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US Summer Reading 2025

View the complete list of summer work here: US Summer Work 2025

Below are ebook and audiobook versions of required reading that are available via the library.

Rising 9th Graders

Literatures of Community
Modern World History

Read a book of your choice! Consider some award winners from the Recommended Reading page!

Or these recommendations from the English Department:

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Severance by Ling Ma
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Rising 10th Graders

English Electives
History Electives

Shakespeare's Afterlives

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

20th Century Black Literary Aesthetics

Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep by Michael S. Harper; Anthony Walton

Voice & Style

Apartheid & Jim Crow

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

Indigenous History

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

Global Challenges

The Ages of Globalization by Jeffrey D. Sachs

Holocaust and Human Behavior

Anne Frank's Diary: the Graphic Adaptation by Anne Frank (Text by); David Polonsky (Illustrator); Ari Folman (Adapted by)

Modern Middle East

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Rising 11th Graders

American Studies

The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Rising 12th Graders

English Electives
History Electives

Contemporary World Literature

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

The Essay

Coming of Age in the Novel

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Senior Scholars

The Craft of Research by Wayne C. Booth; Gregory G. Colomb; Joseph M. Williams; Joseph Bizup; William T. FitzGerald

Nature, Race, and Environmental Justice

Not Just Green, Not Just White by Mary E. Mendoza (Editor); Traci Brynne Voyles (Editor); Patricia Nelson Limerick (Foreword by)
Publication Date: 2025

Last Updated: Jun 2, 2025 11:35 AM
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