Regional School District #10

Lewis S. Mills High School

Summer Reading List 2006-2007

English Grade 11

* Learning Center Collection

The attached list suggests works by 20th century American authors.  Students in Level One American Literature are asked to read two books by one or more of these authors.  Students in Level Two are expected to read at least one work from the suggested list.  Students should be ready to complete a major project during the first week of school.  AP students should refer to the separate AP list.

Abbey, Edward. Down the River. 1982. (AD) Fiction/Environmental Problems/Nature/Philosophy/Rivers

Abbey, Edward. The Fool’s Progress. 1988. (AD) Fiction/Brothers/Divorce/Family Life/Humor/Marriage

Abbey, Edward. The Monkey Wrench Gang. 1975. (AD) Fiction/Environmental Problems/Underground Resistance Movements

Albee, Edward. A Delicate Balance: A Play in Three Acts*. 1966. (AD) Non-Fiction/Plays/Family Problems

Albee, Edward. Three Tall Women. 1994. (AD) Non-Fiction/Plays/Aging/Women

Albee, Edward. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf*? 1962. (AD) Fiction/Plays/Relationships

Angelou, Maya. Even the Stars Look Lonesome. 1997. (AD) Non-Fiction/Autobiography Essays

Angelou, Maya. Phenomenal Woman. 1994. (AD) Non-Fiction/Poetry/African Americans/Women

Angelou, Maya. Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now. 1993.  (AD) Non-Fiction/Autobiography/Essays

Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany's. 1958. (AD) Fiction/Friendships/Relationships

Capote, Truman. Other Voices, Other Rooms. 1948. (AD) Fiction/Family Life/Father and Son/Relationships

Capote, Truman. A Christmas Memory. 1989. (YA) Fiction/Christmas/Friendship

Crichton, Michael. Disclosure. 1993. (AD) Fiction/Computers/Industry/Mystery/Suspense

Crichton, Michael. Sphere: A Novel*. 1987. (YA/AD) Fiction/Science Fiction/Adventure and Adventurers

Crichton, Michael. Jurassic Park *. 1990. (YA/AD) Fiction/Science Fiction/Genetic Engineering/Dinosaurs

Dillard, Annie. An American Childhood. 1987. (AD) Non-Fiction/Autobiography /Family Relations/Writing/Coming of Age

Dillard, Annie.  For the Time Being*. 1999. (AD) Non-Fiction/Death/Ethics/Human Relationships/Religion

Dillard, Annie. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. 1974. (YA/AD) Non-Fiction/Inspirational/Nature/Religion

Doctorow, E.L. Loon Lake *. 1979. (YA/AD) Fiction/Historical Fiction/Economic Depression/Relationships

Doctorow, E.L. Ragtime*. 1975. (YA/AD) Fiction/Historical Fiction/Crime and Criminals/Race Relations

Doctorow. E.L. The Best American Short Stories 2000. 2000. (AD) Fiction/Short Stories

Dorris, Michael. A Yellow Raft in Blue Water*. 1987. (YA/AD) Fiction/Indians of North America/Mother-Daughter Relationship

Dorris, Michael. The Broken Cord. 1989. (AD) Non-Fiction/Adoption/Alcoholism/Family Relations

Dorris, Michael. Working Men: Stories. 1993. (AD) Fiction/Indians of North America/Short Stories

Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man*. 1952. (AD) Fiction/African Americans/American History/Race Relations/Racism

Ellison, Ralph. Juneteenth: A Novel. 1999. (AD) Fiction/Civil Rights/Culture/Identity/Prejudice/Race Relations

Ellison, Ralph. Shadow and Act. 1953. (AD) Non-Fiction/African Americans/Civil Rights Movement/Folklore/Music

Erdrich, Louise. Love Medicine. 1984. (YA/AD) Fiction/Indian Reservations/Indians of North America

Erdrich, Louise. The Beet Queen. 1986. (YA/AD) Fiction/Indians of North America/Small Town Life

Erdrich, Louise. Tracks. 1988. (YA/AD) Fiction/Identity/Indian Reservations/Indians of North America

Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury*. 1929. (AD) Fiction/Historical Fiction/Family Problems/Inheritance/Mental

     Retardation

Faulkner, William. The Unvanquished. 1938. (YA/AD) Fiction/Historical Fiction/US Civil War/Coming of Age

Faulkner, William. The Reivers. 1962. (AD) Fiction/Historical Fiction/Humor

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night*. 1934. (AD) Fiction/Historical Fiction/Wealth/Ethics/Psychiatrists/Love

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise *. 1920. (AD) Fiction/Young Men

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. 1995. (AD) Fiction/US Social Life and Customs/Short Stories

Fowles, John. The Magus. 1965. (AD) Fiction/Greece/Psychological Fiction

Fowles, John. The French Lieutenant's Woman*. 1969. (AD) Fiction/Historical Fiction/Love Stories

Fowles, John. Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings. 1998. (AD) Non-Fiction/Prose Literature

Gaines, Ernest J. In My Father's House. 1978. (AD) Fiction/Fathers and Sons/Human Behavior/Psychology

