CHARLES COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
HIGH SCHOOL SUMMER READING LISTS 2016 – 2017
The Charles County Honors/AP English program
requires students to complete summer reading to
prepare them for the upcoming school year and to
give teachers a common ground with which to begin
instruction. Summer reading will be assessed by tests,
quizzes, and other methods when school reopens.
Book lists will go to libraries and bookstores; students
are encouraged to purchase individual copies, if
possible, so that they can annotate the texts as they
read. Please sign below, keep the top copy, and return
the bottom copy to your English teacher.
I understand that enrollment in an honors or AP
English class entails completion of the appropriate
summer reading assignment.
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High School
North Point High School
Grade
9H
Lubar, Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
Grade
10H
Dumas, Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of
Growing Up Iranian in America
Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Grade
11H
Grande, The Distance Between Us
Krakauer, Into The Wild
Grade
12H
Dunn, Ella Minnow Pea
Huxley, Brave New World
AP
Language
Krakauer, Into Thin Air
Graff, Birkenstein, They Say, I
Say:The Moves That Matter in
Academic Writing (edition w/out
readings)
La Plata High School
Shakespeare, Macbeth
Chopin, The Awakening
Orwell, 1984
McDonough High School
Grade
9H
Knowles, A Separate Peace
Grade
9H
Lubar, Sleeping Freshmen Never
Lie
Grade
9H
Choose one: required
See attached sheet
Grade
10H
Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Grade
10H
Stockett, The Help
Choose one: required
Golding, Lord of the Flies
Orwell, Animal Farm
Grade
10H
Choose two: required
See attached sheet
Grade
11H
Twain, The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
Dumas, Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of
Growing Up Iranian in America
Grade
11H
Carson, Gifted Hands
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Grade
11H
Miller, The Crucible
Carson, Gifted Hands
Grade
12H
Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Spiegelman, Maus I
Grade
12H
Choose one: required
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Dunn, Ella Minnow Pea
Choose one: required
Williams, A Streetcar Named
Desire
Wilson, The Piano Lesson
Grade
12H
Camus, The Stranger
*Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
AP
Language
AP
Language
Walls, The Glass Castle
Graff, Birkenstein, They Say,
I Say:The Moves That Matter in
Academic Writing (edition w/out
readings)
Cohen, 50 Essays: A Portable
Anthology (3rd edition)
AP
Literature
Chopin, The Awakening
Shakespeare, Macbeth
Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Thomas Stone High School
AP
Literature
Strunk, White, The Elements of
Style
Choose two: required
Junger, The Perfect Storm
Krakauer, Into Thin Air
Kozol, Amazing Grace
*Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
Wilson, The Piano Lesson
Chopin, The Awakening
Shakespeare, Macbeth
St. Charles High School
AP
Language
The Declaration of Independence
Paine, Common Sense
Ellis, Founding Brothers: The
Revolutionary Generation
AP
Literature
Choose three: required
See attached sheet
Westlake High School
Grade
9H
Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
Grade
9H
Lubar, Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
Grade
9H
*Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
Grade
10H
Rose, Twelve Angry Men
Choose one: required
Stockett, The Help
Myers, Sunrise Over Fallujah
Grade
10H
Dumas, Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of
Growing Up Iranian in America
Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Grade
10H
Orwell, Animal Farm
Homer, The Odyssey
Grade
11H
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Miller, The Crucible
Grade
11H
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Krakauer, Into The Wild
Grade
12H
Huxley, Brave New World
Shakespeare, Othello
Grade
12H
Wright, Native Son
Miller, Death of a Salesman
Grade
11H
Grade
12H
AP
Language
Eggers, Zeitoun
AP
Literature
Lackey High School
Miller, The Crucible
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
Orwell, 1984
Spiegelman, Maus I
Strunk, White, The Elements of Style
Doctorow, Little Brother
AP
Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
Language Graff, Birkenstein, They Say,
I Say:The Moves That Matter in
Academic Writing (edition w/out
AP
Language
Capote, In Cold Blood
Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed:
On (Not)Getting By in America
Miller, The Crucible
AP
Literature
Chopin, The Awakening
Williams, A Streetcar Named
Desire
Brontë, Wuthering Heights
readings)
Eggers, Zeitoun
AP
Literature
Twain, The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
Shakespeare, Othello
Wilson, The Piano Lesson
AP
Literature
Chopin, The Awakening
Shakespeare, Macbeth
Foster, How to Read Literature Like
a Professor REVISED EDITION
*This work has been approved by the CCPS Review Committee for its literary merit and its appropriate alignment with theme and course objectives. It may include, within its historical and/or cultural
context, material or language such as violence, profanity, or sexual content that is intended for the mature reader. CCPS honors requests for alternative titles.
McDonough High School
Summer Reading Choices
English I, II, and AP Literature
Please check Maurice J. McDonough’s website for specific assignments.
English I – 9H
Choose one: required
Knowles, A Separate Peace
Wolff, Make Lemonade
Card, Ender’s Game
Lubar, Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
Lipsyte, The Contender
AP Literature
Choose three: required
Morrison, Beloved
Naipaul, A Bend in the River
Melville, Billy Budd
Heller, Catch-22
Atwood, Cat’s Eye
Miller, The Crucible
Shelley, Frankenstein
Lee, A Gesture of Life
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Ellison, Invisible Man
Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
Golding, Lord of the Flies
Austen, Mansfield Park
Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Dickens, Oliver Twist
Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
Dreiser, Sister Carrie
Styron, Sophie’s Choice
Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Brontë, Wuthering Heights
English II – 10H
Choose two: required
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Wilson, Fences
Dumas, Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of
Growing Up Iranian in America
Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Marsden, Tomorrow, When the War Began
Rose, Twelve Angry Men