Summer Reading Suggestions

This list is not to be confused with the Required and Suggested AP English 11 and 12 list.

Travel to exotic places.  Meet famous people.  Turn back time and explore ancient history.  You can do all of that this summer – read a book!

Reading is a window to new worlds and exciting people, but did you know that high school students that read during the summer are also more likely to score higher on standardized tests such as the SAT, ACT, and AP exams?  Include reading in your summer plans!

 

Classics Latest YA Releases
 History Science Math
1984 George Orwell Blue Eye The Thousandth Floor Katharine McGee Sky Scraper floating in space the higher you are the father you fall new york times best seller Things They Carried Tim O’Brien Soliders hiking through a forest Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Neil DeGrasse Tyson child looking at star filled sky Math Instinct Keith Devlin Why you're a mathematical genious Along with Lobsters Birds and Dogs Dog Catching Frizbee
Lord of the Flies William Golding Beartown Fredrik Backman Boys playing ice hockey in the mountains #1 new york times best selling author of a man called ove Underground Railroad A Novel Colson Whitehead Oprahs Book Club red background with railroad tracks Cod: a biography of the fish that changed history Mark Kurlansky fishing boat, a picture of a fish, and three fishermen Hidden Figures Margot Lee Shetterly Young Readers Edition Women with Coats
Girl Sitting on a wall with a tree A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith Goodbye Days Jeff Zentner written in bubbles with black lines Girl in the Blue Coat Monica Hesse City Street with girl in blue coat Radium Girls Kate Moore women with hats in green with a clock the dark story of america's shining women Spare Parts Joshua Davis Now a Major Motion Picture Four Undocumented Teenagers One Ugly Robot And the American Dream Five Kids Celebrating
Selected Tales of Poe Edgar Allan Poe Far From the Tree Robin Benway Author of emily and oliver what does it mean to be a family pink and orange leaves King Leopold’s Ghost Adam Hochschild A story of greed terror and heroism in colonial africa old man with beard and fancy jacket DNA Detectives Anna Meyer how the double helix is solving puzzles of the past DNA strand with a skull Moneyball Michael Lewis Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Brad Pit The #1 New York Times Best Seller Man standing in a baseball field
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Man standing on a pile of burning books Invictus Ryan Graudin The future's hope is in the past pink lines Paper Mark Kurlansky paging through history new york times best selling author of salt and cod two people with paper Gulp Mary Roach New York Best Seller Author of Sniff Mouth with tounge out Joy of X Steven Strogatz A guided tour of math from one to infinity a multicolored x

Revised 5/14/2018

 

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