Summer Reading 2009 - Faculty Recommendations
Summer Reading 2009 - Student Suggestions
Sophomore Huckleberry Finn assignment
Summer Reading Requirements
(with further recommendations)
All students attending Canterbury High School in the fall are required to read two books this summer: one of the books recommended by the school, plus the one text required for the English class the student will begin in the fall, as follows:
English Required Reading:
Ninth Grade: William Golding, The Lord of the Flies
Tenth Grade: Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(Grade 10-please download assigned questions here for this book, due the second day of classes)
Eleventh Grade: John Fowles, The Collector
Senior English: Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf (note: Picador
Edition, translated by Basil Creighton, required)
AP English Literature: Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Students should be prepared to write about and discuss their assigned novel at the beginning of the fall term.
Recommendations
Canterbury students are strongly encouraged to make reading a frequent, ongoing part of their summer. Regular reading helps develop multiple critical thinking skills, increases one’s vocabulary and verbal proficiency, sparks the imagination, provides vicarious experience, and models a variety of styles of writing worthy of emulation. Accordingly, we offer the following as additional suggested readings. [*Note: Books best suited to mature readers – whether for difficulty of style or maturity of subject matter – have been asterisked.]
Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Allende, The House of the Spirits*
Austen, Emma
Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Bronte, Jane Eyre
Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps
Calvino, Cosmicomics*
Card, Ender’s Game
Cather, My Antonia
Cervantes, Don Quixote
Chandler, The Big Sleep*
Chopin, The Awakening*
Collins, The Woman in White
Dickens, Great Expectations
Doctorow, Ragtime*
Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
du Maurier, Rebecca
Eliot, Silas Marner
Ellison, Invisible Man*
Faulkner, As I Lay Dying*
Fielding, Tom Jones*
Forster, A Room with a View*
Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman*
Golding, The Inheritors
Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Heller, Catch-22*
Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises*
Hersey, Hiroshima
Hesse, Siddhartha
Hornby, High Fidelity*
Hugo, Les Miserables
Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
James, The Children of Men
Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man*
Kafka, The Castle
Kesey, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest*
Kingsolver, The Bean Trees
Kingston, The Woman Warrior
Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
Lawrence, Sons and Lovers*
LeCarre, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Lee, Native Speaker
McEwan, Atonement
Melville, Moby Dick*
Miller, The Crucible
Morrison, Beloved*
O’Brien, The Things They Carried*
Orwell, 1984*
Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel
Paton, Cry the Beloved Country
Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Rushdie, Shame*
Salinger, Catcher in the Rye*
Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Sinclair, The Jungle
Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
Stendhal, The Red and the Black*
Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Thackeray, Vanity Fair
Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Turgenev, First Love*
Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
Warren, All the King’s Men*
Wharton, The Age of Innocence
Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, The Glass Menagerie
A Streetcar Named Desire
Woolf, To the Lighthouse*
