Antioch High School
English Department Summer Reading List

9th Standard

  • Leroy and the Old Man by W.E. Butterworth

Required: One of these Four

  • Making Lemonade by Virginia E. Wolff
  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
  • Romiette and Julio by Sharon Draper

10th Standard

  • Night by Elie Wiesel

Required: One of these Four

  • Forged By Fire by Sharon Draper
  • The Pigman by Paul Zindel
  • Time Machine by H.G. Wells
  • Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan

11th Standard

  • Huck Finn by Mark Twain

Required: One of these Four

  • Illusions by Richard Bach
  • Lost Highways by William Least Heat Moon
  • Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  • A Thread That Runs So True by Jesse Stuart

12th Standard

  • A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines

Required: One of these Four

  • The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
  • Catcher In the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  • On Writing by Stephen King
  • Harry Potter, the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

9th Honors

  • Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Required: Two of these Five

  • Rebecca by Daphne du Marier
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
  • The Light In the Forest by Conrad Richter
  • Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Green

10th Honors

  • The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

Required: Two of these Five

  • Night by Elie Wiesel
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  • The Hobbit by J.R. Tolkien
  • A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines

11th Honors

  • The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Required: Two of these Five

  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  • Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  • The Awakening by Kate Chopin
  • Fences by Wilson
  • The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

12th Honors

  • The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Required: Two of these Five

  • Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • On Writing by Stephen King
  • Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
  • A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines

AP/Dual Enrollment

  • Catcher In the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Required: Two of these Six

  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • Dr. Faustus by Marlowe
  • Tuesdays With Morrie by Morrison
  • Native Son by Richard Wright
  • My Antonia by Willa Cather
  • Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by Henry James



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