El Camino High School - Summer Reading List 2013

For more information go to the El Camino Summer Reading page.

Freshman / Sophomore

CP Students:

• Choose any book off the Freshman/Sophomore Free Choice Reading List - This list may be found below.

Honors Students:

• Choose two books off the Freshman/Sophomore Free Choice Reading List. One Fiction and one Non-fiction - This list may be found below.

Grades 9 & 10 Choose from this list
(Honors Students Choose 2: 1 Fiction AND 1 Non Fiction)

• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (Fiction)
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie (Fiction)
• Ask the Passengers by A.S. King (Fiction)
• Autobiography of Malcom X by Alex Haley (Non-fiction)
• Born Confused – Tanuja Desai Hidier (Fiction)
• Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair (Fiction)
• The Curious Incident … Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon Fiction
• Different Seasons (Suspense/Horror Fiction) *another book by Steven King
• Eagle Blue: a Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska by Michael D’Orso (Non-fiction)
• Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card (Science Fiction)
• Fables: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
• Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki (Non Fiction)
• Feed - MT Anderson (Science Fiction)
• Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian (Non-fiction)
• A Game for Swallows by ZeinaAbirached (Non – Fiction Graphic Novel)
• Heavier Than Heaven: a Biography of Kurt Cobain by Charles R. Cross (Biography Non-fiction)
• Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupak Shakur by Michael Eric Dyson (Biography Non-Fiction)
• I am the Messenger by Markus Zuzac (Fiction)
• Last Breath: The Limits of Adventure by Peter Stark (Fiction-Short Stories)
• The Liars Club by Mary Karr (Memoir Non-fiction)
• Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (Fiction)
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (Fiction – Short Stories)
• Maus I & II by Art Spiegelman (Graphic Novel)
• Nation by Terry Pratchett (Fiction)
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult (Fiction)
• On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony (Fiction) *or any other book in the Incarnations of Immortality series
• Persepolis by MarjaneSatrapi (Graphic Novel)
• Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy by Bill Wright (Fiction)
• Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas (Fiction)
• A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean (Fiction- Short Stories)
• So Hard to Say by Alex Sanchez (Fiction)
• Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher (Fiction)

Junior / Senior

Grades 11 & 12 Choose from this list

• 1776 by David McCullough (Non-fiction)
• The 13th Juror* by John Lescroart *or any John Lescroart novels (Fiction)
• Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy – Dave Hickey (Essays)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon (Fiction)
• America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan
• An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson (Non-fiction)
• Aristotle and Dante … Secrets of the Universe -Benjamin Alire Saenz (Fiction)
• The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong (Non-fiction)
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz (Fiction)
• The Difference Between You and Me by Madeleine George (Fiction)
• The Hades Factor by Robert Ludlum and Gayle Lynds (Fiction)
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (Non-Fiction)
• Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (Fiction)
• Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (Fiction)
• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore (Fiction)
• Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Fiction)
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (Non-Fiction)
• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (Fiction)
• The Omnivore’s Dilemna by Michael Pollan (Non-fiction)
• On Writing Stephen King (Memoir)
• Outliers by MalcomGladwell (Non-fiction)
• Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitantsby Robert Sullivan (Non-fiction)
• The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason (Mystery)
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (Science Fiction)
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (Biography)
• The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry (Fiction)
• Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker (Fiction)
• Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin (Autobiography)
• This is Your Brain on Music: the Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel Levitin (Non-fiction)
• Unbroken – Laura Hillenbrand (Non-Fiction)
• A Walk in the Wood: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson (Non-fiction)
• Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan (Fiction)
• Zeitoun by Dave Eggars (Non Fiction)

AP Language:

• On Writing by Stephen King
• Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller

AP Literature:

• AP Literature Assignement