Summer 2011 Reading List

Writing Category: · Steven King’s On Writing · Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird · Margaret Atwood’s Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing · Pat Conroy’s My Reading Life

Literary Nonfiction · Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel In Cold Blood · John Grisham’s The Innocent Man · Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods · Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air · Maya Angelou’s Letter to my Daughter · Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes · Kirstin Downey’s The Woman Behind the New Deal · ***Richard Preston’s Hot Zone*** · ***Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks*** · ***Neil Shubin’s Your Inner Fish: A journey into the 3.5 billion year history of the human body*** ***AP Biology students will be required to choose and read one of these three books during the school year. Ms. Lockhart and I support your reading one as part of English summer reading.