Gaines, Ernest J. Bloodline. 1968. (AD) Fiction/Family Life/Race Relations/Relationships/Short Stories

Herbert, Frank. Eye.  2000. (YA) Fiction/Story Collection

Herbert. Frank. Dune: House Harkonnen. 2000. (YA) Fiction/Science Fiction /Imaginary Places

Heller, Joseph. Good as Gold. 1979. (AD) Fiction/Ethics/Family/Jews/Judaism

Heller, Joseph. Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man. 2000. (AD) Fiction/Artists and Art/Death/Writing

Heller, Joseph. Something Happened. 1974. (AD) Fiction/Business/Family Life

Hellman, Lillian. An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir. 1969. (AD) Non-Fiction/Autobiography/Writing/Drama

Hellman, Lillian. The Little Foxes: Play in Three Acts. 1969. (AD) Non-Fiction/Siblings Drama/Theft Drama/Extortion Drama

Hellman, Lillian. Scoundrel Time. 1976. (AD) Non-Fiction/Biography/American Dramatists

Hemingway, Ernest. The Nick Adams Stories. 1972. (AD) Fiction/Coming of Age/Growing Up/Short Stories/War

Hemingway, Ernest. The Dangerous Summer. 1959. (AD) Fiction/Bullfighting/Friendship

Hemingway, Ernest. To Have and Have Not. 1937. (AD) Fiction/Alcoholism/Family/Fishing/Poverty

Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner. 2003. (AD) Fiction/Afghanistan/Friendship/Social Classes

Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road. 1942. (AD) Non-Fiction/Autobiography/African Americans /Poverty/Writing

Hurston, Zora Neale. Jonah's Gourd Vine. 1990. (AD) Fiction/African Americans

Irving, John. A Prayer for Owen Meany. 1989. (YA/AD) Fiction/Adolescence/Friendship

Irving, John. Setting Free the Bears. 1969. (YA/AD) Fiction/Bears/Friendship/Nazism

Kidd, Sue Monk. The Secret Life of Bees*. (AD) Fiction/Historical Fiction/Racism/Teens/Beekeeping

Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal Dreams. 1998. (YA/AD) Fiction/Courage/Pollution

Kingsolver, Barbara. Prodigal Summer. 2000. (AD) Fiction/Coyotes/Ecology/Environmental Problems

Kingsolver, Barbara. The Poisonwood Bible. 1998. (YA/AD) Fiction/Christianity/Colonialism/Cultural Conflict/Family Life

Kingston , Maxine Hong. China Men. 1980. (AD) Non-Fiction/Biography/Chinese Americans/Emigration and Immigration

Kingston , Maxine Hong. Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book. 1989. (AD) Fiction/Chinese Americans/Culture/Drama/Identity

Kingston , Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts*. 1976. (AD) Non-Fiction/Biography/

     Chinese Americans/Cultural Conflict/Emigration and Immigration

Malamud, Bernard. The Natural*. 1952. (YA/AD) Fiction/Baseball/Sports

Malamud, Bernard. The Assistant. 1957. (AD) Fiction/Italian Americans/Brooklyn, NY

Malamud, Bernard. The Coming-of-Age/Inspirational Fixer. 1967. (AD) Fiction/Jews/Russia/Homicide/Trials

McCullers, Carson. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories*. 1971. (YA) Fiction/Short Stories

McCullers, Carson. The Member of the Wedding*. 1973. (YA) Fiction/African American Women/Georgia

McCullers, Carson. Reflections in a Golden Eye*. 2000. (AD) Fiction/Military Life/Psychological/Domestic

Miller, Arthur. All My Sons. 1974. (YA) Non-Fiction/War/Family Life/Friendship 

Miller, Arthur. Homely Girl, a Life, and Other Stories. 1997. (AD) Fiction/US Social Life and Customs/Short Stories

Miller, Arthur. Mr. Peters' Connections. 1999. (AD) Non-Fiction/Near-Death Experience Drama/Subconsciousness Drama

Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. 1970. Fiction/African Americans/Women/Abuse

Morrison, Toni. Sula*. 1973. (YA) Fiction/African Americans/Women/ Friendship

Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby*. 1981. (YA) Fiction/African Americans /Race Identity/Love Stories

Mowat, Farley. Walking on the Land. 2000. (AD) Non-Fiction/Inuit Nuncvut History/Social Conditions

Mowat, Farley. Never Cry Wolf*. 1963. (YA) Non-Fiction/Wolves/Wildlife

Mowat, Farley. The Farfarers: Before the Norse. 2000. (AD) Non-Fiction/American Exploration/Canadian Exploration

Naylor, Gloria. Bailey's Café. 1992. (AD) Fiction/Human Behavior/Outcasts/Storytelling

Naylor, Gloria. Linden Hills. 1985. (AD) Fiction/African Americans/Family/Identity/Middle Classes

Naylor, Gloria. The Women of Brewster Place *. 1982. (YA) Fiction/African American Women

O’Connor.  Flannery. Everything That Rises Must Converge. 1965. (YA) Fiction/Southern States/Short Stories

