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St Joseph High School Summer Reading List
Summer 2012

Freshmen | Sophomores | Juniors | Seniors

• Freshmen
  
  English I: An Introduction to Literature
  
  ALL sections required book: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  HONORS additional requirement: Beyond the Myth: The Story of Joan of Arc by Polly Schoyer Brooks
  
  Suggested Reading:
  
  Good-Bye Mr Chips by James Hilton
  Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
  Madam Curie by Eve Curie
  The Chosen by Chaim Potok
  The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
  The Pearl by John Steinbeck
  The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
  Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
  The Wednesday Wars by Gary D Schmidt
  
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• Sophomores
  
  English II: American Literature
  
  ALL sections required book: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
  HONORS additional requirement: Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  
  Suggested Reading:
  
  A Death in the Family by James Agee
  A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  Profiles in Courage by John F Kennedy
  Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  O Pioneers by Willa Cather
  Ordinary People by Judith Guest
  
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• Juniors
  
  English III: British Literature
  
  ALL sections required book: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  HONORS additional requirement: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
  
  Suggested Reading:
  
  A Passage to India by E M Forster
  Dracula by Brahm Stoker
  Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
  Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  Silas Marner by Geore Eliot
  Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
  The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
  The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
  The Queen of Water by Laura Resau
  Time of the Witches by Anna Myers
  
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• Seniors
  
  

English IV: World Literature

ALL sections required book: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
HONORS additional requirement: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Suggested Reading:

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Time Machine by H G Wells
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch


English IV: AP Literature and Composition

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Heroes, Gods and Monsters of Greek Myths by Bernard Evslin
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini


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