Summer Reading book list
You don't HAVE to do anything but I would appreciate if you gave the list a glance and thought about what kind of books you like or if there is anything else you want to read that isn't on the list.
More details: I make each group choose a book as a whole group to read. You should read it close to the end of summer because I will make a comprehensive test to try to see who read it (and understood it). I do not buy the books for you and consider you responsible for finding a copy yourselves BUT I usually find a digital copy/copies to host on moodle so those that cannot find it can read it on their phone/computer/e-reader/whatever.
Current list -
* - is on Czech maturita list, () - books that I don´t want to do, BL=AR book level using American grade system of (1-12) and NA=BL not available
list of good books -
Carrie - BL-5.8
Catcher in the Rye - BL-4.7
Curious Incident - BL-5.4
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - BL-6.6
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - BL-6.7
Inside Out and Back Again - BL-4.8
The Maze Runner - BL-5.3
classic literature (i.e. mostly books on the Czech maturita list) -
(1984) - BL-8.9
(*Animal Farm) - BL-7.3
-*Fahrenheit 451 - BL-5.2
*Hobbit - BL-6.6
(*Lord of the Flies) - BL-8.9
(Murder on the Orient Express) - BL-6.2
(*Old Man and the Sea) - BL-5.1
-Slaughterhouse-Five - BL-6.0
(*Tracy's Tiger) - BL-(?)
Picture of Dorian Grey - BL-7.7 (the level is too high, overly long and poetic sentences)
more books that I have never done but would consider -
To Kill A Mockingbird - BL-5.6
Brave New world - BL-7.1
Newer books I have been considering (mainly taken from NYT/Barnes&Noble and US High school reading lists)-
Am I normal Yet? - NA
Things Fall Apart - BL-6.2
FireKeepers Daughter - NA
Folklorn - NA
(This is How You Lose the Time War) - short but too difficult (symbolic/vague language)
A Man Called Ove - BL-6.1 (Swedish author, film version is too similar)
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Full/old list (includes a few other books that are not listed above, but usually if they are not listed above it is because I am not so excited about reading/teaching it again) -
100-year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window
1984
Alice in Wonderland
Animal Farm
Carrie
Catcher in the Rye
Curious Incident
Educated
Fault in Our Stars
Fahrenheit 451
Five Little Pigs
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Hobbit
Inside Out and Back Again
Lord of the Flies
Maus
Murder on the Orient Express
Old Man and the Sea
Perks of Being a Wallflower - BL-4.7
Slaughterhouse Five - BL-6.0
Tracy's Tiger
The Maze Runner
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Used this for the book levels (BL) - https://www.arbookfind.com/default.aspx