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Taipei American School Upper School English Department
Summer Reading Texts & Semester Texts 2018-2019
Writers of classical antiquity understood the unique quality of art, its capacity to delight and instruct.
The hearers of tales, the audiences in the theaters, and, centuries later, the readers of books – all
immersed in the story – emerged transformed from their experience with literature. The Taipei
American School English Department follows this venerable tradition and hopes our students, too, will
be enriched by and find pleasure and knowledge in the books they read. The titles listed for each grade
(see below) have been selected for that purpose. All students will also read one school-selected
“community” book.
Community Book (Required Text for Grades 9-12): Denise Parker Pope, Doing School: How We Are
Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students, Amazon ISBN-13:
978-0300098334. A Kindle edition is available for this book. Teachers, students, and administrators
alike will be reading this book, and discussion of this work will extend beyond the English classroom.
Students should anticipate that in August, at the beginning of school, teachers will give an evaluated
in-class essay test about this book as well as all the books required for summer reading.
ALL STUDENTS:
Students must purchase their books, including the book selected for community reading. Please make
sure to purchase the specific edition listed of each text. All books should be obtained as soon as
possible, ideally by the beginning of the school year. Students should allow the appropriate amount of
time for a book shipment to arrive and should not rely on last-minute purchases at local bookstores,
which may or may not have enough copies of a particular book. Where indicated on this list, Kindle
copies of the selected texts may be purchased in place of paperback copies; however, students are not
permitted to use e-texts on their laptops or phones in the classroom.
NEW STUDENTS:
Please select two texts from your grade level and from what you anticipate your course will be. For
instance, if in Grade 11 you expect to enroll in the IB program but you are not sure if you will take IBSL
or IBHL, choose the one that is most likely. Teachers will be flexible when they give their in-class
assessments. It is possible that some students will not know their final placement in English classes until
school begins in August. When classes begin, your teachers will, if necessary, make arrangements for
both in-class preparation and assessment of the texts you read. Students new to Taipei American School
may not have the opportunity to obtain books that are provided by the school. We encourage parents of
these students to buy any available edition so students can read and be prepared.
STUDENTS with TWO ENGLISH COURSES:
Students who have two English classes must read both texts for one course of their choice, with the
exception of students taking AP Literature and Composition, who must read the summer texts for this
course. They may, of course, read four books--the two works for both classes.Kindle: An assigned book may be purchased and read via Kindle if so indicated; students are not
permitted to use e-texts on their laptops or phones in the classroom.
ENGLISH 9 Regular
It is imperative to purchase the specific edition listed of these texts due to the critical material and
explanatory notes they contain which will be part of the assigned reading and thus assessments.
Please do not purchase other paper or electronic editions.
Kindle
Summer Reading Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
First They Killed My Father Loung Ung Harper 978-0060856267 Yes
Little Brown &
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Company 978-0316769488 No
Kindle
Semester Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros Vintage 978-0679734772 Yes
William
Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare Folger 978-1451621709 Yes
Lord of the Flies William Golding Penguin 978-0399501487 Yes
Poetry Course Reader Various Provided by teacher N/A NoHONORS ENGLISH 9
It is imperative to purchase the specific edition listed of these texts due to the critical material and
explanatory notes they contain which will be part of the assigned reading and thus assessments.
Please do not purchase other paper or electronic editions.
Kindle
Summer Reading Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
First They Killed My Father Loung Ung Harper 978-0060856267 Yes
Tell Me How It Ends: An
Essay in 40 Questions Valeria Luiselli Coffee House Press 978-1566894951 Yes
Kindle
Semester Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Non-fiction Essays Various Provided by teacher N/A No
Homer, Trans.
Odyssey Lombardo Hackett 978-0872204843 Yes
William
Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare Folger 978-1451621709 Yes
Northanger Abbey Jane Austen Anchor 978-0307390806 Yes
Poetry Various Provided by teacher N/A No
The House on Mango Sandra
Street Cisneros Vintage 978-0679734772 YesENGLISH 10
It is imperative to purchase the specific edition listed of these texts due to the critical material and
explanatory notes they contain which will be part of the assigned reading and thus assessments.
Please do not purchase other paper or electronic editions.
