Supplemental Reading:  Chicopee High School

English Department

2005

*required during the year                                                                               **summer reading

English 9

English 10

English 11

English 12

Fiction

A Light in the Forest (E)

Of Mice and Men*

The House on Mango Street

To Kill a Mockingbird*

The Odyssey*

Asian American Literature

Cry, The Beloved Country

Death Be Not Proud

Dove

Gallows Hill (E)

Great Tales of Edgar Allen Poe

I Know What You Did Last Summer (E)

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Lord Jim (E)

Roll of Thunder, Hear Me Cry

Shane (E)

The Contender (E)

The Fellowship of the Ring

The Giver (E)

The Education of Little Tree

Where the Red Fern Grows (E)

 

Fiction

Lord of the Flies*

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Catcher in the Rye*

Ellen Foster

The Last of the Mohicans

The Joy Luck Club

And Then There Were None

Fahrenheit 451 * or 1984*

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (E)

Animal Farm*

A Separate Peace

Ethan Frome

Ordinary People

Flowers for Algernon

I Am the Cheese

Nine Stories by JD Salinger

The Chocolate War*

The Loved One

 

 

Fiction

The Red Badge of Courage

The Old Man and the Sea

The Great Gatsby *

The Sun Also Rises

The Bluest Eye

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

Native Son

The Jungle

Last of the Mohicans

My Antonia

The Bluest Eye

Song of Solomon

Sound and the Fury

Invisible Man

The Ox-Bow Incident

The Perfect Storm

Beloved

The Sound and the Fury

As I lay Dying

The Scarlet Letter* or Moby Dick*

Grapes of Wrath

Fallen Angels

Old Man and the Sea

Catch 22

A Farewell to Arms

In Cold Blood

The Vietnam Reader

Killer Angels

Where are the Children? (E)

Fiction

Passage to India

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

A Tale of Two Cities

Being There

Beowulf*

Bless the Beasts and Children

Brave New World

Breath, Eyes, Memorie

Candide

Crime and Punishment

Cry, the Beloved Country

Death in Venice

Don Quixote

Dubliners

The Europeans

Heart of Darkness

Picture of Dorian Gray

Frankenstein

Grendel*

Hard Times

Heart of Darkness

The Lone Ranger and Tonto

Fist Fight in Heaven

Things Fall Apart

Madam Bovary

Murder on the Orient Express 

My Name is Asher Lev**

Pride and Prejudice

Siddhartha*

Snows of Kilimanjaro

Song of Solomon

Spoon River Anthology

The Canterbury Tales*

The Five People You’ll Meet in Heaven (E)

The metamorphosis

The Stranger*

The Things They Carried

The Turn of the Screw

Illusions

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Wuthering Heights

All the Pretty Horses

The Farming of Bones

The Once and Future King

 

Drama

Romeo and Juliet*

West Side Story

Twelfth Night

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The Merchant of Venice

The Odyssey

 

 

Drama

Julius Caesar*

A Raisin in the Sun

King Lear

Medea

Richard III

Right You Are if You Think You Are

 

 

 

Drama

The Crucible*

Death of a Salesman

The Glass Menagerie

A Streetcar Named Desire

Hamlet*

Our Town

Drama

Waiting for Godot

Equus

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Macbeth* or Othello*

The Tempest

Taming of the Shrew

Oedipus Rex

Oedipus the King

 

Nonfiction

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Edith Hamilton’s Mythology*

When I was Puerto Rican

Black Boy

Nonfiction

Almost a Woman

The Color of Water*

Maus I and II

The Broken Cord

Nonfiction

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Night

Civil Disobedience

Self Reliance

Great Speeches FDR

Into the Wild

The Last days of Socrates (AP)

Tuesdays With Morrie

All God’s Dangers

 Souls of Black folk

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass or Hiroshima*

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

Survival in Auschwitz

On Writing

Abraham Lincoln: Selections from Great speeches

Letters of a Nation

Angela’s Ashes

A Night to Remember

Great Speeches

Great Speeches by Native Americans

In Pharoh’s Army

The Things They Carried

Walden

Nonfiction

George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”

(required in APE 1)

William Zinsser’s “Simplicity” (required in APE 1)

Dorothy Guies McGuigan’s “To Be a Woman and a Scholar”

Karl Popper’s “Violence and Utopia”

Irving Janis’ “Groupthink”

Utopia

 

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