Elkins High School Summer Reading List

Class Summer Reading

Pre-AP English I The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Pre-AP World Geo The Kite Runner

Pre-AP English II Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Required)

AND student choice of the following:

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Nora Zeale Hurston

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

A Lesson Before Dying by Earnest J. Gaines

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

AP World History AP World History Summer Assignment 2016-2017

AP English III Beloved by Toni Morrison

Pilgrim on Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

AP English IV How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Foster

(required)

AND student choice of the following:

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

In Cold Blood

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Poisonwood Bible

A Prayer for Owen Meany

Things Fall Apart

Crime and Punishment

Wuthering Heights

A Passage to India

The Awakening

All the Pretty Horses

The Bluest Eye

One Hundred Years of Solitude

The Joy Luck Club