The Upper School‛s summer readings are chosen in the spring by the Junior Class. Prior to 2007, students were given a short list of choices. In 2007, the decision was made to have all Upper School students read the same book. A day is set aside in the first semester for seminar discussions of the All-School Reading. Each student is provided with a copy of the book.

2011

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)

2010

In to the Wild (Jon Krakauer)

2009

Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)

2008

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (Mark Haddon)

2007

One Flew Over the Cuckoo‛s Nest (Ken Kesey)

2006

The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)

Nickel and Dimed (Barbara Ehrenreich)

Angela‛s Ashes (Frank McCourt)

Einstein‛s Dreams (Alan Lightman)

2005

The Kite Runner (Kaled Hosseini)

Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway

Middlesex: A Novel (Jeffrey Eugenides)

The Screw Tape Letters (C.S. Lewis)

2004

Their Eyes Were Watching God

(Zora Neale Hurston)

Surely You‛re Joking Mr. Feynman

(Richard P. Feynman)

Life of Pi (Yann Martel)

A Walk in the Woods (Bill Bryson)

2003

Black Like Me (John Howard Griffin)

Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan)

Othello (William Shakespeare)

Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)

2001-2002

The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)

The Electric Koolaid Acid Test (Tom Wolfe)

Dune (Frank Herbert)

Typee (Herman Melville)

2000-2001

Inferno (Dante Alighieri)

Julius Caesar (William Shakespere)

Ishmael (Daniel Quinn)

Catch 22 (Joseph Heller)

The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)

Island of Dr. Moreau (H.G. Wells)

1999

Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer)

Cold Mountain (Charles Frazier)

The Beach

Rocket Boys (Homer H. Hickam)

The Long Walk (Raymond Bial)

The Shining (Stephen King)

Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

1998

Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer)

On the Road (Jack Kerouac)

Jazz (Clive D. Griffin)

Snow Falling On Cedars (David Guterson)

Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)

1997

Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan)

All Quiet on the Western Front

(Erich Maria Remarque)

All the President‛s Men

(Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward)

Dune (Frank Herbert)

Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx)

1996

The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)

The Hitchhiker‛s Guide to the Galaxy

(Douglas Adams)

The Prophet (Kalil Gibran)

The Hot Zone (Richard Preston)