DWHS 10th Grade Summer Reading List
Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent
Allende, Isabel. The Daughter of Fortune
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights
Cather, Willa. My Antonia
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street
Dickens, Charles. The Pickwick Papers
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles
Fast, Howard. Spartacus
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby
Golding, William. The Lord of the Flies
Green, Hannah. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Griffin, John Howard. Black Like Me
Herriot, James. All Creatures Great and Small
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God
Le Guin, Ursula. The Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore
Lewis, Sinclair. Main Street
Kingsolver, Barbara. The Bean Trees
Markham, Beryl. West with the Night
Maxwell, Gavin. Ring of Bright Water
Melville, Herman. Typee
Potok, Chaim. The Chosen
Renault, Mary. Fire from Heaven, The Last of the Wine
Salinger, J.D. A Catcher in the Rye
Schwaller de Lubicz, Isha. Her-bak, the Living Face of Ancient Egypt
Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men
Stewart, George. Ordeal by Hunger
Stone, Irving. The Greek Treasure, Lust for Life
van der Post, Laurens. The Heart of the Hunter, The Lost World of the Kalahari
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple
Warren, Robert Penn. All the King’s Men
Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery
White, Theodore H. The Once and Future King
Works by any of the following authors…
Bruce Caton
Stephen Crane
Emily Dickinson
Henry John Hersey
John Keats
John Muir
George Orwell
Edgar Allen Poe
J.D. Salinger
Sir Walter Scott
Mary Stewart
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Guy de Maupassant
Victor Villasenor
Biographies of…
John Adams
Harriet Beecher Stowe
John Calvin
Henry Clay
Margaret Fuller
Abraham Lincoln
Frederick Douglas
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Martin Luther
Alexander the Great
Julius Caesar
Caesar Augustus
Books dealing with ancient history, Greek history, or U.S. history that covers the opening of the West, the Civil War or Reconstruction are also acceptable.
Joseph Conrad
Simone de Beauvoir
William Faulkner
Henry James
Carson McCullers
Arthur Miller
Flannery O’Connor
George Orwell
Tom Robbins
Bertrand Russell
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
I.F. Stone
Dylan Thomas
Leo Tolstoy
Virginia Woolf
Richard Wright
Biographies of…
Lord Byron
John Calvin
Winston Churchill
Charles Darwin
John Keats
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Nelson Mandela
Henry David Thoreau