Summer Reading Made Easy!

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Below are the required and suggested titles for the Mahopac High School’s 2025 summer reading assignments.

 

English 9 R
Suggested: Select one or more titles from the list below:
Silver Star by Jeannette Walls
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson

 

English 9 H
Required: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

Select ONE additional title from the list below:
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson

 

English 10 R
Suggested: Select one or more titles from the list below:
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

 

English 10 H
Required: A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

Select ONE additional title from the list below:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Lone Wolf by by Jodi Picoult
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shebly Van Pelt
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

 

English 11 R
Suggested – Select one or more titles from the list below:
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
The Women by Kristin Hanna

 

English 11 Honors
Students are encouraged to keep a journal reflecting on the novel’s major elements. This will serve to prepare for summer reading presentations and assessment at the start of the school year.

Students are required to read:
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Students must select ONE additional title from the following list:
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Every Day by David Levithan
James by Percival Everett
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Weyward by Emilia Hart

 

11 AP Language
Students are encouraged to keep a reading journal of responses for each of these titles. It should include information regarding the characters, setting, conflict, theme(s), literary devices, your responses/connections/reactions and questions you may have.

Required Titles:
The Color of Water by James McBride
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

 

English 12 Literary Themes
Suggested: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

 

12 AP Literature
Students entering AP Literature will be responsible for reading two required works and one work of their choosing from a list of suggested titles.

In addition, students will keep a reading journal, being sure to log characters, setting, conflict, point of view, and key moments of text. The reading journal will be checked and students will receive credit for the work they have done. This will help prepare students for our initial class discussions as well as the AP Lit exam.

Students are required to read:
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Students must also choose a title from the suggested list below:
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Stranger by Albert Camus
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Emma by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

 

WISE English 12
Students are required to read Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

 

College English
Students are required to read:
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Native Son by Richard Wright
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Students must also choose a title from the suggested list below:

Fourteen Days by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston (Editors)
Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
It Can’t Happen Here by by Sinclair Lewis
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Dubliners by James Joyce
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Home by Toni Morrison
Bright, Dead Things by Ada Limon
Men Without Women: Stories by Haruki Murakami
There There by Tommy Orange
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Time and Again by Jack Finney
My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann
Roots by Alex Haley
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko