The Gunston School
\ Summer Reading \
2014
THE GUNSTON SCHOOL
Summer Reading 2014
Reading broadens your background and strengthens verbal skills. It
is also a way to discover new ideas and philosophies. We advise you
to read many books but require at least four books this summer:
one book is selected for the entire school, one for each grade level,
and two are your own choice. We have listed our recommendations
on the following pages.
1. Community-Wide Read
The Isle of Youth, by Laura van den Berg,
our special guest for the 2014 In Celebration of Books
2. English Class Reading
English as a World Language (EWL) & English Literature:
Night by Elie Weisel
English 9: The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
English 10: 1984, by George Orwell
English 11: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, by
Frederick Douglass
English 12: They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The Story of
Three Lost Boys from Sudan by Benjamin Ajak, Benson
Deng, Alephonsion Deng, with Judy A. Bernstein
3 & 4. Choice from “Summer Reading List
In addition, you must choose two books to read from the
“Summer Reading List” in this booklet. You must complete a
summer reading response journal for these two books. Your
journals should be handed in to your English teacher no later than
Friday, September 5th.
Please refrain from using outside and/or online sources. Your English teacher will give you more specific assignments on your required
grade-level reading and the community read once you return to
school.
While reading your books, record your observations, critical judgments, opinions, questions, and feelings. For the two books you chose
to read on your own, we ask that you write a journal response (Times
Roman, 12 point, double spaced) of at least 500 words for each book.
Please date each entry, and you may use first person (“I”) in your
responses.
Directions for Summer Reading Response Journals:
Consider writing about different components of the work, including:
• Personal reaction to characters, events, themes, recurring imagery
and/or symbolism
• Pose questions and attempt to respond to them
• Identify significant quotes and comment upon them
• Imagine you are one of the characters and then write from his or
her perspective
You should avoid plot summary in your responses. Summer reading
journals will be assessed in relation to the depth of engagement as
well as clarity of writing.
SUMMER READING LIST
NOTE: You may read any work by the authors listed below. E-mail
your English teacher for approval of a book not on the list.
FICTION: NON-AMERICAN
Achebe, Chinua
Things Fall Apart
Adichie, Chimananda Ngozi Half of a Yellow Sun
Alain-Fournier, Henri
The Lost Domain
Allende, Isabel
The House of the Spirits
Amado, Jorge
The War of the Saints
Atwood, Margaret
The Handmaid’s Tale
Austen, Jane
Emma
Pride and Prejudice
Balzac, Honore de The Human Comedy
Barrie, J.M.
Peter Pan
Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot
Borges, Jorge L.
Labyrinths
A Personal Anthology
Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre
Burgess, Anthony
A Clockwork Orange
Campbell, Joseph
The Power of Myth
Camus, Albert
The Stranger
Carey, Peter
Parrot and Olivier in America
Chatwin, BruceSonglines
In Patagonia
Chaucer,Geoffrey Canterbury Tales
Chekov, Anton
The Cherry Orchard
Coetzee, J.M.
Disgrace
Collins, Wilkie The Moonstone
Conrad, Joseph
Heart of Darkness
Lord Jim
Conway, Jill Ker
The Road from Coorain
Courtenay, Bryce
The Power of One
Davies, Robertson
The Deptford Trilogy
deBernieres, Louis
Corelli’s Mandolin
Delderfield, R.F.
To Serve Them All My Days
Dinesen, Isak
Out of Africa
Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities
Oliver Twist
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Sherlock Holmes Stories
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dubus, Andre III
House of Sand and Fog
duMaurier, Daphne Rebecca
Durrell, Gerald
My Family and Other Animals
Eco, Umberto
The Name of the Rose
Eliot, George
Silas Marner
Flaubert, Gustav Madame Bovary
Fowles, John
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Frank, Anne
The Diary of a Young Girl
Fromm, Erich
The Art of Loving
Fuentes, Carlos
Death of Artemio Cruz
Fugard, Athol
Master Harold and the Boys
Fuller, Alexandra
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
Gogol, Nikolai
Short Stories
Golding, William Lord of the Flies
Gordimer, Nadine
My Son’s Story
Grahame, Kenneth
The Wind in the Willows
Grass, Gunter
The Tin Drum
Graves, Robert
I, Claudius
King Jesus
Greene, Graham
The Heart of the Matter
The Quiet American
Grushin, Olga
The Dream Life of Sukhanov
Hardy, Thomas
Jude the Obscure
Return of the Native
Heaney, Seamus
Beowulf
Hesse, Hermann
Siddhartha
Hosseini, Khaled
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Hugo, Victor
Les Miserables
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hulme, Keri
The Bone People
Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World
Island
Ibsen, Henrik
A Doll’s House
An Enemy of the People
Ionesco, Eugene
Rhinoceros
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Remains of the Day
Iweala, Uzodinma
Beast of No Nation
Japrisot, Sebastien
A Very Long Engagement
Joyce, James
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
Dubliners
Kafka, Franz
The Trial
Kawabata, Yasunari
Thousand Cranes
Kincaid, Jamaica
Annie John
Kipling, Rudyard Captains Courageous
King, RossBrunelleschi’s Dome
Koestler, Arthur Darkness at Noon
Kosinksi, Jerzy
The Painted Bird
Kundera, Milan
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Lagerkvist, Par
Barabbas
Lawrence, D.H.
Sons and Lovers The Rainbow
Lawhead, Stephen R.
The Iron Lance
Levi, Carlo
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Levi, Primo
Survival in Auschwitz
Lewis, C.S.
The Space Trilogy
Lahiri, JhumpaThe Namesake
Llosa, Mario Vargas
The Feast of the Goat
Makine, Andrei
Once Upon the River Love
Mann, Thomas
Death in Venice
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
Autumn of the Patriarch
Love in the Time of Cholera
Maugham, Somerset Of Human Bondage
Maupassant, Guy de
Bel Ami
Mauriac, Francois
Therese Desqueyroux
Maurice, Edward Beauclerk The Last Gentleman Adventurer
Maxwell, Gavin
Ring of Bright Water
Mayle, Peter
A Year in Provence
McEwen, IanAtonement
Enduring Love
Mistry, Rohinton
A Fine Balance
Mortimer, John
The Rumpole Omnibus
Mowat, Farley
Never Cry Wolf
Nabokov, Vladimir
Pale Fire
Orwell, George
Animal Farm
Ondaatje, Michael
The English Patient
Pasternak, Boris Dr. Zhivago
Paton, Alan
Cry, The Beloved Country
Peters, Ellis
A Morbid Taste for Bones
Proust, Marcel
Swann’s Way
Prevost, L’Abbaye
Manon Lescaut
Remarque, Erich All Quiet on the Western Front
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Letters to a Young Poet
Rhys, Jean
Wide Sargasso Sea
Roy, Arhudhati
The God of Small Things
Sartre, Jean-Paul
No Exit
Sayers, Dorothy
The Nine Tailor
Seraji, Mahbod
Rooftops of Tehran
Shaw, George Bernard Pygmalion
Androcles and the Lion
Shute, Nevil
On the Beach
Smith, Alexander McCall
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Smith, ZadieWhite Teeth
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles
Oedipus Trilogy
Stendhal
The Red and the Black
Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island
Sun, Tzu
The Art of War
Suskind, Patrick Perfume
Swift, Jonathan Gulliver’s Travels
Tey, Josephine
Daughter of Time
Tolkien, J.R.R. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Tolstoy, Leo
Anna Karenina
Turgenev, Ivan
Fathers and Sons
Unsworth, Barry
The Rage of the Vulture
Voltaire
Candide
Waugh, Evelyn
Brideshead Revisited
The Loved One
Wiesel, Elie
All Rivers Run to the Sea
The Gates of the Forest
Wilde, Oscar
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Winchester, Simon Krakatoa
Woodhouse, P.G.
