The reading list for summer starts with ending the winter/spring list.
Pre-Summer Reading List
Winter/Spring 2022
To Be Read / Reading
• “Ellen Foster” by Kaye Gibbons, reading
• “Accidental” by Alex Richards, reading
• “Night” by Elie Wiesel, reading—banned book
• “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe, reading.
• “Cry, the Beloved Country” by Bryce Stephenson, reading
• “Maus” by Art Spiegelman
• “Something More: Reflections on a Bountiful Life” by Dr. Alexander Kalenak
• “The Giver” by Lois Lowry
• “Augie: Stalag Luft VI to the Major Leagues” by John Bacchia
• “Lives on the Boundary” by Mike Rose
• “Play It As It Lays” by Joan Didion
• “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood
• “Disastrous Floods and the Demise of Steel in Johnstown” by Pat Farabaugh
• “The Ku Klux Klan in Pennsylvania: A Study in Nativism” by Emerson Hunsberger Loucks
Read, Winter/Spring
• “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen, done, Re-read
• “Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi, done, first time
• “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, done, R
• “Slaughterhouse-5” by Kurt Vonnegut, done R
• “Ethan Frome” by Edith Wharton, done, R
• “The House on Mango Street,” by , done first time
• “Dracula” by Brad Stocker, done.
To Be Read or Are Currently Reading
Shakespeare
“Othello” — done Read
“The Merchant of Venice” — done, R
“Midsummer Night’s Dream” — currently, R
“Much Ado About Nothing” — currently, R
“Romeo and Juliet” — done, R
“The Tempest” — done, R
Short Stories
• “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, done
• “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson, done
• “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl, done
• “The Pomegranate Seeds” by Nathanial Hawthorne, done
• “Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe, R
• “Night Calls” by Lisa Fugard, done
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