THE ALTAMONT SCHOOL SUMMER READING LIST - GRADE 11 

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THE ALTAMONT SCHOOL ENGLISH DEPARTMENT READING POLICY The Altamont School English Department requires every Altamont student to read during the summer months five books, including the required books, from this summer reading list. Students may not substitute other titles by the same author for summer reading. English classes will always start the year with a discussion of what we have read over the summer, so do not worry if you do not completely understand the reading. Just read the book and bring questions to class when we talk about the book at the beginning of the school year. Make notes if that helps you. English teachers will quiz students during the first week, and in most classes students will write papers on their summer reading. During the school year, every Altamont student is required to read at least 400 pages per month. Rereading books for English credit is a violation of the Honor Code, excepting required titles for each class. Students may NOT use SparkNotes, the Internet, or any type of condensed source for reference or analysis for summer reading or books read during the school year. Using reading aids in place of reading the text is a violation of the Honor Code. Just read the book.

I. Required: Ellison, Ralph (NOT Wells) Warren, Robert Penn

Invisible Man All the King’s Men

II Three are required from the following list: FICTION Achebe, C. Anderson, S. Apuleius, trans. Relihan Arnow, H. Asimov, I. Atwood, M. Austen, Jane Baldwin, J. Balzac, H. Bellow, S. Bronte, C. Bronte, E. Buck, P. Camus, A. Cather, W. Chopin, K. Conroy, P. Cooper, J.F. DeLillo, D.

Things Fall Apart Winesburg, Ohio The Tale of Cupid and Psyche The Dollmaker I, Robot The Handmaid’s Tale; The Blind Assassin Persuasion Go Tell It on the Mountain Pere Goriot The Adventures of Augie March; Humboldt's Gift Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights The Good Earth The Plague; The Stranger Death Comes for the Archbishop The Awakening The Prince of Tides The Last of the Mohicans Underworld

Doxiadis, A. Dreiser, T. Dumas , A. Faulkner, Wm. Fitzgerald, F. Scott Flaubert, G. Gaines, E. Garcia, C. Garcia Marquez, G. Gibbons, K. Gogol, N. Graves, R. Greene, G. Guterson, D. Hawthorne, N. Heller, J. Hemingway, E. Hersey, J. Hudson, Wm. Hugo, V. Hurston, Z.N. Huxley, A. Ibuse, M. Irving, J. Jackson, S. James, H. Kesey, K. Lahiri, J. Larsen, N. Lewis, S. Lightman, A. London, J. Lytle, A. Malamud, B. McCarthy, C. McCorkle, J. McCullers, C. Morrison, T. O’Brien, T.

Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture: A Novel of Mathematical Obsession An American Tragedy; Sister Carrie Three Musketeers; Count of Monte Cristo; Queen Margot As I Lay Dying; The Hamlet; Light in August; Absalom, Absalom! The Beautiful and Damned; Tender is the Night Madame Bovary A Lesson Before Dying Dreaming in Cuban One Hundred Years of Solitude Ellen Foster Dead Souls I, Claudius (Ancient Rome) Brighton Rock; The Power and the Glory Snow Falling on Cedars The House of the Seven Gables; The Scarlet Letter Catch 22 The Sun Also Rises; For Whom the Bell Tolls; A Farewell to Arms A Single Pebble Green Mansions Les Miserables (France, 19th C.); Hunchback of Notre Dame Their Eyes Were Watching God Brave New World Black Rain A Prayer for Owen Meaney We Have Always Lived in the Castle Portrait of a Lady; Washington Square; The Turn of the Screw One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Interpreter of Maladies (short stories) Quicksand Main Street; Elmer Gantry; Babbitt Einstein’s Dreams Martin Eden; The Sea Wolf The Long Night The Assistant All the Pretty Horses; Child of God; Blood Meridian; The Road Crash Diet (short stories) The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter The Bluest Eye The Things They Carried; In the Lake of the Woods

O'Connor, F. Patchett, Ann Percy, W. Petry, A. Plath, S. Porter, K.A. Potok, C. Proulx, A. Rolvaag, O.E. Roth, P. Said, K. Salinger, J.D. Sams, F. Sholokhov, M. Silko, L.M. Sinclair, U. Solzhenitsyn, A Steinbeck, J. Stendahl Stone, I. Styron, W. Taylor, P. Thackeray, Wm. Tolstoy, L. Trumbo, D. Updike, J. Uris, L. Voltaire Vonnegut, K. Walker, A. Welty, E Wharton, E. Wolfe, Thomas Wolfe, Tom Wouk, H. Wright, R. Wrinkle, M.

Wise Blood; The Complete Stories (ten stories count as one book) Bel Canto Love in the Ruins; The Last Gentleman; The Moviegoer; The Thanatos Syndrome The Street The Bell Jar Ship of Fools The Chosen; The Promise Shipping News Giants in the Earth Portnoy’s Complaint Ali and Nino Franny and Zooey; The Catcher in the Rye Run with the Horsemen And Quiet Flows the Don Ceremony The Jungle One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich The Grapes of Wrath; In Dubious Battle The Red and the Black The Agony and the Ecstasy; Lust for Life Sophie’s Choice A Woman of Means Vanity Fair Anna Karenina Johnny Got his Gun Rabbit Run Exodus; Trinity Candide Slaughterhouse Five Color Purple The Optimist's Daughter; Losing Battles; Delta Wedding

The Age of Innocence; House of Mirth; Ethan Frome You Can't Go Home Again; Look Homeward, Angel Bonfire of the Vanities Caine Mutiny Native Son Wash

NON-FICTION AND BIOGRAPHY Agee, J. Angelou, M.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Asimov, I. Atkins, P. Berry, A. Boethius, trans. Relihan Boorstin, D.J. Brown, D. Calder, N. Capote, T. Carson, R. Connell, E. Day, D. Didion, J. Dillard, A. Douglass, F. Dunham, W. Edwards, S. Frazer, A. Frye, N. Gandhi Gleick, J. Halberstam, D. Hamilton, V. Hanson, V. D. Hawking, S. Hemingway, E. Hersey Jacobs, H. Kidder, T. Koff, C. Karlsen, C. Krutch Lewis, P. Malcolm X and Haley Massie, R. Mayer, H. MacKendrick, P. McCollough, D. McCourt, F.

Atom The Periodic Kingdom The Next 500 Years Consolation of Philosophy The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson(b); The Discoverers Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West Einstein's Universe In Cold Blood Silent Spring Son of the Morning Star (b) The Search for King Arthur The White Album Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself Journey Through Genius Rebel! A Biography of Tom Paine (b) Mary Queen of Scots (b) The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance The Essential Writings of Mohatma Gandhi Isaac Newton (b) The Best and the Brightest Hugo Black: The Alabama Years(b) Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece A Brief History of Time A Moveable Feast Hiroshima Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Mountains Beyond Mountains The Bone Woman : A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England Henry David Thoreau (b) The Grand Incendiary (b) Autobiography of Malcolm X (b) Nicholas and Alexandra (b) A Son of Thunder (b) The Mute Stones Speak John Adams (b) ‘Tis

McPhee, John A. McWhorter, D. Menocal, M. R. Milford, N. Mizener, A. Murchie, G. Nafisi, A. Nooteboom, C. Paoli, U. E. Pollan, M. Plato Plutarch Ray, J. Reardon, B.P. Rhodes, R. Santiago, E. Singh, S. Smith, G. Stringer,C. Thoreau, H. D. Turnbull, A. Twain, Mark Van Deusen, G. Wolfe, T.

Annals of the Former World Carry Me Home The Ornament of the World Zelda (b) The Far Side of Paradise (b) Music of the Spheres Reading Lolita in Tehran Roads to Santiago Rome: Its People, Life and Customs Omnivore’s Dilemma Symposium Parallel Lives (any two of the parallel lives) Ecology of a Cracker Childhood Collected Ancient Greek Novels (any one novel) The Making of the Atomic Bomb When I Was Puerto Rican Fermat's Enigma When the Cheering Stopped (b) African Exodus Walden Scott Fitzgerald (b) Life on the Mississippi Horace Greeley (b) The Painted Word

DRAMA Aeschylus Chekov, A. Euripides Ibsen, H. Gilman, R. Hansberry, L. MacLeish, A. Moliere Miller, A. O'Neill , E. Sartre, J. Shaffer, P. Shakespeare, Wm. Sophocles Wasserstein, W. Wilder, T. Williams, T. Wilson, A.

Orestia Cherry Orchard Medea A Doll’s House Spinning into Butter A Raisin in the Sun J.B. The Misanthrope; The Bourgeois Gentleman The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons A Long Day’s Journey into Night No Exit Equus Twlefth Night; Othello; Macbeth; The Tempest Theban Cycle The Heidi Chronicles Our Town Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Night of the Iguana The Piano Lesson; Fences