Required Reads for Honors AP English Courses Summer 2024
 

• Honors ELA 9 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Honors ELA 10 - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Honors ELA 11 - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Honors ELA 12 - The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• AP Language & Composition 
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
     
• AP Literature & Composition 
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan
    
     

WHS Recommended Reads (Choice List) for Summer 2024

Freshmen

• The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
• Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
• Refugee by Alan Gratz
• Monster by Walter Dean Myers
• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
• The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
• One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus
• The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

Sophomores
 

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• Educated by Tara Westover
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
   

Juniors
 

• Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
• Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
   

Seniors
 

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
• Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
• Watchmen by Alan Moore
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood