Summer Reading 11th grade gifted—Godshall, Meaux Choose two books to read from the fiction or nonfiction list and read the required books, which are The Crucible by A. Miller and Outliers by M. Gladwell (4 books total). Watch your ACT/SAT/PSAT scores grow as your reading increases.     If you would like to take the test(s) for summer reading during the summer, check with the LHS Office for details.  Here is a list of books suggested by colleges and universities across the U.S. Standardized tests and AP tests will use vocabulary from these novels; therefore, it is highly recommended that you read as many of these books as you can. I hope that a love of reading can come from a wide selection such as this. You will have a great amount of reading in college, and the more you read, the better speed and comprehension you will acquire. We will have a reading assessment when you return to school in the Fall. Required reading: The Crucible-Arthur Miller-we will begin with this drama Required reading:  Outliers-Malcolm Gladwell       Required reading:  2 other books from these fiction or nonfiction lists     Fiction   100 Years of Solitude--Marquez  A Lesson Before Dying--Gaines A Light in August--Faulkner A Prayer for Owen Meany--Irving The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn--Twain All the Pretty Horses--McCarthy American Gods--Gaiman Angela's Ashes--McCourt Animal Dreams--Kingsolver Anthem--Rand As I Lay Dying--Faulkner Atlas Shrugged--Rand The Bean Trees--Kingsolver The Beautiful and the Damned--Fitzgerald Bel Canto--Patchett The Bell Jar-Plath Blind Assassin--Atwood The Bluest Eye--Morrison The Book Thief--Zusak The Bridge of San Luis Rey--Wilder Cat's Cradle--Vonnegut Cat's Eye--Atwood Catch 22--Heller Catcher in the Rye--Salinger Cathedral--Carver Ceremony-Silko Cities of the Plains--McCarthy The Color of Water--McBride Confederacy of Dunces--Toole The Crossing--McCarthy Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night  Time -- Haddon Daughter of the Forest-Marillier Day of the Locust--West Dreaming in Cuban--Garcia Dune--Herbert Dune Messiah--Herbert East of Eden--Steinbeck Everything is Illuminated--Foer Farewell to Arms--Hemingway The Fountainhead--Rand Frannie and Zooey--Salinger Galapagos-Vonnegut  (mature) The Glass Castle--Wells Girl With the Pearl Earring--Chevalier Grapes of Wrath--Steinbeck Gravity's Rainbow-Pynchon (mature) The Handmaid's Tale-Atwood (mature) Hiroshima--Hersey How the Garcia Girls Lost Their      Accent-Alvarez I am the Messenger--Zusak Into Thin Air--Krakauer Invisible Man--Ellison Ironweed--Kennedy Ishmael-Quinn The Jungle--Sinclair Kafka on the Shore-Murakami (mature) Killer Angels--Shaara King Rat­-Clavell (mature) Lords of Discipline­-Conroy (mature) The Man Who Was Thursday-Chesterton March--Brooks The Martian Chronicles--Bradbury  Mister Pip--Jones  Moby Dick--Melville Mother Night-Vonnegut (mature) My Antonia--Cather The Mysterious Stranger--Twain Native Son--Wright Never Let Me Go­--Ishiguro  O Pioneers--Cather The Old Man and the Sea/ Of Mice and  Men-Hemingway (two count as one) On the Road--Kerouac  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest--Kesey Oryx and Crake-Atwood (mature) A Painted House-Grisham The Penelopiad--Atwood Pigs in Heaven-Kingsolver Plague of Doves -Erdich (mature) The Poisonwood Bible--Kingsolver The Portrait of an Artist as a Young  Man--Joyce   The Power of One--Courtenay Prince of Tides-Conroy (mature) Ragtime--Doctorow The Red Tent--Diamant The Scarlet Letter--Hawthorne The Sea Wolf--London The Shipping News--Proulx Siddhartha--Hesse Sirens of Titan-Vonnegut (mature) Slapstick-Vonnegut (mature)  The Screwtape Letters--Lewis Song of Solomon--Morrison Starship Troopers--Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land-Heinlein The Story of Edgar Sawtelle--Wroblewski  Sula--Morrison The Sun Also Rises--Hemingway Tender is the Night--Fitzgerald Their Eyes Were Watching God--Hurston The Things They Carried-O'Brien This Boy's Life--Wolff  Till We have Faces--Lewis Tinkers--Harding Typical American--Jen Walden-Thoreau Watership Down--Adams White Noise DeLillo  (mature) The World According to Garp-Irving (mature)   Nonfiction       A Room of One's Own-- Woolfe   A Whole New Mind--Pink Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A Year of Food Life             --Kingsolver Blink--Gladwell The Demon in the Freezer--Preston Devil in the White City--Larson Fast Food Nation--Schlosser Freakonomics--Levitt From Beirut to Jerusalem--Friedman The Golden Bough-Frazer The Help--Stockett Hero of a Thousand Faces--Campbell How the Mind Works--Pinker In Cold Blood--Capote John Adams--McCullough Ladies of Liberty--Roberts Lucky (mature subject matter)--Sebold Man's Search for Meaning--Frankel Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything --Foer   The Omnivore's Dilemma­--Pollan Outliers--Gladwell The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary--Winchester Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics, Explained by its Most Brilliant Teacher--Feynman The Stuff of Thought--Pinker  The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How--Coyle Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations...One School at a Time--Mortenson The Tipping  Point--Gladwell Thus Spake Zarathustra-Nietzsche Unaccustomed Earth--Lahiri Up From Slavery-- Washington Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China--Chang