<p>What books is your school requiring you to read during the summer? Or what books are you just reading for fun?</p>
<p>Here is the required reading for all incoming twelfth graders at my school:
The Mayor of Castorbridge by Thomas Hardy
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde</p>
<p>I will be reading The Spy That Came From the Cold for fun, because that is my favorite book ever.</p>
<p>Beloved by Toni Morrison and some other books which I’m not reading right now so I don’t know their names. And I lost the reading list, ah well, won’t be able to read that second book. Nah I’ll get it somehow, now I’m just babbling.</p>
<p>Your school makes you read books during the summer? Man that sucks 
I’m planning on finishing Jane Eyre first. Then Oliver Twist, Sense and Sensibility, and finally Persuasion =)</p>
<p>For AP Lit next year, I have to read:
<p>For AP Gov next year, I have to read:
<p>For AP English Language:
-The Scarlett Letter</p>
<p>That’s it.</p>
<p>teamfrangela92, I forgot about AP Government!!! Thanks for reminding me!!! Anyways, why is every AP Gov class from every school my other friends go to is reading that book??</p>
<p>Honors English 11:</p>
<p>-The Death of a Salesman: Arthur Miller
-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Mark Twain
-The Mayor of Casterbridge: Thomas Hardy</p>
<p>I hear AP English (only offered to seniors) has 5 summer reading books; 2 of them Shakespeare and 1 of them Sophicles.</p>
<p>We have to read “and annotate every page” of the first four for AP Lit ._______.‘’</p>
<ul>
<li>How to Read Literature Like a Professor</li>
<li>Tess of the D’Urbervilles</li>
<li>All The King’s Men</li>
<li>Voltaire</li>
<li>The Judgment of Paris </li>
<li>The Annotated Mona Lisa</li>
</ul>
<p>@OP: You guys are reading Dorian Gray?! I am jealous TO THE MAX. D:</p>
<p>If you take AP English at my school, you read a total of nine books.</p>
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<p>Why do you have to read a book by a political commentator? Yikes. I hope your class isn’t about Ann Coulter and Michael Moore yammering back and forth. That’s like political junk food, not serious study.</p>
<p>Are the books you have to read interesting? The only one I’d want to read is The Scarlett Letter.</p>
<p>How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Invisible Man
The Diagnosis
Oresteia
The World is Flat
The Wordly Philosophers</p>
<p>■■■</p>
<p>I loved the picture of dorian gray
we have to read
Freakonomics
On writing well
I am a stranger here myself
The things they carried
Freakonomics sounds cool- everything else uggh.
I’m also reading Catcher in the rye
Slaughter House five and Lolita( trying not to hate it) on my own to read good boks
And as many Clive Barker novels as I can!</p>
<p>AP English Lit:
Crime and Punishment
Native Son</p>
<p>For school:</p>
<p>Fast Food Nation-AP Human Geography
Bias: An Insiders View on CBS-AP Gov
Freakonomics-AP Macroeconomics
Brave New World- AP Lit</p>
<p>I’m also probably going to read Siddhartha for Lit because it was recommended and I’m currently reading They Poured Fire On Us From the Sun about the Darfurian conflict. Very interesting!</p>
<p>One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez)
Diplomacy (Kissinger)
Plan B 3.0 (Brown)</p>
<p>Summer Reading: </p>
<ul>
<li>How to Read Literature Like a Professor </li>
<li>Catch-22</li>
<li>Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered</li>
<li>The Prince of Mathematics: Carl F. Gauss </li>
<li>Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes</li>
</ul>
<p>On my own (that are tangentially related to school subjects): </p>
<ul>
<li>In Search of Memory</li>
<li>The Fabric of the Cosmos</li>
<li>The Elegant Universe</li>
<li>The Numerati</li>
<li>Freakonomics </li>
</ul>
<p>It’s not too bad of a list.</p>
<p>Catcher in the Rye is such a good book!!
Own pleasure (almost all):
Elements of Style
Catch-22
The devils
Walden; or life in the woods
Self reliance and other essays
Sophie’s world
Random Math books.
etc.
School (sort of):
Newest version Sat prep.
Economics text book
Other prep books.</p>
<p>5 books. Yes, I am specific.</p>
<p>English: Grendel, The Enigma of Arrival (personal choice)
AP Euro: The Dwarf
Chinese: Mooncakes and Hungry Ghosts
AP Art History: Mona Lisa in Camelot</p>