Woodside High School Summer Reading List 2008

Visit the Woodside High School website for complete lists and instructions or use the list below for links into our catalog.

Note: The AS/AP classes are required to read all of the titles on their lists.

Freshmen

• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• Monster by Walter Dean Myers

• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• Grayson by Lynne Cox
• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

AS English 1 - Required titles - Read all of the following:

• The Illiad: A New Prose Translation (Penguin Classics) by Homer (translated by Martin Hammond)
  (Available soon at PLS libraries.)

• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas Abridged Bantam Classic edition preferred, which might be in these records

Sophomores

• 19 Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• Freakonomics by Stephen D. Levitt
• The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NIght-time by Mark Haddon
• The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad

AS English II - Required titles:

• Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
• Beowulf by Seamus Heaney

• Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (Oxford World Classics, ISBN: 019283360X). Read the indtroduction and groups A & D.
  

Juniors

• Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
• Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
• Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett

• Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
• One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
• Almost Moon by Alice Sebold

AP Language - Required titles:

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
• Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle

Seniors

• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Zorro by Isabelle Allende
• 1000 Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• East Side Dreams by Art Rodriguez

AP Literature - Required Titles:

• The Things They Carried: a work of fiction by Tim O'Brien
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller