Summer Reading List
Below is the 2023 Summer Reading List for De La Salle High School. The reading assignments are to be completed by the first day of class for the 2023-24 school year, which is scheduled for August 16, 2023.
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.
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English |
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Course |
School |
Grade |
Title and Author |
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English 1 Honors |
DLS |
9 |
Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane |
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English 2 |
DLS |
10 |
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card |
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English 2 Honors |
DLS |
10 |
Lord of the Flies by William Golding |
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English 3 |
DLS |
11 |
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer |
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English 3 |
CHS |
11 |
All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven |
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AP Language & Composition |
DLS |
11 |
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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CHS |
12 |
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human -Centered Planet by John Green |
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AP Literature & Composition |
DLS |
12 |
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
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DLS |
12 |
The Odyssey by Homer; trans. by Robert Fagel |
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CHS |
12 |
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
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The Short Story |
DLS |
12 |
Short Story Reader |
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The Culture of Storytelling |
DLS |
12 |
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin |
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Shakespeare |
DLS |
12 |
The World as Stage by Bill Bryson |
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Explorations in Writing |
CHS |
12 |
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven |
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Dystopian Fiction |
DLS/CHS |
12 |
Choose One to Read |
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21st Century Woman |
CHS |
12 |
What I Told My Daughter by Nina Tassler |
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The Wild West |
DLS |
12 |
Shane by Jack Schaefer |
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Classics of Horror |
DLS |
12 |
Carrie by Stephen King |
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Social Studies |
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Course |
School |
Grade |
Title and Author |
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AP U.S. History |
DLS |
11 |
The American Pageant: AP Edition |
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CHS |
11 |
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America |
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CHS |
11 |
The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People |
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AP Psychology |
CHS |
10/11/12 |
Myers’ Psychology for the AP Course - Third Ed UPDATED |
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Science |
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Course |
School |
Grade |
Title and Author |
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AP Biology |
DLS |
10 |
Survival of the Sickest by Dr. Sharon Moalem with J. Prince |
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AP Chemistry |
DLS |
11/12 |
Napoleon's Buttons by LeCouteur & Burreson |
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Honors Chemistry |
DLS |
11/12 |
The Elements by Theodore Gray |
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Health |
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Course |
School |
Grade |
Title and Author |
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Health |
DLS |
9 |
Beautiful Boy by David Sheff |
Updated May 15, 2023