Santa Fe High School Required Reading

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REQUIRED READING 2022-23

SANTA FE HIGH SCHOOL

9th Grade:

Required:

• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Romeo and Juliet: No Fear Shakespeare version (not required)
• A dystopian novel of choice–INTRO TO ADVANCED ONLY

 

Lit Circles Options:

• All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
• Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
• Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham
• Punching the Air by Ibi Zaboi and Yusef Salaam
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros ***GALVIN AND HUDDLESTON ONLY***

 

10th Grade:

Required:

• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
  • Alternate Text: Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri -- MOLINSKY AND GATEWOOD 4TH HOUR ONLY
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini -- INTRO TO ADVANCED ONLY
  • Alternate Text: The Life of Pi by Yann Martel

 

Lit Circles Options:

• A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sanchez
• The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
• The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
• Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Letitch Smith
• Dear Martin by Nic Stone
• Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
• The Astonishing Color of After by X.R. Pan
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

 

11th Grade:

Required:

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

Lit Circles Options:

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• Unbroken–YA Version by Laura Hillenbrand
• The Nazi Hunters by Neal Bascomb
• It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime–YA Version by Trevor Noah
• Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan
• A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

 

AP Language and Composition:

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

12th Grade:

Required:

• 1984 by George Orwell
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding

 

AP Literature:

Whole Class Required:

• Fences by August Wilson
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin -- Bray ONLY
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding -- Hankins ONLY

 

Book Club Choices/Required - choose 1 only 
Bray: (CHOOSE ONE)

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi
• The Round House by Louise Erdrich
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

 

Hankins: (CHOOSE ONE)

• Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• American Dirt by Jeannine Cummins
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

 

Bray Independent Read Options- Choose 1 each 9 weeks for extra credit.

• August 2022 - Feminist/Realism: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston OR The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• October 2022- Gothic Romanticism: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• January 2023- Multicultural Studies:  Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi OR Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• March 2023- Bildungsroman: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho OR Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

 

Hankins Independent Read Options - Choose 1 each 9 weeks

• August 2022 - Bildungsroman: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens OR Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• October 2022- Gothic Romanticism: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• January 2023- Multicultural Studies:  Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi OR Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
• March 2023- Feminist/Realist Fiction: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne OR The Awakening by Kate Chopin

 

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