All incoming Douglas Anderson students are responsible for having all summer reading completed by the first day of school and being prepared for assessment the first day of school.

9th Grade Summer Reading

• Mythology by Edith Hamilton

10th Grade Summer Reading

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
• A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• The Prince by Machiavelli (all levels of World History)

11th Grade Summer Reading

• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir by William Zinsser (AP Lang only)
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (11th grade standard English only)
• Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis (all levels of US History)

12th Grade Summer Reading

• Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki (all levels of Government / Economics)