THE ALTAMONT SCHOOL

SUMMER READING LIST - GRADE 11

THE ALTAMONT SCHOOL ENGLISH DEPARTMENT READING POLICY

The Altamont School English Department requires every Altamont student to read during the

summer months five books, including the required books, from this summer reading list. Students

may not substitute other titles by the same author for summer reading. English classes will always

start the year with a discussion of what we have read over the summer, so do not worry if you do

not completely understand the reading. Just read the book and bring questions to class when we

talk about the book at the beginning of the school year. Make notes if that helps you. English

teachers will quiz students during the first week, and in most classes students will write papers on

their summer reading.

During the school year, every Altamont student is required to read at least 400 pages per month.

Rereading books for English credit is a violation of the Honor Code, excepting required titles for

each class.

Students may NOT use SparkNotes, the Internet, or any type of condensed source for reference or

analysis for summer reading or books read during the school year. Using reading aids in place of

reading the text is a violation of the Honor Code. Just read the book.

I. Required:

Ellison, Ralph (NOT Wells) Invisible Man

Warren, Robert Penn All the King’s Men

II Three are required from the following list:

FICTION

Achebe, C. Things Fall Apart

Anderson, S. Winesburg, Ohio

Apuleius, trans. Relihan The Tale of Cupid and Psyche

Arnow, H. The Dollmaker

Asimov, I. I, Robot

Atwood, M. The Handmaid’s Tale; The Blind Assassin

Austen, Jane Persuasion

Baldwin, J. Go Tell It on the Mountain

Balzac, H. Pere Goriot

Bellow, S. The Adventures of Augie March; Humboldt's Gift

Bronte, C. Jane Eyre

Bronte, E. Wuthering Heights

Buck, P. The Good Earth

Camus, A. The Plague; The Stranger

Cather, W. Death Comes for the Archbishop

Chopin, K. The Awakening

Conroy, P. The Prince of Tides

Cooper, J.F. The Last of the Mohicans

DeLillo, D. Underworld

Doxiadis, A. Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture: A Novel

of Mathematical Obsession

Dreiser, T. An American Tragedy; Sister Carrie

Dumas , A. Three Musketeers; Count of Monte Cristo; Queen

Margot

Faulkner, Wm. As I Lay Dying; The Hamlet; Light in August;

Absalom, Absalom!

Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Beautiful and Damned; Tender is the Night

Flaubert, G. Madame Bovary

Gaines, E. A Lesson Before Dying

Garcia, C. Dreaming in Cuban

Garcia Marquez, G. One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gibbons, K. Ellen Foster

Gogol, N. Dead Souls

Graves, R. I, Claudius (Ancient Rome)

Greene, G. Brighton Rock; The Power and the Glory

Guterson, D. Snow Falling on Cedars

Hawthorne, N. The House of the Seven Gables; The Scarlet Letter

Heller, J. Catch 22

Hemingway, E. The Sun Also Rises; For Whom the Bell Tolls;

A Farewell to Arms

Hersey, J. A Single Pebble

Hudson, Wm. Green Mansions

Hugo, V. Les Miserables (France, 19th C.);

Hunchback of Notre Dame

Hurston, Z.N. Their Eyes Were Watching God

Huxley, A. Brave New World

Ibuse, M. Black Rain

Irving, J. A Prayer for Owen Meaney

Jackson, S. We Have Always Lived in the Castle

James, H. Portrait of a Lady; Washington Square;

The Turn of the Screw

Kesey, K. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Lahiri, J. Interpreter of Maladies (short stories)

Larsen, N. Quicksand

Lewis, S. Main Street; Elmer Gantry; Babbitt

Lightman, A. Einstein’s Dreams

London, J. Martin Eden; The Sea Wolf

Lytle, A. The Long Night

Malamud, B. The Assistant

McCarthy, C. All the Pretty Horses; Child of God;

Blood Meridian; The Road

McCorkle, J. Crash Diet (short stories)

McCullers, C. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Morrison, T. The Bluest Eye

O’Brien, T. The Things They Carried; In the Lake of the Woods

O'Connor, F. Wise Blood; The Complete Stories (ten stories count

as one book)

Patchett, Ann Bel Canto

Percy, W. Love in the Ruins; The Last Gentleman;

The Moviegoer; The Thanatos Syndrome

Petry, A. The Street

Plath, S. The Bell Jar

Porter, K.A. Ship of Fools

Potok, C. The Chosen; The Promise

Proulx, A. Shipping News

Rolvaag, O.E. Giants in the Earth

Roth, P. Portnoy’s Complaint

Said, K. Ali and Nino

Salinger, J.D. Franny and Zooey; The Catcher in the Rye

Sams, F. Run with the Horsemen

Sholokhov, M. And Quiet Flows the Don

Silko, L.M. Ceremony

Sinclair, U. The Jungle

Solzhenitsyn, A One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Steinbeck, J. The Grapes of Wrath; In Dubious Battle

Stendahl The Red and the Black

Stone, I. The Agony and the Ecstasy; Lust for Life

Styron, W. Sophie’s Choice

Taylor, P. A Woman of Means

Thackeray, Wm. Vanity Fair

Tolstoy, L. Anna Karenina

Trumbo, D. Johnny Got his Gun

Updike, J. Rabbit Run

Uris, L. Exodus; Trinity

Voltaire Candide

Vonnegut, K. Slaughterhouse Five

Walker, A. Color Purple

Welty, E The Optimist's Daughter; Losing Battles; Delta Wedding

Wharton, E. The Age of Innocence; House of Mirth; Ethan Frome

Wolfe, Thomas You Can't Go Home Again; Look Homeward, Angel

Wolfe, Tom Bonfire of the Vanities

Wouk, H. Caine Mutiny

Wright, R. Native Son

Wrinkle, M. Wash

NON-FICTION AND BIOGRAPHY

Agee, J. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Angelou, M. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Asimov, I. Atom

Atkins, P. The Periodic Kingdom

Berry, A. The Next 500 Years

Boethius, trans. Relihan Consolation of Philosophy

Boorstin, D.J. The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson(b);

The Discoverers

Brown, D. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian

History of the American West

Calder, N. Einstein's Universe

Capote, T. In Cold Blood

Carson, R. Silent Spring

Connell, E. Son of the Morning Star (b)

Day, D. The Search for King Arthur

Didion, J. The White Album

Dillard, A. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Douglass, F. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an

American Slave, Written by Himself

Dunham, W. Journey Through Genius

Edwards, S. Rebel! A Biography of Tom Paine (b)

Frazer, A. Mary Queen of Scots (b)

Frye, N. The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of

Romance

Gandhi The Essential Writings of Mohatma Gandhi

Gleick, J. Isaac Newton (b)

Halberstam, D. The Best and the Brightest

Hamilton, V. Hugo Black: The Alabama Years(b)

Hanson, V. D. Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece

Hawking, S. A Brief History of Time

Hemingway, E. A Moveable Feast

Hersey Hiroshima

Jacobs, H. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Kidder, T. Mountains Beyond Mountains

Koff, C. The Bone Woman : A Forensic Anthropologist's

Search for Truth in the Mass Graves

Karlsen, C. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman:

Witchcraft in Colonial New England

Krutch Henry David Thoreau (b)

Lewis, P. The Grand Incendiary (b)

Malcolm X and Haley Autobiography of Malcolm X (b)

Massie, R. Nicholas and Alexandra (b)

Mayer, H. A Son of Thunder (b)

MacKendrick, P. The Mute Stones Speak

McCollough, D. John Adams (b)

McCourt, F. ‘Tis

McPhee, John A. Annals of the Former World

McWhorter, D. Carry Me Home

Menocal, M. R. The Ornament of the World

Milford, N. Zelda (b)

Mizener, A. The Far Side of Paradise (b)

Murchie, G. Music of the Spheres

Nafisi, A. Reading Lolita in Tehran

Nooteboom, C. Roads to Santiago

Paoli, U. E. Rome: Its People, Life and Customs

Pollan, M. Omnivore’s Dilemma

Plato Symposium

Plutarch Parallel Lives (any two of the parallel lives)

Ray, J. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

Reardon, B.P. Collected Ancient Greek Novels (any one novel)

Rhodes, R. The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Santiago, E. When I Was Puerto Rican

Singh, S. Fermat's Enigma

Smith, G. When the Cheering Stopped (b)

Stringer,C. African Exodus

Thoreau, H. D. Walden

Turnbull, A. Scott Fitzgerald (b)

Twain, Mark Life on the Mississippi

Van Deusen, G. Horace Greeley (b)

Wolfe, T. The Painted Word

DRAMA

Aeschylus Orestia

Chekov, A. Cherry Orchard

Euripides Medea

Ibsen, H. A Doll’s House

Gilman, R. Spinning into Butter

Hansberry, L. A Raisin in the Sun

MacLeish, A. J.B.

Moliere The Misanthrope; The Bourgeois Gentleman

Miller, A. The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons

O'Neill , E. A Long Day’s Journey into Night

Sartre, J. No Exit

Shaffer, P. Equus

Shakespeare, Wm. Twlefth Night; Othello; Macbeth; The Tempest

Sophocles Theban Cycle

Wasserstein, W. The Heidi Chronicles

Wilder, T. Our Town

Williams, T. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Night of the Iguana

Wilson, A. The Piano Lesson; Fences