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
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Title
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Author (last name)
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Author (first name)
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Fiction
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Bless Me, Ultima
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Anaya
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Rudolfo
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Fiction
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The Blind Assassin
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Atwood
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Margaret
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Fiction
|
The Bluest Eye
|
Morrison
|
Toni
|
Fiction
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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
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Alvarez
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Julia
|
Fiction
|
The Poisonwood Bible
|
Kingsolver
|
Barbara
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Fiction
|
A Prayer for Owen Meany
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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
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An American Childhood
|
Dillard
|
Annie
|
Autobiography
|
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
|
Rodriguez
|
Richard
|
Essays
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
|
Sedaris
|
David
|
Autobiography
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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
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