Honors English 9 students will read Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.
Honors English 10 students will choose one of the following books:
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2003)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951)
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (1937)
AP English Literature students will read Amor Towles' The Lincoln Highway.
Please note that AP Lit students received their summer reading books at the end of the 2024-25 school year. If a student did not receive the book or is new to school, he or she may pick it up in the front office.
AP English Language students will choose one of the following books:
Jonathon Safran Foer - We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2019)
Ken Ilguans - This Land Is Our Land: How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back (2018)
Ken Ilgunas - Walden on Wheels: On The Open Road from Debt to Freedom (2013)
A.J. Jacobs - The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning (2024)
A.J. Jacobs - The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life (2022)
A.J. Jacobs - It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family (2017)
A.J. Jacobs - Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection (2012)
A.J. Jacobs - The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World (2005)
Barbara Kingsolver - Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 (1996)
Erik Larson - The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War (2024)
Erik Larson - The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (2020)
Erik Larson - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (2015)
Erik Larson - In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (2011)
Erik Larson - Thunderstruck (2006)
Erik Larson - Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (1999)
Erik Larson - Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun (1994)
Erik Larson - The Naked Consumer: How Our Private Lives Become Public Commodities (1992)
Wes Moore - Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City (2020)
Wes Moore - The Work: Searching for a Life That Matters (2015)
Sarah Vowell - Lafayette in the Somewhat United States (2015)
Sarah Vowell - Unfamiliar Fishes (2011)
Sarah Vowell - The Wordy Shipmates (2008)
A Note About Policy: If a parent requests that his/her own child not read a given book, the teacher and/or school administrator should resolve the issue, perhaps by arranging for use of alternative material meeting essentially the same instructional purpose.
If you have questions about summer reading, email Betsy Woods, English Department Chair, at woods_b@milfordschools.org.