RiverHillHigh School
Suggested 2011 Summer Reading List for incoming classes
The River Hill English Department publishes an optional Summer Reading list to provide some reading selections for students interested in teacher recommended choices for their summer reading selections. The starred items are novels taught in 9 th- grade classes.
INCOMING CLASS OF 2015 SUMMER READING LIST
At Risk by Hoffman
Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth, by Wright
*Breathing Underwater by Flinn
Brian’s Song, by Blinn
Driver’s Ed, by Cooney
*Dubliners by Joyce
*Fallen Angels by Myers
*Enders Game, by Card
Farewell to Manzanar, by Houston
*Fahrenheit 451, by Bradbury
*Good Earth, The, by Buck
Great Expectations, by Dickens
Growing Up by Baker
*Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by Rowling
Hiroshima, by Hershey
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
*I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Angelou
*Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
*Jurassic Park by Crichton
*Midsummer’s Night Dream, by Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare
*Mythology by Hamilton
*Night, by Wiesel
O Pioneers by Cather
*Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
Prince and Pauper, The, by Twain
*Raisin In The Sun, by Hansberry
*Slam, by Walter Dean Myers
Shiloh by Foote
Siddhartha by Hesse
*Speak by Andersen
Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
*To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee
Upon the Head of a Goat by Siegel
River Hill High School Suggested 2011 Summer Reading List
The River Hill English Department publishes an optional Summer Reading list to provide some reading selections for students interested in teacher recommended choices for their summer reading selections. The starred items are novels taught in 10 th- grade classes.
INCOMING CLASS OF 2014 SUMMER READING LIST
1984 by Orwell
Animal Farm by Orwell
Black Like Me by Griffin
Breadgivers, The by Yezerierska
*Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
*Catcher in the Rye, The, by Salinger
*Chosen, The, by Potok
Cold Sassy Tree
Collected Stories by Welty
Crossing, The, by Paulsen
Cry, The Beloved Country by Burns
Cyrano De Bergerac by Rostand
Death Be Not Proud by Gunther
*Doll’s House by Ibsen
*Don Quixote (W. Starki Trans.) by Cervantas
Farewell to Arms, by Hemingway
Franny & Zooey by Salinger
Gather Together in My Name by Angelou
Gulliver’s Travel by Swift
In the time iof Butterflies by Alvarez
Into Thin Air bt Krakauer
*Life of Pi by Martel
*Jane Eyre by Charlotte
*Macbeth by Shakespeare
*Man of La Mancha by Darion
*Monster by Myers
Nine Stories by Salinger
Obscure Destinies: Three Stories…by Catcher
*Oedipus, The King by Sophocles
On the Black Hill by Bruce
Once and Future King , by White
Pardon Me, You’re Stepping on my Eyeball by Zindel
Pearl, The, by Steinbeck
*Piano Lesson by Wilson
Princess Bride by Goldman
Rebecca by DuMaurier
Return of the Native, The by Hardy
*Separate Peace, A, by Knowles
Stories of Bernard Malamud, The, by Malamud
*Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
*Two Old Women by Wallis
RiverHillHigh School
Suggested 2011Summer Reading List
The River Hill English Department publishes an optional Summer Reading list to provide some reading selections for students interested in teacher recommended choices for their summer reading selections. The starred items are novels taught in 11 th- grade classes.
