Princeton High School

Summer Reading List for Rising Grade 12 Students- June, 2006

Required Reading

AP English IV

Students will read one of the following novels by Thomas Hardy:

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Far From the Madding Crowd

Jude the Obscure

Return of the Native

The Mayor of Casterbridge

For the Hardy novel, students will be asked to write a 40 minute timed writing on various literary elements of their book during the first week of school.

In addition, AP students should also read one novel from the "suggested reading list."

British Literature

Students will read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

World Literature

Students will read one novel from the following list. Students will be asked to write a 40 minute timed writing on various literary elements of their book during the first week of school.

World Literature
Allende	House of the Spirits
	Portrait in Sepia
Marquez	Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Other Suggested Reading:

Author	Title
Achebe	No Longer at Ease Short stories and poems
Allende	Eva Luna
Atwood	The Handmaid's Tale The Cat's Eye
Buck	The Good Earth
Cervantes	Don Quixote
Chaucer	The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov	The Cherry Orchard
Conrad	The Secret Agent The Heart of Darkness
Dickens	A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Dostoyevsky	Crime and Punishment The Brothers Karamazov
Dumas	The Count of Monte Cristo
Euripides	Medea
Flaubert	Madame Bovary
Forster	A Passage to India
Hesse	Demian
Ibsen	Ghosts
Kafka	The Penal Colony
Kazantzakis	Zorba the Greek
Khayam	The Rubaiyat
Lawrence	Four Short Stories Sons and Lovers
Mahfouz	Palace Walk Palace of Desire Sugar Street
Marlowe	Doctor Faustus
Melville	Benito Cereno
Nabokov	Lolita Pale Fire
Naipaul	A House for Mr. Biswas
Orwell	1984
Pasternak	Doctor Zhivago
Plato	The Republic
Proust	Swann's Way
Pym	Excellent Women
Rolvaag	Giants in the Earth
Rostand	Cyrano De Bergerac
Shaw	Pygmalion
Sheridan	A School for Scandal
Solzhenitsyn	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Strindberg	Miss Julie
Tolstoy	Anna Karenina War and Peace