What books do you have to read this year?

I finally found my old post.

So, I would like to ask again, for this Summer, what's assigned to you, especially if you have any non-fictions to read.

1. Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
2. The Stranger Albert Camus
3. The Awakening Kate Chopin
4. The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
5. Medea Euripides
6. The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri
7. Siddhartha Hermann Hesse
8. Beloved Toni Morrison

D:

This is summer reading. I'm not exactly sure what books I have to read during the school year. I only remember...Moby Richard (LOL, swear filters) D...! D:

well. For the school year...lots.

but for the summer...slightly less:
"Othello" Shakespeare
"Oedipus Rex" Sophocles
"The Glass Menagerie" Tennessee Williams
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
East of Eden John Steinbeck
College SAT 100 vocab. words (2 sentences)
List of literary terms (flashcards)

so far, I completed East of Eden and The Kite Runner.
I love 'em both, but Kite Runner slightly more.

Oh! I've read Siddhartha, THe stranger, & the awakening
all pretty good books (:


For my summer reading, I only had to read one book - White Noise by Don Delillo
but then a buttload of essays T_T seriously, how do they expect us to type up 14 pages of "analysis"
I hate analyzing books. -0-

Anyways, I'm not exactly sure what I'm gonna read this year for AP LANG
I'll find out soon~

Are you serious?

I haven't read Siddhartha yet, but from what I hear from my friends, it's written in a really weird style and it's not that good.

I reaaally didn't like The Awakening, it was SO slow. I didn't like The Stranger either, especially the last 10 pages or so.
>__> I pretty much hate all my summer reading books, except for The Kite Runner, great book. I've gotten mixed reviews about Three Cups of Tea, but I'm just starting it now.

Haha, well, they were pretty good compared to some really strange & boring books I've read in the past lol
The awakening was SO much better than reading grapes of wrath. I nearly died reading that book
I read Siddhartha when I was in 10th grade for english & i have to admit, it was kind of strange
bc it goes back and forth so much & since it's mostly about buddhism & the journey to enlightenment
but i thought it was interesting plus a fastttt read

Yeah, the last part of The Starnger wasn't good at all
but the other parts were ok (again, compared to other books like Lone Ranger & Tonto (wtf), it was reasonable)

lol, okay, I gotta agree that those books are at least okay compared to the other books you've had to read.
I heard Grapes of Wrath was just.....hell.

YESSSSS. I couldn't even finish the book.
I completely BS-ed the written & discussion portion of the assignment
hahahah

My summer reading list includes:
The Scarlet Letter
In Cold Blood
Nickel and Dimed (on NOT getting by in america) <--I had a choice of 4, but I chose this one.
1st 11 chapters of "A People's History of the United States"

idk my reading list for the actual school year though...

We got to choose our books out of a pretty selected section. Two of mine were required by my teacher.
Summer Reading for my junior year English class: Hamlet, Lord of the Flies, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Collector

Then I have to read books throughout the year
Physics: Cosmos
English: Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights
Am. History: Their Eyes Were Watching God

How long have you guys been forced to do summer reading? I did it since middle school which was the summer after 7th grade until now. Just one more year of it left

US History: The Jungle - Uptain Sinclair

Pretty good book. Tedious in the beginning but it gets interesting.

I'm pretty lucky I only have one book. Last year, I had reading for AP Lang, but the teacher for AP Lit got changed, so there wasn't any summer homework handed out due to it. xD

Wow you guys seem to have a long list of summer reading books hhahas.

Well for me, t his is what we have to read for this summer for AP Eng Lang:
1. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand & write an essay
2. Grendel by John Gardner or The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

I chose Grendel even though I wanted to read TCOMC since I had no time to read such a huge book.

lol, we have a list of books that we can choose from; they're categorized by the school subjects (math, science, english, history, spanish, etc).
we can either read one book from one category, or as many as we want.

i'm reading the glass castle. it's pretty good.
i wish we had twilight in our list; that'd be great.

I dont have a summer reading list, but the past year(freshman)< my class read Ethan Frome, Waiting, The Bad Seed, Romeo and Juliet, and The Catcher In The Rye. Sorry, i forgot who the authors are

-1984 : Orwell
-Pride & Prejudice : Austen
-L'Oeuvre : Zola
-Madame Bovary : Flaubert
all of them was good, Madame Bovary was a little boring through

Summer reading:

-A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing : Shakespeare
-Jacques le fataliste et son maitre : Diderot

still have 2 books to read TT_TT

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Beowulf
Grendel - John Gardner
Macbeth - Shakespeare
Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
The Homecoming - Harold Pinter

and some other outside readings and an entire thick poetry book....

This is the joy of taking AP English lit

eh i don't know my list for eng yet but for

ap gov:
money makes the world go around
worldly philosophers
locked in the cabinet

ap eng, summer readin, we just had to choose 2 from a list of 10?12?
i chose, wuthering heights, and catch 22


but for last year in honors euro lit we had to read:
the stranger
pride and prejudice <3333
beowulf, other epic poetry stuff
macbeth
a room of one's own
candide
one day in the life of ivan denisovich
A LOT OF POETRY (rime of anc mariner, and more of the really long poems )
we had like 3?4? poetry units ;

& for extra credit: tale of two cities & mrs. dalloway but i didn't read the latter.

i really enjoyed reading everything above EPS PRIDE AND PREJUDICE<3
i think reading a room of one's own was enlightening. i seriously felt smarter
LOL after every class discussion.

the system --- for gov

for english:

pride and prejudice <3 darcy
eats, shoots, and leaves
freakonomics

^
I read Pride&Prejudice last year for English Honors. I loooooved it. Mr.Darcy's charming.


