2023 Summer Reading for Mahopac High School
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Below are the required and suggested titles for the Mahopac High School’s 2023 summer reading assignments.
English 9 R
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The Silver Star
by Jeannette Walls
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
by Mitch Albom
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Twisted
by Laurie Halse Anderson
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English 9 H
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The House in the Cerulean Sea
by TJ Klune
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The Absolutely True Diary
of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
by Mitch Albom
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The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
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Twisted
by Laurie Halse Anderson
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English 10 R
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
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Eleanor and Park
by Rainbow Rowell
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Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline
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English 10 H
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline
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Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Life of Pi
by Yan Martel
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The Brief Wondrous Life
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by Junot Diaz
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
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The Four Winds
by Kristen Hannah
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The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
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Lone Wolf
by Jodi Picoult
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Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
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The Cellist of Sarajevo
by Steven Galloway
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English 11 R
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
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Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
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The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead
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American Dirt
by Jeanine Cummins
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
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The Lost Apothecary
by Sarah Penner
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The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
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Chasing Lincoln’s Killer
by James L. Swanson
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
by Neil Gaiman
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We Were Liars
by E. Lockhart
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English 11 Honors
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A Farewell to Arms
by Earnest Hemmingway
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Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
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The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead
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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
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Every Day
by David Levithan
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The Invention of Wings
by Sue Monk Kidd
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The Handmaid’s Tale
by Margaret Atwood
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
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Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
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Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Slaughterhouse Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by Ken Kesey
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The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
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A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman
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The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
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The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
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Go Tell it on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
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The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
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The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
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SUGGESTED
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
by Thomas C. Foster
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11 AP Language
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The Color of Water
by James McBride
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Humankind: A Hopeful History
by Rutger Bregman
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
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English 12 Literary Themes
Suggested
Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
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12 AP Literature
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
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Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
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Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
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Emma
by Jane Austen
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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
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A Lesson Before Dying
by Ernest Gaines
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All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
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Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
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As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
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The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
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The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
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Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by Ken Kesey
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
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The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
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Go Tell it on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
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The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
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The Catcher in the Rye
by JD Salinger
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Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
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Purple Hibiscus
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
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A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
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WISE English 12
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Outliers
by Malcolm Gladwell
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Science/ Behavior:
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
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Origins
by Neil Degrasse Tyson
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
by Neil Degrasse Tyson
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Packing for Mars:
The Curious Science
of Life in the Void
by Mary Roach
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The Fabric of the Cosmos:
Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
by Brian Greene
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The Elegant Universe
by Brian Greene
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Until the End of Time
by Brian Greene
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The Whole Shebang:
A State of the Universe(s) Report
by Timothy Ferris
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Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
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A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
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The Power of Habit
by Charles Duhigg
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What the Dog Knows
by Cat Warren
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Future Crimes
by Marc Goodman
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Alan Turing: The Enigma
by Andrew Hodges
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The Body Keeps the Score
by Bessell van der Kolk
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Medicine:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by R. Skloot
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach
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The Gene: An Intimate History
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The Emperor of All Maladies
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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America’s Bitter Pill
by Steven Brill
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When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
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History/Humanities/Inspirational:
Unbroken
by Laura Hillenbrand
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Tuesdays with Morrie
by Mitch Albom
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A Walk in the Woods
by Bill Bryson
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The Boys in the Boat
by Daniel James Brown
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Every Day
by David Levithan
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Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
by Michaela DePrince and Elaine DePrince
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and
the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians
Who Helped Win the Space Race
by Margot Lee Shetterly
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Moonwalking with Einstein
by Joshua Foer
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Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
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Blink
by Malcolm Gladwell
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A Long Way Home
(DO NOT USE YOUNG READERS EDITION)
by Saroo Brierley
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Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
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Entrepreneurial:
Shoe Dog
by Phil Knight
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Tools of Titans
by Tim Ferriss
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The Power of Broke
by Daymond John
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Originals
by Adam Grant
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Hustle
by Neil Patel, Patrick Vlaskovits,
and Jonas Koffler
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Grit
by Angela Duckworth
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The Emperor of all Maladies
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Geek Girl Rising
by Heather Cabot and Samantha Walravens
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Lean In: Women, Work,
and the Will to Lead
by Sheryl Sandberg
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The Tipping Point
by Malcolm Gladwell
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College English
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Ishmael
by Daniel Quinn
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Native Son
by Richard Wright
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Time and Again
by Jack Finney
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The New Jim Crow
by Michelle Alexander
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