BISHOP MIEGE SUMMER
All students are required to read the selections
listed for their grades and levels of English. Testing
over summer reading will take place the first week
of school. Students will not be responsible for
taking notes along with their reading. However,
highlighting and annotating in your own book
is highly encouraged.
Junior level AP students must write a paper
based on their reading within the first quarter
of school. It is helpful to take chapter notes
marking specific quotes and literary devices to
be used in their paper. A notebook of summaries
might help note specific passages without having
to review the entire text.
REQUIRED READING
FRESHMEN
HONORS LEVEL:
1. Animal Farm by George Orwell
2. Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo
ALL OTHER LEVELS:
1. Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo
SOPHOMORES
HONORS LEVEL:
1. Anthem by Ayn Rand
2. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
ALL OTHER LEVELS:
1. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
JUNIORS
AP LEVEL:
1. The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
2. A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
3. Non-Fiction Essay Packet: This will
be distributed at the end of the year
to those sophomores who have signed
up for an AP-level course for junior
year. You may also pick this up in the
Guidance Office over the summer.
ALL OTHER LEVELS:
1. Night by Elie Weisel
SENIORS
AP LEVEL:
1. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
2. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
3. Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare
ALL OTHER LEVELS:
1. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
READING LIST
ADDITIONAL OPTIONAL READING SUGGESTIONS
To encourage reading throughout the summer, the Bishop Miege English Department
has put together a list of titles that students should have read before they go to college.
Novels that will be required reading throughout the students’ four years at Miege are
indicated by an asterisk (*). The list is intended not only to prepare students for college
but also to encourage a lifelong reading habit. We hope you make the rest of the list a goal
for your own completion. Happy reading!
1984 by George Orwell
*Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The by
Mark Twain
Alchemist, The by Paulo Coelho
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich
Maria Remarques
*And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
*Animal Farm by George Orwell
*Anthem by Ayn Rand
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Bean Trees, The by Barbara Kingsolver
Beloved by Toni Morrison
*Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quinonez
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
*Catcher in the Rye, The by J.D. Salinger
Chosen, The by Chaim Potok
Color of Water, The by James McBride
Color Purple, The by Alice Walker
Count of Monte Cristo, The by Alexandre
Dumas
*Crucible, The by Arthur Miller
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
*Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Diary of a Young Girl, The by Anne Frank
*Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Farewell to Arms, A by Ernest Hemingway
Fences by August Wilson
*Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
*Glass Menagerie, The by Tennessee
Williams
*Grapes of Wrath, The by John Steinbeck
*Great Gatsby, The by F. Scott Fitzgerald
*Grendel by John Gardner
*Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Handmaid’s Tale, The by Margaret Atwood
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Hobbit, The by J.R.R. Tolkien
*House on Mango Street, The by Sandra
Cisneros
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
*Inherit the Wind by J. Lawerence and
Robert Lee
*Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Joy Luck Club, The by Amy Tan
Julius Caesar by Williams Shakespeare
Kindred by Octavia Butler
*Lord of the Flies by William Golding
*Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Malcolm X by Alex Haley
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A by William
Shakespeare
Miracle Worker by William Gibson
Natural, The by Bernard Malamud
*Night by Elie Weisel
*Odyssey, The by Homer
*Oedipus the King by Sophocles
*Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Old Man and the Sea, The by Ernest
Hemingway
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken
Kesey
*Othello by William Shakespeare
*Our Town by Thorton Wilder
Outsiders, The by S.E. Hinton
Pearl, The by John Steinbeck
Piano Lesson, The by August Wilson
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
*Raisin in the Sun, A by Lorraine Hansberry
Red Badge of Courage, The by Stephen
Crane
*Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
*Scarlet Letter, The by Nathaniel Hawthorne
*Separate Peace, A by John Knowles
*Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Speak by Laurie Halsey Anderson
*Stranger, The by Albert Camus
*Streetcar Named Desire, A by Tennessee
Williams
Sun Also Rises, The by Ernest Hemingway
*Taming of the Shrew, The by William
Shakespeare
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora
Neale Hurston
*Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Things They Carried, The by Tim O”Brien
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose