Summer Reading List 2011: Salem High School
PLEASE NOTE: This list was prepared for the web by the Salem Public Library, and each title links to the web catalog to show BOOKS ONLY in SALEM PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Honors English Classes
Students entering Honors are required to read a total of 2 summer reading books.
- Students entering Honors are responsible for choosing a text from the provided list of authors below.
- Plus, one required reading from the items below.
College Prep English Classes
Each student is responsible for choosing a text from the provided list of authors:
Fiction
- Aravind Adiga
- Edward Albee
- Louisa May Alcott
- Isabel Allende
- Julia Alvarez
- Maya Angelou
- Margaret Atwood
- Jane Austen
- James Baldwin
- Ray Bradbury
- Emily Bronte
- Charlotte Bronte
- Anthony Burgess
- William Burroughs
- Truman Capote
- Raymond Chandler
- Chris Cleave
- Robert Cormier
- Stephen Crane
- Junot Diaz
- Dave Eggers
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- E.M. Forster
- John Fowles
- Sara Gruen
- Paul Harding
- Thomas Hardy
- Joseph Heller
- Ernest Hemingway
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Aldous Huxley
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- John Irving
- Jack Kerouac
- Andrea Levy
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Cormac McCarthy
- Ian McEwan
- Michael Ondaatje
- George Orwell
- Gary Paulsen
- Ayn Rand
- Rebecca Skloof
- John Steinbeck
- Tom Stoppard
- Hunter S. Thompson
- JRR Tolkien
- Mark Twain
- John Updike
- Abraham Verghese
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Alice Walker
- Edith Wharton
- Evelyn Waugh
- Thornton Wilder
- Richard Wright
