If, as the 18th-century English essayist Sir Richard Steele suggested, "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body," area high school students got plenty of exercise this past summer. Here are some of the other titles that appeared on reading lists for rising seniors:
FICTION
All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
Benito Cereno, by Herman Melville
Bless the Beasts & Children, by Glenson Swarthout
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko
Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier
Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton
Dancing on the Edge, by Han Nolan
The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
