Students must read three books of their choosing plus the required items below:
Read (novel) — "The Things They Carried," by Tim O'Brien
Watch — "The Hunger Games" (2012)
Read (poem) — "A Work of Artifice," by Marge Piercy
Students can choose to read one or more of the books on the list below and then participate in informal discussion groups in the fall:
"Alice in Wonderland," by Lewis Carroll
"All the Light We Cannot See," by Anthony Doerr
"The Boys in the Boat," by Daniel James Brown
"Catch-22," by Joseph Heller
"Closely Watched Trains," by Bohumil Hrabal
"Color of Magic," by Terry Pratchett
"Crime and Punishment," by Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Deep," by James Nestor
"The Martian," by Andy Weir
"The Old Man and the Sea," Ernest Hemingway
"The Wind in the Willows," Kenneth Grahame
Students must read four books of their choosing plus one of the required items below:
"Kokoro," by Natsume Soseki
"Edgar Huntly," by Charles Brockden Brown
"Four Tragedies and Octavia," by Seneca
"Making Your Own Days," by Kenneth Koch
"The Lord of the Flies," by William Golding
"The Autobiography of Malcolm X," by Malcolm X (with Alex Haley)
Students must read four books that they choose from a list of over 50. Titles on the list include:
"Half of a Yellow Sun," by Chimamanda Adichie
"The Circle," by Dave Eggers
"A Clockwork Orange," by Anthony Burgess
"The Universe and The Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty," by K.C. Cole
"Invisible Man," by Ralph Ellison
"Madame Bovary," by Gustave Flaubert
"To The Lighthouse," by Virginia Woolf
English teachers at the school put together the following list of recommended summer reading:
"Slouching Towards Bethlehem," by Joan Didion
"Emma," by Jane Austen
"Native Son," by Richard Wright
"Interpreter of Maladies," by Jhumpa Lahiri
"The Omnivore's Dilemma," by Michael Pollan
Students must read:
"Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison
The school's librarians have put together a recommended summer reading list that includes:
"I am J," by Cris Beam
"Necessary Lies," by Diane Chamberlain
"The Crazy Horse Electric Game," by Chris Crutcher
"The Radleys," by Matt Haig
Faculty and staff members put together a list of suggested books for summer reading that includes:
"Never Let Me Go," by Kazuo Ishiguro
"The Silmarillion," by J.R.R. Tolkien
"The Golem and the Jinni," by Helene Wecker
"The Warmth of Other Suns," by Isabel Wilkerson
"The Boy Kings of Texas," by Domingo Martinez
Students must read "Station Eleven," by Emily St. John Mandel plus two books they choose from a list of over 100. Works include:
"Andy Warhol Diaries," by Andy Warhol
"Why Sinatra Matters," by Pete Hamill
"Americanah," by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"Welcome to the Monkey House," by Kurt Vonnegut
"Pride and Prejudice," by Jane Austen
"Love in the Time of Cholera," by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Students must read "Fahrenheit 451," by Ray Bradbury plus one book they choose from a list of over 50. Works include:
"A Very Long Engagement," by Sebastien Japrisot
"Cities of the Plain," by Cormac McCarthy
"Dune" by Frank Herbert
"Franny and Zooey," by J.D. Salinger
"The Beautiful Struggle," by Ta-Nehisi Coates
"Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies," by Jared Diamond
"Lolita," by Vladimir Nabokov