Walpole High School Summer Reading List  2024

This summer, students must select and read one book from our Summer Reading List. In the fall, students will meet in Summer Reading Groups to discuss the book with others who read the same book.  Students will receive a Pass/Fail grade for their participation in the Summer Reading Program. The grade will be posted on their transcript. Students who Pass will earn .5 credits; students who Fail will not be eligible for Honor Roll Term 1.

 Fiction: Fantasy

The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England – Brandon Sanderson

The Measure – Nikki Erlick

Circe – Madeline Miller

The Shadow of What Was Lost – James Islington

Historical Fiction

The Reformatory – Tanarive Due

Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue – V. E. Schwab

The Women – Kristen Hannah

Fiction: Coming of Age

Piecing Me Together – Renee Watson

Sunday Money – Maggie Hill

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe – Benjamin Alire Saenz

Fiction: Mystery/Detective/Thriller

The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman

The Verifiers – Jane Pek

Remarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt

The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides

Before I Say Goodbye – Mary Higgins Clark

Fiction: Science Fiction/Horror/Dystopian

Horror Movie – Paul Tremblay

The Stand – Stephen King

Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro

The Great Transition – Nick Fuller-Googins

World War Z – Max Brooks

Prophet Song – Paul Lynch

Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut

Fiction: Contemporary Literature

Handle With Care – Jodi Picoult

How to Disappear – Sharon Huss Roat

Fiction: Graphic Novel

Bluelock, Chapters 1-20 – Muneyuki Kaneshiro

Non-Fiction: Memoir/Autobiography/Biography

A Good Bad Boy – Margaret Wappler

Rough Sleepers – Tracy Kidder

My Life: An Emotional Journey Expressed in Abstract Paintings – Une Oak Lee-Johnson

The Woman in Me – Britney Spears

A Moveable Feast: Sketches of the Author’s Life in Paris in the Twenties – Ernest Hemingway

Non-Fiction: Historical

The Cutting-Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500-1800 – Wayne E. Lee

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex – Nathaniel Philbrick

The Making of the Atomic Bomb – Richard Rhodes

Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies – Elizabeth Winkler

Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee – Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Allen Warrior

Non-Fiction: Sports/Animals

The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women Who Changed Soccer – Caitlin Murray

The Champion’s Mind: How to Think, Train, and Thrive – Jim Afremow

Bilbo the Lifeguard Dog: A True Story of Friendship and Heroism – Steven Jamieson

Non-Fiction: How-To

How to Write One Song – Jeff Tweedy

Podcasts

Last Seen: 81 Minutes (Season 1, Episode 1) – Kelly Horan

The Big Dig – GBH News; hosted by Ian Coss

Free Choice

Read a book of your choice

Read a book, any book.  Well, almost any book.  It needs to be appropriate; ask a parent or teacher if you are unsure.  It cannot be a book you read or will read for school, so no Fahrenheit 451, Animal Farm, The Great Gatsby, etc.