The Quarry Lane School
High School Level
SUMMER READING LIST (2015-2016)
Grades 9-12
All rising freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors who are not in
the IB English program will read one selection from the Fiction and
one from the Non-Fiction book lists below, plus a third book of their
choice from either the Fiction or the Non-Fiction lists. All junior and
senior IB HL and SL students will read specific selections chosen for
their courses and levels. They are also encouraged to read one
selection from the Fiction and the Non-Fiction book lists.
At the beginning of the school year, students in English classes will be
assigned graded work related to their summer reading as directed by
their respective teachers at their grade levels. Those assignments
may include both a written and an oral component.
Students are encouraged, though not required, to read additional
books from one or both of the fiction and non-fiction lists.
Summer Reading
Fiction Book List
Grades 9-12
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Judith Foer
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Crime and Punishment by Fyord Dostoyevsky
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Native Son by Richard Wright
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
War of the Worlds by H.G. Well
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Patton
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
Ethan Fromm by Edith Wharton
Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Mary by Vladimir Nabokov
Oh Pioneers by Willa Cather
Passing by Nella Larsen
Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Summer Reading
Non-Fiction Book List
Grades 9-12
David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
Unbroken by Laura Hillebrand
The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northrop
Confidence Code by Kathy Kay and Claire Shipman
The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
All The President’s Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
The Black Jocabins by C.L.R. James
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Linda Brent
The Life of an American Farmer by St John de Crevecoeur
Tecumseh: A Life, by John Sugden
Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
Surely You’re Joking, by Richard Feynman
The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
Chaos by James Gleick
Burr by Gore Vidal
I Claudias by Robert Graves
Wisdom Sits in Places by Basso
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
Africa in My Blood by Jane Goodall
Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams and Jefferson by Gore Vidal
Madame Curie: A Biography by Eve Curie
No Ordinary Times: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: by Doris Goodwin
The People’s Tycoon: Henry Ford by Steven Watts
Slave: My True Story by Mende Nazer
Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal
Summer Reading
Specific Book List
IB SL Juniors
And
IB HL Juniors
Students will choose two selections from the following list:
The Iliad, By Homer
The Apology, Phaedo, and Crito, by Plato
The Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle
The Golden Sayings, by Epictetus
The Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
The Way Things Are, by Lucretius (translation by Rolfe Humphries)
The Confessions, by St. Augustine
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill
Tartuffe, by Molière
Bible: Genesis, Book of Job, Gospel according to St. Matthew.
Quran, Prophet Mohammad
Bhagavad, Gita
The Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides
The Major Works, Francis Bacon
Rights of Man, Common Sense, by Thomas Paine
Beyond Good and Evil, by Friedrich Nietzsche
Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft
Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and Prometheus Bound, by
Aeschylus
Oedipus the King, Antigone, Elektra by Sophocles
Hippolytus, The Bacchae, by Euripides
The Frogs, Lysistrata by Aristophanes
On Friendship, On Old Age, and letters, by Cicero
Letters, by Pliny the Younger
Aeneid Books 1-6, by Virgil
History of Rome Books 1-5, Livy
The Wealth of Nations Chapters 1,2,3,4,8,10, by Adam Smith
Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx
The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
The Forces of Matter and The Chemical History of a Candle, by Michael
Faraday
On the Inequality among Mankind, by Jean Jacques Rousseau
The Prince, Machiavelli
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume
Students will also read:
Elements of Style, ISBN: 0143112724
On Writing Well, ISBN: 0060891548
IB HL Seniors
And
IB SL Seniors
Students at both IB levels have been given a list of the following
selections by their instructors that include:
Genesis
Gospel of Matthew
Phaedo
Apology
Aenaed 1-4
Students will also read:
Elements of Style, ISBN: 0143112724
On Writing Well, ISBN: 0060891548