SALEM HIGH SCHOOL
SUMMER READING LIST FOR UPPERCLASSMAN
The Salem School District believes summer reading is a valuable experience for all students and an important extension of our educational programs. Reading is one of the most important factors in academic success and a skill that is basic to all areas of the curriculum. It is also a skill that improves with practice! Summer reading is intended to be an enjoyable experience. While helping to keep our students connected to learning during the summer vacation, it supports our objective that each student becomes a life long reader and learner.
In order to make a more informed choice as to which book may or may
not interest you, please refer to www.amazon.com or www.bn.com. These two websites contain a short synopsis
of all the books that are located on the reading list. You may also choose to go to your library or
favorite bookstore and read the book jacket.
Happy reading!
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Title |
Author |
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Twain |
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Alive |
Piers |
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All Quiet on The Western
Front |
Remarque |
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All The Pretty Horses |
McCarthy |
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Amazing Grace: The Lives
of Children |
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and The Conscience of a Nation |
Kozel |
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Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir |
McCourt |
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Anna Karenina |
Tolstoy |
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Anne Frank Remembered |
Gies |
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Anthem |
Rand |
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As You Like It |
Shakespeare |
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Autobiography of Malcolm X |
Malcolm X |
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Bell Jar |
S. Plath |
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Bliss Me, Ultima |
Anaya |
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Bluest Eye |
Morrison |
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Briar Rose |
Yolen |
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Catcher in the Rye |
Salinger |
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Cat’s Eye |
Atwood |
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Chinese Cinderella |
Ma |
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Chronicles of Narnia |
Lewis |
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Clan of the Cave Bear |
Auel |
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Cold Mountain |
Frazier |
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Crooked Little Heart |
Lamott |
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Crucible |
Miller |
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Days of Grace |
Ashe |
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Death Be Not Proud |
Gunther |
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Death of a Salesman |
Miller |
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Doing Time |
Thomas |
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Eric |
Lund |
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Ethan Frome |
Wharton |
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Flowers for Algernon |
Keyes |
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Freewill |
Lynch |
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Freedom An Exile: The |
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Autobiography of the Dalai Lama |
Gyatson |
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Fried Green Tomatoes at
the |
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Whistle Stop Café |
Flagg |
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Go Tell It On The Mountain |
Baldwin |
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Great Gatsby |
Fitzgerald |
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Having Our Say |
Delany |
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Here on Earth |
Hoffman |
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Hitchhikers Guide to the
Galaxy |
Adams |
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Hole In My Life |
Gantos |
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Hoops |
Myers |
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How the Garcia Girls Lost
Their Accents |
Alvarez |
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If Beale Street Could Talk |
Baldwin |
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In Country |
Mason |
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Into Thin Air |
Krakavek |
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Invisible Man |
Ellison |
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Jitterbug Perfume |
Robbins |
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Joy School |
Berg |
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Jubilee |
Walker |
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Kitchen God’s Wife |
Tan |
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Kit’s Wilderness |
Almond |
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Landscape Without Gravity |
Aschek |
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Lesson Before Dying |
Gaines |
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Life and Death in Shanghai |
Cheng |
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Little Big Man |
Berger |
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Long Day’s Journey Into
Night |
O’Neill |
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Lord of the Flies |
Golding |
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Lost in Translation: A
Life in a |
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New Language |
Hoffman |
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Mama Day |
Naylor |
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Many Stones |
Coman |
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Marjorie Morningstar |
Wouk |
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Memoirs of a Geisha |
Golden |
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Meridian |
Walker |
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Mona in the Promised Land |
Jen |
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Monster |
Myers |
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My Sister’s Bones |
Hanauer |
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Night |
Wiesel |
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Of Human Bondage |
Maugham |
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Old Man and the Sea |
Hemingway |
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Oliver Wiswell |
Roberts |
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On the Road |
Keronac |
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Perfect Storm |
Junger |
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Poisonwood Bible |
Kingsolner |
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Postcards From No Man’s
Land |
Chambers |
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Prayer for Owen Meany |
Irving |
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Promise |
Potok |
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Pygmalian |
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Red Badge of Courage |
Crane |
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Sassafras, Cypress and
Indigo |
Shange |
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Separate Peace |
Knowles |
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A Step from Heaven |
Na |
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Still Life With Rice |
Lee |
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Sun Also Rises |
Hemingway |
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The Collected Stories of
Dorothy Parker |
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The Color of Water |
McBride |
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The Commitments |
Doyle |
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The Grass Dancers |
Power |
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The Hobbitt |
Tolkien |
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The Hundred Secret Senses |
Tan |
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The Scarlet Pimpernel |
Orczy |
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Things They Carried |
O’Brien |
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Tuesdays With Morrie |
Albom |