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2022 12th Grade Senior English CPB
Choose one of the books from this list as your summer reading book.

House of the Spirits

by Allende, Isabel




Case Histories

by Atkinson, Kate


Cat’s Eye

by Atwood, Margaret




The Handmaid’s Tale

by Atwood, Margaret


Pride and Prejudice

by Austen, Jane




Fahrenheit 451

by Bradbury, Ray


Jane Eyre

by Bronte, Charlotte


Wuthering Heights

by Bronte, Emily




A Clockwork Orange

by Burgess, Anthony


Running with Scissors

by Burroughs, Augusten


Dry, A Memoir

by Burroughs, Augusten




In Cold Blood

by Capote, Truman


Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

by Carver, Raymond




What  We Talk About When We Talk About Love

by Carver, Raymond


Girl With A Pearl Earring

by Chevalier, Tracy


The Virgin Blue

by Chevalier, Tracy


The Beans of Egypt, Maine

by Chute, Carolyn




The Great Santini

by Conroy, Pat


My Losing Season

by Conroy, Pat


The Water is Wide

by Conroy, Pat


Yellow Raft in Blue Water

by Dorris, Michael


A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

by Eggers, Dave


Nickel and Dimed

by Ehrenreich, Barbara


How to be Alone

by Franzen, Jonathan






A Million Little Pieces

by Frey, James




Fragile Things

by Gaiman, Neil


A Lesson Before Dying

by Gaines, Ernest J.


100 Years of Solitude

by Garcia Marquez, Gabriel




Black Like Me

by Griffin, John Howard


Ordinary People

by Guest, Judith


The curious incident of the dog in the night-time

by Haddon, Mark.


Tess of the D’Urbervilles

by Hardy, Thomas


Return of the Native

by Hardy, Thomas




A farewell to arms

by Hemingway, Ernest


For whom the bell tolls

by Hemingway, Ernest


Steppenwolf : a novel

by Hesse, Hermann


Brave new world

by Huxley, Aldous


The Hotel New Hampshire

by Irving, John


The Cider House Rules

by Irving, John


The world according to Garp : a novel

by Irving, John, 1942-


The Lottery and Other Stories

by Jackson, Shirley




A portrait of the artist as a young man

by Joyce, James


The Liars' Club : a memoir

by Karr, Mary.


Girl, interrupted

by Kaysen, Susanna, 1948-


The secret life of bees

by Kidd, Sue Monk.


The shining

by King, Stephen, 1947-


Animal dreams

by Kingsolver, Barbara.


Pigs in heaven : a novel

by Kingsolver, Barbara.


The bean trees : a novel

by Kingsolver, Barbara.


The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts

by Kingston, Maxine Hong.


Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster

by Krakauer, Jon.


The namesake

by Lahiri, Jhumpa.


Interpreter of Maladies

by Lahiri, Jhumpa


She's come undone

by Lamb, Wally.


I know this much is true...

by Lamb, Wally.


The Screwtape letters ; with, Screwtape proposes a toast

by Lewis, C. S.




The color of water : a Black man's tribute to his white mother

by McBride, James, 1957-


Angela's ashes : a memoir

by McCourt, Frank.


The tender bar : a memoir

by Moehringer, J. R., 1964-


Bad boy : a memoir

by Myers, Walter Dean


The Cloister Walk

by Norris, Kathleen


A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

by O’Connor, Flannery




Down and out in Paris and London

by Orwell, George


Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories

by Palahniuk, Chuck


Fight Club

by Palahniuk, Chuck.


My sister's keeper

by Picoult, Jodi, 1966-


Object lessons

by Quindlen, Anna.


One true thing

by Quindlen, Anna.




The lovely bones

by Sebold, Alice.




Me talk pretty one day

by Sedaris, David.


Of mice and men

by Steinbeck, John


The Grapes of Wrath

by Steinbeck, John


The bonesetter's daughter

by Tan, Amy.


A confederacy of dunces

by Toole, John Kennedy


Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

by Tyler, Anne


The Accidental Tourist

by Tyler, Anne


Breakfast of champions : or, Goodbye blue Monday!

by Vonnegut, Kurt.


Girl in hyacinth blue

by Vreeland, Susan.


The color purple

by Walker, Alice, 1944-


The glass castle : a memoir

by Walls, Jeannette.


The Music Lesson

by Weber, Katharine


The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

by Wells, Rebecca


Little altars everywhere

by Wells, Rebecca, 1952-


The collected stories of Eudora Welty.

by Welty, Eudora


One writer's beginnings

by Welty, Eudora


The Duke of deception : memories of my father

by Wolff, Geoffrey, 1937-


This boy's life : a memoir

by Wolff, Tobias, 1945-