AP English Language Non-fiction Reading List Autobiography, biography, journal, and history Maya Angelou  The Female Experience: An  Gather Together in My Name American Documentary  The Heart of a Woman  The Majority Finds Its Past:  I Know Why the Caged Bird Placing Women in History Sings Malcolm X Walter Jackson Bate  The Autobiography of Malcolm  Samuel Johnson X Charles A. Beard Samuel Eliot Morison  An Economic Interpretation of  Christopher Columbus, Admiral the Constitution of the Ocean Sea  The Rise of American  The Growth of the American Civilization Republic Van Wyck Brooks  Harrison Gray Otis: Urbane  An Autobiography Federalist  Days of Phoenix Francis Parkman  From a Writer’s Notebook  The Oregon Trail Bruce Catton  Pioneers of France in the  Mr. Loncoln’s Army New World  A Stillness at Appomattox Richard Rodriquez Leon Edel  Days of Obligation  Bloomsbury: A Hose of Lions  Hunger of Memory  Henry James, a Life Mari Sandoz  The Stuff of Sleep and Dreams  The Battle of Little Bighorn  Telling Lives  Old Jules Lillian Hellman Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.  Scoundrel Time  The Age of Jackson  Un Unfinished Woman  The Age of Roosevelt William Dean Howells  The Bitter Heritage  Years of My Youth  Robert Kennedy and His Times Alfred Kazin  A Thousand Days  New York Jew Barbara Tuchman  Starting Out in the Thirties  Bible and Sword  A Walker in the City  A Distant Mirror Hellen Keller  The Guns of August  The Story of My Life  The Proud Tower Maxine Hong Kingston Richard Wright  The Woman Warrior  American Hunger  China Men  Black Boy Anzia Yezierska  Bread and Givers Gerda Lerner  The Open Cage  The Creation of Patriarchy  Red Ribbon on a White House Essays and Criticism James Agee Cynthia Ozick Art and Ardor  Let us Now Praise Famous Men Susan Sontag Joan Didion  Against Interpretation  Slouching Toward Bethlehem  Aids and Its Metaphors Paul Fussell  Illness as a Metaphor  Bad, or the Dumbing of America John Updike  The Great War and Modern  Hugging the Shore: Essays and Memory Criticism  Thank God for the Atom Bomb  Self Consciousness and Other Essays Gore Vidal Pauline Kael  Matters of Fact and Fiction  5001 Nights at the Movies  Reflections upon a Stinking Ship  I Lost It at the Movies  Rocking the Boat  State of the Art Eudora Welty William Hugh Kenner  The Eye of the Story: Selected  A Colder Eye Essays and Reviews Joyce Carol Oates  One Writer’s Beginnings  Contraries: Essays E.B. White  On Boxing  The Essays of E.B. White  Women Writers  One Man’s Meat

Political Writing and Journalism Roger Angell Francis Fitzgerald  Five Seasons: A Baseball  America Revisited Companion  Cities on a Hill  Late Innings  Fire in the Lake  Once More Around the Park John Kenneth Galbraith Hannah Arendt  The Affluent Society  Between Past and Future  Ambassador’s Journal  The Human Condition  The Anatomy of Power  On Revolution  The Nature of Mass Poverty  The Origins of Totalitarianism Calvin Trillin Elizabeth Drew  American Fried  American Journal: Events of  An Education in Georgia 1976  Third Helpings  Washington Journal: The Events  Uncivil Liberties of 1973-1974 Tom Wolfe  The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine- Flake Streamline Baby Science and Nature Writing

Isaac Asimov  The Exploding Suns  the Joy Still Felt  In Memory of Yet Green  Until the Sun Dies Annie Dillard  An American Childhood  Holy and Firm  Living by Fiction  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek  Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters  The Writing Life Gretel Ehrlich  The Solace of Open Spaces Stephen Jay Gould  Ever Since Darwin  Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes  The Mismeasure of Man  Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle  Un Urchin in the Storm Peter Matthiessen  At Play in the Fields of the Lord  Far Tortuga  In the Spirit of Crazy Horse  The Snow Leopard  The Tree Where Man Was Born Margaret Mead  And Keep your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America  Blackberry Winter  Coming of Age in Samoa Carl Sagan  The Dragons of Eden  A Path Where No Man Thought Lewis Thomas  The Fragile Species  Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler’s 9th Symphony  The Lives of a Cell: The Notes of a Biology Watcher  the Medusa and the Snail