Summer Reading 2026

Below you will find the novels we would like members of each incoming form to read over the summer. Read, annotate, enjoy, and be ready to take a low-stakes, diagnostic writing assessment on the novel in the first week of classes when you come to school in the fall. Please bring a copy of your book to class when school starts. 

NOTE: AP English Language & Composition and AP English Literature & Composition students: you have separate summer assignments, but feel free to read from the list below as well.

Third Form - 9^th grade (Foundations in Language & Literature):  
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Fourth Form - 10^th grade (The Writer’s Journey):
Animal Farm by George Orwell
OR
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Fifth Form - 11^th grade (Modes of Written Expression):
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
OR
Circe by Madeline Miller

Sixth Form - 12^th grade (English IV Honors & Senior Electives):
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
OR
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr