GLEN RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL

RECOMMENDED SUMMER READING

Grade 12 – Advanced Placement

2008

 

A Prayer for Owen Meany                              John Irving

Ahab’s Wife Or, The Star Gazer                     Sela Jeter Nasland

Reading Lolita in Tehran                                Azir Nafisi

Madame Bovary                                              Gustave Flaubert

The Stranger                                                   Albert Camus

Anna Karenina                                                Leo Tolstoi

The Things They Carried                                Tim O’Brien

White Noise                                                     Don DeLillo

A Room of One’s Own                                                Virginia Woolf

All The Pretty Horses                                      Cormac McCarthy

The Stone Diaries                                            Carol Shields

Waiting For Snow in Havanna                       Carlos Eire

Tess of the D’Urbervilles                                Thomas Hardy

This Side of Paradise                                      F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jazz                                                                 Toni Morrison

Beloved

A Lesson Before Dying                                    Ernest Gaines

Life and Death in Shanghai                            Nien Chang

Stand Before Your God                                   Paul Watkins

The Kite Runner                                              Khaled Hosseini

The History of Love                                        Nicole Krauss

Terrorist                                                          John Updike

Everyman                                                        Phillip Roth