Approved List of Authors
Natick High School Summer Reading - 12th Grade
Click on an author from one of the categories below to find books in the Minuteman Library Catalog. If the book you'd like to read is not available in Natick, you can request it from another library.
Classic
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Daniel Defoe
- Charles Dickens
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Alexandre Dumas
- George Eliot
- Thomas Hardy
- Ernest Hemingway
- Victor Hugo
- James Joyce
- John Steinbeck
- Mark Twain
- Edith Wharton
- Virginia Woolf
Science Fiction/Fantasy
- Douglas Adams
- Isaac Asimov
- Ray Bradbury
- A. C. Clarke
- Michael Crichton
- Ursula LeGuin
- Christopher Paolini
- Terry Pratchett
- Philip Pullman
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- H. G. Wells
Mystery
- Angela Carter
- Agatha Christie
- Walter Mosley
- Dashiell Hammett
- Patricia Highsmith
- P. D. James
- Tony Hillerman
- John le Carre
- Dennis Lehane
- Sharyn McCrumb
- Robert Parker
- Ruth Rendell
- Josephine Tey
Contemporary
- Chinua Achebe
- Isabel Allende
- Sherman Alexie
- Maya Angelou
- Margaret Atwood
- Sebastian Barry
- Michael Chabon
- Robert Cormier
- Sandra Cisneros
- E. L. Doctorow
- Roddy Doyle
- Margaret Drabble
- Louise Erdrich
- Alice Hoffman
- Zora Neale Hurston
- John Irving
- Ha Jin
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Jamaica Kincaid
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Naguib Mahfouz
- Cormac McCarthy
- Gregory Maguire
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Carson McCullers
- Alice McDermott
- Ian McEwan
- Toni Morrison
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Tim O’Brien
- Chaim Potok
- Annie Proulx
- Arundhati Roy
- Salman Rushdie
- Amy Tan
- Anne Tyler
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Alice Walker
- Tobias Wolff
Drama
- Edward Albee
- Anton Chekhov
- Brian Friel
- John Guare
- Lillian Hellman
- Beth Henley
- Moliere
- Eugene O’Neill
- George Bernard Shaw
- Wendy Wasserstein
- Oscar Wilde
- Tennessee Williams
- August Wilson
- Lanford Wilson