LibGuides: Summer Reading 2025: English

English - Suggested Reading

**The English Department strongly suggests that all students read ONE OR MORE of the following books in addition to the required read.**

Teachers will consider giving extra credit to students who read at least one from the following list and who write an essay during the first week of school.

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
ISBN: 0063251922
Publication Date: 2022-10-18
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
ISBN: 0399590595
Publication Date: 2019-09-24
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
ISBN: 9781481438261
Publication Date: 2019-04-02
There There by Tommy Orange
ISBN: 9780525436140
Publication Date: 2019-05-07
The Plague by Albert Camus; Laura Marris (Translator)
ISBN: 0593082095
Publication Date: 2022-10-25
Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson
ISBN: 9781641290173
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
ISBN: 9780307948472
Publication Date: 2020-11-17
Paradise: by the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 by Abdulrazak Gurnah
ISBN: 1565841638
Publication Date: 1995-05-01
The Promise by Damon Galgut
ISBN: 1609457447
Publication Date: 2022-03-15
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene; John Updike (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9780143107552
Publication Date: 2015-03-24
Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
ISBN: 0316769509
Publication Date: 1991-05-01
Normal People by Sally Rooney
ISBN: 9781984822185
Publication Date: 2020-02-18
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa; Stephen Snyder (Translator)
ISBN: 9781101911815
Publication Date: 2020-07-28
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
ISBN: 9780593318171
Publication Date: 2021-03-02
Black Boy by Richard Wright; John Edgar Wideman (Foreword by); Malcolm Wright (Afterword by)
ISBN: 0062964135
Publication Date: 2023-01-10
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
ISBN: 1101971061
Publication Date: 2017-05-02
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
ISBN: 9781250806710
Publication Date: 2021-05-04
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
ISBN: 1571310614
Publication Date: 2007-05-25
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
ISBN: 9780393881141
Publication Date: 2021-09-21
Old School by Tobias Wolff
ISBN: 0375701494
Publication Date: 2004-08-31
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev; Richard Freeborn (Edited and Translated by)
ISBN: 9780199536047
Publication Date: 2008-06-15
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
ISBN: 9781400034208
Publication Date: 2003-09-09
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; Walker Percy (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780802130204
Publication Date: 1994-01-21
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
ISBN: 0553208845
Publication Date: 1981-12-01