10 Grade Reading List

All Academic and College Prep students are required to read one (1) book from the approved Summer Reading list cited below. Academic and College Prep students may select any book from any of the 10th grade titles. Academic and College Prep students will be required to complete an assessment assignment upon their return to school.

All Honors students will be required to read two (2) books from the approved Summer Reading list. Students are to select one (1) book from the twelve titles listed and one (1) book from the four (4) authors listed. During the first week of school, Honors students will be required to complete a written assessment based on their reading from the Honors list.

Academic and College Prep

1. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry--Mildred Taylor

2. The Broken Window: A Lincoln Rhyme Mystery--Jeffrey Deaver

3. Death Be Not Proud--John Gunther

4. Angels and Demons--Dan Brown

5. Alive--Paul Read Piers 

6. The Bell Jar--Sylvia Plath

7. Half-Blood Prince--J.K. Rowling

8. The Hot Zone--Richard Preston

9. A House of Night Novel (any in the series)--P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

10. The Lovely Bones--Alice Sebold

Honors

1. Pygmalion--George Bernard Shaw

2. Stranger in a Strangeland--Robert Heinlein

3. Eight Men Out--Eliot Asinof

4. Their Eyes Were Watching God--Zora Neale Hurston

5. A Lesson Before Dying--Ernest Gaines

6. The Hunger Games--Suzanne Collins

8. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant--Anne Tyler

9. Wide Sargasso Sea--Jean Rhys

10.The Maltese Falcon--Dashiell Hammett

12.Love in the Time of Cholera--Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Honors Authors

  • John Grisham
  • Stephen King
  • Mary Stewart 
  • Michael Crichton