11th grade honor students should have read one of the following novels over
summer vacation:
The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
The Things They Carried (Tim O’Brien)
OTHER READING CHOICES: These are additional selections NOT TO BE
SUBSTITUTIONS FOR THE READINGS ABOVE
Wuthering Heights (Bronte)
The Crossing (McCarthy)
Animal Dreams (Kingsolver)
The Color Purple (Walker)
A Gesture Life (Lee)
Typical American (Jen)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou)
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (JW Johnson)
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Chevalier)
Surfacing (Atwood)
David Copperfield (Dickens)
Black Boy (Wright)
O’ Pioneer (Cather)
The Joy Luck Club (Tan)
The American (James)
Obasan (Kogawa)
Some of you need to catch up on what the honors classes have been assigned.
Read some of the following if you have not yet done so.
King Lear (Shakespeare)
Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
Death of a Salesman (Miller)
Ethan Frome (Wharton)
Our Town (Wilder)
Animal Farm (Orwell)
Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)
The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger)
A Raisin in the Sun (Hansberry)
Jane Eyre (Bronte)
Lord of the Flies (Golding)
Oedipus the King (Sophocles)
Antigone (Sophocles)
Call of the Wild (London)
A Separate Peace (Knowles)
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