Summer Reading List

• Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson (8th Grade)
• Hope was Here by Joan Bauer (8th Grade)
• The Giver Series (includes The Giver, Messenger, Gathering Blue, and Son) by Lois Lowry (7th-9th grade)
• The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull (8th Grade)
• Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins (8th Grade)
• Dr. Franklin’s Island by Ann Halam (8th Grade)
• Unwind by Neal Shusterman (8th-9th Grade)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (8th-9th Grade)
• The Misfits by James Howe (8th-9th grade)
• Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn (8th-9th Grade)
• West Side Story by Irving Shulman (9th Grade)
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles (9th Grade)
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (7th-8th grade)
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (10th-12th grade)
• Matched Trilogy (includes Matched, Crossed, and Reached) by Ally Condie (8th-9th grade)

• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (9th-12th grade)
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (9th-12th grade)
• The Liars’ Club by Mary Karr (10th-12th grade)
• The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls (10th-12th grade)
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett (10th-12th grade)
• Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie (9th-12th grade)
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (10th-12th grade)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (9th-10th grade)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (10th-11th grade)
• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (11th-12th grade)
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (9th-12th grade)
• Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee (9th-10th grade)
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (9th-12th grade)
• Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (9th-12th grade)
• The Soul of Central New York by Sean Kirst (9th-12th grade)

• In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick (9-12th grade)
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (10th-12th grade)
• Beloved by Toni MOrrison (12th grade)
• All Over but the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg (10th-12th grade)
• This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff (9th-10th grade)
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy (11th-12th grade)
• Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (11th-12th grade)
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never DO Again by David Foster Wallace (11th-12th grade)
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (10th-12th grade)
• Carry On, Jeeves  by P.G. Wodehouse (9th-12th grade)
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (11th-12th grade)
• The Waterworks by E.L. Doctorow (10th-12th grade)
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

• Into the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides (10th-12th grade)
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck (11th-12th grade)
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (11th-12th grade)
• Anything Joyce Carol Oates has ever written (11th-12th grade, adult situations)
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• This Fight is Our Fight by Elizabeth Warren (nonfiction)
• On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder (nonfiction)
• The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon (11th-12th grade, adult situations)
• Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks (nonfiction)
• The Vanishing American Adult:: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance by Ben Sasse (nonfiction)
• Barracoon--Zora Neale Hurston (12th--adult situations)
• The Stand--Stephen King (12th--adult situations)
• LaRose--Louise Erdrich (12th--adult situations)
• A Gentleman in Moscow--Amor Towles (12th--adult situations)
• Underground Railroad--Colson Whitehead (12th--adult situations)
• 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl--Mona Awad (12th--adult situations)
• Beneath a Scarlet Sky--Mark Sullivan

• Friends, siblings, and cousins often have similar interests. Ask them about books they love!
• The Pulitzer Prize winning book list’s website shows the winners and finalists and provides a short synopsis of each book. http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat
• Goodreads.com lets you search different genres and keep track of what you've read. http://www.goodreads.com/
• The College Bound Reading List has a great selection. http://www.greatschools.org/gk/articles/recommended-college-bound/
• Amazon.com breaks up reading choices by new releases, best sellers, etc. And, of course, you can actually look inside most books...
• The New York Times book reviews are well-respected by avid readers.
• There are also some great websites that help you find titles or authors similar to those you like, sort of like Pandora, but for books.  Among them are the following…