Kindle
Summer Reading Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
We Should All Be Chimamanda
Feminists Ngozi Adichie Anchor Books 978-1101911761 Yes
Kindred Octavia Butler Beacon Press 978-0807083697 Yes
Kindle
Semester Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Animal Farm George Orwell NAL; Reprint edition 978-0452284241 Yes
Gothic Short Stories Various Provided by teacher N/A No
The Oedipus Cycle Sophocles Mariner Books; 1 edition 978-0156027649 Yes
Poetry Various Provided by teacher N/A No
William
Macbeth Shakespeare Simon & Schuster 978-0743477109 Yes
Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Frederick Douglass Douglass Modern Library Classics 978-0345478238 YesHONORS ENGLISH 10
It is imperative to purchase the specific edition listed of these texts due to the critical material and
explanatory notes they contain which will be part of the assigned reading and thus assessments.
Please do not purchase other paper or electronic editions.
Kindle
Summer Reading Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Lan
Samantha
Hunger Chang W.W. Norton & Company 978-0393337952 Yes
Incidents in the Life of a
Slave Girl Harriet Jacobs Modern Library Classics 978-0345478238 Yes
Kindle
Semester Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Short Prose Selections Various Provided by teacher N/A No
1984 George Orwell Signet Classics 978-0451524935 Yes
Four Major Plays, Vol. I Henrik Ibsen Signet Classics 978-0451530226 Yes
William
Macbeth Shakespeare Simon & Schuster 978-0743477109 Yes
The Reluctant
Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid Harvest Books 978-0156034029 Yes
Poetry Various Provided by teacher N/A NoAP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION
It is imperative to purchase the specific edition listed of these texts due to the critical material and
explanatory notes they contain which will be part of the assigned reading and thus assessments.
Please do not purchase other paper or electronic editions.
Kindle
Summer Reading Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson Spiegel & Grau 978-0812984965 Yes
Tell Me How It Ends: An
Essay in 40 Questions Valeria Luiselli Coffee House Press 978-1566894951 Yes
Kindle
Semester Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Michelle
The New Jim Crow Alexander The New Press 978-1595586438 Yes
Essays Various Provided by teacher N/A NoAMERICAN LITERATURE
It is imperative to purchase the specific edition listed of these texts due to the critical material and
explanatory notes they contain which will be part of the assigned reading and thus assessments.
Please do not purchase other paper or electronic editions.
Kindle
Summer Reading Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Bad Indians: A Tribal Deborah A.
Memoir Miranda Heyday 978-159714201 Yes
Colson
The Underground Railroad Whitehead Anchor 978-0345804327 Yes
Kindle
Semester Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
F. Scott
The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald Scribner 978-0743273565 Yes
Between the World and Ta-Nehisi
Me Coates The Text Publishing 978-0812993547 Yes
In Cold Blood Truman Capote Vintage 978-0679745587 Yes
When the Emperor Was
Divine Julie Otsuka Anchor 978-0385721813 Yes
The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien Mariner Books; 1st edition 978-0618706419 YesHONORS AMERICAN LITERATURE
It is imperative to purchase the specific edition listed of these texts due to the critical material and
explanatory notes they contain which will be part of the assigned reading and thus assessments.
Please do not purchase other paper or electronic editions.
Kindle
Summer Reading Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
All the Light We Cannot
See Anthony Doerr Scribner 978-1501173219 Yes
Bich Minh
Stealing Buddha's Dinner Nguyen Penguin 978-0143113034 Yes
Kindle
Semester Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Between the World and Ta-Nehisi
Me Coates The Text Publishing 978-0812993547 Yes
F. Scott
The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald Scribner 978-0743273565 Yes
Their Eyes Were Watching Zora Neale
God Hurston Harper 978-0061120060 Yes
Leslie Marmon
Ceremony Silko Penguin Books 978-0143104919 Yes
When the Emperor Was
Divine Julie Otsuka Anchor 978-0385721813 Yes
The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien Mariner Books 978-0618706419 Yes
God Help the Child Toni Morrison Vintage 978-0307740922 YesSCIENCE FICTION
It is imperative to purchase the specific edition listed of these texts due to the critical material and
explanatory notes they contain which will be part of the assigned reading and thus assessments.
Please do not purchase other paper or electronic editions.
Kindle
Summer Reading Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
The Caves of Steel Isaac Asimov Spectra Reprint Edition 978-0553293401 Yes
Pro Auctore Wojciech
Invincible Stanislaw Lem Zeme 978-8363471545 Yes
Kindle
Semester Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Dawn Octavia Butler Aspect; Reprint edition 978-0446603775 Yes
Solaris Stanislaw Lem Mariner Books 978-0156027601 Yes
Mariner Books; Reprint
Ubik Philip K. Dick edition 978-0547572291 Yes
Frankenstein Mary Shelley Norton Critical Editions 978-0393927931 No
Short stories Various Provided by teacher N/A NoWORLD LITERATURE
It is imperative to purchase the specific edition listed of these texts due to the critical material and
explanatory notes they contain which will be part of the assigned reading and thus assessments.
