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The Newman School Summer Reading Lists
2004


Freshmen
Sophomores
Juniors
Seniors

Incoming Freshmen

Required: Evelin, Heroes, Gods, and Monsters

Brown, D. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Christie, A. Murder on the Orient Express or Death on the Nile
Dickens, C. A Tale of Two Cities
Fast, H. April Morning
Knowles, J. A Separate Peace
Le Guin, U. The Left Hand of Darkness
Potok, C. My Name is Asher Lev
Shelley, M. Frankenstein
Smith, B. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Incoming Sophomores:

Baldwin, J. Go Tell It on the Mountain
Bernanos, G. Diary of a Country Priest
Dinesen, I. Seven Gothic Tales
Forsyth, F. The Day of the Jackal
Greenlaw, L. The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain’s Journey
Hardy, T. Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Lewis, C.S. Out of the Silent Planet
Malamud, B. The Natural
Orczy, E. The Scarlet Pimpernel
Steinbeck, J. The Grapes of Wrath

Honors, Required:

Dickens, C. A Tale of Two Cities
Plus two selections from the Sophomore List (above).

Incoming Juniors:

Percy, W. Love in the Ruins
Faulkner, W. Intruder in the Dust
O’Connor, F. Everything That Rises Must Converge
Vonnegut, K. Cat’s Cradle
Wharton, E. Age of Innocence
O’Connor, E. The Last Hurrah
Williams, T. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof AND The Glass Menagerie
Johnson, C. The Middle Passage
Twain, M. Life on the Mississippi

Honors Required:

Cooper, J. The Last of the Mohicans
Hawthorne, N. The Scarlet Letter
Plus two selections from the Junior List (above).

Incoming Seniors:

Abe, K. The Woman in the Dunes
Lampedusa, G. The Leopard
Waugh, E. Brideshead Revisited
Eco, U. The Name of the Rose
Agee, J. A Death in the Family
Dickens, C. Bleak House
O’Connor, F. Wise Blood
Pirsig, R. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Plato, The Republic

AP English Literature, Required:

Faulkner, W. Light in August
Shakespeare, W. Hamlet
Plus two selections from the Senior List (above).


 


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