Pre-AP Reading List for summer reading for any BHS student

This list is by no means all inclusive.  It is, instead, a gathering of works that appear on many AP and pre-AP reading lists.  The content and syntax of some of the works on this list is very challenging.  For other works, the content may be more challenging than the syntax.  For a few of the works, the content is controversial; please check with your parent before reading the text for class credit.

Agee, James A Death in the Family

Allende, Isabel House of the Spirits
Atwood, Margaret Handmaid's Tale
Austen, Jane Emma

Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain
Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre

Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights

Bunyan, John The Pilgrim's Progress 

Carson, Rachel  Silent Spring
Cervantes, Miguel Don Quixote
Conrad, Joseph Lord Jim

Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage

Darwin, Charles The Origin of the Species
Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe

Dickens, Charles David Copperfield
Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy
Elliot, George Adam Bede

Eliot, George Silas Mariner

Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man

Fitzgerald, F. Scott Tender is the Night

Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary
Forster, E. M. A Passage to India
Forester, E.M. Howard’s End

Garcia-Marquez, G. One Hundred Years of  Solitude

Goldman, William The Princess Bride

Hansberry, Lorraine A Raisin in the Sun

Hardy, Thomas Far From the Madding Crowd

Hardy, Thomas The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hardy, Thomas The Return of the Native

 

Hawthorne, Hathaniel The House of Seven  Gables
Heller, Joseph Catch-22
Hesse, Hermann Siddhartha

Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo, Victor Les Miserables
Ibsen, Henrik A Doll's House

Keneally, Thomas Schindler’s List

Kingsolver, Barbara The Poisonwood Bible

Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair Arrowsmith
Lewis, Sinclair Babbit

Lewis, Sinclair Main Street
Malamud, Bernard The Fixer

McCullers, Carson The Heart is a Lonely  Hunter

Mitchell, Margaret Gone with the Wind
Orwell, George 1984

Paton, Alan Cry, the Beloved Country
Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar
Rolvaag, 0. E. Giants in the Earth

Saroyan, William The Human Comedy
Scott, Sir Walter Ivanhoe

Shaw, George Bernard Saint Joan

Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Sinclair, Upton The Jungle Island

Solzhenitsvn. Alexander One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath

Thackeray, William M. Vanity Fair

Tolstoy, Leo Anna Karenina

Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace

Twain, Mark Tom Sawyer
Thoreau, Henry David Walden

Walker, Alice The Color Purple

Warren, Robert Penn All the King's Men
Wells, H. G. The Time Machine 
Wilder, Thornton The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Wilder, Thornton Our Town

Woolf, Virginia      Mrs. Dalloway
Wright, Richard Black Boy

Wright, Richard Native Son

  YALSA Outstanding Books for the        

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YALSA Best Books for Young Adults:

http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklis

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