INCOMING CLASS OF 2013 SUMMER READING LIST
145 th Street: Short Stories by Myers
An American Tragedy by Dreiser
Autobiography of Malcolm X, The
*Awakening, The, by Chopin
Canticle for Lebowitz A, by Miller
Catch 22 by Heller
*Crucible, The by Miller
Darkness at Noon by Koestler(11 GT)
*Death of a Salesman, by Miller
Death of Bessie Smith, The by Albee
Desire Under the Elms In Three Plays by ONeill
*Daisy Miller by James
End of Summer by Land
*Ethan Frome by Wharton
*Fences by Wilson
Fire Next Time, The, by Baldwin
*Fountainhead by Rand
*Glass Menagerie in Six Great Plays by Williams
Go Tell it on the Mountain by Baldwin
*Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
*Great Gatsby, The, by Fitzgerald
*Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Twain
Incidents in Life of a Slave Girl by Brent
Inherit the Wind by Laurence
*Joy Luck Club by Tan
Jungle by Sinclair
Laughing Boy by La Farge
Light in August by Faulkner
Long Goodbye, The Chandler
Manchild in the Promised Land by Brown
*Maus 1: A Survivor’s Tale by Spiegelman
*Maus 2: by Spiegelman
Member of the Wedding by McCullers(11GT)
Moby Dick by Melville (11GT)
*Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
Our Town by Wilder
Praisesong for the Widow by Marshall
*Scarlet Letter, The by Hawthorne
*Slaughterhouse 5 by Vonnegut
*Streetcar Named Desire by Williams
*Their Eyes were Watching God by Hurston
*Tuesdays with Morrie by Albom
Turn of the Screw by James
RiverHillHigh School
Suggested 2011 Summer Reading List
The River Hill English Department publishes an optional Summer Reading list to provide some reading selections for students interested in teacher recommended choices for their summer reading selections. The starred items are novels taught in 12 th- grade classes.
INCOMING CLASS OF 2012 SUMMER READING LIST
All the King’s Men by Warren
*Angela’s Ashes by McCourt
Anna Karenia by Tolstoy
*Bean Trees by Kingsolver
Beloved by Morrison
Candide by Voltaire (12 GT)
Chatterston by Ackroyd
Childhood’s End by Clarke
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky (12 GT)
Death of Ivan Ilych , The by Tolstoy
Demian by Hesse
Dinner at the Homesick Resataurant by Tyler
Dubliners by James Joyce
Eagle Has Landed, The by Higgins
Four Plays by Ionesco (12 GT)
Galileo, A Play by Brecht
Grendel by Gardner
*Hamlet, by Shakespeare
*Metamorphosis, The Kafka
Murder in the Cathedral by Eliot
Murder on the Orient Express The by Christie
*Mythology by Hamilton
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Kesey
Ordinary People by Guest
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Doyle (12 GT )
*Pigs in Heaven by Kingsolver
Plague, The by Camus
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce
Pride and Prejudice by Austen (12 GT)
Room of One’s own by Woolf
Second Class Citizen by Emercheta (12 GT)
*Slaughterhouse 5 by Vonnegut
Sweet Thurday by Steinbeck
Tempest by Shakespeare
Tess of the D’ubervilles by Hardy
*Things Fall Apart by Acebe
*Things They Carried, The by Woolf
Tortilla Flat by Steinbeck
Trial, the by Kafka
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Albee
RiverHillHigh School
Suggested 2011 Summer Reading List
The River Hill English Department publishes an optional Summer Reading list to provide some reading selections for students interested in teacher recommended choices for their summer reading selections. The starred items are novels taught in 9 th- grade classes.
INCOMING CLASS OF 2014 SUMMER READING LIST
At Risk by Hoffman
Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth, by Wright
*Breathing Underwater by Flinn
Brian’s Song, by Blinn
Driver’s Ed, by Cooney
*Dubliners by Joyce
*Fallen Angels by Myers
*Enders Game, by Card
Farewell to Manzanar, by Houston
*Fahrenheit 451, by Bradbury
*Good Earth, The, by Buck
Great Expectations, by Dickens
Growing Up by Baker
*Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by Rowling
Hiroshima, by Hershey
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
*I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Angelou
*Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
*Jurassic Park by Crichton
*Midsummer’s Night Dream, by Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare
*Mythology by Hamilton
*Night, by Wiesel
O Pioneers by Cather
*Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
Prince and Pauper, The, by Twain
*Raisin In The Sun, by Hansberry
*Slam, by Walter Dean Myers
Shiloh by Foote
Siddhartha by Hesse
*Speak by Andersen
Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
*To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee
Upon the Head of a Goat by Siegel
River Hill High School Suggested 2011 Summer Reading List
The River Hill English Department publishes an optional Summer Reading list to provide some reading selections for students interested in teacher recommended choices for their summer reading selections. The starred items are novels taught in 10 th- grade classes.
