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English I Honors

Summer Reading Assignment

You will read Night by Elie Weisel and choose one book from this list to read, for a total of two books.  I can provide a copy of Night if you need, but you will need to obtain a copy of the books below.  You will need to bring the book you choose from this list to school the first few weeks.  There is something on the list for everyone!

*Disclaimer: There are a few books on this list with sensitive material.  Do your research on them (I recommend this by goodreads.com), and choose wisely. Do not choose a novel your parents do not want you reading.*
 

  • The Hiding Place by Corrie tenBoom

  • The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

  • The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

  • Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally

  • The German Girl by Armando Luca Correa

  • The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins

  • Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth E. Wein

  • Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen

  • The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

  • Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave

  • Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Eagan

  • Blackout by Connie Willis

  • China Dolls by Lisa See

  • The Gallery by John Horne Burris

  • Jackdaws by Ken Follett

  • A Pledge of Silence by Flora J. Solomon

  • A Separate Peace by John Knowles

  • The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers

  • Code Name Verity by Elizabeth E. Wein

  • Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith

  • You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen by Carole Boston Weatherford

  • The Queen’s Secret by Karen Harper

  • Code Girls by Liza Mundy

  • The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan

  • Dutch Girl: Aubrey Hepburn and World War II by Robert Matzen

  • Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

  • Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac

  • A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell

  • Unrelenting by Marion Kummerow

  • Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

  • Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi

  • The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen

  • The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman

  • All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

  • Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum

  • The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

  • I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson

  • Between Shades of Grey by Ruta Sepetys

  • Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

  • The Nazi Officer’s Wife by Edith Hahn Beer

  • Briar Rose by Jane Yolen

  • Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli

  • This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski

  • All But My Life: A Memoir by Gerda Weissman Klein

  • Hana’s Suitcase by Karen Levine

  • The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman

  • In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke

  • The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy

  • Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

  • When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr

  • Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account by Miklos Nyiszli

  • Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy

  • Stories from the River by Ursula Hegi

  • Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian

  • Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada

  • The Drowned and The Saved by Primo Levi

  • The Edelweiss Express by Mark A. Cooper

  • If I Should Die Before I Wake by Han Nolan

  • The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

  • Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz

  • The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

  • The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer