Summer Reading Assignments Grade 9-12
ISB Summer Reading Work - High School
In addition to reading a text from the appropriate reading list, you will complete three (3) activities that will be submitted on the first day of school.* Rather than reading your text at the end of the summer, plan to read it at least twice - once at the beginning, and a second time as you complete the assignments. Assume that all assignments will be scored on one or more of the IB criteria for your grade level which can be found on the ISB website.
Please remember that it’s important for you to do independent work based on your own observations and thoughts. You are forbidden from consulting any sources other than the book that you choose to read. If you find that you’re unable to understand the book, please choose another one that matches your reading level more closely.
*These assignments are based on a year-long study of student work conducted by the ISB English Department. After determining the skills students struggled most to maintain over the long summer breaks, we designed our summer reading assignments to help bolster those skills during that time.
2021-2022
Incoming 9th Grade
Students Entering 9th Grade
1. Organize:
This assignment is designed to reinforce the skill of communicating your ideas in a clear and organized way.
Using the techniques you find for #2 below, practice writing assertions for an essay answering the question in #3. Remember, an assertion goes at the beginning of a body paragraph. It should identify a specific literary technique (such as a single symbol or visual imagery) and the specific effect of that technique.
2. Analyze, Don’t Summarize:
This assignment is designed to reinforce the idea that when we analyze literature, we examine the author’s choices and think about the effects of those choices. Those choices include things such as diction, structure, use of figurative language (metaphors, imagery, etc.), narrative perspective, and many others.
● Identify a subject or idea prevalent in your text.
● Identify the author’s commentary regarding the subject or idea.
● How do you know? Find evidence in the text that supports your claims. This evidence should be related to the author’s craft - what techniques does the author use to develop the commentary identified?
3. Respond to the Question:
This assignment is designed with two purposes. First, to reinforce the skills of breaking down a question in order to understand what it is asking you to do, and then answering it with support from one or more texts; and second, to reinforce the importance of engaging with multiple different types of texts.
When completing #2 above, consider the following question:
How does the author develop a commentary on a specific subject or idea through a variety of literary devices?
Summer Tasks:
● Identify a subject or idea prevalent in your text.
● Identify the author’s commentary regarding the subject or idea.
● How do you know? Find evidence in the text that supports your claims.
Students Entering 9th Grade
Abrahams, Peter
Mine Boy
Achebe, Chinua
Anthills of the Savannah
Things Fall Apart
Adams, Richard
Watership Down
Adichie, Chimamanda
Half of a Yellow Sun
Aidoo, Ama Ata
Our Sister Killjoy
Alexie, Sherman
Flight
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time
Indian
Allende, Isabel
Daughter of Fortune
Alvarez, Julia
In the Time of the Butterflies
Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
Kappa
Ansay, A. Manette
Vinegar Hill
Atwood, Margaret
Oryx and Crake
Cat’s Eye
Block, Francesca Lia
Wasteland
Weetzie Bat
Boyle, T.C.
The Tortilla Curtain
Bradbury, Ray
Dandelion Wine
Brink, André
A Dry White Season
Brunt, Carol Rifka
Tell the Wolves I’m Home
Callenbach, Ernest
Ecotopia
Cameron, Peter
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Carey, Peter
True History of the Kelly Gang
Cather, Willa
My Antonia
Chabon, Michael
The Final Solution
Cisneros, Sandra
The House on Mango Street
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg
The Ox-Bow Incident
Clarke, Arthur C.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Clarke, Breena
River Cross My Heart
Cleave, Chris
Little Bee
Cody, Robin
Ricochet River
Cooper, James Fenimore
The Last of the Mohicans
Cormier, Robert
After the First Death
Crane, Stephen
The Red Badge of Courage
Dangarembga, Tsitsi
Nervous Conditions
Dangor, Achmat
Bitter Fruit
Davis, Harold L.
Honey in the Horn
Defoe, Daniel
Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles
Great Expectations
Dinesen, Isak
Out of Africa
Doig, Ivan
The Sea Runners
Dorris, Michael
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Adolescent
Doyle, Brian
Mink River
Dubus, III, André
House of Sand and Fog
Due, Tananarive
The Living Blood
The Between
Emecheta, Buchi
The Slave Girl
Enger, Leif
Peace Like a River
Esquivel, Laura
Like Water for Chocolate
Foer, Jonathan Safran
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Follet, Ken
Pillars of the Earth
Ford, Ford Maddox
The Good Soldier
Forester, C.S.
The African Queen
Fraxedas, J. Joaquin
The Lonely Crossing of Juan Cabrera
Gaines, Ernest J.
A Lesson Before Dying
Goldberg, Myla
Bee Season
Golding, William
Lord of the Flies
Green, John
Looking for Alaska
Greene, Graham
The Quiet American
Guest, Judith
Ordinary People
Guterson, David
Snow Falling on Cedars
Haddon, Mark
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-Time
Hamilton, Jane
A Map of the World
Harris, Robert
Fatherland
Hazzard, Shirley
The Great Fire
Hedeyat, Sadegh
The Blind Owl
Hegi, Ursula
Stones from the River
Hemingway, Ernest
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea
Herbert, Frank
Dune
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki
Past the Size of Dreaming
Hosseini, Khaled
The Kite Runner
Hulme, Keri
The Bone People
Irving, John
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Jin, Ha
War Trash
Jones, Edward P.
The Known World
Kidd, Sue Monk
The Secret Life of Bees
Kingsolver, Barbara
Animal Dreams
Kincaid, Jamaica
The Autobiography of My Mother
Knowles, John
Indian Summer
Lahiri, Jhumpa
The Namesake
Lamb, Wally
She's Come Undone
LeGuin, Ursula
The Lathe of Heaven
Lesley, Craig
The Sky Fisherman
Lopez, Barry Holstun
Crow and Weasel
Lynch, Jim
The Highest Tide
MacDonald, Ann-Marie
Fall on Your Knees
Malamud, Bernard
The Natural
Martel, Yann
The Life of Pi
Matthee, Dalene
Fiela's Child
McCullers, Carson
The Member of the Wedding
McGreevy, Brian
Hemlock Grove
Miller, Sue
While I Was Gone
Mitchard, Jacquelyn
The Deep End of the Ocean
Mitchell, Margaret
Gone With the Wind
Morgan, Robert
Gap Creek
Morris, Mary McGarry
Songs in Ordinary Time
Morrison, Toni
The Bluest Eye
Nemirovsky, Irene
Suite Française
Nordan, Lewis
Wolf Whistle
Oates, Joyce Carol
Black Water
O'Brien, Tim
In the Lake of the Woods
O’Nan, Stewart
Last Night at the Lobster
Orwell, George
1984
Potok, Chaim
The Chosen
Remarque, Erich Maria
All Quiet on the Western Front
Roy, Arundhati
The God of Small Things
Ruiz Zafrón, Carlos
The Shadow of the Wind
Saramago, José
The Cave
Schwarz, Christina
Drowning Ruth
Sebold, Alice
The Lovely Bones
Shreve, Anita
The Pilot's Wife
Sijie, Dai
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Smith, Betty
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Steinbeck, John
The Wayward Bus
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tan, Amy
The Joy Luck Club
The Kitchen God's Wife
Tyler, Ann
The Accidental Tourist
Vonnegut, Kurt
Player Piano
Waugh, Evelyn
A Handful of Dust
Wells, H.G.
The Time Machine
West, Nathanael
The Day of the Locust
Wilder, Thornton
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Wren, M.K.
A Gift Upon the Shore
Yoshimoto, Banana
Kitchen
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Incoming 10th Grade
Students Entering 10th Grade
1. Organize:
This assignment is designed to reinforce the skill of communicating your ideas in a clear and organized way.
Choose a motif in the novel. Write a thesis statement about the meaning and function of the motif. Find five times that the motif occurs, and outline one paragraph for each of the occurrences. Be sure to connect your outline to aspects of your thesis statement.
2. Analyze, Don’t Summarize:
This assignment is designed to reinforce the idea that when we analyze literature, we examine the author’s choices and think about the effects of those choices. Those choices include things such as diction, structure, use of figurative language (metaphors, imagery, etc.), narrative perspective, and many others.
Write a thesis statement for an essay that makes an evaluative statement about a character. Then, write one argumentative paragraph in which you analyze one aspect of your thesis statement.
3. Respond to the Question:
This assignment is designed with two purposes. First, to reinforce the skills of breaking down a question in order to understand what it is asking you to do, and then answering it with support from one or more texts; and second, to reinforce the importance of engaging with multiple different types of texts.
Find a nonfiction source that is somehow related to the novel that you read (not the plot, but the underlying ideas and commentary). In what ways does examining a work of fiction and a work of nonfiction expand understanding of the idea? Answer this question in a well-organized paragraph or two totaling 400-500 words.
For example, if you chose to read The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde, you could find an article about the moral hypocrisy of the privileged classes or a piece of art that explores duality.
Students Entering 10th Grade
Abani, Chris
Becoming Abigail
Abrahams, Peter
Mine Boy
Achebe, Chinua
Things Fall Apart
No Longer at Ease
Anthills of the Savannah
Adams, Richard
Watership Down
Adichie, Chimamanda
Half of a Yellow Sun
Purple Hibiscus
Adiga, Aravind
The White Tiger
Aidoo, Ama Ata
Our Sister Killjoy
Alexie, Sherman
Flight
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Indian Killer
Allende, Isabel
Daughter of Fortune
Of Love and Shadows
Allison, Dorothy
Cavedweller
Alvarez, Julia
In the Time of the Butterflies
Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
Kappa
Ansay, A. Manette
Vinegar Hill
Atwood, Margaret
Oryx and Crake
Cat’s Eye
The Year of the Flood
Austen, Jane
Emma
Azuela, Mariano
The Underdogs
Banks, Russell
Rule of the Bone
Banville, John
The Sea
Bellamy, Edward
Looking Backward: 2000-1887
Bellow, Saul
Herzog
Block, Francesca Lia
The Hanged Man
Wasteland
Weetzie Bat
Boyle, T.C.
The Tortilla Curtain
Bradbury, Ray
Dandelion Wine
Brautigan, Richard
The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western
Brink, André
A Dry White Season
Brontë, Charlotte
Jane Eyre
Brunt, Carol Rifka
Tell the Wolves I’m Home
Buck, Pearl S.
The Good Earth
Byatt, A.S.
Possession
Callenbach, Ernest
Ecotopia
Ecotopia Emerging
Cameron, Peter
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Cary, Joyce
Mister Johnson
Carey, Peter
True History of the Kelly Gang
Cather, Willa
My Antonia
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Cervantes, Miguel de
Don Quixote
Chabon, Michael
The Final Solution
Cisneros, Sandra
The House on Mango Street
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg
The Ox-Bow Incident
Clarke, Arthur C.
Childhood’s End
2001: A Space Odyssey
Clarke, Breena
River Cross My Heart
Cleave, Chris
Little Bee
Cody, Robin
Ricochet River
Cooper, James Fenimore
The Last of the Mohicans
Cormier, Robert
After the First Death
Crane, Stephen
The Red Badge of Courage
Dangarembga, Tsitsi
Nervous Conditions
Dangor, Achmat
Bitter Fruit
Davis, Harold L.
Honey in the Horn
Defoe, Daniel
Robinson Crusoe
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Desai, Kiran
The Inheritance of Loss
Díaz, Junot
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Dick, Philip K.
The Man in the High Castle
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Dickens, Charles
A Tale of Two Cities
Great Expectations
Dinesen, Isak
Out of Africa
Disch, Thomas M.
Camp Concentration
Doig, Ivan
Dancing at the Rascal Fair
The Sea Runners
Dorris, Michael
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Adolescent
The Idiot
Doyle, Brian
Mink River
du Maurier, Daphne
Rebecca
Dubus, III, André
House of Sand and Fog
Due, Tananarive
The Living Blood
The Between
Dumas, Alexandre
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers
Duncan, David James
The Brothers K
Eggers, Dave
You Shall Know Our Velocity
Ellis, Bret Easton
Less Than Zero
Emecheta, Buchi
The Slave Girl
Enger, Leif
Peace Like a River
Enright, Anne
The Gathering
Esquivel, Laura
Like Water for Chocolate
Eugenides, Jeffrey
The Virgin Suicides
Fitch, Janet
White Oleander
Foer, Jonathan Safran
Everything is Illuminated
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Follet, Ken
Pillars of the Earth
World Without End
Ford, Ford Maddox
The Good Soldier
Forester, C.S.
The African Queen
Frank, Pat
Alas, Babylon
Fraxedas, J. Joaquin
The Lonely Crossing of Juan Cabrera
Frazier, Charles
Cold Mountain
Gaines, Ernest J.
A Lesson Before Dying
Goldberg, Myla
Bee Season
Golden, Arthur
Memoirs of a Geisha
Golding, William
Lord of the Flies
Graves, Robert
I, Claudius
Green, John
Looking for Alaska
Greene, Graham
The Quiet American
Guest, Judith
Ordinary People
Guterson, David
Snow Falling on Cedars
Our Lady of the Forest
Haddon, Mark
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Haley, Alex
Roots
Hamilton, Jane
A Map of the World
Hammett, Dashiell
The Maltese Falcon
Harris, Robert
Fatherland
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Scarlet Letter
Hazzard, Shirley
The Great Fire
Head, Bessie
Maru
Hedeyat, Sadegh
The Blind Owl
Hegi, Ursula
Stones from the River
Hemingway, Ernest
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea
A Farewell to Arms
Herbert, Frank
Dune
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki
Past the Size of Dreaming
Horn, Dara
The World to Come
Hosseini, Khaled
The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Hugo, Victor
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Les Misérables
Hulme, Keri
The Bone People
Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World
Irving, John
The Cider House Rules
A Prayer for Owen Meany
James, Henry
The Ambassadors
Jin, Ha
War Trash
Jones, Edward P.
The Known World
Kafka, Franz
The Trial
Kawabata, Yasunari
A Thousand Cranes
Kazantzakis, Nikos
Zorba the Greek
Kerouac, Jack
The Subterraneans
Kesey, Ken
Sometimes a Great Notion
Kidd, Sue Monk
The Secret Life of Bees
Kingsolver, Barbara
Animal Dreams
The Bean Trees
Kincaid, Jamaica
The Autobiography of My Mother
Annie John
Knowles, John
A Separate Peace
Indian Summer
Lahiri, Jhumpa
The Namesake
Lamb, Wally
She's Come Undone
LeGuin, Ursula
The Lathe of Heaven
Lesley, Craig
The Sky Fisherman
Winterkill
Lewis, Sinclair
It Can’t Happen Here
London, Jack
The Iron Heel
Lopez, Barry Holstun
Crow and Weasel
Lord, Bette Bao
Spring Moon
Lynch, Jim
The Highest Tide
MacDonald, Ann-Marie
Fall on Your Knees
Mahfouz, Naguib
Midaq Alley
Malamud, Bernard
The Fixer
The Natural
Mann, Thomas
Death in Venice
Martel, Yann
The Life of Pi
Matthee, Dalene
Fiela's Child
Mason, Bobbie Ann
In Country
Maugham, W. Somerset
The Painted Veil
McCarthy, Cormac
All the Pretty Horses
The Road
McCullers, Carson
The Member of the Wedding
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
McGreevy, Brian
Hemlock Grove
McMurtry, Larry
The Last Picture Show
Miller, Sue
While I Was Gone
The Good Mother
Mistry, Rohinton
A Fine Balance
Mitchard, Jacquelyn
The Deep End of the Ocean
Mitchell, Margaret
Gone With the Wind
Morgan, Robert
Gap Creek
Morris, Mary McGarry
Songs in Ordinary Time
Morrison, Toni
Jazz
Sula
The Bluest Eye
Murasaki, Shikibu
The Tale of Genji
Nemirovsky, Irene
Suite Française
Nordan, Lewis
Wolf Whistle
O'Brien, Tim
In the Lake of the Woods
O’Nan, Stewart
Last Night at the Lobster
Oates, Joyce Carol
Black Water
The Tattooed Girl
Ondaatje, Michael
Anil’s Ghost
Orwell, George
1984
Palahniuk, Chuck
Fight Club
Paton, Alan
Cry, the Beloved Country
Perrotta, Tom
Election
The Abstinence Teacher
Pierre, DBC
Vernon God Little
Plath, Sylvia
The Bell Jar
Potok, Chaim
My Name is Asher Lev
The Chosen
Proulx, E. Annie
Accordion Crimes
Remarque, Erich Maria
All Quiet on the Western Front
Rhys, Jean
Wide Sargasso Sea
Roy, Arundhati
The God of Small Things
Ruiz Zafrón, Carlos
The Shadow of the Wind
Russo, Richard
Empire Falls
Straight Man
Saramago, José
The Cave
Baltasar and Blimunda
Schwarz, Christina
Drowning Ruth
Scott, Sir Walter
Ivanhoe
Sebold, Alice
The Lovely Bones
Shreve, Anita
The Pilot's Wife
Shute, Nevil
On the Beach
Sijie, Dai
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Simmons, Dan
Hyperion
Sinclair, Upton
The Jungle
Siporin, Alan
Fire’s Edge
Smith, Betty
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Smith, Zadie
White Teeth
Steinbeck, John
The Moon is Down
Cannery Row
The Wayward Bus
Stoker, Bran
Dracula
Storey, David
Saville
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Graham
Last Orders
Tademy, Lalita
Cane River
Tan, Amy
The Bonesetter’s Daughter
The Hundred Secret Senses
The Joy Luck Club
The Kitchen God's Wife
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Vanity Fair
Twain, Mark
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Tyler, Ann
The Accidental Tourist
Vonnegut, Kurt
Player Piano
Waugh, Evelyn
A Handful of Dust
Welch, James
Winter in the Blood
Wells, H.G.
The Sleeper Awakes
The Time Machine
West, Nathanael
The Day of the Locust
Wharton, Edith
Ethan Frome
Wharton, William
Birdy
Wilder, Thornton
The Ides of March
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Winton, Tim
Breath
Wren, M.K.
A Gift Upon the Shore
Wright, Richard
Native Son
Yoshimoto, Banana
Kitchen
Incoming 11th Grade
Students Entering 11th Grade
1. Organize:
This assignment is designed to reinforce the skill of communicating your ideas in a clear and organized way.
Identify an idea which the author explores in your summer reading text. Create an outline for an essay on analyzing how the author develops the idea and what commentary is created as a result.
Your outline should include a thesis, assertions for a minimum of 4 body paragraphs, and a conclusion as well as at least 3 specific examples for each of the body paragraphs. Your thesis and assertions should be complete sentences. All other aspects of your outline should be bullet points with clear and concise phrases and fragments, NOT complete sentences.
2. Analyze, Don’t Summarize:
This assignment is designed to reinforce the idea that when we analyze literature, we examine the author’s choices and think about the effects of those choices. Those choices include things such as diction, structure, use of figurative language (metaphors, imagery, etc.), narrative perspective, and many others.
Choose one paragraph that includes typical features of the writer’s style. Write one paragraph of commentary in which you analyze the purpose or effect of one literary technique or stylistic feature from that paragraph.
3. Respond to the Question:
This assignment is designed with two purposes. First, to reinforce the skills of breaking down a question in order to understand what it is asking you to do, and then answering it with support from one or more texts; and second, to reinforce the importance of engaging with multiple different types of texts.
Find a nonfiction text that is somehow related to your chosen summer reading text (not the plot, but the underlying ideas and commentary). Looking at both texts, consider the question: How do the authors of these two texts present a specific perspective on a similar issue, topic, or theme? Craft a well-organized response to this question in 400-500 words.
For example, if you choose to read The Catcher in the Rye, you could find a graph about the rise of consumer culture after World War II or an article about the suffocating nature of social conformity enforced in the ‘40s and ‘50s.
Students Entering 11th Grade
Becoming Abigail
Song for Night
Abrahams, Peter
Mine Boy
Achebe, Chinua
Things Fall Apart
No Longer at Ease
Anthills of the Savannah
Adams, Richard
Watership Down
Adichie, Chimamanda
Half of a Yellow Sun
Purple Hibiscus
Adiga, Aravind
The White Tiger
Aidoo, Ama Ata
Our Sister Killjoy
Alexie, Sherman
Flight
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Indian Killer
Reservation Blues
Allende, Isabel
Daughter of Fortune
Of Love and Shadows
The House of the Spirits
Allison, Dorothy
Cavedweller
Bastard Out of Carolina
Alvarez, Julia
In the Time of the Butterflies
Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
Kappa
Ansay, A. Manette
Vinegar Hill
Armah, Ayi Kwei
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Atwood, Margaret
The Handmaid’s Tale
Cat’s Eye
Oryx and Crake
The Year of the Flood
MaddAddam
Austen, Jane
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
The Underdogs
Baldwin, James
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Banks, Russell
Rule of the Bone
Banville, John
The Sea
Barbery, Muriel
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Bellamy, Edward
Looking Backward: 2000-1887
Bellow, Saul
Herzog
Henderson the Rain King
Seize the Day
Block, Francesca Lia
The Hanged Man
Wasteland
Weetzie Bat
Bolaño Roberto
The Savage Detectives
Bowles, Paul
The Sheltering Sky
Boyle, T.C.
The Road to Wellville
A Friend of the Earth
The Tortilla Curtain
Bradbury, Ray
Dandelion Wine
Brautigan, Richard
The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western
Brink, André
A Dry White Season
Brontë, Charlotte
Jane Eyre
Brown, Rita Mae
In Her Day
Brunt, Carol Rifka
Tell the Wolves I’m Home
Buck, Pearl S.
The Good Earth
Burgess, Anthony
A Clockwork Orange
Byatt, A.S.
Possession
Callenbach, Ernest
Ecotopia
Ecotopia Emerging
Calvino, Italo
If on a winter’s night a traveler
Cameron, Peter
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Camus, Albert
The Plague
The Stranger
Cary, Joyce
Mister Johnson
Carey, Peter
True History of the Kelly Gang
Cather, Willa
My Antonia
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Cervantes, Miguel de
Don Quixote
Chabon, Michael
The Final Solution
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Chopin, Kate
The Awakening
Cisneros, Sandra
The House on Mango Street
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg
The Ox-Bow Incident
Clarke, Arthur C.
Childhood’s End
2001: A Space Odyssey
Clarke, Breena
River Cross My Heart
Cleave, Chris
Little Bee
Cody, Robin
Ricochet River
Coe, Jonathan
The Rotters’ Club
The House of Sleep
Coetzee, J.M.
Disgrace
Conrad, Joseph
Lord Jim
Cooper, Douglas
Amnesia
Cooper, James Fenimore
The Last of the Mohicans
Cooper, T.
Some of the Parts
Cormier, Robert
After the First Death
Crane, Stephen
The Red Badge of Courage
Cunningham, Michael
The Hours
Nervous Conditions
Dangor, Achmat
Bitter Fruit
Danticat, Edwidge
The Farming of Bones
Davis, Harold L.
Honey in the Horn
de Laclos, Chaderlos
Dangerous Liaisons
Defoe, Daniel
Robinson Crusoe
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Desai, Kiran
The Inheritance of Loss
Díaz, Junot
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Dick, Philip K.
The Man in the High Castle
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
A Scanner Darkly
Dickens, Charles
A Tale of Two Cities
Great Expectations
Dillard, Annie
The Living
Dinesen, Isak
Out of Africa
Disch, Thomas M.
Camp Concentration
Doctorow, E.L.
Ragtime
Doig, Ivan
Dancing at the Rascal Fair
The Sea Runners
Dorris, Michael
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
The Adolescent
The Idiot
Crime and Punishment
Doyle, Brian
Mink River
Doyle, Roddy
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
du Maurier, Daphne
Rebecca
Dubus, III, André
House of Sand and Fog
Due, Tananarive
The Living Blood
The Between
Dumas, Alexandre
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers
Duncan, David James
The Brothers K
You Shall Know Our Velocity
El Sadaawi, Nawal
Woman at Point Zero
Ellis, Bret Easton
Less Than Zero
Ellison, Ralph
Invisible Man
Emecheta, Buchi
The Slave Girl
Enger, Leif
Peace Like a River
Enright, Anne
The Gathering
Esquivel, Laura
Like Water for Chocolate
Eugenides, Jeffrey
The Virgin Suicides
The Marriage Plot
Light in August
Fitch, Janet
White Oleander
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
This Side of Paradise
Fitzgerald, Penelope
Offshore
Flaubert, Gustave
Madame Bovary
Foer, Jonathan Safran
Everything is Illuminated
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Follet, Ken
Pillars of the Earth
World Without End
Ford, Ford Maddox
The Good Soldier
Forester, C.S.
The African Queen
Forster, E.M.
Maurice
A Room With a View
Frank, Pat
Alas, Babylon
Franzen, Jonathan
The Corrections
Fraxedas, J. Joaquin
The Lonely Crossing of Juan Cabrera
Frazier, Charles
Cold Mountain
Fuentes, Carlos
The Death of Artemio Cruz
A Lesson Before Dying
García Márquez, Gabriel
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gardner, John
Grendel
Goldberg, Myla
Bee Season
Golden, Arthur
Memoirs of a Geisha
Golding, William
Lord of the Flies
Rites of Passage
Gordimer, Nadine
July’s People
Graves, Robert
I, Claudius
Green, John
Looking for Alaska
Greene, Graham
The Quiet American
The Tenth Man
Ordinary People
Guterson, David
Snow Falling on Cedars
Our Lady of the Forest
The Other
Haddon, Mark
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Haley, Alex
Roots
Hamilton, Jane
A Map of the World
The Book of Ruth
Hammett, Dashiell
The Maltese Falcon
Hamsun, Knut
Hunger
Hardy, Thomas
Tess of the d’Urbevilles
Harris, Robert
Fatherland
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Scarlet Letter
Hazzard, Shirley
The Great Fire
Head, Bessie
Maru
When Rain Clouds Gather
Hedeyat, Sadegh
The Blind Owl
Hegi, Ursula
Stones from the River
Heinlein, Robert
Stranger in a Strange Land
Heller, Joseph
Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest
The Sun Also Rises
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea
A Farewell to Arms
Herbert, Frank
Dune
Hesse, Herman
Demian
Beneath the Wheel
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki
Past the Size of Dreaming
Horn, Dara
The World to Come
Hosseini, Khaled
The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Hugo, Victor
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Les Misérables
Hulme, Keri
The Bone People
Hurston, Zora Neale
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World
Irving, John
The Cider House Rules
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Iweala, Uzodinma
Beasts of No Nation
James, Henry
The Ambassadors
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
Heat and Dust
Jin, Ha
War Trash
Jones, Edward P.
The Known World
Jones, Lloyd
Mister Pip
Jong, Erica
Sappho’s Leap
Kafka, Franz
The Trial
The Castle
Kawabata, Yasunari
A Thousand Cranes
Kazantzakis, Nikos
Zorba the Greek
Kennedy, William
Ironweed
Kerouac, Jack
The Subterraneans
On the Road
Kesey, Ken
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Sometimes a Great Notion
Kidd, Chip
The Cheese Monkeys
Kidd, Sue Monk
The Secret Life of Bees
Kingsolver, Barbara
The Poisonwood Bible
Animal Dreams
The Bean Trees
Kincaid, Jamaica
The Autobiography of My Mother
Annie John
Klima, Ivan
Judge on Trial
Knowles, John
A Separate Peace
Indian Summer
Lahiri, Jhumpa
The Namesake
Lamb, Wally
She's Come Undone
Laxness, Halldor
Independent People
le Carré, John
The Constant Gardener
LeGuin, Ursula
The Dispossessed
The Lathe of Heaven
Lesley, Craig
The Sky Fisherman
Winterkill
Lethem, Jonathan
Motherless Brooklyn
Levy, Andrea
Small Island
Lewis, Sinclair
It Can’t Happen Here
London, Jack
The Iron Heel
Lopez, Barry Holstun
Crow and Weasel
Lord, Bette Bao
Spring Moon
Lynch, Jim
The Highest Tide
Fall on Your Knees
Mahfouz, Naguib
Midaq Alley
Malamud, Bernard
The Fixer
The Natural
Mann, Thomas
Death in Venice
Martel, Yann
The Life of Pi
Matthee, Dalene
Fiela's Child
Mason, Bobbie Ann
In Country
Maugham, W. Somerset
The Painted Veil
The Razor’s Edge
McCabe, Patrick
The Butcher Boy
McCarthy, Cormac
All the Pretty Horses
The Crossing
The Road
McCullers, Carson
The Member of the Wedding
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
McEwan, Ian
Amsterdam
McGreevy, Brian
Hemlock Grove
McMurtry, Larry
The Last Picture Show
Miller, Sue
While I Was Gone
The Good Mother
Mistry, Rohinton
A Fine Balance
Mitchard, Jacquelyn
The Deep End of the Ocean
Mitchell, David
Cloud Atlas
Mitchell, Margaret
Gone With the Wind
Morgan, Robert
Gap Creek
Morris, Mary McGarry
Songs in Ordinary Time
Morrison, Toni
Jazz
Sula
The Bluest Eye
Paradise
Murakami, Haruki
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Murasaki, Shikibu
The Tale of Genji
Murdoch, Iris
The Sea, The Sea
A Book of Memories
Naipaul, V.S.
In a Free State
Nemirovsky, Irene
Suite Française
Nordan, Lewis
Wolf Whistle
Newby, P.H.
Something to Answer For
In the Lake of the Woods
O’Connor, Flannery
Wise Blood
O’Nan, Stewart
Last Night at the Lobster
Oates, Joyce Carol
We Were the Mulvaneys
Black Water
The Tattooed Girl
Ondaatje, Michael
Anil’s Ghost
Orwell, George
1984
Fight Club
Survivor
Paton, Alan
Cry, the Beloved Country
Perrotta, Tom
Election
The Abstinence Teacher
Pierre, DBC
Vernon God Little
Pirsig, Robert M.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Plath, Sylvia
The Bell Jar
Potok, Chaim
My Name is Asher Lev
The Gift of Asher Lev
The Chosen
Proulx, E. Annie
Accordion Crimes
Remarque, Erich Maria
All Quiet on the Western Front
Reynolds, Sheri
The Rapture of Canaan
Rhys, Jean
Wide Sargasso Sea
Robbins, Tom
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Roth, Philip
American Pastoral
Roy, Arundhati
The God of Small Things
Rubens, Bernice
The Elected Member
Ruiz Zafrón, Carlos
The Shadow of the Wind
Russell, Mary Doria
The Sparrow
Russo, Richard
Empire Falls
Straight Man
Franny and Zooey
Sapphire
Push
Saramago, José
Blindness
The Cave
Baltasar and Blimunda
Schwarz, Christina
Drowning Ruth
Scott, Sir Walter
Ivanhoe
Sebold, Alice
The Lovely Bones
Seton, Anya
Green Darkness
Shelley, Mary
Frankenstein
The Pilot's Wife
Shute, Nevil
On the Beach
Sijie, Dai
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Simmons, Dan
Hyperion
Sinclair, Upton
The Jungle
Siporin, Alan
Fire’s Edge
Smiley, Jane
A Thousand Acres
Smith, Betty
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Smith, Zadie
White Teeth
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Gulag Archipelago
Steinbeck, John
The Winter of Our Discontent
The Grapes of Wrath
The Moon is Down
Cannery Row
The Wayward Bus
Stoker, Bran
Dracula
Storey, David
Saville
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Sutherland, Luke
Jelly Roll
Swift, Graham
Last Orders
Cane River
Tan, Amy
The Bonesetter’s Daughter
The Hundred Secret Senses
The Joy Luck Club
The Kitchen God's Wife
Saving Fish from Drowning
Tarkington, Booth
The Magnificent Ambersons
Tartt, Donna
The Goldfinch
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Vanity Fair
Tolstoy, Leo
Anna Karenina
Twain, Mark
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Tyler, Ann
The Accidental Tourist
Breathing Lessons
Player Piano
Slaughterhouse Five
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Cat’s Cradle
The Color Purple
Warren, Robert Penn
All the King’s Men
Waugh, Evelyn
A Handful of Dust
Welch, James
Winter in the Blood
Welsh, Irvine
Glue
Wells, H.G.
The Sleeper Awakes
The Time Machine
West, Nathanael
The Day of the Locust
Wharton, Edith
The House of Mirth
The Age of Innocence
Ethan Frome
Wharton, William
Birdy
Wilde, Oscar
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilder, Thornton
The Ides of March
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Winton, Tim
Breath
Wolfe, Tom
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Mrs. Dalloway
Orlando
Wren, M.K.
A Gift Upon the Shore
Wright, Richard
Native Son
Kitchen
Incoming 12th Grade
Part One
Please read Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, translated by Natasha Randall.
The copy you have from ISB looks like the one below. If it doesn’t have this cover, please make sure that Randall is the translator.
It will come up as overdue in July, but you may keep it all summer. We will renew your books in the fall so we can study the novel as a class.
Part Two
You will gather a Body of Work.
- It must not be thematically related to gender, race, or the American Dream since we covered those ideas during Junior Year.
- In September, you will submit a list of links to the texts in your Body of Work. Please make sure that the links still work before you submit your list.
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Shorten your links!
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https://bitly.com/
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What makes a Body of Work?
- Defined: a group of non-literary texts of the same text-type which share the same authorship
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Options for non-literary texts: technically “anything that can be read” – Think about the types of texts we studied in Extended English, as well as the types of texts we studied throughout the year in the main course, as long as they are non-literary.
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Please limit your selections to non-moving texts.