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2015 St. Andrew’s School Summer Reading List
Required Reading, by Form:
III Form:
 Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees
 First four chapters of James Loewen,
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your
American History Textbook Got Wrong
 One book from the list below
VI Form (listed by English course):
AS English 4 Exhibition Texts
(read three of the six):
 Isabelle Allende, The House of the Spirits
 Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture
 Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of
Oscar Wao
 Edward P. Jones, The Known World
 Tim O’Brien, In the Lake of the Woods
 Zadie Smith, White Teeth
IV Form:
 Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
 Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
 One book from the list below
AS English 4: History, Literature, and the
Contested Past Exhibition Texts (read three
of five)
 Isabelle Allende, The House of the Spirits
 Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture
 Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of
Oscar Wao
 Edward P. Jones, The Known World
 Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
V Form:
 Julie Orringer, How to Breathe Underwater
 One books from the list below
Because you will be using the above books in class this year, please have your own copies of the titled
books above that you read; new and used copies are available from bookstores and amazon.com. You
do not need to purchase books chosen from the list below.
Required reading for Chemistry, Physics and Honors Physics
 Daniel Coyle, The Talent Code
Fiction:
 Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
 James Agee, A Death in the Family
 Roy Arundhati, The God of Small Things
 Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
 John Banville, The Infinities
 Madison Smartt Bell, All Souls’ Rising
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Fiction (continued)
 Andre Philippus Brink, Philida
 Peter Carey, Jack Maggs
 Charles Waddell Chestnutt, The Marrow of Tradition
 Tracy Chevalier, Girl With a Pearl Earring
 Chris Cleave, Little Bee
 Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
 Bernard Cornwell, Agincourt: A Novel
 Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One: A Novel
 Michael Cunningham, The Hours
 Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory
 Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers
 Charles Dickens, Bleak House
 Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales
 Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
 Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
 George Elliot, Silas Marner
 Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
 Ken Follet, The Pillars of the Earth
 Richard Ford, Canada
 E. M. Forster, Howards End
 Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
 Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
 Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying
 Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
 Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
 Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Ubervilles
 Robert Harris, Pompeii: A Novel
 Kent Haruf, Plainsong.
 Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus
 Joseph Heller, Catch-22
 Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
 Henrik Ibsen, Master Builder
 Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills / Never Let Me Go
 Edward P. Jones, The Known World
 James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
 Jack Kerouac, On the Road
 Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
 Barbara Kingsolver, Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
 Phil Klay, Redeployment
 Andrew Krivak, The Sojourn
 Jumpha Lahiri, The Lowland / Namesake
 Ursula Le Guin, Lavinia
 Chang-rae Lee, The Surrendered
 Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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Fiction (continued)
 David Malouf, Ransom
 David Mason, Ludlow
 Ayana Mathis, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
 Colum McCann, Zoli
 Cormac McCarthy, The Road
 John McGahern, Amongst Women
 Maile Meloy, Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It
 Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs
 Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
 Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
 Toni Morrison, Sula
 Iris Murdoch, The Good Apprentice
 John Nichols, The Milagro Beanfield War
 Tea Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife
 Patrick O’Brien, Master and Commander
 Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
 George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
 Ellis Peters, Brother Cadfael series
 Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
 Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire
 Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
 Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
 J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey and Catcher in the Rye
 Steven Saylor, Roman Blood
 Dai Sijie and Ina Rilke, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel
 Zadie Smith, On Beauty and White Teeth
 Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love
 John Steinbeck, East of Eden / Grapes of Wrath
 Kathryn Stockett, The Help
 Bram Stoker, Dracula
 Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
 Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge / The Burgess Boys
 Graham Swift, Waterland
 Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun
 Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 Gore Vidal, Lincoln
 Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
 Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
 T.H. White, The Once and Future King
 Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
 Thornton Wilder, The Ides of March
 Tobias Wolff, Old School
 Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
 Richard Wright, Black Boy
 Carlos Ruiz Zafon and Lucia Graves, Shadow of the Wind
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Other recommended reading by topic:
Philosophy & Psychology:
 Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
 John Francis, The Ragged Edge of Silence: Finding Peace in a Noisy World
 Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow
Social Sciences:
 James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
 Laura Blumenfeld, Revenge: A Story of Hope
 Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers
 Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
 Paul Ehrlich, Population Bomb
 Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
 Paul Farmer, Haiti After the Earthquake
 Glenda Gilmore, Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950
 John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me
 Al Gore, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit and An Inconvenient Truth: The
Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
 Wangari Maathai, Unbowed: A Memoir
 Malika Oufkir, Stolen Lives
 Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma
 Ron Suskind, A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
 Stewart L. Udall, The Quiet Crisis
 Alec Wilkinson, Big Sugar
Language:
 Anonymous and Michael Alpert, Lazarillo de Tormes and the Swindler
 Sonia Nazario, Enrique’s Journey
 Arturo Perez-Reverte, El Capitan Alatriste
 Jesus Sanchez Adalid, El Mozarabe
 Mario Vargas Llosa, Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
Science & Mathematics:
 Rachel Carson, The Silent Spring
 John Derbyshire, Prime Obsession: Bernard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in
Mathematics
 Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
 Marcus Du Sautoy, Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics
 William W. Dunham, Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics
 Jane Goodall, Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
 Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma
 Sue Hubbell, A Country Year: Living the Questions
 Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
 Farley Mowatt, Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
 Richard Preston, The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
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Science & Mathematics (continued)
 Simon Singh and John Lynch, Fermats Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest
Mathematics Problem
 Stephen Strogatz, The Calculus of Friendship: What a Teacher and a Student Learned About Life
While Corresponding About Mathematics
 Lawrence Weschler, Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on
Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology
Technology (Health & Medicine, Engineering):
 Atul Gawande, Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance; The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get
Things Right; and Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science
 William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
 Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains
 Mary Roach, Stiff, Gulp
 Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Arts & Recreation:
 Carlos Acosta, No Way Home: A Dancer’s Journey from the Streets of Havana to the Stages of the
World
 Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat
 Li Cunxin, Mao’s Last Dancer
 Jennifer Horman, Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet
 Ross King, Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Remaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture and
Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling
 Michael Lewis, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
 Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the
World Has Ever Seen
 Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
 Patti Smith, Just Kids
Literature & Poetry:
 Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
 Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters
 Billy Collins, The Art of Drowning
 Wendy Cope, Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems, 1979-2006
 Andrew Dubus, Townie: A Memoir
 Euripides, The Bacchae
 Gustave Flaubert, The Temptation of Saint Anthony
 Doris Kearns Goodwin, Wait Till Next Year
 Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House
 X.J. Kennedy, In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955-2007
 Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
 Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos
 William Shakespeare, King Lear and The Tempest
 Cheryl Strayed, Wild
 A.E. Stallings, Hapax: Poems
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Literature & Poetry (continued)
 Vergil, Aeneid, trans. Robert Fagles
 Richard Wilbur, Collected Poems 1943-2004
History & Geography:
 Stephen Ambrose, Undaunted Courage
 Michael Beschloss, Presidential Courage
 Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods
 Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War
 James Carroll, An American Requiem
 Thurston Clarke, The Last Campaign
 Dave Eggers, Zeitoun
 Joseph Ellis, Founding Brothers
 Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
 Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
 Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts, Thunderstruck
 Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Random Family
 Michael Patrick MacDonald, All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
 David McCullough, 1776
 James McBride, The Color of Water
 Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whale Ship Essex
 Esmeralda Santiago, When I was Puerto Rican
 Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life
 Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History
 Sandy Tolan, The Lemon Tree: an Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
 Brian Turner, My Life as a Foreign Country
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