American History:
Each student taking American History should select one book of over 250 pages dealing with any of the following topics:

• The Founding Fathers
• Thomas Jefferson
• Andrew Jackson
• The Civil War
• Theodore Roosevelt

American History - Advanced Placement:
Each student should read the first three chapters of the assigned textbook, The American Pageant, and read the book Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen Oates

American Government:
Choose one of the following:

• All the President's Men by Woodward
• Lincoln's Men: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation by William C. Davis
• Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden
• A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government by Gary Willis

Economics:
Choose one of the following:

• The Great Crash: 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
• The New Deal: The Depression Years 1933-1940 by Anthony J. Badger
• The Ambassador From Wall Street: The Story of Thomas W. Lamont,
• J.P. Morgan=s Chief Executive by Edward M. Lamont

Advanced Placement Biology:
First four chapters of Biology, 4th ed. by Neil Campbell. Also choose one from Cobra Event by Richard Preston or Genome by Matt Ridley

World Cultures:
Choose one of the following:

• Cultures and Customs of Taiwan by Gary Davidson & Barbara Reed
• Teresa of Calcutta: A Pencil in God's Hand by Franca Zambonin
• The IRA: A History by Tim Pat Coogan
• Rastafan: Roots and Ideology by Barry Chevannes
• Himalaya: Life on the Edge of the World by David Zurick, Julsun Pacheco, Pradyumna Prasad Karan

Old & New Testament Survey:
Read the books of Genesis and Matthew from the Bible

English I:
Each student is to read Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, and choose one book from the list below for a total of three books:

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
• At Home In Mitford by Jan Karon (any book in series)
• The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
• Cheaper By the Dozen by Frank Gilbreath
• Death Comes For the Archbishop by Willa Cather
• Rebecca by Daphne du Marier
• Giant by Edna Ferber
• Street Lawyer by John Grisham
• The Testament by John Grisham
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton
• My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber
• Timeline by Michael Crichton
• Key to Rebecca by Ken Follett
• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

English I - Honors:
Each student is to read Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and one book from the above list.

English II:
Each student is to read Lord of the Flies by William Golding and choose one book from the list below for a total of two books:

• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• Mutiny On the Bounty by Nordhoff and Hall
• The Once and Future King by T.H. White
• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• Exodus by Leon Uris
• The High and the Mighty by Ernest Gann
• The King Must Die by Mary Renault
• The Labors of Hercules by Agatha Christie
• The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
• King Solomon=s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
• A Passage to India by Em> Forster
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Contact by Carl Sagan

English II - Honors:
Each student is to read Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, and The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

English III:
Each student is to read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and choose one book from the list below for a total of two books:

• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
• The Chosen by Chaim Potok
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
• Billy Budd by Herman Melville
• Sister Carrie by Henry James
• The American by Henry James
• Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• The Bean Trees by Barbara KingsolverEnglish III - Honors:
• Each student is to read Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.

English IV:
Each student is to read Daisy Miller by Henry James (Penguin Classics edition) and choose one book from the following list for a total of two books:

• The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Vanity Fair by William H. Thackeray
• The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
• The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
• Silas Marner by George Eliot
• The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
• Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
• The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (one of the trilogy)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Black Tower by P.D. James
• The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch

English IV - Advanced Placement:
Each student is to read the following books:

• Antigone by Sophocles
• A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
• Hard Times by Charles Dickens
• Daisy Miller by Henry James (Penguin Classics edition)
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

World History:
Choose one book from the list below:

• Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (reading entire book is recommended, but through page 321 is required)
• The 13th Warrior by Michael Crichton
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich M. Remarque
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

World History - Advanced Placement:
Each student must read Sophie's World (Jostein Gaarder) (reading entire book is recommended, but through page 321 is required). The first three chapters of the text, and one of the remaining books from the above list.