<p>Are there any books you'd recommend to read while self studying Euro and World? Not review books, but actual novels and things.</p>
<p>The Three Musketeers
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Richard Sharpe series
Animal Farm
Shogun
The Iron Ring
Simon Bolivar: A Life</p>
<p>That’s all I can think of right now… Oh, and if you have an XBOX360, get “Civilization: Revolution.” That is how I learned World History. It teaches so much.</p>
<p>Orwell’s 1984 is great for learning about Communist Russia (as is Animal Farm). I think Machiavelli’s The Prince is also beneficial for AP Euro, since that novel will show up on the MC section very often.</p>
<p>Tim Blanning’s The Pursuit of Glory was helpful for my essays.</p>
<p>I’ve actually read both Animal Farm and 1984 quite recently (as in, this year.) Should I pick them up again once that part of World starts popping up? I’m also going to buy the student edition of The Prince off Amazon tomorrow - it’s already come up enough times in the Renaissance section for me to know it’ll be worthwhile.</p>
<p>Are you serious about that game? 
I’ll see about picking it up if you are.</p>
<p>^ Yeah I’m serious… I can honestly say it got me a few questions. It’s fun too.</p>
<p>My teacher assigned us the novel “The Cold War: A New History” by John Lewis Gaddis for summer school reading for AP Euro. I finished reading it in a matter of two or three days, and I thought it was WONDERFUL. It basically informs you of all the strategies and what was going on during the Cold War, along with the leaders, their idealogies, and the basic history of WW2. Lots of stuff on Lenin, Marx, Germany, etc. The important thing to me was that it wasn’t a history book at all (in my opinion)… it read like a novel should and I was completely entranced by it. Even though I’m kinda fascinated by history in general and my bias is clear, I still highly recommend it.</p>
<p>Guns, Germs, and Steel. Definitely. This was mandated reading in my AP World class, and it really is a great book that aids greatly in understanding many major concepts of the post 1450s to present eras of the course.</p>
<p>Oh and I guess it’d be good supplementary material for Euro too. Just read it, it’s a good book ^_^</p>
<p>Try The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. It has great information that could be used to answer the essay questions.</p>
<p>Guns Germs and Steel is also ridiculously large, but you know, that happens. It wasn’t required reading for me, but for my friends at other schools and other years in my class it was. I heard very varied views on it. I tried reading it myself once but didn’t get much further than the onion discussion pages, lol. Nah I mean I got a good taste of his style of writing and the main points he was trying to prove. It just seemed rather repetitive after a while, so I gave up.</p>