Kolbe Academy & Trinity Prep
Trinity Prep Summer Reading Program
Book List
Entering High School Grades
St. Anselm of Canterbury - Why God Became Man
Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Emma; Sense and Sensibility; Northanger Abbey
Baroness Orzey – The Scarlet Pimpernel
Belloc, Hilaire - Characters of the Reformation; How the Reformation Happened; Joan of Arc (Bio)
Biographies of saints at the student’s level
Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451
Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Buck, Pearl - The Good Earth
Caldwell, Ruth Taylor – Dear and Glorious Physician; Grandmother and the Priest
Cather, Willa – Death Comes to the Archbishop
Chesterton, G.K. – Father Brown series; Saint Francis of Assisi (Bio); Saint Thomas Aquinas (Bio); Thursday; The Napoleon of Notting Hill; The Everlasting Man
Ciszek, Walter – With God in Russia
Columbiere, Blessed Claude - Abandonment to Divine Providence
Connelly, Myles – Mr. Blue
Conrad, Joseph - Lord Jim; Nostromo; Secret Agent
Cooper, James Fenimore - Last of the Mohicans
Copleston, F.C. - Aquinas
Costain, Thomas – The Silver Chalice
De Monfort, St. Louis - True Devotion to Mary; True Devotion to Jesus
de Wohl, Louis – Set All Afire; Lay Siege to Heaven; The Quiet Light; The Spear; Citadel of God (Ignatius Press)
Douglas, Lloyd C. – The Robe
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan - The White Company
Durell, Gerald - The Amateur Naturalists
Eliot, George - Silas Marner
Godden, Rumer - In This House of Brede; An Episode of Sparrows
Gogol, Nikolai - Dead Souls
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies; The Inheritors
Greene, Graham - The Power and the Glory
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Les Miserables
Kipling, Rudyard - Kim
Lewis, C.S. – Out of the Silent Planet; Perelandra; That Hideous Strength; Screwtape Letters; The Great Divorce; Till We Have Faces
Melville, Herman - Billy Budd; Benito Cereno
Moorcroft, Jennifer - He Is My Heaven: The Life of Elizabeth of the
TrinityMore, St. Thomas - Utopia; The Sadness of Christ (Prayer meditations); The Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation
O’Brien, Michael – Strangers and Sojourners (Ignatius Press)
Potok, Chaim - The Chosen
Roper, William - The Life of St. Thomas More
St. Thérèse of Lisieux by Those Who Knew Her (Ignatius Press)
St. Teresa of the Andes - God the Joy of My Life (bio)
St. Teresa of Avila - The Book of her Life (Autobiography)
St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein) - Life in a Jewish Family (Autobiography); Science of the Cross (Carmelite spirituality)
St. John of the Cross - Dark Night of the Soul; Living Flame of Love; The Spiritual Canticle
Scott, Sir Walter – Ivanhoe; Rob Roy; The Antiquary; The Heart of Midlothian
Shakespeare, William - Richard III
Sheen, Fulton J. – Treasure in Clay
Sienkiewicz, Henryk – Quo Vadis; With Fire and Sword
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
Ten Boom, Corrie – The Hiding Place
Thackeray, William M. - The History of Henry Esmond; Vanity Fair
Thompson, Francis – Hound of Heaven
Treece, Patricia - A Man for Others (Bio. of St. Maximilian Kolbe)
Trollope, Anthony - Barchester Towers
Twain, Mark – Joan of Arc
Von Hildebrand, Alice - The Privilege of Being a Woman
von Hildebrand, Dietrich - Transformation in Christ
Von Le Fort, Gertrude – The Song at the Scaffold
Waugh, Evelyn – Edmund Campion; Helena
Williams, Charles – All Hallow’s Eve; Descent into Hell; Many Dimensions; The Greater Trumps; War in Heaven; Shadows of Ecstasy; The Place of the Lion
Wojtyla, Karol (John Paul II) - The Jeweler’s Shop; The Acting Person
Any age-appropriate title from Kolbe’s Recommended Reading List
* Titles excellent for adults to read to children.
Some of these books can be found in the library and you are welcome to check them out—see Miss Ristine for assistance.
Read many other good books approved by your parents – only one in a series will count toward Trinity’s Summer Reading Program.
To order Ignatius Press books using your credit card call toll free: 1-800-651-1531; or you may obtain an Ignatius Press catalogue from the school office. You can also order online at www.ignatius.com.
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