Woodlawn High School
Summer Reading List 2009
Students in Honors classes will be required to read two novels. Students in regular classes will be required to read one novel.
Ninth Grade (9th)
Tenth Grade (10th)
Title of Book
Author
The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver
House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
Shooter
Walter Dean Myers
How I Live Now
Meg Rosoff
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Lois Duncan
Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer
A Great and Terrible Beauty
Libba Bray
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
I Had Seen Castles
Cynthia Rylant
The First Part Last
Angela Johnson
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Eleventh Grade (11th)
Twelfth Grade (12th)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave and Incidents in the Life of a Slave
Frederick Douglas and Harriet Jacobs
Maus I
Art Speigelman
Walking Across Egypt
Clyde Edgerton
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
A Gathering of Old Men
Ernest Gaines
Grendel
John Gardner
Dark Angel
David Klass
A Long Way Down
Nick Hornsby
The Things They Carried
Tim O’ Brien
Persepolis I
Marjane Satrapi
Ender’s Game
Orson Scott Card
White Teeth
Zadie Smith