Summer Reading For High School
AP/Honors Class
For 9th Grade
Wouldn’t Take Nothing For My Journey Now by Maya Angelou
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Ajeema and His Son by Richard Bradford
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
Runs With Horses by Brian Burks
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
After First Death by Robert Cormier
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years by Sarah and Elizabeth Delany
Across The Grain by Jean Ferris
Join In: Multiethnic Short Stories by Donald Gallo (Editor)
The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton
October Sky by Homer Hickman
A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
Profiles in Courage by John F Kennedy
Truth North: A Novel of the Underground Railroad by Katheryn Lassky
The Call of The Wild and White Fang by Jack London
Eighteen Best Stories by Edgar Allan Poe (Ed. Vincent Price)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Like Sisters on The Homefront by Rita Williams-Garcia
For 10th Grade
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
Inferno by Dante
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
The Man in the Iron Mask or The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
Bury My Bones But Keep My Words by Tony Fairman
Chronicle of Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
July’s People by Nadine Gordimer
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
The Mahabharata by Hindu
The Iliad by Homer
The Hunchback of Notre Dame or Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux
Anne of Green Gables by L M Montgomery
The Misanthrope by my Mollier
Shizuko’s Daughter by Kyuko Mori
The Land I Lost by Huynh Quang Nhoung
Cry Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand
The Little Prince by Saint Exupery
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide by Ntozake Shange
For 11th Grade
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Awakening and Other Stories by Kate Chopin
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
A Farewell To Arms and The Old Man in the Sea by Hemingway
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
A Doll’s House by Ibsen
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Clover by Dori Sanders
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare
The Tempest by Shakespeare
East of Eden and Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
Adventure of Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee by Mark Twain
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Age of Innocence and Ethan Fromm by Edith Wharton
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
A Street Car Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Native Son by Richard Wright
For 12th Grade
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
To Sir With Love by EB Braithwaite
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Hound of Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Rebecca by Daphne De Maurier
Grendel by John Gardner
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
Goodbye Mr. Chips by James Hilton
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Portrait of An Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Junglebook by Rudyard Kipling
Henry V by William Shakespeare
Othello by William Shakespeare
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
Kidnapped by Robert Lewis Stevenson
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Time Machine by HG Wells
carilynn27 
I’ve read a lot of these! Some in high school, some a long time ago!