Summer Reading List
12th Grade - AP English   

Four Books Total

Required Reading:

Heart of Darkness - Conrad

Oedipus the King - Sophocles

Great Expectations OR Tale of Two Cities - Dickens

Optional (choose one)

Cry the Beloved Country - Paton
Poisonwood Bible - Kingsolver

Siddhartha  -  Hesse
Anthem - Rand

1984  -  Orwell

Pride and Prejudice  -  Austen

Metamorphosis - Kafka

The Stranger  -  Camus

Madame Bovary  -  Flaubert

*In Cold Blood - Capote           

*Slaughterhouse 5  -  Vonnegut 

* May contain violence, adult language, or sexual content.

12th Grade Instructions

• Students in the AP Program will write multiple essays after returning to school in the fall.  They will write the essays in Advanced Composition class after receiving instruction in analytical writing.  The essays will respond to a work selected from the required list or a common optional work agreed upon by the class.