Upper School Textbooks
English
Contact department chair Sharon Wendler for any questions.
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Introduction to World Literature (9th)
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| Muriel Barbery | The Elegance of the Hedgehog | |||
| Ernest Hemingway | The Old Man and the Sea | ISBN-13: 978-0684801223 | ||
| Henrik Ibsen, translated by Stanley Applebaum | A Doll's House | ISBN-13: 9780486270623 |
*Dover Thrift Edition/Applebaum
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| Sue Monk Kidd | The Secret Life of Bees | |||
| JD Salinger | The Catcher in the Rye | |||
| William Shakespeare (Folgers Edition) | Romeo and Juliet | ISBN-13: 9780743477116 | *Folgers Edition | |
| Sophocles, translated by Robert Fagles | Three Theban Plays | ISBN-13: 9780140444254 | *Translated by Fagles | |
| Oscar Wilde | The Importance of Being Earnest | ISBN-13:9780060963934 | *Dover Thrift Edition | |
| Philip Smith, ed. | 100 Best-Loved Poems | ISBN-13: 9780486285535 | *Dover Thrift Edition | |
| Summer Reading Texts | Summer Reading 2024 | Summer Reading 2024 | ||
| American Literature (Sophomore) |
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| Ray Bradbury | Fahrenheit 451 | ISBN: 9781451673319 | ||
| William Shakespeare | Much Ado About Nothing | |||
| Nella Larsen | Passing | ISBN 9780142437278 | ||
| Lorraine Hansberry | A Raisin in the Sun | ISBN 9780679755333 | ||
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby | ISBN 9780743273565 | ||
| Tommy Orange | There There | |||
| Summer Reading Texts | Summer Reading 2024 | Summer Reading 2024 | ||
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Honors American Literature(Honors Sophomore)
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| Ray Bradbury | Fahrenheit 451 | ISBN: 9781451673319 | ||
| August Wilson | Fences | |||
| William Shakespeare | Much Ado About Nothing | |||
| Nella Larsen | Passing | ISBN 9780142437278 | ||
| Lorraine Hansberry | A Raisin in the Sun | ISBN 9780679755333 | ||
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby | ISBN 9780743273565 | ||
| Louise Erdrich | The Round House | ISBN 9780062065254 | ||
| Jhumpa Lahiri | The Namesake | ISBN 9780618485222 | ||
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter | ISBN 9780486280486 | ||
| Summer Reading Texts | Summer Reading 2024 | Summer Reading 2024 | ||
| Western Literature (regular Junior Literature) | Regular Junior Literature |
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| William Golding | Lord of the Flies | ISBN 9780399501487 | ||
| William Shakespeare (Folgers Edition) | Macbeth | ISBN-13 : 978-0743477109 |
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| George Orwell | 1984 | ISBN 9780451524935 | ||
| Heany (translation) | Beowulf | ISBN 9780393320978 | ||
| Arthur Conan Doyle | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | |||
| Moore, Wes | The Other Wes Moore : One Name Two Fates | ISBN978-0385528207 |
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| Summer Reading Texts | Summer Reading 2024 | Summer Reading 2024 | ||
| The Short (Senior English) |
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| Dover Thrift / James Daley (editor) | The World's Greatest Short Stories | ISBN 978-0486447162 | ||
| Mary Paumier Jones & Judith Kitchen (editor) | In Short, A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction | |||
| Phillip Lopate (editor) | The Art of the Personal Essay | |||
| Penguin Books / Daniel Halpern (editor) | The Art of the Short | ISBN 978-0140296389 | ||
| Summer Reading Texts | Summer Reading 2024 | Summer Reading 2024 | ||
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Humor, Satire, Memoir (Senior English)
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| Maria Semple | Where'd You Go Bernadette | ISBN-13 : 978-0316204262 | ||
| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | |||
| David Sedaris | Calypso | ISBN 9780486284735 | ||
| Summer Reading Texts | Summer Reading 2024 | Summer Reading 2024 | ||
| Script to Screen (Senior English) | ||||
| Blake Snyder | Save the Cat! | |||
| Syd Field | The Screenwriter's Workbook | |||
| Robert Zemeckis & Robert Gale | Back to the Future | Provided by Instructor | ||
| Graham Yost | Speed | Provided by Instructor | ||
| Brad Bird | Ratatouille | Provided by Instructor | ||
| John Hughes | The Breakfast Club | Provided by Instructor | ||
| Summer Reading Texts | Summer Reading 2024 | Summer Reading 2024 | ||
| Page to Stage (Senior English) |
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| David Ball | Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual For Reading Plays | ISBN: 978-0809311101 | ||
| Gracie Gardner | Athena | |||
| Arthur Miller | All My Sons | ISBN: 978-0143115816 | ||
| Annie Baker | The Aliens | |||
| Jonathan Spector | Eureka Day | |||
| Joshua Harmon | Admissions | |||
| Summer Reading Texts | Summer Reading 2024 | Summer Reading 2024 | ||
| Art of War (Senior English) |
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| Erich Maria Remarque | All Quiet on the Western Front | |||
| Anthony Doerr | All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel | |||
| Tim O'Brien | The Things They Carried | ISBN 9780812550702 | ||
| Summer Reading Texts | Summer Reading 2024 | Summer Reading 2024 | ||
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Humanity and Health (Senior English)
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| Jonathan Safran Foer | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | |||
| Neal Shusterman | Challenger Deep | ISBN 9780061134142 | ||
| Leslie Jamison | The Empathy Exams |
ISBN: 978-1555976712
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| Raymond Carver | A New Path to the Waterfall | ISBN 9780871133748 | ||
| Summer Reading Texts | Summer Reading 2024 | Summer Reading 2024 | ||
| Horror (Senior English) | ||||
| Ciardi, John Translation Dante Algheri | The Inferno | ISBN0-451-62709-1 | ||
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein | ISBN 9781593080051 | ||
| Bradbury, Ray | Something Wicked This Way Comes | |||
| Summer Reading Texts | Summer Reading 2024 | Summer Reading 2024 | ||
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Ethics in Literature and Film (Senior English)
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| Celeste Ng | Little Fires Everywhere | ISBN-13: 978-0735224315 | ||
| Henrik Ibsen | An Enemy of the People | ISBN-13: 978-0486406572 | ||
| Mohsin Hamid | The Reluctant Fundamentalist | ISBN 978-0156034029 | ||
| John Patrick Shanley | Doubt: A Parable | ISBN 9781559362764 | ||
| Summer Reading Texts | Summer Reading 2024 | Summer Reading 2024 | ||
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Women in Literature (Senior English)
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| Sarah Addison Allen | Other Birds | ISBN-978-1250019868 | ||
| Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid's Tale | ISBN-978-3125776920 | ||
| Natalie Haynes | A Thousand Ships | |||
| Summer Reading Texts | Summer Reading 2024 | Summer Reading 2024 | ||
| AP Language and Composition |
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| William Shakespeare (Folgers Edition) | Othello | ISBN-10 : 9780743477550 | *Folgers Edition | |
| Mary Shelley (1831 publication) | Frankenstien | ISBN 9781593080051 | ||
| James Joyce | Dubliners | ISBN-13 : 978-0140186475 | ||
| Barbara Kingsolver | Small Wonder | ISBN-13 : 978-0060504083 |
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| Summer Reading Texts | Summer Reading 2024 | Summer Reading 2024 | ||
| AP Literature and Composition | ||||
| Euripides | Medea | |||
| Claire Adam | Golden Child | |||
| William Shakespeare (Folgers Edition) | King Lear | |||
| Omar el Akaad | American War: A Novel | |||
| Maggie O'Farrrell | Hamnet | |||
| Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | |||
| E.L. Doctorow | Ragtime | |||
| Margaret Edson | Wit | |||
| Gustav Flaubert | Madame Bovary | |||
| Tracy Letts | August: Osage County | |||
| Richard Wright | Native Son | |||
| Summer Reading Texts | Summer Reading 2024 | Summer Reading 2024 | ||
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