AP Summer Reading List

Choose one of the titles below to complete the 2013/2014 English 4AP Summer Assignment.  Please be aware that several of these books contain mature language and situations.  If this is a consideration for you, please see Mrs. Britton, Ms. Papera or Mr. Spanier for advice on picking an appropriate title.

A Prayer for Owen Meaney—John Irving                                                        As I Lay Dying—William Faulkner

The Age of Innocence—Edith Wharton                                                          The Heart is A Lonely Hunter—Carson McCullers

Main Street—Sinclair Lewis                                                                            Brave New World—Aldous Huxley

The Shipping News—E. Annie Proulx                                                           Great Expectations—Charles Dickens

Silas Marner—George Eliot                                                                              Lord Jim—Joseph Conrad

The Color Purple—Alice Walker                                                                      Wuthering Heights—Emily Brontë

All the King’s Men—Robert Penn Warren                                                     A Passage to India—E.M. Forster

Slaughterhouse 5—Kurt Vonnegut                                                                   All the Pretty Horses—Cormac McCarthy

Beloved—Tony Morrison                                                                                  My Ántonia—Willa Cather                            

The Handmaid’s Tale—Margaret Atwood                                                    A Lesson Before Dying—Ernest Gaines

Sons and Lovers—D.H. Lawrence                                                                   Frankenstein—Mary Shelley

The Natural—Bernard Malamud                                                                   Obasan—Joy Kagawa      

The Invisible Man—Ralph Ellison                                                                  Wise Blood—Flannery O’Connor

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay—Michael Chabon              The Mosquito Coast—Paul Theroux

The House of the Seven Gables—Nathaniel Hawthorne                               Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha—Roddy Doyle         

One Hundred Years of Solitude—Gabriel Garcia Marquez                         The God of Small Things-- Arundhati Roy