O’Connor.  Flannery. Wise Blood. 1990. (AD) Fiction/Preaching/Southern States

O’Neill, Eugene . Four Plays. 1998. (YA) Non-Fiction/American Drama Collection

O’Neill, Eugene . Long Day's Journey Into Night. 1989. (YA) Non Fiction /Family Life Drama/Alcoholism Drama

O’Neill, Eugene . The Iceman Cometh. 1999. (YA) Non-Fiction/Alcoholism Drama

Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar*. 1996. (AD) Fiction/Psychology/Depression/College Students/Suicide

Plath, Sylvia. Crossing the Water: Transitional Poems. 1971. (AD) Non-Fiction/American Poetry

Plath, Sylvia. Poems. 1988. (YA) Non-Fiction/American Poetry

Porter, Katherine Anne. Flowering Judas and Other Stories*. 1935. (AD) Fiction/Short Stories

Porter, Katherine Anne. Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels. 1939. (AD) Fiction/Manners and Customs

Porter, Katherine Anne. The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter. 1969. (AD) Fiction/Manners and Customs

Quindlen, Anna. A Short Guide to a Happy Life. 2000. (AD) Non-Fiction/Inspirational/Philosophy/Self-Help

Quindlen, Anna. How Reading Changed My Life. 1998. (AD) Non-Fiction/Careers/Reading

Quindlen, Anna. One True Thing. 1994. (AD) Fiction/Cancer/Family/Illness/Mother-Daughter Relationship

Soto, Gary . A Summer Life*. 1990. (YA/AD) Fiction/Growing Up/Poetry/Short Stories

Soto, Gary . Jesse. 1994. (YA/AD) Fiction /Brothers/ College Life/Coming of Age/Family Relations/Mexican Americans

Soto, Gary . Nickel and Dime.  2000. (AD) Fiction/Friendship/Hispanic Americans/Homeless People/Survival

Styron, William.The Confessions of Nat Turner*. 1967. (YA/AD) Fiction/African Americans/Historical/Racism/Slavery

Styron, William. All the Finest Girls. 2001. (AD) Fiction/Family/Caribbean/Children of Divorced Parents/Psychological

Tan, Amy. The Bonesetter's Daughter*. 2001. (AD) Fiction/Alzheimer’s Disease/Asian Americans/Emigration and Immigration/

     Family Life/Mothers and Daughters

Tan, Amy. The Hundred Secret Senses*. 1995. (YA/AD) Fiction/Asian Americans/Family Life/Multicultural/Reincarnation/Sisters

Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club*. 1989. (YA) Fiction/Chinese American Women /Mothers and Daughters

Tan, Amy. The Kitchen God's Wife*. 1991. (YA/AD) Fiction/Asian Americans/Emigration and Immigration/Family Relations/

Multicultural/Secrets

Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace. 1952. (AD) Fiction/Russian Role/Napoleonic Wars/History

Theroux, Paul. Hotel Honolulu. 2001. (AD) Fiction/Waikiki ( Hawaii )/Hotels/Humorous Stories

Theroux, Paul. The Kingdom By the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain .  1990. (YA) Non-Fiction/Great Britain /

Railroad Travel

Theroux, Paul. Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents. 1998. (AD) Non-Fiction/Friendship

Tyler, Anne. Breathing Lesson. 1989. (YA/AD) Fiction/Family Relations/Marriage

Tyler, Anne. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant*. 1982. (YA/AD) Fiction/Abandonment/Family Relations/Mothers

Tyler, Anne. Searching for Caleb. 1975. (AD) Fiction/Change/Family Life/Friendship/Humor/Relationship

Watson, Larry. White Crosses: A Novel. 1998. Fiction/Community Life/Family Problems/Accidental Deaths

Watson, Larry. Laura. 2000. (AD) Fiction/Men Psychology/Man-Woman Relationship

Watson, Larry. Justice. 1995. (YA/AD) Fiction/Frontier and Pioneer Life

Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence*. 1978. (AD) Fiction/NY Social Life and Customs/Man-Woman Relationship/Love Stories

Wharton, Edith. A Backward Glance. 1998. (AD) Non-Fiction/Women Novelist’s Biography/American Novelists

Wharton, Edith. The Glimpses of the Moon. 2000. (AD) Fiction/Upper Class /Marriage/Love Stories

Williams, Tennessee . The Night of the Iguana. 1963. Poets/Man and Woman Relationship/Drama

Williams, Tennessee . Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. 1955. (AD) Non-Fiction/Alcoholism/Cancer/Relationships/Inheritance

Wilder, Thornton. Our Town*. 1938. (YA/AD) Non-Fiction/Family Life/Marriage/Small Town Life

Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey*. 1998. (YA) Fiction/Historical Fiction/Peru/Accident

Wilder, Thornton. Skin of Our Teeth. 1942. (AD) Non-Fiction/Family Problems/Survival/War

Wright, Richard. Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth*. 1945. (YA/AD) Fiction/ African Americans/Coming of Age/

     Poverty/Racism

Wright, Richard. 12 Million Black Voices. 1988. (YA) Non-Fiction/African Americans/Social Conditions

Wright, Richard. Haiku: This Other World. 1998. (AD) Non-Fiction/Haiku/Nature Poetry