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Summer Reading List

Below is the 2024 Summer Reading List for De La Salle High School. The reading assignments are to be completed by the first day of class for the 2024-25 school year, which is scheduled for August 14, 2024.

Note: Not every student will have summer reading. Please review this list carefully to know what is required of your student.

 Students must purchase their own summer reading books, they are not included in the textbook fee.

English

Course

School

Title and Author

English 1 Honors

DLS

Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
(ISBN: 9781675993941)

English 2

DLS

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
(ISBN: 9780812550702)

English 2 Honors

DLS

Lord of the Flies by William Golding
(ISBN: 9780399501487)

English 3

DLS

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
(ISBN: 9780385486804)

English 3

CHS

All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
(ISBN: 9780385755917)

AP Language & Composition

DLS

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
(ISBN: 9780743273565)

 

CHS

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human -Centered Planet by John Green
(ISBN: 9780525555247)

AP Literature & Composition

CHS

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
(ISBN: 9780486278070)
*Students with AP Literature & Composition at Carondelet, 
review this document for your summer reading assignment.

The Short Story

DLS

Short Story Reader
(PDF to the Short Story Reader)

The Culture of Storytelling

DLS

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin
(ISBN: 9780547773742)

Shakespeare

DLS

The World as Stage by Bill Bryson 
(ISBN: 9781849310544)

Dystopian Fiction

DLS/CHS

Choose One to Read
Ready Player One 
by Ernest Cline
(ISBN: 9780307887443)
The Hunger Games by Suzzane Collins
(ISBN: 9781407109084)
The Memory Visit by Jenny Lynn Lambert
(ISBN: 978177339848)

Classics of Horror

DLS

Carrie by Stephen King
(ISBN: 9780307743664) 

Psychology in Literature CHS

Create a copy of this document and write the responses on the document to each question.
Be prepared to share in class.

 

 

 

Social Studies

Course

School 

Title and Author

AP European History DLS

Please read and complete both the summer reading assignment and the supplemental work
TEXTBOOK PROVIDED TO ALL: PDF Here.

AP U.S. History

DLS

The American Pageant: AP Edition
Chapters 1-3 (PDF Here)

 

CHS

American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
Chapters 1-12 (pages 23-149)
(ISBN: 9780143122029)

 

CHS

The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People
Chapters 1-3 (PDF Here)
Click here to review the full summer reading assignment

AP Human Geography CHS

Read and take notes on Unit 1 Modules 1-6.
PDF Here

AP Psychology

CHS

Myers’ Psychology for the AP® Course 4eTEXTBOOK PROVIDED TO ALL
(Everyone must read Unit 0, a PDF for summer reading is provided here.) 
Please consult this document regarding the full summer reading assignment.

 

 

 

Science

Course

School 

Title and Author

AP Biology

DLS

Survival of the Sickest by Dr. Sharon Moalem with J. Prince
(ISBN: 9780060889661)

AP Chemistry

DLS

The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
(ISBN: 9780316051637) and 

Chemistry: The Central Science: Chapter 1 (PDF) and Chapter 2 (PDF)
Click here to review the summer reading assignment

Honors Chemistry

DLS

The Elements by Theodore Gray
(ISBN: 9781579128951)

 

 

 

Health

Course

School 

Title and Author

Health

DLS

Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
(ISBN: 9870547203881)

Updated May 23, 2024