Summer Reading List, 2010-2011

Summer provides an opportunity for Lutheran South students and their families to enjoy reading.  Before entering each grade, an LHSS student is encouraged to read as many of the listed books as possible.  Students may substitute other titles by recommended authors.

Entering Ninth Grade

Adams, Douglas The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Austen, Jane  Pride and Prejudice

Bronte, Charlotte  Jane Eyre

DuMaurier, Daphne  Rebecca

Homer  The Oddessey

Huxley, Aldous  Brave New World

Korman, Gordon  Born to Rock

Oates, Joyce Carol  Big Mouth and Ugly Girl

Parks, Gordon  The Learning Tree

Pfeffer, Susan Beth  Life as We Knew It

Smith, Betty  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Voigt, Cynthia  Homecoming

Entering Tenth Grade

Austen, Jane  Emma

Angelou, Maya  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Bronte, Emily  Wuthering Heights 

Crane, Stephen  The Red Badge of Courage

Crutcher, Chris  Whale Talk

Dessen, Sarah  Just Listen

Dumas, Alexandre  The Man in the Iron Mask

Herbert, Frank  Dune

Hurston, Zora Neale  Their Eyes Were Watching God

Kingsolver, Barbara  The Bean Trees

Knowles, John  A Separate Peace

Reinhardt, Dana  A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life

Stoker, Bram  Dracula

Entering Eleventh Grade

Austen, Jane  Persuasion

Alvarez, Julia  How the Garcia Sisters Lost their Accents

Chandler, Ray  The Big Sleep

Cooper, James Fenimore  The Last of the Mohicans

Dickens, Charles  David Copperfield

Dinesen, Isak  Out of Africa

Hammett, Dashiell  The Thin Man

Hunt, Irene  Across Five Aprils

Lewis, C.S.  Mere Christianity

McCullers, Carson  The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Myers, Walter Dean  Monster

Wiesel, Elie  Night

Wolff, Tobias  This Boy’s Life

Entering Twelfth Grade

Alcorn, Randy, Lord Foulgrin’s Letters

Alvarez, Julia  In the Time of the Butterflies

Chopin, Kate  The Awakening

Hillenbrand, Laura  Seabiscuit: An American Legend

Hugo, Victor  Les Miserables

Irving, John  A Prayer for Owen Meany

Kerouac, Jack  On the Road

Kingston, Maxing Hong  The Woman Warrior

Larson, Erik  The Devil in the White City

Lewis, C.S.  The Screwtape Letters

O’Brien, Tim  The Things They Carried

Picoult, Jodi  Nineteen Minutes

Plath, Sylvia  The Bell Jar

Shaare, Michael  The Killer Angels

Vonnegut, Kurt  Slaughterhouse Five