Recommended Summer Book List

Recommended Summer Book List
by Mrs. in den Bosch and Mr. Kip Hepfinger

Here are the books recommended for students enterring AP English/British Literature next year. The starred ones are the ones I want to read.

The Namesake -- Jhumpa Lahiri
Angela's Ashes -- Frank McCourt
Disgrace -- J.M. Coetzee
* Girl with a Pearl Earring -- Tracy Chevalier
The Good Earth -- Pearl S. Buck
* Atonement -- Ian McEwan
* Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close -- Jonathan Safron Foer
* Namako: Sea Cucumber -- Linda Watanabe McFerrin
* Dreaming in Cuban -- Cristina Garcia
* Snow Falling on Cedars -- David Guterson
* Peace Like a River -- Leif Enger
The Jungle -- Upton Sinclair
* All the Pretty Horses -- Cormac McCarthy
Night -- Elie Weisel
Been Trees -- Barbara Kingsolver
Animal Dreams -- Barbara Kingsolver
* In the Lake of the Woods -- Tim O'Brien
* Bel Canto -- Ann Patchett
My Sister's Keeper -- Jodi Picoult
The Lovely Bones -- Alice Sebold
The Kite Runner -- Khaled Hosseini
The Curious Incident of the Dog in Nighttime -- Mark Haddon
Nectar in a Sieve -- Kamala Markandaya
* The Tortilla Curtain -- T. Coraghessan Boyle