2020-2021 AP Literature & Composition Summer Reading (Zaretsky) **There are 2 parts, so be sure to read over all parts carefully 1. You will need to read AND annotate (notes in the margins, questions, connections, things you thought of while reading – really show that you interacted with the text!) Thomas Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor. This is a text we will continue to reference throughout the year – it’s crucial to your deeper understanding of literature! You will need to purchase a copy. 2.) You will need to choose ONE of these books to read during the summer (you’ll be expected to read one more from this list during fall/spring semester). 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. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 7. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko 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. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 13. Go Tell It on the Mountain 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. Black Boy by Richard Wright 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. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 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. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 40. The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 41. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien 42. The Awakening by Kate Chopin 43. Surfacing by Margaret Atwood 44. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie 45. Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe 46. The Road by Jack Kerouac 47. 1984 by George Orwell 48. Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski 49. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenistyn 50. The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

3.) You will need to apply one-two of Foster’s chapters to the novel/play you chose to read this summer and write a three-page (MLA-formatted, double-spaced) essay (no more than four pages allowed) that explains your application of no more than two of the concepts in How to Read Literature Like a Professor to your choice novel. 4.) This assignment PLUS your annotated Foster book will be due the first week of school, so don’t procrastinate on these assignments! We will also have a test over Foster’s book within the first week. Happy reading! 