Half Moon Bay High School Summer Reading List 2007

Advanced English I Honors:

Sophomores - Advanced English II Honors:

Read Black Boy by Richard Wright and House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

And also one of the following:

Juniors - English III Honors:

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

And also two of the following:

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
• A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
• The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
• The Bluest Eye or Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Sun Also Rises by Earnest Hemmingway
• Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

• Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
• Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
• House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
• China Boy by Gus Lee
• All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
• Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
• Skin Deep by Guy Garcia
• Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow

Seniors - Advanced Placement English Literature:

First Reading:

• The Bible - King James Version
  Genesis and the Gospel According to Matthew

Second Reading:

• Oedipus by Sophocles

Third Reading - Choose one of the following:

• 1984 by George Orwell

Fourth Reading - Choose one of the following:

• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
• Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• One Hundred Years of Solitutde by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Them by Joyce Carol Oates
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• The Chosen by Chaim Potok
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift