Woodside High School Summer Reading List 2009

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

• Kindred by Octavia Butler
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• Monster by Walter Dean Myers

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

• The Bull From the Sea Mary Renault

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

Sophomores

• Working by Studs Terkel
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• 13 Reasons by Jay Asher

• 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

• Luna by Julie Ann Peters
• An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
• Testimony by Anita Shreve

• Tyrell by Coe Booth
• The Last lecture by Randy Pausch
• The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

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

• Dreams from my Father by Barack Obama
• Hunger of memory by Richard Rodriguez
• 1000 Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

• Freakonomics by Steven Levitt

AP Literature - Required Titles:

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