English Department: Summer Reading

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1 Taipei American School Upper School Summer Reading Expectations English Department: Summer Reading Writers of classical antiquity understood the unique quality of art, its capacity to delight and instruct. The hearers of tales, the audiences in the theaters, and, centuries later, the readers of books all immersed in story emerged transformed from their experience with literature. The English Department of the Taipei American School follows this venerable tradition and hopes our students, too, will be enriched by and find pleasure and knowledge in the books they read. The titles listed for each grade (see below) have been selected for that purpose. In addition, one school-selected community book will be read by all students. The required book for all students is Heart of Darkness: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe. (ISBN: ; Kindle edition - ASIN: B00AS646SS) Please note that students are required to read only pages of the text, although we hope that interested students will read more than just what is required of them. There will be bonus questions for the more intrepid readers. The Science and English Departments are collaborating on the test questions, which will emphasize reading comprehension, not memorization of facts. Teachers, students, and administrators alike will be reading this book, and discussion of this work will extend beyond the English classroom. Students should anticipate that in August, at the beginning of school, teachers will give an evaluated in-class essay test about all the books required for summer reading ALL STUDENTS: Students must purchase their books, including the book selected for community reading. All books should be obtained as soon as possible, especially if they are ordered online. Kindle editions, when available, may be purchased in place of paperback editions. NEW STUDENTS: Please select two texts from your grade level and from what you anticipate will be your course. So, for instance, if in grade 11 you expect to enroll in the IB program but you are not sure if you will take IBSL or IBHL, choose the one most likely. Teachers will be flexible when they give their in-class assessments. It is possible that some students will not know their final placement in English classes until school begins in August. When classes begin, your teachers will, if necessary, make arrangements for both in-class preparation and assessment of the texts you read. Students new to

2 TAS may not have the opportunity to obtain books that are provided by the school. We encourage parents of these students to buy any available edition so students can read and be prepared. STUDENTS with TWO ENGLISH COURSES: Students who have two English classes must read both texts for one course of their choice. They may, of course, read four books--the two works for both classes. Kindle: Any assigned book may be purchased and read via Kindle, if available.

3 English 9 First They Killed My Father Ung, Loung Harper Amazon The Color of Water James McBride Penguin Amazon Semester Text Author/Writer Edition ISBN # Website The Elements of Style Strunk & White Pearson, 4th Ed Amazon The Odyssey* Homer, Trans. Lombardo Hacket Amazon The House on Mango Street Cisneros, Sandra Vintage Amazon The Catcher in the Rye Salinger, J.D. Back Bay Books Amazon The Lord of the Flies Golding, Penguin Amazon Shakespeare, Barnes Romeo and Juliet Folger &Noble, ebook. *Not sold at Caves. Honors English 9 First They Killed My Father Ung, Loung Harper Amazon The Color of Water James McBride Penguin Amazon Semester Text Author/Writer Edition ISBN # Website The Elements of Style Strunk & White Pearson, 4th Ed Amazon Non fiction & Poetry Homer, Trans. The Odyssey* Lombardo Hackett Amazon Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Folger Amazon Northanger Abbey Austen, Jane Anchor Amazon The House on Mango Street Cisneros, Sandra Vintage Amazon, ebook. *Not sold at Caves. English 10 Marcovaldo Italo Calvino Mariner Books; 1st American Ed edition Amazon Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt Harper Perennia Amazon Semester Text Author/Writer Edition ISBN # Website Animal Farm George Orwell Amazon The Oedipus Cycle Sophocles Mariner Books Amazon Macbeth Shakespeare Folger Amazon Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass Modern Library Amazon Poetry Gothic Short Stories

4 Honors English 10 Lost Horizon James Hilton Open Road Media (or any edition) Amazon Freakonomics Dubner/Levitt Harper Perennia Amazon Semester Text Author/Writer Edition ISBN # Website Nineteen Eighty four* George Orwell Plume/Harcourt Brace Amazon The Oedipus Cycle Sophocles Harcourt Brace Amazon Macbeth Shakespeare Folger Amazon A Tale of Two Cities* Charles Dickens Barnes & Noble Amazon The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid Mariner Books Amazon Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri Mariner Books Amazon Poetry and Non fiction essays *Not available at Caves. *Not available at Caves. Science Fiction Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick VBK Caves Have Spacesuit Will Travel Robert Heinlein Simon & Shuster Caves Frankenstein Mary Shelley Norton Critical Editions Amazon 20,000 Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne Bantam Caves UBIK Philip K. Dick Houghton Mifflin Caves Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke Random House Caves The Lathe of Heaven Leguin, Ursula Simon & Shuster Caves The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut Random House Caves Ringworld Larry Niven Random House Caves Fiasco Stanislaw Lem Mariner Books Reprint Edition Amazon

5 American Literature Rutgers University Quicksand and Passing Nella Larsen Press Amazon Stealing Buddha's Dinner Bich Minh Nguyen Penguin Amazon Semester Text Author/Writer Edition ISBN # Website The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Scribner; Reissue ed Amazon Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller The Viking Press; 61st ed Amazon The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston Vintage; Reissue ed Amazon A Streetcar named Desire Tennessee s New Directions Amazon The Color Purple Alice Walker Mariner Books Amazon The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien Mariner Books; 1ST ed Amazon Poetry and Short essays Honors American Literature The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Sherman Alexie Grove Press (any edition is fine) Amazon Stealing Buddha's Dinner Bich Minh Nguyen Penguin Amazon Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne Penguin Classics Amazon The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Scribner Amazon Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston HarperCollins Amazon Vintage Invisible Man Ralph Ellison International Amazon A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window Lorraine Hansberry Vintage Amazon A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee s New Directions Amazon Mariner Books; The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien 1ST ed Amazon

6 AP English Language and Composition Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell Mariner Books Amazon Complications Atul Gawande Picador Amazon Walden Henry David Thoreau Signet Classics Amazon Freedom from Fear and Other Writings Aung San Suu Kyi Penguin Amazon Nonfiction essays Diary of a Madman, and Selected Stories Gogol Penguin Amazon The Name of Rose Eco Harvest Books: Reprint Amazon Six Characters in Search of an Author Pirandello Any edition Amazon Mist Unamuno University of Illinois Press Amazon The Blind Owl Heydayat l Aleph Amazon The Master & Margarita Bulgakov Penguin Amazon Lolita Nabokov Vintage; Reissue ed Amazon If on a winter s night a traveler Calvino Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Amazon The Sorrows of Young Werther Lyrical Ballads AP English Literature and Composition Goethe OUP Oxford; Reprint ed Amazon Coleridge, Wordsworth Penguin Amazon Also available online Carmen & Other Stories A Hero of Our Time Madame Bovary Merimee Lermontov Flaubert Oxford University Press Amazon Dover Publications Amazon Viking Adult; First Ed., Hardcover Amazon The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas Machado de Assis Oxford University Press; Reprint Ed Amazon

7 World Literature Like Water For Chocolate Esquivel Anchor Amazon The Stranger Camus Vintage Amazon Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Anchor Amazon The Elephant Vanishes: Stories Murakami Vintage Amazon Green Grass Running Water King Bantam Books Amazon Rickshaw Boy Lao She Harper Perennial Amazon Four Great Plays Ibsen Simon & Schuster Amazon The Alchemist Coelho HarperCollins Amazon The God of Small Things Roy Random House Amazon Honors World Literature Steppenwolf Hesse Picador Amazon Woman in the Dunes Abe Vintage Amazon Please Look After Mom Shin Vintage Contemporaries Amazon Beowulf: A New Translation Heaney Norton Amazon Medea Euripides Free Press Amazon Four Great Plays Ibsen Enriched Classics Amazon Chronicle of a Death Foretold Marquez Vintage Amazon The Real Story of Ah Q and Other Tales of China Lu Xun Penguin Amazon Course Reader, electronic version, electronic version, electronic version, electronic version, electronic version

8 Rhetoric and Composition Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser Mariner Books Amazon Predictably Irrational Dan Ariely Harper Perennial Amazon The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell Back Bay Books Amazon Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich Pickadore Amazon Night Elie Wiesel Hill and Wang Amazon Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi Random House Amazon Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim David Sedaris Back Bay Books Amazon The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat Oliver Sachs Touchstone Amazon Nonfiction essays Honors Shakespeare A Comedy of Errors Shakespeare Oxford Amazon Shakespeare: The World as a Stage Bill Bryson Harper (or any) Amazon Twelfth Night, or What You Will Shakespeare Oxford Amazon The Merchant of Venice Shakespeare Oxford Amazon The Tragedy of King Richard III Shakespeare Oxford Amazon Hamlet Shakespeare Oxford Amazon Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Tom Stoppard Grove Press Amazon The Winter's Tale Shakespeare Oxford Amazon The Tempest Shakespeare Oxford Amazon

9 IBHL English Year 1 Lucky Jim Amis New York Review Books Amazon Cat's Cradle Vonnegut Dell Amazon The Stranger Camus Vintage Amazon The Metamorphosis & Other Stories Kafka Oxford Univ. Press Amazon The Thief and the Dogs Mahfouz Anchor Amazon Candide Voltaire Bantam Amazon Slaughterhouse Five Vonnegut Dell Amazon Catch 22 Heller Simon & Schuster Amazon IB English A Literature Oxford Univ. Course Book Tyson Press Amazon IBHL English Year 2 The Street Ann Petry Mariner Books Amazon Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo Random House Caves Also Available on Overdrive Poetry by Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson Folger The Merchant of Venice Shakespeare Shakespeare Library Amazon Sula Toni Morrison Vintage Amazon The Glass Menagerie Tenessee s New Directions Amazon Long Day's Journey Into Night Eugene O'Neill Yale University Press Caves The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde Signet Amazon Master Harold and the Boys Athol Fugard Vintage International Amazon IBSL English Year 1 Brooklyn Toibin Scribner Amazon An Artist of the Floating World Ishiguro Random House Amazon Things Fall Apart Achebe Anchor Amazon Heart of Darkness Conrad Penguin Amazon The Inheritance of Loss Desai Grove Amazon The Thief and the Dogs Mahfouz Random House Amazon The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke Rilke Vintage Amazon

10 IBSL English Year 2 Shakespeare: The World as Stage Bryson Harper Amazon Slaughterhouse Five Vonnegut Dell Amazon Hamlet Shakespeare Oxford University Amazon Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Stoppard Grove Press Amazon Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Albee Signet Amazon The Crucible Miller Penguin Abe Books Poetry Dickinson IB English A Literature Course Book Tyson Oxford University Amazon