<p>What books are you reading this summer? Post! I have already compiled a list for myself.</p>
<p>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee (someone told me it's a very powerful book. Anyone read it?)
The God of Small Things by Arundhath Roy
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner</p>
<p>All Required:
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Hamlet by William Shakespeare</p>
<p>As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley</p>
<p>Required, pick two:
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
I Nver Promised You A Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway</p>
<p>By choice:</p>
<p>1984, George Orwell
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest, Ken Kesey</p>
<p>Anyone read Thes Satanic Verses? Ive been told the others are good, but I'm not sure about this one. Is it good? Over-hyped?</p>
<p>I should read...no assignments for AP Lit yet, surprising...should come soon though...</p>
<p>I really have to read this summer though. I've really been slacking....what are some "recommended" 12th grade level books?</p>
<p>"The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway"</p>
<p>Two amazing, amazing books.</p>
<p>I have no idea what I'm reading this summer.</p>
<p>Hold on....</p>
<p>AP EUROPEAN HISTORY:
1. The Future of Freedom:Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad by Fareed Zakariah
2. Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King</p>
<p>AP ECONOMICS:
1. The Future of Freedom:Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad by Fareed Zakariah</p>
<p>ENGLISH 4?
1. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
2. One of 5-6 books</p>
<p>AP ENGLISH?
1. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel G. Marquez
2. I am One of You Forever by Fred Chappell</p>
<p>I don't even know what English I'm taking yet.</p>
<p>AP English Literature:
Life of Pi
Great Expectations
Catch-22</p>
<p>AP Government:
Hardball</p>
<p>how about u dont read?</p>
<p>But reading good!</p>
<p>Nothing Required, but I'd like to get around to reading Clinton's autobiography. Also would like to finish 'War and Peace.' I'm not gonna get too ambitious, I'll be lucky to get to those.</p>
<p>July issue of playboy</p>
<p>yeah...... :cool:</p>
<p>(All required)
Night, Elie Weizel (currently reading)
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee</p>
<p>war and peace...oh god...That took forever for me to read i read it for 9a-History(its not advanced everyone takes it but its called history 9 advanced) andd lord of the rings the first book the summer b4....Last year i read..Tuesdays w/ Morrie(great book) and War of The worlds I dont know my list this year...I was able to quickly read both of those books...in fact I was able to finish both books btw August 28-8(between my last day of camp-frenchwoods and first day of schooL)</p>
<p>oh and whoevers reading Les mIs good luck but id reccomend just seeing the show its a lot easier...I was in it at my performing arts camp shortly afterwards my mom pointed out the book in a bookstore and its huge ive heard rumors it 1000+ pages long and I now know why that musical was so long!!!</p>
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To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
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That is one of my favorite books of all time.</p>
<p>for ap english:
The Things They Carried
Twelfth Night
The Poisionwood Bible</p>
<p>All voluntary</p>
<p>Mourning becomes Electra by O'Neill (play)
Anthem by Ayn Rand
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde</p>
<p>whatever book that will be assigned for AP english. Other than that, Angels and Demons, the Notebook and other Nicholas Sparks book, and Wicked</p>