Needham High School
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2013 Summer Reading
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Absolutely True Story of a Part Time Indian
C Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
C Ahab's Wife
A Alchemist
B Alive
A All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
C All the King's Men
B Almost a Woman
B Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
B American Pastoral
C Amsterdam
B
Angela's Ashes
C Angle of Repose
C Anna Karenina
B Anna of Byzantium
B Anton the Dove Fancier and Other Tales from the Holocaust
A Art of Racing in the Rain
B Autobiography of Malcolm X
REQ Autobiography of Malcolm X
A Autobiograpohyof a Face
B Bel Canto
B Bone
A Book Thief
A Born to Run
A Boston Boy
A Bread Givers
C Brothers Karamazov
B Call of the Wild
B Causasia
B Childhood's End
B Circuit
C Cleopatra: A Life
A Clovermead
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AUTHOR
CATEGORY
AWARDS
Alexie
Good Reads
Stone
Historical Fiction
Naslund
Historical Fiction
Coelho
Exploring Cultures
Read
True Stories: Nonfiction
MacDonald
Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs
Warren
Politics
Santiago
Exploring Cultures
Chabon
Good Reads
Roth
Award Winners
Pulitzer Prize
McEwan
Award Winners
Booker Prize
McCourt
Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs
Stegner
Award Winners
Tolstoy
Transcends Time: Classics
Barrett
Historical Fiction
Gotfryd
Against all Odds
Stein
Good Reads
Haley
Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs
X
Required - AP Language
Greely
Against all Odds
Patchett
Award Winners
Myenne
Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs
Zusak
Good Reads
McDougall
True Stories: Nonfiction
Hentoff
Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs
Yezierska
Exploring Cultures
Dostoyevsky
Transcends Time: Classics
London
Action, Adventures and Suspense
Senna
Exploring Cultures
Clarke
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Jimenez
Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs
Schiff
Exploring Cultures
Randall
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Pulitzer Prize
PEN-Faulkner Award
Needham High School
Sorted by: CATEGORY
2013 Summer Reading
Color of Water
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
B Confessions of Max Tivoli
C Consumed
B Coyote Waits
REQ Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
B Dante Club
A Dawn
A Death in Belmont
B Devices and Desires
B Devil in the White City
A Diagnosis
A Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
A Double Indemnity
B Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man
B Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
A Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
B Dune
A Education of a Coach
B Einstein's Dreams
B Eleni
A Eleven Seconds: A Story of Tragedy, Courage and Triumph
B Emma
A Ender's Game
A Escape from Warsaw
B Eye of the Needle
A Fantastic Voyage
B Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
REQ Feed
A Fever Pitch
A Fire Rose
B First Elizabeth
B Foundation
B Freakonomics
B
McBride
Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs
B
Lucas
True Stories: Nonfiction
Greer
Good Reads
Barber
True Stories: Nonfiction
Hillerman
Action, Adventures and Suspense
Haddon
Required - Grade 9
Pearl
Good Reads
Butler
Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Junger
True Stories: Nonfiction
*
James
Action, Adventures and Suspense
Larson
True Stories: Nonfiction
Lightman
Good Reads
Tyler
Good Reads
Cain
Action, Adventures and Suspense
McElvaine
Politics
Obama
Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs
Sedaris
Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs
Herbert
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Halberstram
Sports
Lightman
Good Reads
Gage
Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs
Roy
Against all Odds
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Austen
Transcends Time: Classics
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Card
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Serailler
Historical Fiction
Follett
Action, Adventures and Suspense
Asimov
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Schlosser
True Stories: Nonfiction
Anderson
Required: Grade 10
Hornby
Sports
Lackey
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Erickson
Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs
Asimov
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Levitt
True Stories: Nonfiction
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Needham High School
Sorted by: CATEGORY
2013 Summer Reading
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Game of Shadows
Getting Away with Murder: TheTrue Story of the Emmett Till Case
Gilead
Glass Castle
Going after Cacciato
Golden Compass
Gone with the Wind
Gospel According to Larry
C
Great House
Krauss
Award Winners
B
Greatest Game Ever Played: Harry Vardon, Frances Ouimet and the Birth of Modern Golf
Grendel
Grind
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Handmaid's Tale
Handmaid's Tale
High Fidelity
High Trail to Danger
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Hobbitt
Hole in My Life
Home Team: Of Mothers, Daughters, and American Champions
Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
Hope was Here
Hot Zone
Hound of the Baskervilles
Hours
House of Mirth
House of the Scorpion
House of the Spirits
How We Got There: The 70s: The Decade that Brought You Modern Life
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
If Beale Street Could Talk
Illustrated Man
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Frost
Sports
Gardner
Required - AP Literature
Walters
Action, Adventures and Suspense
Diamond
Award Winners
Atwood
Good Reads
Atwood
Required - AP Literature
Hornby
Good Reads
Lowrey
Action, Adventures and Suspense
Adams
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Tolkien
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Gantos
Against all Odds
Lobo
Sports
Susskind
Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs
Bauer
Against all Odds
Preston
True Stories: Nonfiction
Doyle
Action, Adventures and Suspense
Cunningham
Award Winners
Wharton
Transcends Time: Classics
Farmer
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Allende
Historical Fiction
Frum
Politics
Rodriguez
Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs
Baldwin
Transcends Time: Classics
Bradbury
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Skloot
True Stories: Nonfiction
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A
B
A
A
B
C
AP
A
C
B
AP
A
A
A
B
A
A
B
A
B
A
B
B
A
C
B
B
B
A
B
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Bonds
Sports
Fogelman
Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs
Robinson
Award Winners
Walls
Against all Odds
O'Brien
Historical Fiction
Pullman
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Mitchell
Historical Fiction
Tashijian
Politics
Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
Needham High School
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
In the Time of Butterflies
A Interpreter of Maladies
B Interview with a Vampire
B Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
AP Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
C Invisible Man
B Invisible Man
B It's Not about the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
B Jailbird
B Jane Eyre
C Jihad vs. McWorld
C John Adams
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
B Jubilee
A Judgement in Stone
B Kafka on the Shore
B Killer Angels
B Kingdom of this World
REQ Kite Runner
B Last Amateurs: Playing for Glory and Honor in Division I
C Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams
A Lesson Before Dying
B Liar's Club: A Memoir
B Life of Pi
A Like Water for Chocolate
B Line of the Sun
A Little Brother
B Long Patrol
A Lovely Bones
A Lucy
B Man in the High Castle
B Master and Commander
B Memoirs of a Geisha
Sorted by: CATEGORY
2013 Summer Reading
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Philbrick
True Stories: Nonfiction
A
Alvarez
Exploring Cultures
Lahiri
Exploring Cultures
Rice
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Krakauer
Action, Adventures and Suspense
Krakauer
Required - AP Language
Ellison
Award Winners
Wells
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Armstrong
Sports
Vonnegut
Politics
Bronte
Transcends Time: Classics
Barber
Politics
McCullough
Award Winners
Verne
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Walker
Historical Fiction
Rendell
Action, Adventures and Suspense
Murakami
Good Reads
Shaara
Historical Fiction
Carpentier
Exploring Cultures
Hoseini
Required - Grade 12
Feinstein
Sports
Frey
Sports
Gaines
Against all Odds
Karr
Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs
Martel
Award Winners
Esquivel
Exploring Cultures
Cofer
Exploring Cultures
Doctorow
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Jacques
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Sebold
Against all Odds
Kincaid
Against all Odds
Dick
Science Fiction and Fantasy
O'Brian
Historical Fiction
Golden
Exploring Cultures
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Pulitzer Prize
National Book Award
Pulitzer Prize
Booker Prize
Needham High School
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A
C
C
C
A
B
A
C
B
B
B
B
B
B
A
C
B
A
C
B
AP
B
C
A
B
B
B
B
B
B
A
B
B
Memory Keeper's Daughter
Mexican White Boy
Middlemarch
Mists of Avalon
Moby Dick
Monster: The Autobiography of an LA Gang Member
Mountains Beyond Mountains
Murder on the Orient Express
Native Son
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
On the Bus: A Novel of Families Trapped by Forced Busing
On the Wings of Eagles
Once and Future King
Our Posthuman Future
Outliers
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Pale View of the Hills
Patriot Reign
