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English Reading Lists - 10th
10th Grade Summer Reading ListsThis summer, travel the world without leaving Round Rock -- through books! English II is centered around World Literature. Read a book that is written by a foreign author (not British, American, or Canadian) or a book that takes place in another country. Here are some suggestions:
Classic Novels
| Cry the Beloved Country | Alan Paton (South Africa) |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe (Nigeria) |
| The Good Earth | Pearl Buck (China) |
| Kaffir Boy | Mark Mathabane (South Africa) |
| One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Russia) |
Contemporary Novels
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan) |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan) |
| Monkey Bridge | Lan Cao (Vietnam) |
| Homeless Bird | Gloria Whelan (India) |
| Chronicle of a Death Foretold | Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia) |
| The Namesake | Jhumpa Lahiri (India) |
Summer Reading for English II Pre-AP
Each student must read one of the following three books listed below as the summer reading requirement.
- Mythology by Edith Hamilton
- Once and Future King by T.H. White
- Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- theme
- conflict
- point of view
- characterization.
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