Wednesday, July 2, 2014

AP Summer Reading Lists



Please be sure to read at least one of the books from the following two lists so that we can discuss them in class in September.  There is no writing assignment that you have to do for this, but be prepared to work in groups to learn how to hold a "book group" discussion by raising provocative discussion questions regarding the books.  You might want to see if there are reading group guides for the books after you read them, or perhaps create some questions yourselves for others.

The writing assignment for all of you remains the 5 essays about 5 essays as outlined in the previous post!







AP Summer Required Reading List

AP Literature and Composition and AP English Language
Genre
Title
Author (last name)
Author (first name)
Fiction
Bless Me, Ultima
Anaya
Rudolfo
Fiction
The Blind Assassin
Atwood
Margaret
Fiction
The Bluest Eye
Morrison
Toni
Fiction
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Alvarez
Julia
Fiction
The Poisonwood Bible
Kingsolver
Barbara
Fiction
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Irving
John
Fiction
The Road
McCarthy
Cormac
Fiction
The Round House
Erdrich
Louise
Fiction
Snow Falling on Cedars
Guterson
 David
 
Genre
Title
Author (last name)
Author (first name)
Fiction
Annie John
Kincaid
Jamaica
Memoir
An American Childhood
Dillard
Annie
Autobiography
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
Rodriguez
Richard
Essays
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Sedaris
David
Autobiography
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
X
Malcolm
Graphic Novel
Persepolis
Satrapi
Marjane
Biography
Black Boy
Wright
Richard
Biography
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Skloot
Rebecca
Nonfiction
A Walk in the Woods
Bryson
Bill
Nonfiction
The Tipping Point
Gladwell
Malcolm
Nonfiction
Freakonomics
Levitt
Steven