2023 LPSS Summer Reading

Fiction

The One and Only Ivan, Katherine Applegate
Hurricane Child, Kacen Callender
The Boy on the Porch, Sharon Creech
The Great Unexpected, Sharon Creech
Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech
The Tale of Despereaux, Kate DiCamillo
Flipped, Wendelin Van Drannen
Out of My Mind, Sharon Draper
The Skin I’m In, Sharon G. Flake
The Parker Inheritance, Varian Johnson
Travel Team, Mike Lupica
Wonder, R. J. Palacio
I Survived Series, Lauren Tarshis
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, Mildred Taylor
Harbor Me, Jacqueline Woodson

Nonfiction

Grace, Gold, and Glory, Gabrielle Douglas
Finding Gobi: A Little Dog with a Very Big Heart, Dion Leonard
Bad Boy: A Memoir, Walter Dean Meyers

Fiction

The Selection Series, Kiera Cass
The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton
Amina’s Voice, Hena Khan
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
Swallowing Stones, Joyce McDonald
Fallen Angels, Walter Dean Myers
A Long Walk to Water, Linda Sue Park
Homeless Bird, Gloria Whelan

Nonfiction

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Amy Chua

Fiction

The Boy in Striped Pajamas, John Boyne
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, Nancy Farmer
Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II, Alan Garatz
Refugee, Alan Gratz
Hero, Mike Lupica
Soldier’s Heart, Gary Paulsen
Keeper, Mal Peet
The Last Book in the Universe, Rodman Philbrick
Uglies, Scott Westerfeld
 

Nonfiction

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah

Fiction

The Crossover, Kwame Alexander
Kindred, Octavia E. Butler
Tears of a Tiger, Sharon Draper
Foul Trouble, John Feinstein
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ernest Gaines
Lord of the Flies, William Golding (Honors)
The Princess Bride, William Goldman
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
We Were Liars, E. Lockhart (Honors)
Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery (Honors)
What Happened to Lani Garver, Carol Plum-Ucci
Falling for Hamlet, Michelle Ray
Scythe, Neal Schusterman (Honors)
Dear Martin, N. Stone
The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas

Nonfiction

Jim Thorpe, Original All-American, Joseph Bruchac
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law, Haben Girma

Fiction

Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichiei
The Crossover, Kwame Alexander
Mosquitoland, David Arnold
Tyrell, Coe Booth
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
Big Mouth and Ugly Girl, Joyce Carol Oates
Warcross, Marie Lu
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Erika Sanchez
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
Dry, Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Amy Tan

Nonfiction

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
I Feel Like Going On: Life, Game, and Glory, Ray Lewis with Daniel Paisner

Fiction

The Awakening, Kate Chopin
The Onion Presents:Our Dumb Century, Scott Dikkers (editor)
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
One of Us Is Lying, Karen McManus
47, Walter Mosley
Anger Is a Gift, Mark Oshiro
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
The Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason

Nonfiction

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream, H.G. Bissinger
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Great Speeches by African Americans, James Daley (editor)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass:An American Slave, Frederick Douglass
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, Jon Krakauer
12 Years a Slave, Solomon Northup
The Witches:Salem, 1692, Stacy Schiff
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
The Perfect Storm:A True Story of Men Against the Sea, Sebastian Junger
BBC News (website)
The Dallas Morning News (newspaper/website)
Los Angeles Times (newspaper/website)
Newsweek (magazine/website)
The New York Times (newspaper/website)
Slate (online magazine)
USA Today (newspaper/website)
The Washington Post (newspaper/website)

Fiction

Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Impossible Knife of Memory, Laurie Halse Anderson
Bronxwood, Coe Booth
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, E. Lockhart
The Things a Brother Knows, Dana Reinhardt

AP Language and Composition Fiction

The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
Rise to Rebellion: A Novel of the American Revolution, Jeff Shaara
Color Purple, Alice Walker

Nonfiction

Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series, Eliot Asinof
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil, Misty Bernall
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, Susannah Cahalan
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival, Anderson Cooper
The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life, Jasmin Darznik
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite, William Deresiewicz
David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell
Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner
Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman’s Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front, Mary Jennings Hegar
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town, Jon Krakauer
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, Wes Moore
The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School,
Alexandra Robbins
Enough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy, and
Fulfilling Lives, Rachel Simmons
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives, Dashka Slater
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan Stevenson
Educated: A Memoir, Tara Westover
What Was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It, Trish Wood (Author),
Bobby Muller (Contributor)
The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell

AP Literature and Composition Fiction

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
Chronicle of Death Foretold, Gabriel García Márquez
1984, George Orwell
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut

Nonfiction

How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas Foster