<p>art of racing in the rain is amazing. i wrote an epilogue to that for an assignment in 10th grade :)</p>
<p>What I’ve read so far this summer:
- Catcher in the Rye
- Dead Souls by Gogol
- On the Road (the “Sal Paradise” version once, and then the original scrolls)
- Lolita (for a third or fourth time)</p>
<p>What I’m going to try to read before school starts:
- Ulysses
- Gravity’s Rainbow
- The Sound and the Fury
- Assorted Marquez stuff that isn’t 100 Years of Solitude
- Pnin by Nabokov
- Walden
- Suttree
- In Search of Lost Time… but most likely just Swann’s Way. </p>
<p>… that’s the famous **** that I’ll mention on an internet forum, anyways. I’m just as likely to be found reading obscure baseball sabermetrics material, truth be told.</p>
<p>A Clockwork Orange may not be suited for all audiences. I started reading it and I like it. I meant read at your own risk because of the…plot I guess?</p>
<p>The Book Thief is awesome! Enjoy!</p>
<p>@karaokemachine: Grapes of Wrath descriptions = unbearably long! </p>
<p>Also loved Animal Farm, great symbolism. </p>
<p>This summer I’ve really taken a liking to F. Scott Fitzgerald~ read This Side of Paradise, and in the middle of The Great Gatsby. So good! :)</p>
<p>^ Have you read ‘The Beautiful and the Damned’? It’s truly an underrated book of his.</p>
<p>Ive heard of it, but have yet to read it! Ill def add it to my list; I’m sure I’ll enjoy it:)</p>
<p>For A.P. US History:
April 1865: The Month That Saved America - Jay Winik
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America - David Von Drehle
Fallen Angels - Walter Dean Myers</p>
<p>For Honors American Literature:
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne</p>
<p>I have 3 assigned summer reading books, 2 for AP Lang/Comp and 1 for APUSH.</p>
<p>For AP Lang/Comp I’m reading Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick and Missisippi, an American Journey by Anthony Walton.</p>
<p>For APUSH I’m reading Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz.</p>
<p>I’ve only started Heir to the Glimmering World, but I hope all of them are at least mildly interesting!</p>
<p>For my school’s required reading, I have to read The Great Gatsby, My Antonia, and Black Boy. I’ve also been reading some random books this summer. Right now I’m reading The House on Mango Street.</p>
<p>Catcher in the Rye if you haven’t read it, the only book i read this summer break, haha. Lots of swearing, but if you can handle it, the main character has such a great sense of humor. Also, lots of literary symbols and motifs to use in SAT essays if you read it a second time or spark notes them after the first reading. I know most people have read it in school, but not everyone. You really have to read this if you haven’t.</p>
<p>All Required:
AP LIT
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Glass Menagerie by Williams
Honors modern drama
Death of a salesman
No exit by sartre
AP Economics
Naked Economics(I’m actually really enjoying this one)</p>
<p>All The King’s Men- Robert Penn Warren
Their Eyes Were Watching God- Zora Neale Hurston</p>
<p>No Country for Old Men
The Old Man and the Sea</p>
<p>Pre-AP English II-
Keeping Corner by Kashmira Shet</p>
<p>AP World History-
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond</p>
<p>AP Lit/Gov:
-Heart of Darkness
-Dante’s Inferno</p>
<p>Then books I just wanted to read:
-Never Let Me Go
-The Help
-Water for Elephants
-Blindness
-Room: A Novel
-The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks</p>
<p>Any suggestions?</p>
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<p>For community college English:
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe</p>
<p>For both the books, I have to keep chapter-by-chapter “journals,” that analyze the plot and characters :(</p>
<p>Definitely pick up Handmaids Tale my Margaret Atwood. And if you haven’t read them yet, read 1984 by Orwell and All Quiet on the western From by Remarque. Those were my favorite books, along with Ellison’s Invisible Man. Hamlet was a huge help on the AP lit exam, as was All Quiet on the Western Front. Good luck and have fun reading!</p>
<p>^1984 is amazing.</p>
<p>For fun:
Moral Minority by Brooke Allen
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
1984, Animal Farm by George Orwell (reread!)
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua</p>
<p>For AP Lang:
On Writing by Stephen King (required)
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (Free choice)</p>
<p>Oh, and various SAT prep books.</p>
<p>An Arsonist’s guide to Writer’s Homes in New England, Brock Clarke
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
Three Cups of Tea, Relin/Mortenson
American Adulterer, Jed Mercurio
Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
South Park and Philosophy, Assorted Authors
Slaughterhouse 5, Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions, Vonnegut
The Genius in All of Us, David Shenk</p>
<p>Of all the other books that I’ve seen listed here, my favorites by far are 1984 and Animal Farm.</p>