Summer reading list

SENIOR SUMMER READING LIST

Your English teachers have compiled a list of some books you might enjoy reading over the holiday. They aren’t part of the Nat 4/Nat 5/ Higher courses; they are titles you should read purely for pleasure. Happy reading!

Ham on Rye – Charles Bukowski Any collection of short stories - Anton Chekhov

Hunger – Knut Hamsun The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (short stories) – Raymond Carver The House of the Dead – Fyodor Dostoyevsky Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway Men Without Women (short stories) - Ernest Hemingway Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain The Call of the Wild - Jack London Ask the Dust – John Fante Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck The Rum Diary – Hunter S. Thomson Dispatches – Michael Herr The Plague – Albert Camus Girlfriend in a Coma – Douglas Coupland Pigeon English- Stephen Kelman Please Forgive me Leonard Peacock- Matthew Quick

The Shining- Stephen King The Book Thief – Markus Zusak Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood The Etymologicon – Mark Forsyth The Inheritors – William Golding Solar – Ian McEwan The Night Museum – Erin Morgenstern The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman In Cold Blood – Truman Capote Love, Poverty and War: Essays and Journals – Christopher Hitchens Dear Life (Short Story collection) – Alice Munro Regeneration Trilogy – Pat Barker Beloved – Toni Morrison Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie What Am I Doing Here? - Bruce Chatwin Arthur and George – Julian Barnes Atonement – Ian McEwan Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantell The Manual of Detection - Jedediah Berry Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha – Roddy Doyle Explorers of the New Century – Magnus Mills Frankenstein – Mary Shelley Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut