Welcome to The Episcopal School of Dallas Upper School Summer Reading Lists! Below is the reading list for rising 11th graders.
REQUIRED READING
These readings serve as touchstones for the discussion of other works of literature. These requirements are listed below. Please purchase a physical copy of the text for in-class use.
English III: The Things They Carried (Tim O’Brien)
English III AP Language and Composition: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien AND The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui.
The Things They Carried
By Tim O'Brien
ISBN: 9780618706419
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Published: 2009-10-13T04:00:00.285Z
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
By Thi Bui
ISBN: 9781419718786
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Published: 2018-04-17T04:00:00.106Z
ENRICHMENT READING
All students need to read at least ONE work (or approximately 250 pages) for enrichment.
Note: Not all Suggested Enrichment Readings are listed below as some titles are unavailable through Interabang.
ENRICHMENT READING
All students need to read at least ONE work (or approximately 250 pages) for enrichment.
Note: Not all Suggested Enrichment Readings are listed below as some titles are unavailable through Interabang.
Warriors Don't Cry: Searing Memoir of Battle to Integrate Little Rock
By Melba Pattillo Beals
ISBN: 9780671866396
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Published: 1995-02-01T05:00:00.31Z
Invisible Man (Vintage International)
By Ralph Ellison
ISBN: 9780679732761
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Published: 1995-03-14T05:00:00.72Z
The Big Sky
By A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
ISBN: 9780618154630
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Published: 2002-01-09T05:00:00.8Z
As I Lay Dying (Vintage International)
By William Faulkner
ISBN: 9780679732259
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Published: 1991-01-30T05:00:00.29Z
Light in August (Vintage International)
By William Faulkner
ISBN: 9780679732266
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Published: 1991-01-30T05:00:00.29Z
Ceremony: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
By Leslie Marmon Silko
ISBN: 9780143104919
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Published: 2006-12-26T05:00:00.359Z
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
By Michael Pollan
ISBN: 9780143038580
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Published: 2007-08-28T04:00:00.239Z
Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
By Jonathan Kozol
ISBN: 9780770435660
Availability: Special Order
Published: 2012-06-26T04:00:00.177Z
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All the King's Men
By Robert Penn Warren
ISBN: 9780156004800
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Published: 1996-09-01T04:00:00.244Z
The Color Purple: A Novel
By Alice Walker
ISBN: 9780143135692
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Published: 2019-12-10T05:00:00.343Z
Disturbing The Universe
By Freeman Dyson
ISBN: 9780465016778
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Published: 1981-04-15T05:00:00.104Z
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
By Brian Greene
ISBN: 9780393338102
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Published: 2010-10-11T04:00:00.283Z
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
By S. C. Gwynne
ISBN: 9781416591061
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Published: 2011-05-10T04:00:00.129Z
Enrique's Journey (The Young Adult Adaptation): The True Story of a Boy Determined to Reunite with His Mother
By Sonia Nazario
ISBN: 9780385743280
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Published: 2014-08-05T04:00:00.216Z
The Known World: A Novel
By Edward P. Jones
ISBN: 9780060557553
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Published: 2004-05-25T04:00:00.145Z
The March: A Novel
By E.L. Doctorow
ISBN: 9780812976151
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Published: 2006-09-12T04:00:00.254Z
On the Road
By Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9780140042597
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Published: 1976-12-28T05:00:00.362Z
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
By Annie Dillard
ISBN: 9780061233326
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Published: 2013-09-10T04:00:00.252Z
A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel
By John Irving
ISBN: 9780062204097
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Published: 2012-04-03T04:00:00.93Z
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
By Richard P. Feynman
ISBN: 9780393355628
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Published: 2018-02-06T05:00:00.36Z
A Gathering of Old Men (Vintage Contemporaries)
By Ernest J. Gaines
ISBN: 9780679738909
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Published: 1992-06-30T04:00:00.181Z
A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
By Ernest J. Gaines
ISBN: 9780375702709
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Published: 1997-09-28T04:00:00.27Z
Black Ice
By Lorene Cary
ISBN: 9780679737452
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Published: 1992-02-04T05:00:00.34Z
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
By Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9780345514400
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Published: 2009-04-21T04:00:00.11Z
Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel
By Jesmyn Ward
ISBN: 9781501126079
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Published: 2018-05-08T04:00:00.127Z
Salvage the Bones: A Novel
By Jesmyn Ward
ISBN: 9781608196265
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Published: 2012-04-24T04:00:00.114Z
An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
By Tayari Jones
ISBN: 9781616208684
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Published: 2019-02-05T05:00:00.35Z
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
By David Grann
ISBN: 9780307742483
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Published: 2018-04-03T04:00:00.92Z
There There
By Tommy Orange
ISBN: 9780525436140
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Published: 2019-05-07T04:00:00.126Z
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
By Jamie Ford
ISBN: 9780345505347
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Published: 2009-10-06T04:00:00.278Z
Internment
By Samira Ahmed
ISBN: 9780316522700
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Published: 2020-03-17T04:00:00.76Z
Between the World and Me
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
ISBN: 9780812993547
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Published: 2015-07-14T04:00:00.194Z
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
ISBN: 9780399590573
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Published: 2018-10-30T04:00:00.302Z
Americanah
By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 9780307455925
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Published: 2014-03-04T05:00:00.62Z
Southernmost
By Silas House
ISBN: 9781616209360
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Published: 2019-06-04T04:00:00.154Z
Citizen: An American Lyric
By Claudia Rankine
ISBN: 9781555976903
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Published: 2014-10-07T04:00:00.279Z
The Bean Trees: A Novel
By Barbara Kingsolver
ISBN: 9780062277756
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Published: 2013-05-07T04:00:00.126Z
Behold the Dreamers: A Novel
By Imbolo Mbue
ISBN: 9780525509714
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Published: 2017-06-26T04:00:00.176Z
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
By Rebecca Skloot
ISBN: 9781400052189
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Published: 2011-03-08T05:00:00.66Z
