Master Book Lists for High School English

English I (American Literature),

• On level Summer Reading: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
• Honors Summer Reading: Jubilee by Margaret Walker
• How to Read Literature Like a Professor, by Thomas C. Foster
• The Crucible, by Arthur Miller 
• The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Second Edition.
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
• The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglass
• James by Percival Everett
• My Antonia, by Willa Cather
• The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
• Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston

Honors additional texts: Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry; Things they Carried

English 2 (British Literature),

• On level Summer Reading: Turn of the Screw  by Henry James
• Honors Summer Reading: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• Writing Tools: 55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer, by Roy Peter Clark 
• “Caedon’s Hymn” – pdf
• Hamlet – No Fear Shakespeare
• “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift – pdf
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Jane Austen Unit – Book TBD in Session 2 for Session 3
• Closure: Contemporary Black British Short Stories, edited by Jacob Ross
• Poetry survey: Blake, Browning, Byron, Carroll, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Wordsworth
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
• Detective Short stories – pdf
• Nineteen-Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
• HONORS: Mexican Gothic

English 1 (World Literature),

• How to Read Literature Like a Professor, by Thomas C. Foster
• World creation stories – Genesis
• The Odyssey, by Homer
• Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare
• Poetry: Rumi, the haiku
• Animal Farm, by George Orwell
• Night, by Elie Wiesel
• Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
• Purple Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• HONORS books: 
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh
  • The Art of War, by Sun Tzu

The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx

English 2 (World Literature)

• Writing Tools: 55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer, by Roy Peter Clark

• All Quiet on the Western Front, by Remarque
• The Stranger, Camus
• Silence, by Shusaku Endo
• Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
• Interpreter of Maladies, by Lahiri
• A Swim in the Pond in the Rain, by George Saunders
  • Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoevsky
• House of Spirits, by Allende
• Poetry, Paublo Nerudo + others
• Like Water for Chocolate, by Esquivel
• Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi 

Purple Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie