Summer Reading

• Something Other Than God: How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found it, by Jennifer Fulwiler
• The Big Hustle: A Boston Street Kid's Story of Addiction and Redemption, by Jim Wahlberg
• Redeemed: Stumbling toward God, Sanity, and the Peace that Surpasses All Understanding, by Heather King
• John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father, by Peggy Noonan
• Into the Deep, by Abigail Rine Favale
• Dying to Live: From Agnostic to Baptist to Catholic, by Ian Murphy
• Not God's Type: An Atheist Academic Lays Down Her Arms, by Holly Ordway
• A Song for Nagasaki: The Story of Takashi Nagai: Scientist, Convert, and Survivor of the Atomic Bomb, by Fr. Paul Glynn
• An Immovable Feast: How I Gave Up Spirituality for a Life of Religious Abundance, by Tyler Blanski
• Night's Bright Darkness: A Modern Conversion Story, by Sally Read
• Catholic by Choice: Why I Embraced the Faith, Joined the Church, and Embarked on the Journey of a Lifetime, by Richard Cole

• A History of the Church in 100 Objects, by Mike Aquilina

Required: Watership Down by Richard Adams (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)

Choose One Book to read from the following list:

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriott
• The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou - includes adult themes which may be disturbing
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• To be Young, Gifted, and Black by Lorraine Hansberry
• Trouble by Gary Schmidt
• When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin

Required: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary Schmidt (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)

Choose One Book to read from the following list:

• When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin
• Black Like Me by J. H. Griffin
• Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• The Yearling by M. K. Rawlings
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
• Trouble by Gary Schmidt
• The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

Required: My Antonia by Willa Cather.  (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)

Choose TWO books to read from the following list; only one may be a play. 

• A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
• The Scarlet Letter or The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (Includes adult themes which may be disturbing.)
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
• The Last of the Mohicans by J. F. Cooper (for the advanced reader)
• The Color of Water by James McBride
• Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (You may never eat meat again!)

Required: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)

Choose one book to read from the following list:

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
• Hiroshima by John Hersey
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Jim, the Boy by Tony Earley
• The Final Four by Paul Volponi
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Required: A Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)

Required: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)

Choose TWO books to read from the following list: only one may be a play.

• 1984 by George Orwell
• A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
• Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
• The Once and Future King by T. H. White
• The Tragedy of Othello by William Shakespeare
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
• The Elephant Man by Christine Sparks

Required: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (Purchase, read, and bring  to class.)

Choose one book to read from the following list:

• The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Grendel by John Gardner
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Closed Casket by Sophie Hannah

Required: The Noticer by Andy Andrews (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)

Required: Purchase, read both, and bring to class

• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Choose TWO books to read from the following list; only one may be a play.

• A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
• A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
• Crime and Punishment by Theodore Dostoevsky
• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by G.G. Marquez
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
• Snow in August by Pete Hamill

Required: Purchase, read both, and bring to class

• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien 

Choose ONE book to read from the following list:

• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capute
• Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
• The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seirstad
• The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
• A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

Required: Purchase, read both, and bring to class

• Inherit the Wind by Lawrence and Lee, 2007 edition
• The Tempest by W. Shakespeare

Required: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)

Choose One Book to read from the following list:

• The Color of Water by James McBride
• For All of Us Today: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey by Richard Blanco
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
• I am Malala by Malala Yousofzai
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Selected Poems by Langston Hughes
• The Carrying by Ada Limone

Required: Purchase both and bring to class.

• On Writing by Stephen King
• The Elements of Style by Strunk and White