Leave it to Psmith
Woolf, Virginia To the Lighthouse
Mrs. Dalloway
Yeats, William Butler Collected Poems
Zola, Emile
L’Assommoir
Zusak, Markus
The Book Thief
FICTION: AMERICAN
Abbey, Edward
Desert Solitaire
Abernathy, Ralph
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down
Albee, Edward
The American Dream
The Zoo Story
Alcott, Louisa May Little Women
Ambrose, Stephen
Undaunted Courage
Angelou, Maya
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Asimov, Isaac
Foundation
Baldwin, James
Go Tell it on the Mountain
Ball, Edward
Slaves in the Family
Barrett, Andrea
Ship Fever
Barth, John
The Sot-Weed Factor
The Floating Opera
Baum, L. Frank
The Wizard of Oz
Bellow, Saul
Henderson, The Rain King
Boo, Katherine
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Bradbury, Ray
Fahrenheit 451
A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories
Brinkley, David
Washington at War
Brokaw, Tom
The Greatest Generation
Brooks, Geraldine
Nine Parts of Desire
Brooks, Gwendolyn
Selected Poems
Brown, Dee
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Bryson, Bill
The Lost Continent
Buck, Pearl S.
The Good Earth
Cahill, Thomas
The Gift of the Jews
Capote, Truman Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Carson, Rachel
Silent Spring
Carver, Raymond
Where I’m Calling From
Cather, Willa
My Antonia
Chappell, Helen
Oysterback Tales
Cheever, John
The Short Stories
Chin, Staceyann
The Other Side of Paradise Chopin, Kate
The Awakening
Cisneros, Sandra
The House on Mango Street
Clark, Walter
The Ox-Bow Incident
Conroy, Pat
The Great Santini
The Lords of Discipline
Crane, Stephen
The Red Badge of Courage
Cummings, E.E.
Selected Poems
Diamant, Anita
The Red Tent
Diaz, Junot
Drown
The Brief and Wonderous Life
of Oscar Wao
Dickey, James
Deliverance
Dickinson, Emily
Collected Poems
Doctorow, E.L.
The March
Dorris, Michael
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Dreiser, Theodore Sister Carrie
Durrow, Heidi The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
Egan, Timothy
The Worst Hard Times
Eggers, Dave
The Circle
Eisley, Loren
Immense Journey
Ellison, Ralph
Invisible Man
Equiano, Olaudah
The Interesting Narrative & Other Writings
Erdrich, Louise
The Beet Queen
Eugenides, Jeffrey Middlesex
Faulkner, William The Reivers
Sartoris
Fitzgerald, F. Scott Tender is the Night
Flynn, Nick
Another Bull---- Night in Suck City
Foer, Jonathan Safran
Everything is Illuminated
Ford, Richard Independence Day
Fountain, Ben
Billie Lynn’s Long Half
Time Walk
Franzen, Jonathan Freedom
Frederic, Harold
The Damnation of Theron Ware
Frost, Robert
Selected Poems
Gaines, Ernest J. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
A Gathering of Old Men
Gibbon, Boyd
Wye Island
Gilman, Charlotte P.
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings
Gladwell, Malcolm Outliers
Grann, David
The Lost City of Z
Gruen, Sara
Water for Elephants
Haley, Alex
Roots
Hansberry, Lorraine A Raisin in the Sun
Hawthorne, Nathaniel House of Seven Gables
Heinlein, Robert
Stranger in a Strange Land
Helfer, RalphModoc
Heller, Joseph
Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea
Garden of Eden
Hersey, John
Hiroshima
A Single Pebble
Horton, Tom
Turning the Tide
Horwitz, Tony
A Voyage Long and Strange
Howells, William The Rise of Silas Lapham
Hume, Ivor Noel
Martin’s Hundred
Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God
Irving, John
Cider House Rules
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Jacobs, Harriet
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
James, Henry
The Turn of the Screw
Johnson, Charles
Middle Passage
Kerouac, Jack
On the Road
Kesey, Ken
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Kingsolver, Barbara
Poisonwood Bible
Kingston, Maxine H.
The Woman Warrior
Knowles, John
A Separate Peace
Krakauer, Jon Into Thin Air
Under the Banner of Heaven
Krauss, Nicole
The History of Love
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Interpreter of Maladies
Lee, Harper
To Kill a Mockingbird
Leopold, Aldo
A Sand County Almanac
Lewis, Sinclair Elmer Gantry
London, Jack
Call of the Wild
Lopez, Barry
Crossing Open Ground
Northrup, Solomon
Twelve Years a Slave
Maclean, Norman F.
A River Runs Through It
Manchester, William
Young Lion
McBride, James
The Color of Water
McCarthy, Cormac
The Road
No Country for Old Men
All the Pretty Horses
McCourt, Frank
Angela’s Ashes
McCullough, David
Mornings on Horseback
Meloy, Maile
Both Ways is the Only Way I Want it.
Melville, Herman Moby Dick
Mendelsohn, Daniel The Lost
Meyer, Philipp American Rust
Michener, James
Chesapeake
Milford, Nancy Zelda
Miller, Arthur
The Crucible
Mitchell, Margaret Gone with the Wind
Morrison, Toni
Beloved
The Bluest Eye
McPhee, John
Encounters with the Archdruid
Looking for a Ship
Moore, Wes
The Other Wes Moore
Morrow, JamesTowing Jehovah
Mortenson, Greg
Three Cups of Tea
Mosher, Howard Frank
On Kingdom Mountain
Naylor, Gloria
The Women of Brewster Place
Nichols, PeterEvolution’s Captain
O’Brien, Tim If I Die in A Combat Zone
O’Connor, Edwin
The Last Hurrah
O’Connor, Flannery Short Stories O’Neill, Eugene The Iceman Cometh
Patchett, Ann
Bel Canto
Percy, Benjamin
Red Moon
Philbrick, Nathaniel Mayflower
Phillips, J.B.
Your God is Too Small
Plath, Sylvia
The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan Short Stories
Pollan, Michael
The Omnivore’s Dilemma Potok, Chaim
The Chosen
Powers, Kevin
Yellow Birds
Richter, Conrad
The Light in the Forest
Ridley, MattGenome
Robbins, Tom
Fierce Invalids Home from
Hot Climates
Russell, Karen
Vampires in the Lemongrove
St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Russo, Richard
Empire Falls
Ryan, W. & Pitman, W.
Noah’s Flood
Salinger, J.D.
Franny and Zooey
Nine Stories Salter, James
Dusk and Other Stories
Santayana, George The Last Puritan
Saroyan, William The Human Comedy
Saunders, George
Tenth of December
Bad Decline in CivilWarLand
Schama, SimonRough Crossings
Shaara, Michael
The Killer Angels
Shteyngart, Gary Absurdistan
Simon, Neil
The Good Doctor
Sinclair, Upton The Jungle
Skloot, Rebecca
The Immortal Life
of Henrietta Lacks
Smith, Betty
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Sobel, Dava
Longitude
Galileo’s Daughter
Starita, Joe
The Dull Knives of Pine Ridge:
A Lakota Odyssey
Stegner, Wallace
Angle of Repose
Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men
Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Strayed, Cheryl
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Strout, Elizabeth
Olive Kitteridge
Styron, William
Lie Down in Darkness
The Confessions of Nat Turner
Tan, Amy
The Joy Luck Club
Tartt, Donna The Goldfinch
Teal, J. and M.
Life and Death of the Salt Marsh
Thoreau, Henry D. Walden
Thomas, Lewis
Lives of the Cell
Tilghman, Christopher
Right Hand Shore
Tubman, Harriet
The Moses of her People
Tuchman, Barbara
A Distant Mirror
Twain, Mark
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Pudd’nhead Wilson
Updike, JohnRabbit, Run
van den Berg
What the World Will Look Like
When All the Water Leaves Us
Vonnegut, Kurt
Slaughter-House Five
Cat’s Cradle
Walker, Alice
The Color Purple
Walls, Jeanette
The Glass Castle
Wallis, Velma
Two Old Women
Warner, William Beautiful Swimmers
Warren, Robert Penn All the King’s Men
Watkins, Paul Stand Before Your God
Welty, Eudora
The Robber Bridegroom
Wharton, Edith Ethan Frome
Wilder, Thornton The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Our Town
Williams, Tennessee The Glass Menagerie
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Wilson, AugustFences
Winch, Julie
A Gentleman of Color
Wolfe, Tom
The Right Stuff
Wolff, Tobias
This Boy’s Life
Wouk, Herman
The Caine Mutiny
Wright, Richard Black Boy
Native Son
Wright, Austin Tappan
Islandia
Yoon, Paul
Once the Shore
Snow Hunters
Happy Reading!