INCOMING CLASS OF 2013 SUMMER READING LIST
1984 by Orwell
Animal Farm by Orwell
Black Like Me by Griffin
Breadgivers, The by Yezerierska
*Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
*Catcher in the Rye, The, by Salinger
*Chosen, The, by Potok
Cold Sassy Tree
Collected Stories by Welty
Crossing, The, by Paulsen
Cry, The Beloved Country by Burns
Cyrano De Bergerac by Rostand
Death Be Not Proud by Gunther
*Doll’s House by Ibsen
*Don Quixote (W. Starki Trans.) by Cervantas
Farewell to Arms, by Hemingway
Franny & Zooey by Salinger
Gather Together in My Name by Angelou
Gulliver’s Travel by Swift
In the time iof Butterflies by Alvarez
Into Thin Air bt Krakauer
*Life of Pi by Martel
*Jane Eyre by Charlotte
*Macbeth by Shakespeare
*Man of La Mancha by Darion
*Monster by Myers
Nine Stories by Salinger
Obscure Destinies: Three Stories…by Catcher
*Oedipus, The King by Sophocles
On the Black Hill by Bruce
Once and Future King , by White
Pardon Me, You’re Stepping on my Eyeball by Zindel
Pearl, The, by Steinbeck
*Piano Lesson by Wilson
Princess Bride by Goldman
Rebecca by DuMaurier
Return of the Native, The by Hardy
*Separate Peace, A, by Knowles
Stories of Bernard Malamud, The, by Malamud
*Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
*Two Old Women by Wallis
RiverHillHigh School
Suggested 2011Summer Reading List
The River Hill English Department publishes an optional Summer Reading list to provide some reading selections for students interested in teacher recommended choices for their summer reading selections. The starred items are novels taught in 11 th- grade classes.
INCOMING CLASS OF 2012 SUMMER READING LIST
145 th Street: Short Stories by Myers
An American Tragedy by Dreiser
Autobiography of Malcolm X, The
*Awakening, The, by Chopin
Canticle for Lebowitz A, by Miller
Catch 22 by Heller
*Crucible, The by Miller
Darkness at Noon by Koestler(11 GT)
*Death of a Salesman, by Miller
Death of Bessie Smith, The by Albee
Desire Under the Elms In Three Plays by ONeill
*Daisy Miller by James
End of Summer by Land
*Ethan Frome by Wharton
*Fences by Wilson
Fire Next Time, The, by Baldwin
*Fountainhead by Rand
*Glass Menagerie in Six Great Plays by Williams
Go Tell it on the Mountain by Baldwin
*Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
*Great Gatsby, The, by Fitzgerald
*Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Twain
Incidents in Life of a Slave Girl by Brent
Inherit the Wind by Laurence
*Joy Luck Club by Tan
Jungle by Sinclair
Laughing Boy by La Farge
Light in August by Faulkner
Long Goodbye, The Chandler
Manchild in the Promised Land by Brown
*Maus 1: A Survivor’s Tale by Spiegelman
*Maus 2: by Spiegelman
Member of the Wedding by McCullers(11GT)
Moby Dick by Melville (11GT)
*Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
Our Town by Wilder
Praisesong for the Widow by Marshall
*Scarlet Letter, The by Hawthorne
*Slaughterhouse 5 by Vonnegut
*Streetcar Named Desire by Williams
*Their Eyes were Watching God by Hurston
*Tuesdays with Morrie by Albom
Turn of the Screw by James
RiverHillHigh School
Suggested 2011 Summer Reading List
The River Hill English Department publishes an optional Summer Reading list to provide some reading selections for students interested in teacher recommended choices for their summer reading selections. The starred items are novels taught in 12 th- grade classes.
INCOMING CLASS OF 2012 SUMMER READING LIST
All the King’s Men by Warren
*Angela’s Ashes by McCourt
Anna Karenia by Tolstoy
*Bean Trees by Kingsolver
Beloved by Morrison
Candide by Voltaire (12 GT)
Chatterston by Ackroyd
Childhood’s End by Clarke
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky (12 GT)
Death of Ivan Ilych , The by Tolstoy
Demian by Hesse
Dinner at the Homesick Resataurant by Tyler
Dubliners by James Joyce
Eagle Has Landed, The by Higgins
Four Plays by Ionesco (12 GT)
Galileo, A Play by Brecht
Grendel by Gardner
*Hamlet, by Shakespeare
*Metamorphosis, The Kafka
Murder in the Cathedral by Eliot
Murder on the Orient Express The by Christie
*Mythology by Hamilton
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Kesey
Ordinary People by Guest
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Doyle (12 GT )
*Pigs in Heaven by Kingsolver
Plague, The by Camus
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce
Pride and Prejudice by Austen (12 GT)
Room of One’s own by Woolf
Second Class Citizen by Emercheta (12 GT)
*Slaughterhouse 5 by Vonnegut
Sweet Thurday by Steinbeck
Tempest by Shakespeare
Tess of the D’ubervilles by Hardy
*Things Fall Apart by Acebe
*Things They Carried, The by Woolf
Tortilla Flat by Steinbeck
Trial, the by Kafka
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Albee
RiverHillHigh School
Suggested 2011 Summer Reading List
The River Hill English Department publishes an optional Summer Reading list to provide some reading selections for students interested in teacher recommended choices for their summer reading selections. The starred items are novels taught in 9 th- grade classes.
INCOMING CLASS OF 2014 SUMMER READING LIST
At Risk by Hoffman
Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth, by Wright
*Breathing Underwater by Flinn
Brian’s Song, by Blinn
Driver’s Ed, by Cooney
*Dubliners by Joyce
*Fallen Angels by Myers
*Enders Game, by Card
Farewell to Manzanar, by Houston
*Fahrenheit 451, by Bradbury
*Good Earth, The, by Buck
Great Expectations, by Dickens
Growing Up by Baker
*Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by Rowling
Hiroshima, by Hershey
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
*I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Angelou
*Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
*Jurassic Park by Crichton
*Midsummer’s Night Dream, by Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare
*Mythology by Hamilton
*Night, by Wiesel
O Pioneers by Cather
*Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
Prince and Pauper, The, by Twain
*Raisin In The Sun, by Hansberry
*Slam, by Walter Dean Myers
Shiloh by Foote
Siddhartha by Hesse
*Speak by Andersen
Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
*To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee
Upon the Head of a Goat by Siegel
River Hill High School Suggested 2011 Summer Reading List
The River Hill English Department publishes an optional Summer Reading list to provide some reading selections for students interested in teacher recommended choices for their summer reading selections. The starred items are novels taught in 10 th- grade classes.
INCOMING CLASS OF 2013 SUMMER READING LIST
1984 by Orwell
Animal Farm by Orwell
Black Like Me by Griffin
Breadgivers, The by Yezerierska
*Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
*Catcher in the Rye, The, by Salinger
*Chosen, The, by Potok
Cold Sassy Tree
Collected Stories by Welty
Crossing, The, by Paulsen
Cry, The Beloved Country by Burns
Cyrano De Bergerac by Rostand
Death Be Not Proud by Gunther
*Doll’s House by Ibsen
*Don Quixote (W. Starki Trans.) by Cervantas
Farewell to Arms, by Hemingway
Franny & Zooey by Salinger
Gather Together in My Name by Angelou
Gulliver’s Travel by Swift
In the time iof Butterflies by Alvarez
Into Thin Air bt Krakauer
*Life of Pi by Martel
*Jane Eyre by Charlotte
*Macbeth by Shakespeare
*Man of La Mancha by Darion
*Monster by Myers
Nine Stories by Salinger
Obscure Destinies: Three Stories…by Catcher
*Oedipus, The King by Sophocles
On the Black Hill by Bruce
Once and Future King , by White
Pardon Me, You’re Stepping on my Eyeball by Zindel
Pearl, The, by Steinbeck
*Piano Lesson by Wilson
Princess Bride by Goldman
Rebecca by DuMaurier
Return of the Native, The by Hardy
*Separate Peace, A, by Knowles
Stories of Bernard Malamud, The, by Malamud
*Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
*Two Old Women by Wallis
RiverHillHigh School
Suggested 2011Summer Reading List
The River Hill English Department publishes an optional Summer Reading list to provide some reading selections for students interested in teacher recommended choices for their summer reading selections. The starred items are novels taught in 11 th- grade classes.
