2012 RNHS Summer Reading: College Board
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"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." ~Mark Twain
2012 RNHS Summer Reading: College Board*
The following titles are recommended as summer reading to maintain fluency, build
vocabulary, and to enhance your critical reading skills for success on PSAT, SAT, and AP tests.
You can find these titles at local libraries and bookstores. Pre‐AP English I, II and III students
must read at least ONE book off of this list and at least two more books off of either this list or
the contemporary list.
Title Author Lexile**
Friday Night Lights Bissinger, H.G. 1260
All the Kings Men Warren, Robert Penn 1170
Doll's House Ibsen, Henrik 1000
Streetcar Named Desire Williams, Tennessee 1420
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Franklin, Benjamin 1370
Othello Shakespeare, William 1300
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Brown, Dee 1080
Death Be Not Proud Gunther, John 1060
Kaffir Boy Mathabane, Mark 1040
Dawn Wiesel, Elie 740
Autobiography of Malcolm X X, Malcolm 1120
Beowulf Anonymous/Heaney 1090
Death in the Family Agee, James 1020
Dandelion Wine Bradbury, Ray 880
Good Earth Buck, Pearl 1530
Two Years before the Mast Dana, Richard Henry 1290
Pickwick Papers Dickens, Charles 1160
Silas Marner Eliot, George 1330
Jude the Obscure Hardy, Thomas 1060
Far from the Madding Crowd Hardy, Thomas 1110
Siddhartha Hesse, Hermann 1010
Turn of the Screw James, Henry 1070
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Kesey, Ken 1110
Sea‐Wolf London, Jack 1020
1984 Orwell, George 1090
Color Purple Walker, Alice 670
Caine Mutiny Wouk, Herman 910
Go and Come Back Abelove, Joan 620
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy Adams, Douglas 1000
Little Women Alcott, Louisa May 790
Handmaid's Tale Atwood, Margaret 750
Clan of the Cave Bear Auel, Jean M. 1000
Shelters of Stone Auel, Jean M. 1000
Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane 770
Emma Austen, Jane 1070
Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane 1180
Go Tell it on the Mountain Baldwin, James 1030
Something Wicked This Way Comes Bradbury, Ray 820Wuthering Heights Bronte, Emily 770 Jane Eyre Bronte, Charlotte 780 Stranger Camus, Albert 880 Alice in Wonderland Carroll, Lewis 580 Ender's Game Card, Orson Scott 780 Ender's Shadow Card, Orson Scott 780 One of Ours Cather, Willa 980 My Antonia Cather, Willa 1010 Death Comes for the Archbishop Cather, Willa 1150 Don Quixote Cervantes, Miguel de 1410 Postcards from No Man's Land Chambers, Aidan 900 Girl with a Pearl Earring Chevalier, Tracy 770 Awakening Chopin, Kate 960 2001: A Space Odyssey Clark, Arthur C. 1060 Ox‐Bow Incident Clark, Walter 890 Patriot Games Clancy, Tom 770 Hunt for Red October Clancy, Tom 870 Clear and Present Danger Clancy, Tom 920 Lord Jim Conrad, Joseph 430 Heart of Darkness Conrad, Joseph 1020 Deerslayer Cooper, James Fenimore 1340 Last of the Mohicans Cooper, James Fenimore 1350 Chocolate War Cormier, Robert 820 Red Badge of Courage Crane, Stephen 920 Sphere Crichton, Michael 610 Lost World Crichton, Michael 670 Andromeda Strain Crichton, Michael 870 Congo Crichton, Michael 940 Robinson Crusoe Defoe, Daniel 930 Oliver Twist Dickens, Charles 990 David Copperfield Dickens, Charles 1070 Christmas Carol Dickens, Charles 1080 Great Expectations Dickens, Charles 880 Brothers Karamazov Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 1150 Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan 1090 American Tragedy Dreiser, Theodore 1240 Three Musketeers Dumas, Alexander 790 Count of Monte Cristo Dumas, Alexander 830 Invisible Man Ellison, Ralph 950 As I Lay Dying Faulkner, William 870 Sound and the Fury Faulkner, William 870 Reivers Faulkner, William 970 Tender is the Night Fitzgerald, F. Scott 990 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Flagg, Fannie 1000 Passage to India Forster, E.M. 950 Life is Funny Frank, E.R. 830 Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles 1210
Lesson before Dying Gaines, Ernest 750 Troy Geras, Adele 670 Lord of the Flies Golding, William 770 Memiors of a Geisha Golden, Arthur 1000 Power and the Glory Greene, Graham 710 Time to Kill Grisham, John 770 Partner Grisham, John 790 Street Lawyer Grisham, John 790 Broker Grisham, John 800 Snow Falling on Cedars Guterson, David 1080 King Solomon's Mines Haggard, Rider 1230 Maltese Falcon Hammett, Dashiell 760 Mayor Of Casterbridge Hardy, Thomas 1090 Return of the Native Hardy, Thomas 1040 Tess of D'ubervilles Hardy, Thomas 1160 House of Seven Gables Hawthorne, Nathaniel 930 Stranger in a Strange Land Heinlein, Robert A. 940 Catch‐22 Heller, Joseph 1140 Farewell to Arms Hemingway, Ernest 730 For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest 840 Old Man and the Sea Hemingway, Ernest 940 Dune Herbert, Frank 800 Les Miserables Hugo, Victor 800 Hunchback of Notre‐Dame Hugo, Victor 950 Brave New World Revisited Huxley, Aldous 1360 Brave New World Huxley, Aldous 870 Pay It Forward Hyde, Catherine Ryan 630 Legend of Sleepy Hollow Irving, Washington 1460 Flowers for Algernon Keyes, Daniel 910 Christine King, Stephen 840 Shining King, Stephen 840 Stand King, Stephen 900 It King, Stephen 970 Beekeeper's Apprentice King, Laurie R. 1100 Schindler's List Kineally, Thomas 1150 Misery King, Stephen 860 Salem's Lot King, Stephen 860 Kim Kipling, Rudyard 940 Separate Peace Knowles, John 1110 Main Street Lewis, Sinclair 1010 White Fang London, Jack 970 Giver Lowry, Lois 760 Fixer Malamud, Bernard 960 Of Human Bondage Maugham, W. Somerset 910 Heart Is a Lonely Hunter McCullers, Carson 760 Member of the Wedding McCullers, Carson 900 Beauty: A Retelling of the Story McKinley, Robin 970
Moby Dick Melville, Herman 1200 Gone with the Wind Mitchell, Margaret 1100 House Made of Dawn Momaday, N. Scott 970 Paradise Morrison, Toni 870 Song of Solomon Morrison, Toni 870 Beloved Morrison, Toni 870 Somewhere in the Darkness Myers, Walter Dean 640 Fallen Angels Myers, Walter Dean 650 Monster Myers, Walter Dean 670 Going after Cacciato O'Brien, Tim 620 Scarlet Pimpernel Orczy, Emmuska 1140 Animal Farm Orwell, George 1170 Cry the Beloved Country Paton, Alan 860 Bell Jar Plath, Sylvia 1140 Chosen Potok, Chaim 970 Tiger In the Well Pullman, Philip 820 Subtle Knife Pullman, Philip 890 Amber Spyglass, The Pullman, Philip 950 Fountainhead Rand, Ayn 780 All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque, Erich 830 Giants in the Earth Rolvaag, Ole Edvart 830 Catcher in the Rye Salinger, J.D. 790 Ivanhoe Scott, Walter 990 Killer Angels Shaara, Michael 610 Frankenstein Shelley, Mary 940 Jungle, The Sinclair, Upton 1170 Tree Grows in Brooklyn Smith, Betty 810 Thousand Acres Smiley, Jane 920 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr 900 Cannery Row Steinbeck, John 930 Kidnapped Stevenson, Robert Louis 990 Treasure Island Stevenson, Robert Louis 1100 Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck, John 680 Red Pony Steinbeck, John 810 Pearl Steinbeck, John 1010 Dracula Stoker, Bram 900 Uncle Tom's Cabin Stowe, Harriet Beecher 1050 Gulliver's Travels Swift, Jonathan 1090 Joy Luck Club Tan, Amy 930 Vanity Fair Thackery, William 1260 Hobbit Tolkien, J.R.R. 1000 Anna Karenina Tolstoy, Leo 1080 War and Peace Tolstoy, Leo 1200 Two Towers Tolkien, J.R.R. 810 Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J.R.R. 860 Return of the King Tolkien, J.R.R. 920 Pudd'nhead Wilson Twain, Mark 1150
Connecticut Yankee in King Twain, Mark 1080
Prince and the Pauper Twain, Mark 1170
Around the World in Eighty Days Verne, Jules 1070
Slaughterhouse‐Five Vonnegut, Kurt 850
Daddy‐Long‐Legs Webster, Jean 920
Time Machine Wells, H.G. 860
Invisible Man Wells, H.G. 920
War of the Worlds Wells, H.G. 1020
Ethan Frome Wharton, Edith 1160
Age of Innocence Wharton, Edith 1170
Once and Future King White, T.H. 1080
Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde, Oscar 970
Bridge of San Luis Rey Wilder, Thornton 1080
Native Son Wright, Richard 700
Briar Rose Yolen, Jane 820
*The College Board Summer Reading list is comprised of texts that have been approved as
essential for college readiness.
**The lexile number is correlated to the reading level of each book. Please note the grade
equivilants that match each lexile score. College bound students should be reading at or above
grade level.
Grade Level "Stretch" Text Measures
6 950L to 1040L
7 1000L to 1090L
8 1040L to 1160L
9 1080L to 1230L
10 1110L to 1310L
11 and 12 1210L to 1360LYou can also read
