Half Moon Bay High School Summer Reading List 2008

Advanced English I Honors:

Sophomores - Advanced English II Honors:

Read Antigone by Sophocles and House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

And also one of the following:

Juniors - English III Honors:

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

And also two of the following:

• Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
• A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
• The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
• The Bluest Eye or Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Sun Also Rises by Earnest Hemmingway
• Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

• Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
• Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
• House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
• China Boy by Gus Lee
• All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
• Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
• Skin Deep by Guy Garcia
• Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow

Seniors - Advanced Placement English Literature:

First Reading:

• Oedipus by Sophocles

Second Reading:

• One Flew Over the Cuckoos’ Nest by Ken Kesey

Third Reading

• 1984 by George Orwell

Fourth Reading - Choose one of the following:

• Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
• Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• One Hundred Years of Solitutde by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Road by Cormac Mccarthy

• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Them by Joyce Carol Oates
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• The Chosen by Chaim Potok
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift