<p>"Let's get it started uh-huh...."</p>
<p>Very excited for this class next year; I absolutely loved my AP Lang class! We received our summer reading the other day- Heart of Darkness, Siddhartha, and Tess of the d’Urbervilles. I’m curious to see what everyone else will be reading this summer for their summer work! </p>
<p>A Farewell to Arms. Having trouble getting into it.</p>
<p>We had a selection to choose from, so I opted for The Poisonwood Bible. Absolutely fantastic so far, and if this was just a recommended read, I can’t wait to see the novels assigned throughout the year. Definitely looking promising. </p>
<p>We’re reading Brave New World for the summer. I’m okay with it.</p>
<p>Ah, A Farewell to Arms is an awesome book. I love Hemingway. I read it last year for AP Lang.</p>
<p>I have to read Frankenstein, The Great Gatsby, and Brave New World. I read Brave New World briefly in sophomore year, and I hated it. But Frankenstein is good. I’m almost done with it.</p>
<p>I have to read A Thousand Acres for summer reading. I hope it’s good.</p>
<p>Gatsby is gold. I still ship Nick and Gatsby to the moon and back. </p>
<p>Looking like AP Lit has a really nice selection of books so far. </p>
<p>I have The Fountainhead for summer reading. But just part one.</p>
<p>Hey guys, I’m self studying. Anyone have any other suggestions for a reading list? </p>
<p>We’re reading the Oedipus trilogy and another book of our choice from a given list. I picked The Handmaid’s Tale. </p>
<p>We got to choose which books to read and I chose Tale of Two Cities and The Things We Carried</p>
<p>@Cloudchamber: I keep hearing Beowulf is fantastic for self-study of AP Lit, along with basic Shakespeare and standard classics like The Great Gatsby, 1984 and The Scarlet Letter.</p>
<p>@PhazonFire, thanks for the suggestions! I believe we will be reading Beowulf in my standard English class next year, but I will be sure to brush up on some basic shakespeare and classics 
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<p>@Cloudchamber: At my school, I think they consider Beowulf too difficult for anyone not in AP, so everyone gets stuck with MacBeth and 1984. I envy thee. </p>
<p>I have to read East of Eden and Crime and Punishment… :(</p>
<p>The more classics you can get knowledge of going into this course, the better. It’s like knowing a bunch of artworks/artists going into AP Art History or knowing a ton of classical music pieces/jazz pieces before going into AP Music Theory. </p>
<p>^ Maybe. I got 5s on both the Lit and Language AP tests, but I still detest English (found the test quite easy), andd I can honestly say that I only read 1 novel (The Poisonwood Bible, highly recommend it) in my senior year due to laze, and I sparknoted/smhooped/gradesavered the rest to get by the class. You only really have to know one book that is versatile enough that you can stretch it to work on the first essay prompt. And when in doubt, use the Great Gatsby (but don’t, really, everyone uses it). Aside from that, the test is like the “hard” version of the critical reading portion of the SAT, but the MC is still easy enough.</p>
<p>@enigmaticescape: The Poisonwood Bible was my summer reading book, and that alone had enough solidity in it to use for the rest of the year, it seems like.</p>
<p>Gatsby, at this point, seems almost cliche to use. </p>
<p>@PhazonFire: The Poisonwood Bible was my summer reading book as well! Well we had 2 (the other one was A Prayer to Owen Meany, which I read half of, but was also very good)… anyways it’s a really versatile book. Good luck on the exam!</p>
<p>Yes, don’t use Gatsby. It was the third most popular book for this year’s prompt, even though it wasn’t a suggested book…</p>