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12th Grade Reading List Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville Maryland, 20850

Note: ALL Average and Honors students are required to chose one title from this list:

1.The Woman Warrior -- Maxine Hong Kingston

2.Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -- Robert M. Pirsig

Note: Honors must choose two from this list, and at least one must be a * title. Average

students must choose one from any (* or no-*) on this list.

1.*The Plague -- Albert Camus

2.*Picture of Dorian Gray -- Oscar Wilde

3.*Utopia -- Thomas More

4.*The Shipping News -- E. Annie Proulx

5.*The Song of Solomon -- Toni Morrison

6.All the King's Men -- Robert Penn Warren

7.Obasan -- Joy Kogawa

8.Cannery Row -- John Steinbeck

9.Travels with Charlie -- John Steinbeck

10.Duke Ellington : Music is My Mistress -- Duke Ellington

11.Kaffir Boy -- Mark Mathabane

12.A Streetcar Named Desire -- Tennessee Williams

13.A Hope in the Unseen -- Ron Suskind

14.The Perfect Storm -- Sebastian Junger

15.The Professor and the Madman -- Simon Winchester

16.The Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood -- Rebecca Wells

17.The Bluest Eye -- Toni Morrison

Note : Average students may choose to read both The Woman Warrior and Zen and Art

of Motorcycle Maintenance to fulfill their two summer reading assignments. Honors students

may also do both required readings, but their third choice must then be from the * titles.

Last Updated : June 8, 2000 by Karen Kraus