Lectures estivales - Eté 2026
Vous trouverez ci-dessous les diverses lectures à faire pour l'entrée en :
Français, seconde, première générale et technologique.
Terminale générale, philosophie
Première BFI (Bac français international)
Lectures de français pour l'entrée en seconde, première générale et technologique :
Tous les titres existent en livre de poche
Lectures pour l'entrée en Première spécialité HLP :
Lectures pour l'entrée en Terminale spécialité HLP:
Lectures pour l'entrée en Philosophie de Terminale générale :
Lectures pour l'entrée en BFI, entrée en classe de première :
Lycée Colbert – Première BFI – section américaine – rentrée 2026 Programme des lectures en Approfondissement Culturel et Linguistique (ACL syllabus)
List of books to purchase:
Please buy all the books (for both Première and Terminale) now.
Please make sure you buy the Oxford School Shakespeare edition for The Tempest.
For the other books, buy the edition mentioned below whenever possible.
Title |
Author |
Edition |
Première |
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A Dry White Season |
André Brink |
Vintage |
Intimate Apparel |
Lynn Nottage |
Nick Hern Books |
Things Fall Apart |
Chinua Achebe |
Penguin Modern Classics |
The Death of a salesman |
Arthur Miller |
Penguin Modern Classics |
The Ballad of the Sad Café |
Carson McCullers |
Penguin Modern Classics |
Terminale |
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The Handmaid’s Tale |
Margaret Atwood |
Vintage |
The Tempest |
William Shakespeare |
Oxford School Shakespeare |
Compulsory Summer 2026 reading:
- The Ballad of the Sad Café (The Ballad of the Sad Café, Wunderkind, Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland, A Domestic Dilemma).
- Intimate Apparel
Here is the remainder of your reading program:
To read over the October break: A Dry White Season
To read over the December break: The Death of a salesman
To read over the February break: Things fall Apart
To read in the summer of 2027 for Terminale:
- The Handmaid’s Tale
- The Tempest
Reading tips:
- Read as many books on the ACL syllabus for Première as you can over the Summer and at least Interpreter of Maladies and Intimate Apparel.
- Buy the books on the ACL syllabus instead of borrowing them and don't hesitate to write in them. For example, you could circle words you don't know, underline quotations that you like, identify important passages, and put question marks next to those you don't fully understand.
- Read each chapter without stopping to check the meaning of the words you don’t know. You should read for overall understanding first. Try and guess what those words mean from the context and the way they are built (remember transparent words, derived words, and compound words). Circle them, then, at the end of the chapter or your reading session, go back to look some of them up in a dictionary (5 to 10 words per chapter maximum).
- Remember that watching a movie adaptation of the book cannot replace reading the actual text.