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Supplemental Reading |
SUGGESTED LIST FOR
SUMMER READING
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Books to Read Before College | |
| THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN--Twain |
JANE EYRE----------------------------------------------Bronte |
| GREAT EXPECTATIONS----------------------------Dickens |
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE---------------------------Austen |
| THE GREAT GATSBY------------------------------Fitzgerald | MYTHOLOGY----------------------------------------Hamilton |
| HAMLET--------------------------------------------Shakespeare | MACBETH----------------------------------------Shakespeare |
| OEDIPUS REX----------------------------------------Sophocles | A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM--------Shakespeare |
| THE ODYSSEY--------------------------------------------Homer | THE SCARLET LETTER------------------------Hawthorne |
| WUTHERING HEIGHTS--------------------------------Bronte | MOBY DICK-------------------------------------------Melville |
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THE BIBLE |
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Classics Old & New | |
| A DEATH IN THE FAMILY-------------------------------------Agee | THE GRAPES OF WRATH---------------------------Steinbeck |
| COLORED PEOPLE--------------------------------------------Gates | HIROSHIMA-------------------------------------------------Hersey |
| THE GOOD EARTH---------------------------------------------Buck | I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS--------Angelou |
| THE CRUCIBLE-------------------------------------------------Miller | IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK------------------Baldwin |
| THE COLOR PURPLE---------------------------------------Walker | THE INVISIBLE MAN-------------------------------------Ellison |
| BRAVE NEW WORLD---------------------------------------Huxley | THE FOUNTAINHEAD---------------------------------------Rand |
| THE AGE OF INNOCENCE-------------------------------Wharton | THE JUNGLE----------------------------------------------Sinclair |
| A FAREWELL TO ARMS-----------------------------Hemingway | THE BELL JAR----------------------------------------------Plath |
| CRIME AND PUNISHMENT-------------------------Dostoyevsky | THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS---------------------Cooper |
| ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT----------Remarque | LORD OF THE FLIES----------------------------------Golding |
| FAHRENHEIT 451-----------------------------------------Bradbury | MAIN STREET-----------------------------------------------Lewis |
| BELOVED----------------------------------------------------Morrison | MAJOR BARBARA----------------------------------------Shaw |
| THE CATCHER IN THE RYE-----------------------------Salinger | A MEMBER OF THE WEDDING-----------------McCullers |
| DEATH OF A SALES MAN----------------------------------Miller | MY ANTONIA----------------------------------------------Cather |
| A DOLLS HOUSE------------------------------------------------Ibsen | NATIVE SON-----------------------------------------------Wright |
| 1984----------------------------------------------------------------Orwell | NIGHT--------------------------------------------------------Weisel |
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Books to entertain your brain | |
| THE KING MUST DIE----------------------------------------Renault | LIKE SISTERS ON THE HOMEFRONT----------Williams |
| CHINA BOY----------------------------------------------------------Lee | JERUSALEM------------------------------------------------Holland |
| THE CHOSEN-----------------------------------------------------Potok | MAMA DAY--------------------------------------------------Naylor |
| COD: THE BIOGRAPHY OF A FISH----------------Kurlansky | MANCHU PALACES-------------------------------------Larsen |
| COLD MOUTAIN---------------------------------------------Frazier | MIDDLE SON----------------------------------------------------Ida |
| COLD SASSY TREE-------------------------------------------Burns | MONTANA 1948-----------------------------------------Watson |
| COMING HOME-----------------------------------------------Pilcher | ONCE WERE WARRIORS---------------------------------Duff |
| JOURNEY TO TOPAZ---------------------------------------Uchida | PARROT IN THE OVEN, MI VIDA----------------Martinez |
| SPRING MOON--------------------------------------------------Lord | PIGS IN HEAVEN------------------------------------Kingsolver |
| FIVE CHIMNEYS--------------------------------------------Lengyel | PILLARS OF THE EARTH------------------------------Follett |
| THE GLORY FIELD-------------------------------------------Myers | THE PRICE OF A CHILD---------------------------------Carey |
| HO----------------------------------------------------------Halberstam | THE PRINCE OF TIDES---------------------------------Conroy |
| THE HUNDERD SECRET SENSES---------------------------Tan | SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS------------------Guttterson |
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