Burlingame High School - Summer Reading List 2013
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Content Body:
9th Grade
Freshman CP/AS:
All students CP/AS must read "The Chrysanthemus" by John Steinbeck.
10th Grade
Sophomore CP:
All CP students must read The Kitchen Gods Wife by Amy Tan.
Sophomore AS:
All AS students must read Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger as well as a book of literary merit. A title from one of the authors below will work.
- Louisa May Alcott
- Madeline L’Engle
- Sandra Cisneros
- Julia Alvaerz
- Chinua Achebe
- Khaled Hosseini (not The Kite Runner)
- Annie Dillard
- Virginia Woolf
- John Irving
- Isabelle Allende
- Jane Smiley
- Willa Cather
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Ray Bradbury (not Fahrenheit 451)
- Thomas Moore
- Maya Angelou
- Gustav Flaubert
- Nick Hornby
- Barbara Kingsolver
- George Elliot
- Victor Villasenor
- Viktor Martinez
- Truman Capote
- Leo Tolstoy
- David Wroblewski
- Edward P. Jones
11th Grade
Juniors CP:
All CP Students are required to read a book by an author from the following list:
- Kurt Vonnegut
- F.Scott Fitzgerald
- Tim O’Brien
- Cormac McCarthy
- Ernest Hemingway
- John Steinbeck
- Raymond Carver
- Tobias Wolff
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Ernest Gaines
- Toni Morrison
- Chang-rae Lee
- Gish Jen
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- Amy Tan
- Ha Jin
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Geraldine Brooks
- Louise Erdrich
- Scott Momaday
- Junot Diaz
- Victor Villasenor
- Isabel Allende
- Rudolfo Anaya
- Esmeralda Santiago
- Richard Wright
- Alice Walker
Juniors AP:
All AP Read any two nonfiction works* (not necessarily the same author) from this list:
- Nicholas Basbanes
- Ron Chernow
- Edwidge Danticat
- Joan Didion
- Richard Feynman
- Betty Friedan
- Thomas Friedman
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Stephen Gould
- Stephen Greenblatt
- Brian Greene
- David Halberstam
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Aldous Huxley
- Chuck Klosterman
- Gina Kolata
- Jon Krakauer
- Ray Kurzweil
- C.S.Lewis
- Michael Lewis
- Frank McCourt
- David McCullough
- Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Oliver Sacks
- Leslie Marmon Silko
- Bill Simmons
- Patsy Sims
- Patti Smith
- Tom Standage
- Hunter S.Thompson
- David Foster Wallace
- Rebecca West
- Tom Wolfe
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Virginia Woolf
12th Grade
Seniors CP:
All CP students must read a biography or autobiography of their choice.
AP Literature:
Choose a pair of novels that explore the theme of separate worlds (or worlds apart). Listed below are some authors whose work often examines themes of separate worlds.
- Salman Rushdie
- Bharati Mukherjee
- W. Somerset Maughm
- Gish Jen
- Nadine Gordimer
- Colm Toibin
- Ian McEwan
- Virginia Woolf
- Neal Stephenson
- Zadie Smith
- Pat Barker
- Anita Desai
- Abraham Verghese
- Margaret Atwood
- Jane Austen
- Lewis Carroll
- Amy Tan
- Gustave Flaubert
- Cormac McCarthy
- Jonathan Franzen
- Jane Smiley
- E.M. Forster
- Toni Morrison
- Philip Roth
- Ernest Hemmingway
- Haruki Murakami
- Richard Price
- Irene Némirovsky
