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Smithfield High School - Required Book List

Grades 11 and 12
 

Note: Students will select a book from the following list to fulfill the required book assignment.  It has been developed to support a variety of interests and reading levels.  During the first week of school students will be asked to write an essay demonstrating their knowledge of the book.  It is recommended that each student use the Summer Reading Study Guide while reading this book in preparation for this assignment. As always, parents should review each book before allowing it to be read.

Grade 11:                  

            Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Purgatory: A Prison Diary 2 by Jeffrey Archer

Something from the Nightside by Simon R. Green

And The There Were None by Agatha Christie

Oliver Twist or,  A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

First Part Last by Angela Johnson

              The Power of One by Bruce Courtenay

            Finding Grace by Alyssa Brugman

           Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

Grade 12:

            Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer

            Life of Pi by Yann Martel

            A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggars

            Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah           

            The Color Purple by Alice Walker

            Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

            Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

            The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl

            Like the Red Panda by Andrea Seigel

Self-Selected Reading:  Select one.

List of books recommended by your classmates for self-selected reading.

I Lock the Door Upon Myself by Joyce Carol Oates

The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

You Don’t Know Me by David Klass

The Footprints of God; Spandau Phoenix; Black Cross; by Greg Iles

Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything;

Mostly Harmless; So Long and Thanks for All the Fish; by Douglas Adams

Flights of Eagles; The Keys to Hell; by Jack Higgins

Airframe by Michael Crichton

The Lake House by James Patterson

Lord of The Rings; The Hobbit; by J.R.R. Tolkien

Sky Hook by John J. Nance

Fire Ice by Clive Cussler

Contagion by Robin Cook

Tell No One Harlan Coben

Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter

Night of Broken Souls by Thomas F. Monteleone

OTHER TITLES TO CONSIDER

Action/Adventure

Tom Clancy                  Assorted

Mary Higgins Clark      Assorted

Lois Duncan                 Summer of Fear and, I Know What You Did Last Summer

                                    Assorted Others

John Grisham                Assorted

Stephen King                Assorted

Dean R. Koontz            Assorted

Dennis Lehane              Assorted

Biography, Diaries & Journals

Mitch Albom                The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Madeline Albright         Madam Secretary

Rachel Carson              Silent Spring

Hillary Rodham Clinton  Living History

Frederick Douglass       Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Jack Gantos                 A Hole in My Life

Gary Paulsen                The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer

Mary Robertson           The Diana I Knew: Loving Memories of the Friendship Between an

American Mother and Her Son’s Nanny Who Became the

Princess of Wales

Drama

William Shakespeare    Various

Sophocles                    Oedipus Rex

                                    Oedipus at Colonus

Oscar Wilde                 The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious

People

Fantasy & Science Fiction

Douglas Adams            Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series

Piers Anthony               Assorted

Isaac Asimov                Fantastic Voyage

(For a continuation of this list please see our website:  www.smithfield-ps.org and follow links for  “Schools”, “Smithfield High School”,“Academic Departments” to  “English Department” for summer reading requirements and associated lists)

Margaret Atwood         The Handmaid’s Tale

Hilari Bell                     A Matter of Profit

Gary Blackwood          Year of the Hangman

Ray Bradbury               Martian Chronicles

                                    Something Wicked This Way Comes

Terry Brooks                Shannara series

Arthur C. Clarke          Childhood’s End

Michael Crichton          Sphere

                                    Prey

Nancy Farmer              House of the Scorpion

                                    The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm

Robert Jordan              Wheel of Time series

Frank Herbert              Dune series

Aldus Huxley                Brave New World

Anne McCaffrey           Drangonriders of Pern series

George Orwell              Animal Farm

                                    1984

Carol Plum-Ucci           The Body of Christopher Creed

                                    What Happened to Lani Garver

                                    The She

J.R.R. Tolkien              The Hobbit

                                    The Lord of the Rings series

Harry Turtledove          Gunpowder Empire

                                    Assorted other titles

Jules Verne                   Assorted

H.G. Wells                   Assorted

Folklore & Mythology

Thomas Bulfinch           Bulfinch’s Mythology

Homer                          The Illiad

                                    The Odyssey

Gregory Maguire          Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

                                    Mirror, Mirror

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Virgil                            The Aeneid

Multicultural

Sandra Cisneros           The House on Mango Street

Arthur Golden              Memoirs of a Geisha

Toni Morrison              Various

Amy Tan                      The Joy Luck Club

Alice Walker                The Color Purple

Mystery

Agatha Christie various

Jennifer Donnelly          A Northern Light

Elizabeth George          Inspector Lynley series

Elizabeth Peters            Amelia Peabody series

Ellis Peters                    Brother Cadfael series

Nancy Werllin              Black Mirror

Historical Fiction

Aiden Chambers           Postcards from No Man’s Land

Michael Crichton          Timeline

Craig Crist-Evans         Amaryllis

Howard Fast                April Morning

Pete Hamill                   Forever

John Hersey                 Hiroshima

John Jakes                    On Secret Service

                                    Varied

Poetry

Terri Fields                   After the Death of Anna Gonzales

Helen Frost                  Keesha’s House

Mel Glenn                    Jump Ball: A Basketball Season in Poems

                                    Assorted other titles

Jewel Kilcher                A Night Without Armor

Liz Rosenberg              Roots and Flowers: Poets and Poems on Family

Sonya Sones                Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy

Alice Walker                Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems

Margaret Wild              Jinx

Virginia Euwer Wolff    Make Lemonade

True Believer

Realistic Fiction

Laurie Halse Anderson  Catalyst

                                    Speak

Michael Cart (ed.)        Love and Sex: Ten Stories of Truth

Neil O. Connelly           St. Michael’s Scales

Sarah Dessen               Dreamland

Someone Like You

                                    That Summer

                                    This Lullaby

Alex Flinn                     Breaking Point

Breathing Underwater

E.R. Frank                   America

K.L. Going                   Fat Kid Rules the World

Brent Hartinger             Geography Club

S.E. Hinton                   That Was Then, This is Now

                                    Rumblefish

AM Jenkins                  Out of Order

M.E. Kerr                    various

David Klass                  You Don’t Know Me

Billie Letts                    Home is Where the Heart Is

Robert Lipsyte              The Contender

                                    Assorted Others

Chris Lynch                  Freewill

Mary Beth Miller          Aimee

Jaclyn Moriarty Feeling Sorry for Celia

Walter Dean Myers      Monster; and many others

Han Nolan                    Born Blue

Kristen D. Randle         Breaking Rank

Slumming

Louise Rennison           Georgia Nickerson series

Nicholas Sparks           Various

Janet Tashjian               Fault Line

                                    The Gospel According to Larry

Jacqueline Woodson     If You Come Softly

Informational

Stephen Ambrose         Band of Brothers: E Company, 506^th Regiment, 101^st Airborne

from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest

Marc Aronson              Witch Hunt: Mysteries of Salem Witch Trials

Brooks Brown              No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine

Patricia Cornwell          Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper – Case Closed

Stephen Hawking         A Brief History of Time

Laura Hillebrand           Seabiscuit: An American Legend

Ron Kovic                    Born on the Fourth of July

John Miller                   The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to

Stop It

Mary Bray Piper           Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Lives of Adolescent Girls

Richard Preston            The Hot Zone

Rachel Simmons           Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls Write About Bullies, Cliques,

Popularity and Jealousy