AP Summer Reading List

Students will pick TWO texts from this list in addition to their 11th or 12th grade core text (Namesake or Kite Runner).

Drama • Euripides- The Bacchae • Edward Albee- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? • Anton Chekhov- Three Sisters • Caryl Churchill- Top Girls • Athol Fugard- “Master Harold”…and the Boys • David Henry Hwang- M. Butterfly • Henrik Ibsen- Hedda Gabler • Eugene O’Neill- Long Day’s Journey Into Night • Suzan-Lori Parks- Topdog/Underdog • Sam Shepard- • Sophocles- Oedipus Rex • - A Streetcar Named Desire • August Wilson- Gem of the Ocean

Literature • Isabel Allende- The House of the Spirits • Rudolfo Anaya- Bless Me, Ultima • Margaret Atwood- The Handmaid’s Tale • Jane Austen- Northanger Abbey • James Baldwin- Go Tell It on the Mountain~ • Kate Chopin- The Awakening • Edwidge Danticat- Breath, Eyes, Memory • Anita Desai- Fasting, Feasting • Charles Dickens- Bleak House • Fyodor Dostoevsky- Crime and Punishment • George Eliot- The Mill on the Floss • Louise Erdrich- Love Medicine • William Faulkner- As I Lay Dying • Thomas Hardy- Tess of the d’Urbervilles • Chang-Rae Lee- The Surrendered • James Joyce- Dubliners • Gabriel García Márquez- One Hundred Years of Solitude • Cormac McCarthy- The Road • Alice Walker- The Color Purple • Edith Wharton- Ethan Frome • Richard Wright- Black Boy • Edward P. Jones- The Known World • Colson Whitehead- John Henry Days • Charlotte Brontë- Jane Eyre • Joseph Conrad- Heart of Darkness • Flannery O’Connor- Wise Blood • Nathaniel Hawthorne- The Scarlet Letter