High School Summer Reading Lists
by Tracee Orman
June 24, 2007
High School Summer Reading Lists:
Reading for enjoyment lists from the American Library Association website and reading lists for the college-bound student from the Washington Post online.
Teen's Top 10 Books of 2006
(voted on by teens & sponsored by the American Library Association)
Teens' Top Ten Books (TTT) is part of YA Galley, a project of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).
1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
2. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
3. Eldest by Christopher Paolini
4. Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
5. Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
6. 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
7. Poison by Chris Wooding
8. Captain Hook: The Adventures of a Notorious Youth by J.V. Hart
9. If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince? by Melissa Kantor
10. Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
Nominated Books for the Teens' Top 10 Books of 2007
Firegirl by Abbott, Tony
Clay by Almond, David
Road of the Dead by Brooks, Kevin
Secrets of My Hollywood Life by Calonita, Jen
The Loud Silence of Francine Green by Cushman, Karen
Just Listen by Dessen, Sarah
How to Ruin a Summer Vacation by Elkeles, Simone
In Search of Mockingbird by Ellsworth, Loretta
The Christopher Killer by Ferguson, Alane
What Happened to Cass McBride by Giles, Gail
Hello, Groin by Goobie, Beth
River Secrets by Hale, Shannon
Shock Point by Henry, April
Bad Kitty by Jaffe, Michele
Born to Rock by Korman, Gordon
New Moon by Meyer, Stephenie
Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City by Miller, Kirsten
Prom Anonymous by Nelson, Blake
Maximum Ride: School’s Out – Forever by Patterson, James
Life As We Knew Itby Pfeffer, Susan Beth
Penelope Bailey Takes the Stage by Reich, Susanna
All Hallows Eve (13 Stories) by Vande Velde, Vivian
Skin by Vrettos, Adrienne Maria
The Unresolved by Welsh, T.K.
Flora Segunda: Being the Magikal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (one Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog by Wilce, Ysabeau S.
*Vote during Teen Reading Week (October 14, 2007) at: http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/teenstopten.htm
For the college-bound students:
Provided by The Washington Post (www.washingtonpost.com)
Sunday, September 19, 2004; Page BW08
FICTION
All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
Benito Cereno, by Herman Melville
Bless the Beasts & Children, by Glenson Swarthout
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko
Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier
Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton
Dancing on the Edge, by Han Nolan
The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
Devil in a Blue Dress, by Walter Mosley
The Diagnosis, by Alan Lightman
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, by Rebecca Wells
Dubliners, by James Joyce
El Bronx Remembered, by Nicholasa Mohr
Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
The Farming of Bones, by Edwidge Danticat
Five Quarters of the Orange, by Joanne Harris
A Girl Named Disaster, by Nancy Farmer
Home of the Braves, by David Klass
Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri
In This Sign, by Joanne Greenberg
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan
Jubilee, by Margaret Walker
"King Lear," (and "Hamlet" and "Macbeth") by William Shakespeare
The Kitchen God's Wife, by Amy Tan
Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Márquez
Lucy, by Jamaica Kincaid
Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
Native Son, by Richard Wright
On the Beach, by Nevil Shute
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster
Portrait in Sepia, by Isabel Allende
A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving
Ragtime, by E.L. Doctorow
Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy
Rule of the Bone, by Russell Banks
Rules of the Road, by Joan Bauer
Running Loose, by Chris Crutcher
The Samurai's Garden, by Gail Tsukiyama
Shane, by Jack Schaefer
Shogun, by James Clavell
Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse
Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
The Stranger, by Albert Camus
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein
The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
True Grit, by Charles Portis
Year of Wonders, by Geraldine Brooks
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, by Michael Dorris
NONFICTION
Among Schoolchildren, by Tracy Kidder
Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt
Fathering Words: The Making of anAfrican American Writer, by E. Ethelbert Miller
Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters' First 100 Years, by Sarah and Elizabeth Delaney
Makes Me Wanna Holler: A YoungBlack Man in America, by Nathan McCall
My Bridges of Hope: Searching for Life and Love After Auschwitz, by Livia Bitton-Jackson
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, by T.S. Eliot
Profiles in Courage, by John F. Kennedy
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two BoysGrowing Up in the Other America, by Alex Kotlowitz
Up From Slavery, by Booker T. Washington
The Water Is Wide, by Pat Conroy
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