SUMMER READING SUGGESTIONS

GRADE 11

FICTION

Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner

American Pastoral Philip Roth

Autobiography of my Dead Brother Walter Dean Myers

Bodega Dreams Ernesto Quinonez

Call it Sleep Henry Roth

The Corrections Jonathan Franzen

Daisy Miller Henry James

The Death of Jim Loney James Welch

Four Corners of the Sky Michael Malone

The Help Kathryn Stockett

House Made of Dawn N. Scott Momaday

John Henry Days Colson Whitehead

Killer Angels Michael Shaara

Little House on the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder

Lonesome Dove Larry McCurty

The Love Wife Gish Jen

Main Street Sinclair Lewis

Mona in the Promised Land Gish Jen

On the Road Jack Kerouac

O Pioneers! Willa Cather

Our Town Thornton Wilder

A Painted House John Grisham

The Postman David Brin

Rabbit, Run John Updike

Shanghai Girls Lisa See

Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser

Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut

Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury

Song of Solomon Toni Morrison

The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway

Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson

The Winter of our Discontent John Steinbeck

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Michael Dorris

NON-FICTION

Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream - Barbara Ehrenreich

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America - Barbara Ehrenreich

The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron - Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind