<p>I'm taking AP English next year and I want to get ahead of the game by reading some of the books over the summer.</p>
<p>So, I am curious...</p>
<p>What kind of books did you read for AP English this year?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>we read In Cold Blood by Truman Capote...quite interesting.</p>
<p>read the scarlet letter song of solomon catch-22.... grapes of wrath and others lol</p>
<p>Hmp. We read the Scarlett Letter this year (hated it...) and Grapes of Wrath, too.
I wanted to read In Cold Blood at the beginning of the year since it looked like such an interesting novel, I'm glad to hear it's good. I will definately look forward to reading it next year. If we don't get to it, I'll make a note to read it on my own time.</p>
<p>I definitely agree with In Cold Blood; it was an awesome book.</p>
<p>Also check out Down and Out in Paris and London by Orwell. The book is really interesting, and if you can learn his style and imitate it on the essays, you'll do really well.</p>
<p>i thought my teacher created an excellent reading list that really prepared us for the possible prompts:</p>
<p>Catch 22
King Lear
Slaughterhouse 5
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Heart of Darkness
Invisibe Man</p>
<p>In AP Language, we read Nickel and Dimed, Of Mice and Men, and The Things They Carried. I wasn't too impressed with Nickel and Dimed, but would definitely recommend The Things They Carried. </p>
<p>If you're going into AP Lit and don't mind heavy philosophy and religion, The Brothers Karamazov is a great read and applicable to many, many essays. Brave New World/1984 cover a lot of possible prompts, too. (I recommend Brave New World over 1984, but it depends on whether you'd perfer to read about how things we like destroy us or about how things we hate destroy us).</p>
<p>we read grapes of wrath, moby dick - -x
we're going to read scarlett letter & the crucible later</p>
<p>Great Gatsby, but I would just ask your teacher.. There's tons of possibilties</p>
<p>Wuthering Heights <--- Fav
King Lear
Othello
A Doll House</p>
<p>For AP Language we read Walden by Henry David Thoreau, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.</p>
<p>In AP Literature, I think that the most important novel we read all year was Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Unless you love reading and plan on devoting quite a bit of time and thought to understanding this book, it'll be *really *hard to self study. It's 80-some pages of a tough read, but dang, is it worth it when you're done, and I definitely recommend reading it at some point in your life. Our other AP Lit books were:</p>
<p>Johnny Got his Gun
Sula
A Doll's House
Macbeth
1984
Frankenstein
The Handmaid's Tale (which was probably the easiest read all year)
Wuthering Heights</p>
<p>We read a lot of poetry too, but most of that was in class, or for in-class essays.</p>
<p>Good luck with the reading. I know the summer before my AP Lit class, I planned on reading, but that I got caught up in doing nothing. ;P</p>
<p>I must agree with the some of the people who replied here already.</p>
<p>Wuthering Heights was my favorite book. I love the characters. Is it bad that i can identify myself with Heathcliffe? lol</p>
<p>ap english lang:</p>
<p>summer reading book was take the cannoli (sarah vowell)
savage inequalities (jonathan kozol) (omg this book was so f-ing repetitive, it just described really bad school conditions, then really good school conditions, then bad, then good, bleh)
fast food nation (eric schlosser)
the things they carried (tim o'brien)
we had outside reading assignments, too. i read the world is flat and the nine. i'd highly recommend both.</p>
<p>fast food nation and the things they carried are probably the best of the 4 books we read in class.</p>
<p>for ap eng lit the summer reading book is east of eden, which i hear is a drag.</p>
<p>we read
hamlet
things fall apart
heat of darkness
animal farm
frankenstein
secret life of bees
how to read literature like a professor</p>
<p>I am America ( And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert... seriously. I used this on my eng lang ap exam and it saved me because for one of the essays we have to use a book to support an argument and that book was the only book out of all of the books ive read that i could use for the prompt. It was also the funniest book ive ever read. You should also read Of Mice and Men, The Old Man and the Sea, and Night (all of which are very short books btw) Also Anthem by Ayn Rand(which is like 75 pages) is also a very good book to read</p>
<p>The Crucible, The Great Gatsby...all i can remember lol. But we read a lot of Thoreau, Poe, and all those Emancipation Lit hotshots. also, some essays i.e....the modest proposal. a streetcar named desire was a great play. but yeah, just some suggestions</p>
<p>Prior to AP: Great Expectations, A Doll's House, The Visit, Antigone, Dante's Inferno, The Metamorphosis, and quite a bit of Shakespeare</p>
<p>AP Lang:
The Crucible
The Scarlet Letter
Pride & Prejudice
Henry V</p>
<p>I think the Lit class read:
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Crime and Punishment
Othello
Hamlet
Frankenstein
+ a few more</p>
<p>In our AP Lit class we read:</p>
<p>Macbeth
Beowulf
Paradise Lost
Jane Eyre (winter break reading)
Huckleberry Finn
The Stranger
Hamlet
Heart of Darkness
Brothers Karamazov (spring break reading--nobody could finish it)</p>
<p>I personally felt Shakespeare was complex enough to suit a variety of prompts and short enough to not take forever to read on your own. Brothers Karamozov is a fantastic book, but considering you'd want a little more quantity in your selection list, make sure you can finish it quick enough to read a few others. I used Huckleberry Finn for this year's free-write.</p>
<p>Dartmouth 12: oh, we read Thing Fall Apart in ESL :)</p>
<p>Invisible Man
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Linden Hills
The Odyssey
Dante's Inferno
Notes from Underground
And an African/Caribbean novel of our choice (mine was The Mimic Men)</p>