INCOMING CLASS OF 2012 SUMMER READING LIST
145 th Street: Short Stories by Myers
An American Tragedy by Dreiser
Autobiography of Malcolm X, The
*Awakening, The, by Chopin
Canticle for Lebowitz A, by Miller
Catch 22 by Heller
*Crucible, The by Miller
Darkness at Noon by Koestler(11 GT)
*Death of a Salesman, by Miller
Death of Bessie Smith, The by Albee
Desire Under the Elms In Three Plays by ONeill
*Daisy Miller by James
End of Summer by Land
*Ethan Frome by Wharton
*Fences by Wilson
Fire Next Time, The, by Baldwin
*Fountainhead by Rand
*Glass Menagerie in Six Great Plays by Williams
Go Tell it on the Mountain by Baldwin
*Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
*Great Gatsby, The, by Fitzgerald
*Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Twain
Incidents in Life of a Slave Girl by Brent
Inherit the Wind by Laurence
*Joy Luck Club by Tan
Jungle by Sinclair
Laughing Boy by La Farge
Light in August by Faulkner
Long Goodbye, The Chandler
Manchild in the Promised Land by Brown
*Maus 1: A Survivor’s Tale by Spiegelman
*Maus 2: by Spiegelman
Member of the Wedding by McCullers(11GT)
Moby Dick by Melville (11GT)
*Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
Our Town by Wilder
Praisesong for the Widow by Marshall
*Scarlet Letter, The by Hawthorne
*Slaughterhouse 5 by Vonnegut
*Streetcar Named Desire by Williams
*Their Eyes were Watching God by Hurston
*Tuesdays with Morrie by Albom
Turn of the Screw by James
RiverHillHigh School
Suggested 2011 Summer Reading List
The River Hill English Department publishes an optional Summer Reading list to provide some reading selections for students interested in teacher recommended choices for their summer reading selections. The starred items are novels taught in 12 th- grade classes.
INCOMING CLASS OF 2012 SUMMER READING LIST
All the King’s Men by Warren
*Angela’s Ashes by McCourt
Anna Karenia by Tolstoy
*Bean Trees by Kingsolver
Beloved by Morrison
Candide by Voltaire (12 GT)
Chatterston by Ackroyd
Childhood’s End by Clarke
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky (12 GT)
Death of Ivan Ilych , The by Tolstoy
Demian by Hesse
Dinner at the Homesick Resataurant by Tyler
Dubliners by James Joyce
Eagle Has Landed, The by Higgins
Four Plays by Ionesco (12 GT)
Galileo, A Play by Brecht
Grendel by Gardner
*Hamlet, by Shakespeare
*Metamorphosis, The Kafka
Murder in the Cathedral by Eliot
Murder on the Orient Express The by Christie
*Mythology by Hamilton
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Kesey
Ordinary People by Guest
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Doyle (12 GT )
*Pigs in Heaven by Kingsolver
Plague, The by Camus
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce
Pride and Prejudice by Austen (12 GT)
Room of One’s own by Woolf
Second Class Citizen by Emercheta (12 GT)
*Slaughterhouse 5 by Vonnegut
Sweet Thurday by Steinbeck
Tempest by Shakespeare
Tess of the D’ubervilles by Hardy
*Things Fall Apart by Acebe
*Things They Carried, The by Woolf
Tortilla Flat by Steinbeck
Trial, the by Kafka
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Albee