Nantucket High School Reading Lists 2009

ForĀ a link to the pdf on the school's site click here

Or see below for the booklist. If books are in stock, they will show as being "On our shelves now." Otherwise, you can place an order and they will ship straight from the warehouse, either for store pickup or for home delivery.

In addition to choosing a title from the full list below, honors students must also read the following:

AP English Literature: Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens & On Writing by Stephen King

Honors English I: October Sky by Homer Hickam

Honors English II: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Honors English III: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Honors English IV: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

 

By Maxwell Taylor Kennedy
$30.00
ISBN-13: 9780743260800
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Simon & Schuster, 11/01/2008

Out Stealing Horses (Paperback)

By Per Petterson, Anne Born
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780312427085
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Picador, 04/01/2008

Plague Ship (Mass Market Paperback)

By Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul
$9.99
ISBN-13: 9780425226698
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Berkley, 03/01/2009

By Abraham Schmitt, Mary Lou Hartzler Clemens
$9.95
ISBN-13: 9781561481088
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Good Books, 02/01/2002

The Red Tent (Paperback)

By Anita Diamant
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780312195519
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Picador, 09/01/1998

The River Why (Paperback)

By David James Duncan, Forbes Duncan
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780553344868
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Bantam Books, 12/01/1984

Vanishing Acts (Paperback)

By Jodi Picoult
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780743454551
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Washington Square Press, 11/01/2005

By Barack Obama
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781400082773
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Three Rivers Press, 08/01/2004

Suite Francaise (Paperback)

By Irene Nemirovsky
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781400096275
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage, 04/01/2007

By Julia Scheeres
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9781582433547
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Counterpoint LLC, 09/01/2006

Pride and Prejudice (Paperback)

By Jane Austen, Vivien Jones, Tony Tanner
$8.00
ISBN-13: 9780141439518
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Penguin Classics, 12/01/2002

Cat's Cradle (Paperback)

By Kurt Vonnegut
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780385333481
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Dial Press Trade Paperback, 09/01/1998

By Kim Edwards
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780143037149
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 06/01/2006

By Sarah Cortez, Virgil Suarez
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9781558854826
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Pinata Books, 05/01/2007

By Claude Brown
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780684864181
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Touchstone, 01/01/1999

Stotan! (Paperback)

By Chris Crutcher
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780060094928
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Greenwillow Books, 04/01/2003

For One More Day (Paperback)

By Mitch Albom
$12.00
ISBN-13: 9781401309572
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Hyperion, 04/01/2008

That Was Then, This Is Now (Mass Market Paperback)

By S. E. Hinton
$9.99
ISBN-13: 9780140389661
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Speak, 04/01/1998

Nineteen Minutes (Paperback)

By Jodi Picoult
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780743496735
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Washington Square Press, 02/01/2008

By Frank McCourt
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780743243780
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Scribner, 09/01/2006

In the Same Space
$15.99
Model: 9781419649141
Availability:

The Rag and Bone Shop (Mass Market Paperback)

By Robert Cormier
$6.99
ISBN-13: 9780440229711
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Laurel Leaf, 05/01/2003

Dune (Mass Market Paperback)

By Frank Herbert
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780441172719
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Ace, 01/01/2003

Life of Pi (Paperback)

By Yann Martel
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780156027328
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Mariner Books, 05/01/2003

Bel Canto (Paperback)

By Ann Patchett
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780060838720
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Harper Perennial, 08/01/2005

Fasting, Feasting (Paperback)

By Anita Desai
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780618065820
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Mariner Books, 01/01/2000

Snow Crash (Paperback)

By Neal Stephenson
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780553380958
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Spectra, 05/01/2000

Duma Key (Mass Market Paperback)

By Stephen King
$9.99
ISBN-13: 9781416552963
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Pocket, 10/01/2008

By Ralph Helfer
$13.99
ISBN-13: 9780060929510
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Harper Paperbacks, 10/01/1998

By Edwidge Danticat
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780140280494
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 09/01/1999

By Robert A. Heinlein
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780312863555
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Orb Books, 06/01/1997

By Junot Diaz, Junot Da-Az
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781594483295
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Riverhead Books, 09/01/2008

By Mary Roach
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780393324822
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 05/01/2004

Run (Paperback)

By Ann Patchett
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780061340642
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Harper Perennial, 08/01/2008

By Bill Reynolds
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780312134914
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: St. Martin's Griffin, 09/01/1995

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Mass Market Paperback)

By Douglas Adams
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780345391803
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Del Rey, 09/01/1995

The Alchemist (Paperback)

By Paulo Coelho
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780061122415
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: HarperOne, 04/01/2006

Slumdog Millionaire (Paperback)

By Vikas Swarup
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781439136652
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Scribner, 11/01/2008

Airborn (Mass Market Paperback)

By Kenneth Oppel
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780060531829
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: HarperCollins, 06/01/2005

My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)

By Jodi Picoult
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780743454537
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Washington Square Press, 02/01/2005

Where the Heart Is (Paperback)

By Billie Letts
$13.99
ISBN-13: 9780446672214
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Grand Central Publishing, 02/01/1999

By Tedy Bruschi, Michael Holley
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780470108697
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Wiley, 08/01/2007

By Lynn Sherr, Martha Ackmann
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780375758935
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 07/01/2004

Save the Date (Paperback)

By Tamara Summers
$5.99
ISBN-13: 9780061366321
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: HarperTeen, 05/01/2008

Bleachers (Hardcover)

By John Grisham
$19.95
ISBN-13: 9780385511612
Large Print
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Doubleday, 09/01/2003

By Mitch Albom
$12.00
ISBN-13: 9781401308582
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Hyperion, 03/01/2006

By Elena Poniatowska, Sandra Cisneros
$10.95
ISBN-13: 9780679755265
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage, 10/01/1994