Dover-Sherborn High School
Summer Reading List 2010
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Dover-Sherborn High School Recommended Summer Reading List 2010
Grade 9– Recommended titles for freshmen:
A Sense of Where you Are John McPhee
A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
Black Hawk Down Mark Bowden
Cold Sassy Tree Olive Burns
Friday Night Lights H. G. Bissenger
Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Growing Up Russell Baker
House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Julia Alvarez
In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez
In These Girls Hope Is a Muscle Madeleine Blaise
Into Thin Air John Krakauer
My Name is Asher Lev Chaim Potok
My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult
Perks of Being a Wall Flower Stephen Chbosky
Power of One Bryce Courtenay
Rebecca Daphne DuMaurier
Right of Passage Richard Wright
Seabiscuit: An American Legend Laura Hillenbrand
Summer Edith Wharton
The Chosen Chaim Potok
The Inn at Lake Devine Elinor Lipman
The Perfect Storm Sebastian Junger
Grade 10– Recommended titles for sophomores:
The Inheritance of Loss Karen Desai
Born on a Blue Day Daniel Tammet
Deadeye Dick Kurt Vonnegut
Friday Night Lights H.G. Bissinger
In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez
Kabul Beauty School Debra Rodriguez
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
Peace Like a River Leif Anger
Pigs in Heaven Barbara Kingsolver
The Alchemist Paulo Coehlo
The House of the Spirits Isabele Allende
The Kitchen God’s Wife Amy Tan
The Red Tent Anita Diamant
Tuesdays with Morrie Mitch Albom
Grade 11– Recommended titles for juniors:
A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson
East of Eden John Steinbeck
If I Die in the Combat Zone Tim O’Brien
Ishmael Daniel Quinn
Jitterbug Perfume Tom Robbins
July, July Tim O’Brien
Middle Passage Charles Johnson
Pigs in Heaven Barbara Kingsolver
Summer Edith Wharton
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
The World According to Garp John Irving
Grade 12– Recommended titles for Seniors:
1984 George Orwell
All Souls Michael MacDonald
Bel Canto Ann Pachett
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Crow Lake Mary Lawson
Into the Wild John Krakauer
The Given Day: A Novel Denise Lehane
The Road Cormac McCarthy
Foxfire Joyce Carol Oats
Old School Tobias Wolff
Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood
Persuasion Jane Austen
Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
Summer of '49 David Halberstam
The Great Santini Pat Conroy
Water for Elephants Sara Gruen
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