Please do not purchase other paper or electronic editions.
Kindle
Summer Reading Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Native American Songs
and Poems: An Anthology Brian Swann Dover 978-0486294506 Yes
Silas Marner George Eliot Dover 978-0486292465 Yes
Kindle
Semester Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Wu Ch’eng-
Monkey en/A. Waley Penguin Classics 978-0140441116 Yes
Ramayana RK Narayan Penguin Classics 978-0143039679 No
The Summer Book Tove Jansson NYRB Classics 978-1590172681 Yes
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank Maple Press 978-8190739146 Yes
Iphigenia, Phaedra and
Athaliah Jean Racine Penguin Classics 978-0140441222 YesHONORS CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
It is imperative to purchase the specific edition listed of these texts due to the critical material and
explanatory notes they contain which will be part of the assigned reading and thus assessments.
Please do not purchase other paper or electronic editions.
Kindle
Summer Reading Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Steven D. Levitt,
Think Like A Freak Stephen J. Dubner William Morrow 978-0062218346 Yes
The Curious Incident of the Vintage
Dog in the Nighttime Mark Haddon Contemporaries 978-1400032716 Yes
Kindle
Semester Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Into the Wild Jon Krakauer Anchor Books 978-0385486804 Yes
A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking Bantam 978-0553380163 Yes
W. W. Norton &
Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond Company 978-0393317558 Yes
Cornerstone
Seven Years in Tibet Heinrich Harrer Editions 978-1585427437 Yes
Little, Brown and
Happiness Matthieu Ricard Company 978-0316167253 YesHONORS WORLD LITERATURE
It is imperative to purchase the specific edition listed of these texts due to the critical material and
explanatory notes they contain which will be part of the assigned reading and thus assessments.
Please do not purchase other paper or electronic editions.
Kindle
Summer Reading Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Haroun and the Sea of
Stories Salman Rushdie Penguin 978-0140157376 Yes
The Alchemist Paulo Coelho HarperCollins 978-0061122415 Yes
Kindle
Semester Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Wu Ch’eng-en /
Monkey Arthur Waley Penguin Classics 978-0140441116 Yes
One Hundred Years of Gabriel García Harper Perennial
Solitude Márquez Modern Classics 978-0060883287 No
The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov Vintage 978-0679760801 Yes
Black Elk Speaks John G. Neihardt Bison Books 978-0803283916 Yes
Siddhartha Hermann Hesse Bantam 978-0553208849 Yes
Selected Mythology Various Provided by Teacher N/A NoIBSL ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE YEAR 1 / LITERATURE AND MEDIA STUDIES
It is imperative to purchase the specific edition listed of these texts due to the critical material and
explanatory notes they contain which will be part of the assigned reading and thus assessments.
Please do not purchase other paper or electronic editions.
Kindle
Summer Reading Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Milton
All I Asking For Is My Body Murayama Kolowalu Book 978-0824811723 No
Migritude Shailja Patel Kaya Press 978-1885030054 No
Kindle
Semester Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
The Thing Around Your Chimamanda
Neck Ngozi Adichie Anchor Books 978-0307455918 Yes
We Should All Be Chimamanda
Feminists Ngozi Adichie Anchor Books 978-1101911761 Yes
IB English A: Language
and Literature Course Rob Allison,
Companion Brian Chanen Oxford University Press 978-0198389972 Yes
Poetry TBA Provided by teacher N/A No
Selected media texts Various Provided by teacher N/A No
Selected readings on
culture Various Provided by teacher N/A NoIBSL ENGLISH LITERATURE YEAR 2
It is imperative to purchase the specific edition listed of these texts due to the critical material and
explanatory notes they contain which will be part of the assigned reading and thus assessments.
Please do not purchase other paper or electronic editions.
Kindle
Summer Reading Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke Penguin Classics 978-0141192321 Yes
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates The Text Publishing 978-0812993547 Yes
Kindle
Semester Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro Vintage 978-1400078776 No
Fences August Wilson Plume 978-0452264014 No
Sonnets (Selection to be William
Compiled by Instructor) Shakespeare N/A N/A No
Selection to be Compiled
by Instructor Wallace Stevens N/A N/A No
Selection to be Compiled
by Instructor Gwendolyn Brooks N/A N/A NoIBHL ENGLISH LITERATURE YEAR 1
It is imperative to purchase the specific edition listed of these texts due to the critical material and
explanatory notes they contain which will be part of the assigned reading and thus assessments.
Please do not purchase other paper or electronic editions.
Kindle
Summer Reading Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Bryan
Just Mercy Stevenson Spiegel & Grau 978-0812984965 Yes
Tell Me How It Ends: An
Essay in 40 Questions Valeria Luiselli Coffee House Press 978-1566894951 Yes
Kindle
Semester Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Bad Feminist: Essays Roxane Gay Harper Perennial 978-0062282712 Yes
The Thing Around Your Chimamanda
Neck Ngozi Adichie Anchor 978-0307455918 Yes
Wade in the Water: Poems Tracy K . Smith Graywolf Press 978-1555978136 Yes
The Reader Bernhard Schlink Vintage Books 978-0375707971 Yes
Marguerite
The Lover Duras Pantheon 978-0375700521 Yes
Chronicle of a Death Gabriel García Yes
Foretold Márquez Vintage 978-1400034710IBHL ENGLISH LITERATURE YEAR 2
It is imperative to purchase the specific edition listed of these texts due to the critical material and
explanatory notes they contain which will be part of the assigned reading and thus assessments.
Please do not purchase other paper or electronic editions.
Kindle
Summer Reading Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Born a Crime: Stories from
a South African Childhood Trevor Noah Spiegel & Grau 978-0399588174 Yes
The Thing Around Your Chimamanda
Neck Ngozi Adichie Anchor 978-0307455918 Yes
Kindle
Semester Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
(Selection to be William
announced by instructor) Shakespeare N/A N/A No
Contemporary African
Plays Various Methuen Drama 978-0413723307 No
F. Scott
The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald Scribner 978-0743273565 Yes
Tennessee
A Streetcar Named Desire Williams New Directions Paperbook 978-0811216029 No
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller Penguin Books 978-0140481341 Yes
Fences August Wilson Plume 978-0452264014 No
Master Harold and the
Boys Athol Fugard Vintage International 978-0307475206 NoAP ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION
It is imperative to purchase the specific edition listed of these texts due to the critical material and
explanatory notes they contain which will be part of the assigned reading and thus assessments.
Please do not purchase other paper or electronic editions.
Kindle
Summer Reading Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Midnight’s Children Salman
Rushdie Vintage 978-0099578512 Yes
Charlotte
Jane Eyre Bronte Penguin 978-0141441146 No
Kindle
Semester Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
William
Hamlet Shakespeare Oxford University 978-0198328704 No
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Penguin 978-0141439556 No
Heart of Darkness &
Selections From The Congo
Diary Joseph Conrad Modern Library 978-0375753770 Yes
Mrs. Dalloway
(Annotated) Virginia Woolf Mariner Books 978-0156030359 No
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller Penguin 978-0140481341 Yes
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Penguin 978-0385474542 Yes
Obasan Joy Kogawa Anchor 978-0385468862 No
The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai Grove Press 978-0802142818 Yes
Poetry Course Reader Various Provided by teacher N/A NoALL JOURNALISM COURSES (REGULAR & HONORS)
It is imperative to purchase the specific edition listed of these texts due to the critical material and
explanatory notes they contain which will be part of the assigned reading and thus assessments.
Please do not purchase other paper or electronic editions.
Kindle
Summer Reading Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Telling True Stories: A
Nonfiction Writer’s Guide Kramer, Call Plume 978-0452287556 Yes
Kindle
Required Semester Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
The Elements of Journalism Kovach, Rosenstiel Three Rivers 978-0804136785 Yes
Associated Press Stylebook 48th edition;
2017 Associated Press Basic Books 978-0465093045 NoWRITING WORKSHOP & SEMINAR 1 (REGULAR & HONORS)
It is imperative to purchase the specific edition listed of these texts due to the critical material and
explanatory notes they contain which will be part of the assigned reading and thus assessments.
Please do not purchase other paper or electronic editions.
Kindle
Summer Reading Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke Penguin Classics 978-0141192321 No
Kindle
Required Semester Text Author/Writer Edition Amazon ISBN-13 version?
Raymond New Directions
Exercises in Style Queneau Books 978-0811220354 NoEXPOSITORY WRITING - No texts need to be purchased in advance
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