Summer Reading Lists

Required reading for English I:

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata

Required Reading for English I Honors:

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

All Classes: This year there will be a journal assignment to accompany your summer reading books. This must be completed for the first day of class.

English II

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jaime Ford

English II Honors

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

English III

Hiroshima by John Hersey
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
A Separate Peace by John Knowles

AP LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION

Night by Elie Wiesel
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Hiroshima by John Hersey

English IV

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Choice (pick one):
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

AP English Literature and Composition:

Medea by Euripides
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolpho Anaya
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath


PLUS— One analytical scholarly article about any of the four above novels. You can find these at a local library or through the use of online databases available through Mount Mercy's library or the public libraries. Mount Mercy's databases are available on the LMC website and the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library's databases are accessible at Buffalo and Erie County Public Library Databases.