I’ll be in AP English Language and Composition next year. We were assigned summer reading. I need suggestions for what books to read out of my list of books.
Mandatory Reading:
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schloss
How to Read Literature like a Professor
Fiction: Choose 2 Books from the list below
The Grapes of Wrath – by John Steinbeck
Catch 22 – by Joseph Heller
The Road – by Cormac McCarthy
Empire Falls – by Richard Russo
The History of Love: A Novel – by Nicole Krauss
Peace Like a River – by Leif Enger
The Help - by Kathyrn Stockett
Ender’s Game – by Orson Scott Card
Their Eyes Were Watching God – by Zora Neale Hurston
Slaughterhouse 5 – by Kurt Vonnegut
Animal Farm – by George Orwell
100 Years of Solitude – by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
House of Leaves – by Mark Danielewski
Non-fiction: Choose 2 Book from the list below
In Cold Blood – by Truman Capote
Angela’s Ashes – by Frank McCourt
Reading Lolita in Therain: A Memoir in Books – by Azar Nafisi
The Omnivore’s Dilemma – by Michael Pollan
Man’s Search for Meaning – by Victor Frankle
Devil in the White City – by Erik Larson
It’s Not About the Bike – by Lance Armstrong
Wild Swan’s Three Daughters of China – by Jung Chang
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America – by Barbara Ehrenreich
I was considering reading:
Animal Farm and Slaughterhouse 5, and, Devil in the White City and Nickle and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.
What do you guys think?
Animal Farm is a good book; I read it in Civics class back in 8th grade!
Also, I read Ender’s Game in 7th grade, although I would read that in spare time, haha.
I’m reading Grapes of Wrath this summer anyway for AP Lang, so can’t really say much on it.
Hope you enjoy the books you decide to read 8)
Loved The Help. Lots of good choices in your list.
It sounds good to me. I enjoyed Animal Farm when I read it a while back.
I found Devil in the White City to be really good.
Enjoy yourself! Those are some great choices!
I really enjoyed Grapes of Wrath reading it this year in class. Although it was long, i enjoyed it so it wasn’t hard for me to get through. Animal Farm is also an excellent novel I enjoyed as well, and is my brother’s like favorite book of all time.
Grapes of Wrath and The Help are bestsellers (“compulsive page turners” etc) AND have the advantage of covering two important periods in US History (if you’re taking APUSH), ie.? the Great Depression/Dust Bowl, and Civil Rights Movements. Animal Farm would round that about but it helps knowing the 1917-1924 period in the Soviet Union to actualy understand the story.
Nickel and Dimed, and Reading Lolita in Tehran also have double usage, Nickel&Dimed with Economics and Reading Lolita with Literature/English. Devil in the White City is another “can’t put it down” non fiction book.
Happy reading!
I read In Cold Blood in my class for English 9H and it is pretty brutal at times but interesting and it gives a good basis to investigate human nature.
Love @MYOS1634 connecting those two novels to another class. Grapes of Wrath is a classic. Empire Falls is excellent (I am a serious fan of Richard Russo) and The Help is a great read. If you have even a drop of Irish blood in you, then Angela’s Ashes would be worthwhile.
slaughterhouse 5 can be hard to understand , since it’s not in chronological order, but it is a great book and i highly recommend that you read it .
I love Angela’s Ashes, but it’s very sad. I’m not really sure if I would pick it for summer reading, though…
I’ve heard Animal Farm is great.
I loved animal farm even though I got Cs and Ds on all the tests for it
I’m reading Animal Farm right now but it wasnt assigned as summer homework.