2021-2022 AP Literature & Composition Summer Reading

You will need to choose ONE of these books to read during the summer: 1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 2. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai 3. Beloved by Toni Morrison 4. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut 5. The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan 6. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi 7. House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday 8. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 9. Emma by Jane Austen 10. An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen 11. A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee 12. Circe by Madeline Miller 13. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin 14. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood 15. In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez 16. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 17. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 18. Kindred by Octavia Butler 19. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 20. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami 21. King Lear by William Shakespeare 22. Orlando by Virginia Woolf 23. The Sympathizer by Viet Than Nguyen 24. Native Son by Richard Wright 25. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett 26. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 27. Othello by William Shakespeare 28. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster 29. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 30. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson 31. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 32. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 33. Sing, Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward 34. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 35. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 36. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 37. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas 38. Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie 39. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara 40. The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 41. The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy 42. Surfacing by Margaret Atwood 43. A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende 44. The Road by Jack Kerouac 45. 1984 by George Orwell 46. Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski 47. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenistyn 48. The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri 49. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 50. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie

2.) You will need to connect your choice reading to the thematic development of another text (such as a movie, book, t.v. show episode, short story, etc.) of your choice. Analyze the thematic development throughout the two texts.

3.) Please engage your mind and don’t procrastinate! Happy reading! ☺