Summer Reading List

Literature Genre 101 (3 total: 2 required; 1 choice)

Required

Title	Author
Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck
The Lottery and Other Short Stories	Shirley Jackson

Choice

Title	Author
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	Betty Smith
Soul Surfer	Bethany Hamilton
A Wrinkle in Time	Medeleine L'Engle

Literature Genre 202 (4 total: 3 required; 1 choice)

Required

Title	Author
A Separate Peace	John Knowles
Inherit the Wind	Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee
I know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Maya Angelou

Choice

Title	Author
The Things They Carried	Tim O'Brien
For One More Day	Mitch Albom
Chasing the Dream	Joe Torre

American Literature 202 (4 total: 3 required; 1 choice)

Required

Title	Author
Tuesdays With Morrie	Mitch Albom
Close to Shore	Michael Capuzzo
Travels With Charley	John Steinbeck

Choice

Title	Author
The Secret Life of Bees	Sue Monk Kidd
God on the Starting Line	Marc Bloom
A Raisin in the Sun	Lorraine Hansberry

British Literature 303 (5 total: 4 required; 1 choice)

Required

Title	Author
To Sir With Love	E.R. Braithwaite
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley
Rebecca	Dephne duMaurier
Wide Sargasso Sea	Jean Rhys

Choice

Title	Author
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen
Angela's Ashes	Frank McCourt
2001: A Space Odssey	C. Clarke

World Literature 303 (5 total: 4 required; 1 choice

Required

Title	Author
The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini
A Long Way Gone	Ishmael Beah
The House on Mango Street	Sandra Cisneros
Into Thin Air	Jon Krakauer

Optional

Title	Author
Touching my Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest	Jamling Tenzing Norgay
Kon-Tiki	Thor Heyerdahl
Wind, Sand and Stars	Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Endurance: Shackelton's Incredible Voyage	Alfred Lansing
Persepolis	Marjane Satrapi
The Dante Club	Matthew Pearl
Midnight's Children	Salman Rushdie
The White Tiger	Aravind Adiga
Myths to Live By or Mythic Imagination: Collected Short Fiction	Joseph Campbell
Cry, the Beloved Country	Alan Paton
100 Years of Solitude	Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Alchemist	Paulo Coelho
Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes
The God of Small Things	Arundhati Roy
The Name of the Rose	William Weaver
Years of Wonders	Geraldine Brooks
The Bookseller of Kabul	Asne Seierstad

English 1 - Seton Hall University

Title	Author
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language	Steven Pinker

Great Books II - Seton Hall University

Required

Title	Author
Othello	Shakespeare
Their Eyes Were Watching God	Zora Neale Hurston
An Enemy of the People	Henrik Ibsen
Death of a Salesman	Arthur Miller
The Glass Menagerine	Tennessee Williams

English Composition: The Writing Process - Brookdale Community College

Title	Author
The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing	Michael Harvey

The Short Story - Brookdale Community College

Title	Author
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: a Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines	Thomas Foster

Introduction to Literature - Brookdale Communty College

• Read at least 8 stories from The Best Short Stories of the Century edited by John Updike
• Go to www.Poets.org and register for the Poem a Day. Read the poem that arrives in your inbox each day over the summer
• Outliers or Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In addition, read one of the following:

Title	Author
The Elegance of the Hedgehog	Muriel Barbarry
Holidays in Hell	P.J. O'Rourke
The Tree Where Man Was Born	Peter Mattheissen
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lax	Rebecca Skloot
The Book Thief	Markus Zusak
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams
Ten Little Indians	Agatha Christie
Myths to Live By or Mythic Imagination: Collected Short Fiction	Joseph Campbell
The Color Purple	Alice Walker
The Poisonwood Bible	Barbara Kingsolver
A Confederacy of Dunces	John Kennedy Toole
13 Reasons Why	Jay Asher
Like Water for Chocolate	Laura Esquivel
The Red Tent	Anita Diamant
The Dark Tower series	Stephen King