Prep and Form I

Summer reading, while not required for incoming Prep and Form I students, is encouraged.

The Good Earth, Pearl Buck

David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

Animal Farm, George Orwell

The Time Machine, H.G. Wells

The Lord of the Rings Series, J.R.R. Tolkien

Any works of C. S. Lewis

Form II

The Chosen, Chaim Potok

Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain

Form III

Choose one of the following and read:

Three by Flannery O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor (includes Wise Blood, Everything That Rises Must Converge and The Violent Bear it Away)

A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain

Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe

The second part of the summer reading involves reading Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay Self Reliance. While reading the novel and the essay, maintain a notebook, wherein you will record impressions, thoughts, possible themes, symbols, imagery, stylistic patterns, insights and ideas inspired by the literature. Be sure to include passages that you feel include the essence of the literary works. You will bring this notebook to class on the first day of school.

Form IV

Honors English: Survey of British Literature

Lord of the Flies, William Golding

1984, George Orwell

AP® Language and Composition

1984, George Orwell

Angela's Ashes, Frank McCord

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AP® Literature and Composition

Choose one novel from A and another from B

The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver

Light in August, William Faulkner

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (Pevear and Volokhonsky translation recommended)

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (either the Grossman or Rabassa translation)

The Awakening, Kate Chopin

Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Stranger, Albert Camus

Night, Elie Wiesel

While reading the novels, maintain a notebook, wherein you will record impressions, thoughts, possible themes, symbols, imagery, stylistic patterns, insights and ideas inspired by the literature. Be sure to include passages that you feel include the essence of the literary works. You will bring this notebook to class on the first day of school.