BM Reading


Social Studies
Incoming Grade 9
Endurance: Shackelton's Incredible Voyage		A. Lansing
Hiroshima		Heresy
Mary, Bloody Mary		Carolyn Meyer
Maus: A Survivor's Tale II		Spiegelman
Sharpe's Rifles		Bernard Cornwell
Incoming Grade 10 (Level 5)
Up From Slavery		B. T. Washington
Yellow Journalism		Daniel Cohen
Incoming Grade 10 (Level 8)
The Jungle		Sinclair
Up From Slavery		B. T. Washington
Turning of the Tide: How One Game Changed the South		Don Yeager
Honors U.S. History
Autobiography of Malcolm X		(with Alex Haley)
AP U.S. History
The Island at the Center of the World		Russell Shorto
Incoming Grades 11 & 12
Civics ( Level 5)
Profiles in Courage		John F. Kennedy
Honors Civics
Gideon's Trumpet		Anthony Lewis
The World is Flat		Thomas Friedman
Honors Economics
Freakonomics		Steven Levitt
AP Comparative Politics
Red China Blue		Jan Wong
Things Fall Apart		Chinua Achebe
Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil		John Ghazvinian

Honors Biology
And the Waters Turned to Blood		Rodney Barker
Genome		Matt Ridley
The Hot Zone		Richard Preston
Center for Global Studies - World Literature - Freshman (Required)
Chinese Cinderella		Adeline Yen Mah
Center for Global Studies - World Literature - Freshman (Choose One)
Maus I: My Father Bleeds History		Art Spiegelman
Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began		Art Spiegelman
The Secret Life of Bees		Sue Monk Kidd
The Odyssey		Homer
Center for Global Studies - Social Studies - Freshman
Chinese	Red Scarf Girl	Ji-li Jiang
Japanese	Hiroshima	John Hersey
Middle East	Habibi	Naomi Shihab Nye
Center for Global Studies - World Literature - Sophomore
The Alchemist		Paulo Coelho
Outliers		Malcolm Gladwell
Center for Global Studies - Junior
Kite Runner		Khaled Hosseini
The Bookseller of Kabul		Asne Seierstad
Center for Global Studies - Seniors
Siddhartha		Herman Hesse
Into the Wild		Jon Krakauer
CGS AP World Literature and Composition IV
Crime and Punishment (PDF Instructions)		Fyodor Dostoevsky

AP English (Mr. Hofheimer)
2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said		Robert Byrne, editor
Frankenstein (1818)		Mary Shelley
Frankenstein (the 1931 movie)
Frankenstein (the 1994 movie)
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Mythology
Don't Know Much About Mythology
Bulfinch's Mythology		Thomas Bulfinch
Mythology		Edith Hamilton
Great Movies? (1942 -1954)
Casablanca
Rear Window
Singin' in the Rain

Honors English III (Mrs. Liotta)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Required)		Mark Twain
The Secret Life of Bees (Required)		Sue Monk Kidd
Read one of the following current titles
The Color of Water		James McBride
Into the Wild		Jon Krakauer
The Namesake		Jhumpa Lahiri
The Poisonwood Bible		Barbara Kingsolver
She's Come Undone		Wally Lamb
Read one of the following classic titles
Catch-22		Joseph Heller
A Farewell to Arms		Ernest Hemingway
The Grapes of Wrath		John Steinbeck
Letters from the Earth		Mark Twain
The Red Badge of Courage		Stephen Crane
The Sound and the Fury		William Faulkner
Walden & Civil Disobedience		Henri David Thoreau

Sophomore Honors English (LaValle)
Where Have all the Leaders Gone		Lee Iacocca
Mister Pip		Lloyd Jones