English 9 Honors Summer Reading List
This is the reading list used for summer reading
suggestions and for additional assignments throughout the year.
Just click on the title to see if the book is in the library at this
time.
***There may be additional copies available. Ask a librarian for
help in finding them.***
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Annie John - Jamaica Kincaid
- A story of a teen girl's relationship with her mother while
growing up on the island of Antigua in the Caribbean.
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Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
- A Zulu pastor tries to save his son, who is accused of murder, in
apartheid-stricken South Africa.
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A Death in the Family - James Agee
- Focuses on a family in the South dealing with the sudden and
accidental death of the father.
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Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
- In the future, all books are burned because knowledge and ideas
are considered evil and dangerous. Read more about one possible
future society.
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Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
- You've seen all the movies and popular images of the monster.
Now read the original frightening tale, and find out what really
happened to Frankenstein and his monsterous creation.
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The Good Earth - Pearl Buck
- Chronicals the struggles of Wang Lung and his wife O-lan to rise
from their positions as poor farmers in 1920's China.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
- Many of the misfits of a small Southern town unload on a local
deaf-mute without considering the consequences.
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Hiroshima - John Hersey
- Six first-hand accounts of survivors of the atomic bomb.
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I Heard the Owl Cry My Name - M. Craven
- An English vicar is assigned to an Indian village in British
Columbia, and learns to appreciate a different way of life.
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The Iliad - Homer
- One of the greatest war stories of all time, this epic Greek poem
tells the tale of the last year of the Trojan War.
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden - JoAnne Greenberg
- Follows a 16-year-old girl through her fight with schizophrenia.
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The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
- Exposes the life of a worker in a meat-packing factory during the
early 1900s. This book is one of the reasons why we now have
governmental regulations for food preparation.
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The Learning Tree - Gordon Parks
- A coming of age story of a young black man in 1920s Kansas.
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Lost Horizon - James Hilton
- Three travelers' lives are forever changed when they enter
Shangri-La, the Tibetan utopia where time stands still.
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Night - Elie Wiesel
- An account of a Jewish boy's survival of two of the most
notorious concentration camps: Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
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1984 - George Orwell
- Story of a future society where complete mind control is
practiced, and where Big Brother is always watching you.
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Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- Tells of a friendship between George and Lennie, two migrant
farmers who look out for each other.
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The Nick Adams Stories - Ernest Hemingway
- Twenty-four short stories chronicle the life and experiences of
Hemingway's character Nick Adams as a youth in the Michigan woods, a
soldier in World War I, a veteran beginning a new life, and a family
man.
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The Oxbow Incident - Walter van Tilburg Clark
- A tale of the Old West focusing on the lynching of three men who
are later found to have been innocent.
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Rebecca - Daphne DuMaurier
- A suspenseful romance about a young, timid woman who marries a
wealthy widow and soon becomes obsessed with the idea of his first
wife, Rebecca.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
- The story of Francie, a young woman growing up in a very poor
section of Brooklyn in the early 1900s.