Holy Cross High School

Summer Reading Suggestions

(Books to prepare students for the coming school year)

Freshmen

Fiction:

William Gibson – “The Miracle Worker”

Jules Verne – “Journey to the Center of the Earth”

H.G. Wells – “The Time Machine”

Meg Cabot – “The Mediator Series”

Jean Ferris – “Once Upon a Marigold”

Elie Wiesel – “Night”

Biographies: Pope John Paul II and Muhammad Ali

Poetry: William Carlos Williams and T.S. Elliot

Non fiction:

Harriet Jacobs – “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”

Dave Pelzer – “A Child Called ‘it’; One Child’s Courage to

Survive”

Howard Pyle – “The Story of King Arthur and his Knights”

Anne Frank – “The Diary of Anne Frank”

Sophomores

Fiction:

Kurt Vonnegut – “Slaughter House Five”

Ayn Rand – “Anthem”

Sharon M. Draper – “Romiette and Julio”

Ray Bradbury – “Fahrenheit 451”

Erich Maria Remarque –“All Quiet on the Western Front”

Alice Sebold – “The Lovely Bones”

Stephen Crane – “The Red Badge of Courage”

Biographies: Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin

Poetry: Langston Hughes and Emily Dickinson

Nonfiction:

Martin Luther King, Jr. – “A Testament of Hope; the
      essential writings and speeches of Martin Luther King Jr.

John Mack Faragher – “Daniel Boone; the life and legend of an American pioneer"

Stephen E. Ambrose – “Band of Brothers”

Juniors

Fiction:

Zora Neale Hurston – “Their Eyes Were Watching God”

Frank Herbert – “Dune”

Walter Dean Myers - “Autobiography of my Dead Brother”

J.R.R. Tolkien – “The Hobbit”

Charles Frazier – “Cold Mountain”

William Shakespeare – “Julius Caesar”

Biographies: Frederick Douglass and Marie Antionette

Poetry: John Keats and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nonfiction:

Barbara Tuchman – “The Guns of August”

Dee Brown – “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee”

Henry Steele Commager – “The Blue and the Gray”

Seniors

Fiction:

David Guterson – “Snow Falling on Cedars”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky – “Crime and Punishment”

Bobbie Ann Mason – “In Country”

D. H. Lawrence – “Women in Love”

Richard Wright – “Black Boy”

Charles Dickens – “A Tale of Two Cities”

Biographies: Ulysses S. Grant and Sacagawea

Poetry: Walt Whitman and Sylvia Plath

Nonfiction:

Alex Haley – “Roots; the saga of an American family”

Robert Lacey – “The Kingdom, Arabia and the House of Saud”

Russell Freedman – “Give Me Liberty! The Story of the Declaration of Independence”