Summer Reading List
Below is the 2022 Summer Reading List for De La Salle High School. The reading assignments are to be completed by the first day of class for the 2022-23 school year, which is scheduled for August 10, 2022.
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 | Grade | Title and Author |
| English 1 Honors | DLS | 9 | Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (ISBN: 9781675993941) |
| English 2 | DLS | 10 | Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (ISBN: 9780812550702) |
| English 2 Honors | DLS | 10 | Lord of the Flies by William Golding (ISBN: 9780399501487) |
| English 3 | DLS | 11 | Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (ISBN: 9780385486804) |
| English 3 | CHS | 11 | We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez (ISBN: 9781984812285) |
| AP Language & Composition | DLS/CHS | 11 | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (ISBN: 9780743273565) |
| CHS | 12 | Choose One Educated by Tara Westover (ISBN: 9780399590504) or Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue (ISBN : 9780525509714) |
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| AP Literature & Composition | DLS | 12 | The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (ISBN: 9780486278070) |
| DLS | 12 | The Odyssey by Homer; trans. by Robert Fagel (ISBN: 9780140268867) |
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| CHS | 12 | 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. |
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| The Short Story | DLS | 12 | Short Story Reader (PDF to the Short Story Reader) |
| The Culture of Storytelling | DLS | 12 | A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin (ISBN: 9780547773742) |
| Shakespeare | DLS | 12 | The World as Stage by Bill Bryson (ISBN: 9781849310544) |
| Explorations in Writing | CHS | 12 | All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven (ISBN: 9780385755917) |
| Dystopian Fiction | CHS | 12 | 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) |
| 21st Century Woman | CHS | 12 | What I Told My Daughter by Nina Tassler (ISBN: 9781476734682) |
| Western Literature | DLS | 12 | Shane by Jack Schaefer (ISBN: 9780544239470) |
| Classics of Horror | DLS | 12 | Carrie by Stephen King (ISBN: 9780307743664) |
| Social Studies | |||
| Course | School | Grade | Title and Author |
| AP U.S. History | DLS | 11 | The American Pageant: AP Edition Chapters 1-3 (PDF Here) |
| CHS | 11 | American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America Chapters 1-12 (pages 23-149) (ISBN: 9780143122029) |
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| CHS | 11 | The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People Chapters 1-3 (PDF Here) Click here to review the full summer reading assignment |
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| AP Psychology | DLS | 11/12 | The Story of Psychology by Morton Hunt (ISBN: 9780307278074) Click here for information to focus on Please join the following Schoology group for updates about AP Psychology and your summer reading. |
| CHS | 11/12 | Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell (ISBN: 9780316299220) |
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| Science | |||
| Course | School | Grade | Title and Author |
| AP Biology | DLS | 10 | Survival of the Sickest by Dr. Sharon Moalem with J. Prince (ISBN: 9780060889661) |
| Health | |||
| Course | School | Grade | Title and Author |
| Health | DLS | 9 | Beautiful Boy by David Sheff (ISBN: 9870547203881) |
Updated May 20, 2022