Peeling the Onion
Piano Tuner
Prey
Pride & Prejudice
Rainbow 6
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Red Badge of Courage
Red Tent
Rhapsody: Child of Blood
Right Stuff
Road from Coorain
Robinson Crusoe
Rule of the Bone
Scorpions
Season of Life: A Football Star, a Boy, a Journey to Manhood
Second Life of Samuel Tyne
Sorted by: CATEGORY
2013 Summer Reading
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Edwards
Good Reads
Pena
Exploring Cultures
Eliot
Transcends Time: Classics
Bradley
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Melville
Transcends Time: Classics
Shakur
Against all Odds
Kidder
True Stories: Nonfiction
Christie
Action, Adventures and Suspense
Wright
Transcends Time: Classics
Ehrenreich
True Stories: Nonfiction
Scott
Historical Fiction
Follett
Action, Adventures and Suspense
White
Transcends Time: Classics
Fukuyama
True Stories: Nonfiction
Gladwell
True Stories: Nonfiction
Doyle
Exploring Cultures
Ishiguro
Exploring Cultures
Holley
Sports
Orr
Against all Odds
Mason
Historical Fiction
Crichton
Action, Adventures and Suspense
Austen
Required - AP Literature
Clancy
Politics
Nafisi
Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs
Crane
Historical Fiction
Diamant
Good Reads
Haydon
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Wolfe
True Stories: Nonfiction
Conway
Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs
Defoe
Action, Adventures and Suspense
Banks
Good Reads
Myers
Action, Adventures and Suspense
Marx
Sports
Edugyan
Exploring Cultures
Needham High School
Sorted by: CATEGORY
2013 Summer Reading
Shakespeare Bats Cleanup
Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid in America
B She's Come Undone
B Shooting from the Outside
B Silver Linings Playbook
A Slam
B Snow Falling on Cedars
A Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
B Souls of Black Folk
A Speak
A Sphere
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two
B
Cultures
B Spring Snow: The Sea of Fertility, a Cycle of Four Novels
B State of Wonder
C Steve Jobs
C Stones from the River
B Story of Edgar Sawtelle
B Sula
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
B Tale of Two Cities
C Tess of the D'Ubervilles
A Testament
AP Things They Carried
REQ Things They Carried
B This Side of Paradise
C Tiger's Wife
A Travels with Charly
B Unbroken
C Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
C Up from Slavery
B Values of the Game
A Vanishing Act
B Wait Till Next Year
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering American on the Appalachian Trail
A
Koetrge
Against all Odds
B
Kozol
True Stories: Nonfiction
Lamb
Good Reads
Vanderveer
Sports
Quick
Good Reads
Myers
Sports
Guterson
Award Winners
See
Exploring Cultures
Du Bois
Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs
Anderson
Against all Odds
Crichton
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Fadiman
Exploring Cultures
Mishima
Exploring Cultures
Patchett
Award Winners
Isaacson
Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs
Hegi
Historical Fiction
Wroblewski
Good Reads
Morrison
Good Reads
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Wallace
True Stories: Nonfiction
*
Dickens
Transcends Time: Classics
*
Hardy
Transcends Time: Classics
*
Grisham
Action, Adventures and Suspense
O'Brien
Required - AP Language
O'Brien
Required - Grade 11
Fitzgerald
Transcends Time: Classics
Obreht
Exploring Cultures
Steinbeck
Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs
Hillenbrand
Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs
Ambrose
True Stories: Nonfiction
Washington
Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs
Bradley
Sports
Picoult
Good Reads
Goodwin
Sports
Bryson
Good Reads
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PEN-Faulkner Award
Needham High School
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B
A
A
B
A
B
B
B
B
A
A
B
B
B
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B
Wanting Seed
Water for Elephants
Watership Down
We are All Athletes
What is the What
When My Name Was Keoko
Whiteness Visible
Winesburg, Ohio
Wizard of Earthsea
Woman on the Edge of Time
Women of Brewster Place
Wright Sister: Katherine Wright and Her Famous Brothers
Wuthering Heights
Yell-Oh Girls
You Remind Me of Me
You Shall Know Our Velocity
Zeitoun
Sorted by: CATEGORY
2013 Summer Reading
Burgess
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Gruen
Good Reads
Adams
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Nelson
Sports
Eggers
Against all Odds
Park
Exploring Cultures
Babb
Politics
Anderson
Transcends Time: Classics
LeGuin
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Piercy
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Naylor
Against all Odds
Maurer
True Stories: Nonfiction
Bronte
Transcends Time: Classics
Nam
Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs
Chaon
Against all Odds
Eggers
Good Reads
Eggers
True Stories: Nonfiction