Summer Reading List

There is a longer explanation for why I am reading all of these books this summer, but it has to do with me teaching 9th grade English. I've decided on four very broad themes: Governance, Morality, Black Literature, Adventure. While we'll only read 2-3 books for each theme, I'll be reading all of the books below to determine which ones we'll be reading. I have a busy summer ahead of me!

Ms. Walker's Summer Reading List

Governance 
Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Dune, Frank Herbert
Inherit the Wind, Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee


Transition to Morality: Brave New World, Aldous Huxley


Morality
Romeo & Juliet, William Shakespeare
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Transition to Black Lit: To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe


Black Literature
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ernest J. Gaines
Black Boy, Richard Wright
A Gathering of Old Men, Ernest J. Gaines
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Manchild in the Promised Land, Claude Brown
The Color of Water, James McBride


Adventure/Classics
The Odyssey, Homer
A selection of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Tales of Terror, Edgar Allen Poe