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C.B. High School Summer Reading List 2007
(A.P. English List below)
Click on hyperlinked titles to read student reviews of the books. 
Click HERE to submit your own review of a book. 

 

Honors

Academic


10th

 


The Things They Carried
(O’Brien)

Into the Wild (Krakauer)

The Secret Life of Bees (Kidd)

Cat’s Cradle (Vonnegut)
 


The Things They Carried
(O’Brien)

Into The Wild (Krakauer)

The Secret Life Of Bees (Kidd)

Durable Goods (Berg)

 

Honors
 

Academic
 

 
11th


Dracula (Stoker)

Rebecca  (Du Maurier)

Great Expectations (Dickens)

The Picture of Dorian Gray
(Wilde)


Dracula (Stoker)

Rebecca   (Du Maurier)

The Time Machine   (H.G. Wells)

The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Adams)

The Picture of Dorian Gray
(Wilde)

 

 

Honors
 

Academic
 


12th


Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith (Nahai)

Bel Canto (Patchett)

The Kite Runner (Hosseini)

Nectar in a Sieve (Markandaya)

 


Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith (Nahai)

Bel Canto (Patchett)

The Kite Runner (Hosseini)

A Lesson Before Dying (Gaines)

 

Basic Level English - all grade levels

     Students enrolled in these classes are expected to self-select one book to read. The book may come
from the above list, or it may be a different book of the student's own choice.

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A.P. English Summer Reading
(Choose one Classic & one Contemporary)

CLASSIC NOVELS
Persuasion (Austen)
Jane Eyre (Bronte)
David Copperfield (Dickens)
Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)
Madame Bovary (Flaubert)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Hardy)

CONTEMPORARY NOVELS
Alias Grace (Atwood)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Garcia Marquez)
Snow Falling on Cedars (Guterson)
Catch-22 (Heller)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Kesey)
Beloved (Morrison)
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit (Winterson)

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