Freshman

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury

Global Studies - Pick one:

• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• What Is The What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng by Dave Eggers
• Catfish and Mandala by Andrew X. Pham
• Seven Years In Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

• Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario
• Prisoner Without A Name, Cell Without A Number by Jacobo Timerman
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
• Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton

Sophomore

• Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle

Students who want to apply for the honors program: Read

• The adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Junior

Literature and the Arts

• The Odyssey, Books 1-12 by Homer, Fagles translation

Philosophy and Literature

• The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton

Women and Literature

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Latin American Literature

• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

The Lit Wit reading

• Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival by Jen Marlow, et al

The Classical Epic Journey

• The Odyssey, Books 1-12 by Homer, Fagles translation

AP WORLD HISTORY

• When Asia was the World by Stewart Gordon

JUNIOR WORLD CIVILIZATIONS - All students in History III EXCEPT THOSE IN THE two AP SECTIONS are to read the two books below :

• Ten Discoveries that Rewrote History by Patrick Hunt

• The Riddle of the Compass by Amir D. Aczel

LANGUAGE - For those enrolled in the History III regular sections who intend to opt for HISTORY III HONORS SEMINAR, Read the two books above and :

• The Source by James Michener

Senior

AP Literature of Crime and Punishment

• The Trial by Franz Kafka

• Crime and Punishment Books 1-3 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Pevear & Volokohnsky translation)

AP Literature of Love and Death

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The Inferno by Dante (Canto V only)

AP Literature of Utopia/Dystopia

• 1984 by George Orwell

• Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

AP Literature of Race, Gender, and Class

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith

AP Literature-Nature Writers

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

English 4 Honors Literature of Utopia/Dystopia

• 1984 by George Orwell

English 4 Honors Short Story

• Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut

AP US GOVERNMENT/ A.P. COMPARATIVE POLITICS

• What You Should Know About Politics...But Don't by Jessamyn Conrad

HISTORY ELECTIVES – AMERICAN DIPLOMACY

• Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer