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