Summer Reading

The desire we have for our students is simple: for them to fall in love with reading. Summer reading is essential in both the development and advancement of our students. Because of this, the LCA English Department encourages students to read over their summer break. Reading two books of choice is our minimal suggestion because we believe that students should continue to read throughout the entire summer. Below is a suggested summer reading list, but you are not restricted to choosing books only from that list. The classics are timeless, however, you may want to read about the life of a Christian martyr, or how to become a successful entrepreneur, or simply escape into a fictional land that takes you to a place you would have never imagined otherwise. Find books on topics that you are passionate about or books that challenge you and make you a better person, while improving your reading skills. Parents, we ask that you help your child with his or her reading goals. Share with your son or daughter books that you have read or would like to read. Be aware of their choices making sure they coincide with your family values. Enjoy reading. 

Upper School Suggested Reading List

1776, McCollough
Aeneid, Virgil
All the Light We Cannot See, Doerr
All the Pretty Horses, McCarthy
Anna Karenina, Tolstoy
As I Lay Dying, Faulkner
Band of Brothers, Ambrose
Beowulf, translated by Heaney
Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky
East of Eden, Steinbeck
Emma, Austen
Great Expectations, Dickens
Into the Wild, Krakauer
Jane Eyre, Bronte
Les Miserables, Hugo
Life of Pi, Martel
Silas Marner, Eliot
The Mayor of Casterbridge, Hardy
Moby Dick, Melville
Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Solzhenitsyn
Othello, Shakespeare
Persuasion, Austen
Sense and Sensibility, Austen
Space Trilogy, C.S. Lewis
The Book Thief, Zusak
The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky
The Chosen, Potok
The Chronicles of Narnia (series), C.S. Lewis
The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas
The Fellowship of the Ring (series), Tolkien
The Hobbit, Tolkien
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hugo
The Three Musketeers, Dumas
Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis
Walden, Thoreau

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