1. Howard County Public Library Reading List
- High school reading list link: http://hclibrary.org/books-movies-music/summer-reading-lists-high-school/
- Adult reading list link: http://hclibrary.org/books-movies-music/summer-reading-lists-adult/
2. Selection for English Classes: Please note that the reading selections are suggested, not required. Also, there is no guarantee that every book listed will be taught next year.
- 9th grade: To Kill a Mockingbird, Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Fahrenheit 451
- 10th grade: Persepolis, Macbeth, Jane Eyre, Ender’s Game, Oedipus Rex, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies
- 11th grade: The Great Gatsby, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Crucible, Of Mice and Men, Enrique’s Journey, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Joy Luck Club
- 12th grade: Hamlet, Fences, The Stranger, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Memoirs of a Geisha, No Exit, The Metamorphosis, Americanah
3. Free Ebooks
- https://www.gutenberg.org/
- https://archive.org/
- https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby/ (*Requires library card)
4. Books to educate yourself about Black Lives Matter
- http://www.nehsmuseletter.us/black-lives-and-stories-matter/
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehsi Coates
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery