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Summer Reading

Natick High School English Department

Required Summer Reading 2010  

Entering 9th grade:

?       All incoming freshmen will read the Trouble with Lemons by Daniel Hayes.

?       Students in English 10 classes (honors) will also read Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Entering 10th grade:

?       All students entering sophomore year will readTuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom.

?       Students in English 20 classes (honors) will also read The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers.

?       Students in English 21 classes (college preparatory) will also read Proof by David Auburn.

 Entering 11th grade:

?       All students entering junior year will read ONE of the following nonfiction selections:

o   Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

o    An Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

o   Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin

o   The Teammates by David Halberstam

?       Students in English 30 (honors) will also read The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.

Further information on the junior summer reading selections can be found at http://teachers.natickps.org/webpages/NPSCBernstein/index.cfm?subpage=17245


Entering 12th grade:

?       All students entering senior year will read two books by the same author chosen from the proscribed list (based on the Massachusetts English Language Arts Frameworks) found below. These books will be the basis of the required Senior Literary Project.

?       Students taking English 40 (honors) will also readA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.

?       Students taking Advanced Placement English 50 will also read Catch 22 by Joseph Heller and The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. [note: matriculating AP English students will also receive a packet of additional required summer work from Ms. Donnelly prior to the end of the 2010-2011 school year.]

Natick High School English Department: Senior Literary Project Authors

(Students must choose two books from these authors for the basis of their Senior Literary Project. )


Chinua Achebe

James Agee

Louisa May Alcott

Isabel Allende

Maya Angelou

Margaret Atwood

Jane Austen

James Baldwin

Jorge Luis Borges

Ray Bradbury

Emily Bronte

Geraldine Brooks

A. S. Byatt

Italo Calvino

Albert Camus

Raymond Carver

Willa Cather

Agatha Christie

Sandra Cisneros

Stephen Crane

Michael Crichton

Daniel Defoe

Don DeLillo

Charles Dickens

Annie Dillard

Isak Dinesen

E. L. Doctorow

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Margaret Drabble

Alexander Dumas

George Eliot

Louise Erdrich

William Faulkner

F. Scott Fitzgerald

E. M. Forster

Nicholas Gage

Ernest K. Gaines

Nikolai Gogol

William Golding

Nadine Gordimer

Sue Grafton

Thomas Hardy

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Robert Heinlein

Joseph Heller

Ernest Hemingway

Hermann Hesse

Victor Hugo

Zora Neale Hurston

Aldous Huxley

John Irving

Washington Irving

Kazuo Ishiguro

Sarah Orne Jewett

Ha Jin

James Joyce

Franz Kafka

William Kennedy

Jamaica Kincaid

Stephen King

Barbara Kingsolver

Maxine Hong Kingston

Jon Krakauer

Milan Kundera

Jhumpa Lahiri

Doris Lessing

Jack London

Naguib Mahfouz

Bernard Malamud

Cormac McCarthy

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Paule Marshall

Carson McCullers

Ian McEwan

Toni Morrison

Alice Munro

Vladimir Nabokov

V. S. Naipaul

Joyce Carol Oates

Tim O'Brien

Flannery O'Connor

Cynthia Ozick

Anna Quindlen

Robert B. Parker

Annie Proulx

Ayn Rand

Marilynne Robinson

Arundhati Roy

Salman Rushdie

Richard Russo

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Jane Smiley

Betty Smith

Alexander Solshenitsyn

Wallace Stegner

John Steinbeck

Elizabeth Strout

Amy Tan

J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

Mark Twain

Anne Tyler

John Updike

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Alice Walker

Robert Penn Warren

Edith Wharton

Eudora Welty

Thomas Wolfe

Tobias Wolff

Virginia Woolf