Summer Reading List
2008-2009 Academic Year
These books are required reading for entrance to your 2008-2009 English course. Upon your return to school in August, you will be tested on each book. Also, these books form the foundation for your first term course of study. Assignments during the first term will be made based on the assumption that you have read these works.
For high school students, please read the books listed under the level of the course you took last year. If your fall schedule involves a change in level, you will still be tested on the books listed for your previous course.
AP English Literature and Composition (12th or 11th Grade)
Note: There are two AP English courses, offered at LMP on alternate years. AP Language will be offered next year. Please be aware that AP Literature is a college-level course.
Sense and Sensibility—Jane Austen
A Tale of Two Cities—Charles Dickens
The Picture of Dorian Gray—Oscar Wilde
How to Read Literature Like a Professor—Thomas C. Foster
If you would like to order the term reading books for this class early, please see the Term Reading List for this class, located after the summer reading list.
English IV (12th Grade British Lit)
College Prep:
How to Read Literature Like a Professor — Thomas C. Foster
Sense and Sensibility-Jane Austen
Honors:
How to Read Literature Like a Professor — Thomas C. Foster
Sense and Sensibility-Jane Austen
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight-Translation by J.R.R. Tolkein, ISBN # 0345277600; this title may come in a book with other tales, you will be tested only on Gawain)
English III (11th Grade American Lit)
College Prep:
“The Glass Menagerie”-Tennessee Williams
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—Mark Twain
Honors:
“The Glass Menagerie”-Tennessee Williams
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—Mark Twain
A Farewell to Arms—Ernest Hemingway
English II (10th Grade World Lit)
College Prep:
Life of Pi-Yann Martel
The Count of Monte Cristo-Alexandre Dumas (please read an ABRIDGED version)
Honors:
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Life of Pi-Yann Martel
The Count of Monte Cristo-Alexandre Dumas (please read an ABRIDGED version)
Pre-AP:
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Life of Pi-Yann Martel
The Count of Monte Cristo-Alexandre Dumas (please read an ABRIDGED version)
Note: The Signet Classic Abridgement is a good version of Count of Monte Cristo to choose. The ISBN number of the paperback edition is: 0451529707
English I (9th Grade Genre Lit)
College Prep:
Uglies-Scott Westerfeld
Of Mice and Men-John Steinbeck
Honors:
Uglies-Scott Westerfeld
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy-Douglas Adams
Of Mice and Men-John Steinbeck
Pre-AP:
Uglies-Scott Westerfeld
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy-Douglas Adams
Anthem-Ayn Rand
English Grade 8: All 8th graders:
The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
Nothing But the Truth - Avi
English Grade 7: All 7th graders:
Old Yeller-Fred Gipson
Gathering Blue –Lois Lowry
English Grade 6: All 6th graders:
Maniac Magee - Jerry Spinelli
The Devil’s Arithmetic - Jane Yolan
Please do not purchase these books unless you are enrolled in AP Literature—Grades 11 &12
AP Literature: Advance Term Reading List (these books will be used in class this year)
Not all of these term reading books will be readily available at the bookstore. It is recommended that you order early from amazon.com or another online source. Please feel free to purchase used books, or older editions if you wish. Additional texts may be added to the class syllabus in August.
Norton Anthology of Short Fiction: Seventh Edition (Shorter Edition)
Wuthering Heights—Emily Brontë
Beowulf —(Translation by Seamus Heany)
Frankenstein—Mary Shelley
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man—James Joyce
Brave New World—Aldous Huxley
One Hundred Years of Solitude—Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Divine Comedy (The Inferno)—Dante Alighieri-Penguin Classics Ed. ISBN # 0142437220
The Joy Luck Club—Amy Tan
Jane Eyre—Charlotte Brontë
Wide Sargasso Sea—Jean Rhys
Heart of Darkness—Joseph Conrad
“Hamlet”—William Shakespeare
“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”—Tom Stoppard
Going After Cacciato—Tim O’Brien
The Discovery of Poetry—Francis Mayes (First Harvest Paperback Ed.)
Structure, Sound, and Sense—by Laurence Perrine.
Please feel free to purchase a used previous edition of this text. Editions 6-9 are available on Amazon. You may purchase the new 10th Edition if you wish.
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