Summer Reading Requirement - English IV AP
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. All School Read for 2022-23: Each boy in grades seven through twelve is required to read The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba. All students will take a quiz on this book the first week of school.
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.
Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
Beloved, Toni Morrison
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton
The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf