Summer Reading Lists

 

Recommended reading for 11th grade

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SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM, Joan Didion

ESSAYS OF E.B. WHITE

STORIES OF JOHN CHEEVER

RABBIT, RUN, John Updike

NORWOOD, Charles Portis

AIRSHIPS, Barry Hannah

MRS. BRIDGE, Evan Connell

A FAREWELL TO ARMS, Ernest Hemingway

THE DAY OF THE LOCUST, Nathaniel West

TELL ME A RIDDLE, Tillie Olsen

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, Kurt Vonnegut

BILLY BUDD, Herman Melville

WHERE I’M CALLING FROM, Raymond Carver

LIKE LIFE, Lorrie Moore

BELOVED, Toni Morrison

ROCK SPRINGS, Richard Ford

THE LONGEST SILENCE, Thomas McGuane

THE STORIES OF FLANNERY O’CONNOR

UP IN THE OLD HOTEL, Joseph Mitchell

NINE STORIES, J. D. Salinger

IN COLD BLOOD, Truman Capote

THE SWEET SCIENCE, A, J. Liebling

A WANDERER IN THE PERFECT CITY, Lawrence Weschler

THE GRAPES OF WRATH, John Steinbeck

MY ANTONIA, Willa Cather

THE ANATOMY LESSON, Philip Roth

THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE, Stephen Crane

DISPATCHES, Michael Herr

CATCH-22, Joseph Heller

INVISIBLE MAN, Ralph Ellison

THE SHIPPING NEWS, Annie Proulx

AS I LAY DYING, William Faulkner

THE BELL JAR, Sylvia Plath

THE MOVIEGOER, Walker Percy

ON THE ROAD, Jack Keroua

KING OF THE WORLD, David Remnick

RITES OF AUTUMN, Dan O’Brien

WALDEN, Henry David Thoreau


V. S. Pritchett, MIDNIGHT OIL

Flannery O’Connor, THE HABIT OF BEING

Chekhov, STORIES

Virginia Woolf, MRS. DALLOWAY

Graham Greene, THE POWER AND THE GLORY

Joseph Conrad, HEART OF DARKNESS

A J. Liebling, A REPORTER AT LARGE

Mavis Gallant, PARIS STORIES

Janet Flanner, PARIS JOURNAL

Thomas McGuane, THE BUSH-WHACKED PIANO

Lorrie Moore, BIRDS OF AMERICA

Barry Hannah, RAY

Ken Kesey, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST

Ian Frazier, GREAT PLAINS

Thomas McGuane, AN OUTSIDE CHANCE

Graham Green, THE HEART OF THE MATTER

Vladimir Nabokov, PNIN

Cynthia Ozick, THE PUTTERMUSSER PAPERS

Edna O’Brien, THE HOUSE OF SPLENDID ISOLATION

Susan Orlean, THE ORCHID THIEF

Joyce Cary, THE HORSE'S MOUTH

Frederick Exley, A FAN'S NOTES

Robert Stone, DOG SOLDIERS

William Trevor, STORIES

William Trevor, THE STORY OF LUCY GAULT

Philip Caputo, A RUMOR OF WAR

Roddy Doyle, A STAR CALLED HENTY

Isak Dinesen, OUT OF AFRICA

Peter Fleming, BRAZILIAN ADVENTURE

Peter Carey, OSCAR AND LUCINDA

Isaac Babel, COLLECTED STORIES

Bill Barich, LAUGHING IN THE HILLS

J. M. Coetzee, WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS

Borges, FICCIONES

Eric Newby, A SHORT WALK IN THE HINDU KUSH

De Poncins, KABLOONA

Alexander Frater, CHASING THE MONSOON

George Kennan, TENT LIFE IN SIBERIA

Alan Moorehead, COOPER'S CREEK

Farley Mowat, ORDEAL BY ICE

Edward Abbey, DESERT SOLITAIRE

Virginia Woolf, DIARIES

Joan Didion, THE WHITE ALBUM

Joan Didion, PLAY IT AS IT LAYS

John Graves, GOODBYE TO A RIVER

William Faulkner, AS I LAY DYING

James Baldwin, THE FIRE NEXT TIME

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