Summer Reading List English IV AP 2019-20
I. Each senior Advanced Placement student is required to read the two books below. These novels will be quizzed the first week of school and will be the basis of the year’s first theme:
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men
II. Each boy in grades seven through twelve will read our All School Read, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyange, by Alfred Lansing. All students will finish a project related to this book due on Monday, August 19th, to each student’s advisor (not English teacher, though they might be the same teacher). Use the following link for instructions regarding the project: https://libguides.
III. Each student must also read one book from the optional list below. This book will serve as the basis for an essay written in response to an AP topic to be assigned on the first day of class.
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
Beloved, Toni Morrison
A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul
Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton
The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
