Wind
Norris, Frank  The Octopus or The Pit
O'Connor, Edwin The Last Hurrah
Pullman, Philip  Broken Bridge
Salinger, J. D.  Catcher in the Rye or Franny and Zooey
Shange, Ntozake  Betsey Brown
Sinclair, Upton  The Jungle
Steinbeck, John  The Grapes of Wrath or In Dubious Battle or Tortilla Flat
Updike, John  Rabbit Run
Vonnegut, Kurt  Slaughterhouse Five
Walker, Margaret  Jubilee
Wolfe, Thomas  Look Homeward, Angel

B. Drama

Hellman, Lillian  Watch on the Rhine
Miller, Arthur  All My Sons
O'Neill, Eugene  Mourning Becomes Electra
Shepard, Sam  Buried Child

C. Biography, Autobiography, and Non-Fiction

Alderman, Clifford  Devil's Shadow: Story of Witchcraft in Massachusetts
Baldwin, James  The Fire Next Time
Brown, Claude  Manchild in the Promised Land
Brown, Dee  Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Brown, Michael  Laying Waste
Capote, Truman  In Cold Blood
Cary, Lorene  Black Ice
Dillard, Annie  An American Childhood
Haley, Alex  Roots
Hersey, John  Hiroshima
Galarza, Ernesto  Barrio Boy
Kaplan, Justin  Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain or Walt Whitman
Kennedy, John F.  Profiles in Courage
Rodriguez, Richard  The Hunger of Memory
Terry, Wallace  Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans
Thoreau, Henry David  Walden
Van Devanter, Lynda  Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam
Washington, Mary Helen  Memory of Kin: Stories About Family by Black Writers
Wolfe, Tom  The Right Stuff

NOTES ON SUMMER READING

Use this format for recording your notes on each of the five books you read this summer.

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