Please tell me this is throughout the whole year, not summer reading.

I read these last year in English Honors:
Beowulf
Macbeth - Shakespeare
Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Hamlet - Shakespeare.

I actually kinda liked Rime of the Ancient Mariner after we got through analyzing it.

And I read The Stranger for summer reading, bad book IMO.

alicimoo: No~, haha, no way I'd read all that over the summer. My school doesn't have summer homework. It's for the whole year and apparently I got the hardest AP lit teacher this year. While we are supposed to receive 3 textbooks today, the other teacher haven't assigned a single book yet.

i am going on Junior btw
+i had to read :
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Room of one' own by Virginia Wright
+ during last school year :
Dante's Inferno
1984
Commmunist Manifesto
A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Cry, The Beloved Country (pretty boring)
On Liberty
Darkness At Noon
Ethan Frome
+ i read Kite Runner last year for summer reading it was a good book. i wanted to watch the movie.

My school doesn't give out summer homework. We've had three essays in the first week of school; does that count? :]

Ahh.
Oedipus the King Sophocles
The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald
The Stranger Camus
Like Water for Chocolate
As I Lay Dying Faulkner
Waiting for Godot
The Sun Also Rises Hemingway

Not entirely sure if we're going over more than that for AP Language & Composition at my school.

The Kite Runner is an awesome book. I read it for summer reading last year.

Ceremony and Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Both have their WTH moments...yep.

I'm a sophomore now
And for the summer we had to read:
DAVID COPPERFIELD By Charles Dickens.
That was seriously the boringest book ever, I couldn't even read it.
During the school year we're reading
1. Henry IV.
2. The Odyssey
3. A Tale Of Two Cities
4. The Merchant of Venice.

Catcher in the Rye
Jurassic Park

and others. lol

^Cather in the Rye was so random

Pygmalion by G.B. Shaw
1984 by George Orwell
Beowulf
Macbeth William Shakespeare
Sonnets by Shakespeare & others
"Meditation 17" John Donne
"A Modest Proposal" Jonathan Swift

---
4 independent books
1. about Heroes & adventures
2. About Medieval life & times
3. Free Choice
4. About Utopia, revolution, or better world

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

Last year summer reading
-Catch 22
During the year
-The Great Gatsby
and 3 books we choose from a list which. Can't remember which ones

This year so far, junior year
summer reading
-Slaughterhouse-Five by Vonnegut
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
and three we can choose from a list

Summer books:
"The Glass Menagerie" Tennessee Williams
"The Catcher in the Rye" J.D. Salinger

I loved both books <3.

School year:
"Joy Luck Club" Amy Tan
"A Doll House" forgot the author
"Julius Caesar" Shakespeare

over the summer for english (dont remember authors)
me talk pretty one day
bell jar
for government
myths, lies, and downright stupidity - john stossel
rich dad, poor dad - some Japanese man

right now in english, im reading the stranger by albert camus

I got to choose my reading list for this semester, and I chose the books that I've already read. Ahahaha.

"Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
"Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
"Persuasion" by Jane Austen
"1984" by George Orwell
"Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

ooh i had to read 1000 splendid suns, also by hosseini. it is such an amazing book >__< i cried in some parts ]: it's so saaddd

so far, i've read
siddhartha
hamlet
tess of the dubbervilles (totally spelled that wrong)
beowulf
and i'm currently reading rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead

We have to do like a lot this year.
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. Translated by Stanley Corngold.
The Dubliners by James Joyce.
Night by Elie Wiesel.
Four Great Plays by Henrik Ibsen. Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp.
The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles. Translated by Robert kool-aidles.
Macbeth by William Shakespeare.
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Translated by Nevill Coghill.
Five Plays by Jean Anouilh.

I finally found my old post.

So, I would like to ask again, for this Summer, what's assigned to you, especially if you have any non-fictions to read.

One of my cousins had to read "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman. I read it, and I really liked the way how it could motivate a complacent student.

Senior Year (:

A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver
A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

the only book i have to read this summer for AP World is
Guns, Germ, and Steel by Jared Diamond

a pretty good, interesting book so far (:

As a Junior:
Summer - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
During-
Hamlet
Great Gatsby
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Crucible
Ethan Frome
i'm not sure if there was any more

Next Year:
Summer- Never Let Me Go—Kazuo Ishiguro

I heard of this book before, several times. I will have to check it out.

Grade 12 year for English IB HL:

Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Othello by William Shakespeare
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Wars by Timothy Findley
Madame Bovery by Gustave Flaubert
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Yeah I'm just going to try to read all these over the summer so I can get a head start, lol.

for junior year:
so far for summer reading,

The Bell Jar
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

i don't know for the rest of the year though

Senior Year
Don Quixote - Shiz is 1000+ pages long T-T
Tess D'Ubervilles

I'm going to read Fahrenheit 451.
This year, I also read Medea and a little bit of Romeo and Juliet.
Last year was Of Mice and Men, One Sunny Morning, The Scarlet Ibis, and Raisin in the Sun.

Kite Runner, Namesake and Beloved are terrific works Have fuuun.
Although, Beloved is a pretty difficult work to comprehend. I don't think summer reading would be beneficial. I had to go through it pages by pages in IB English 3 class to actually understand it thoroughly.

During the Summer for going into sophomore year I read:
The Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
and The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay (wasn't required...but i wanted to read it)

THen during Sophomore year:
CLass readings:
Selections from The Epic of Gilgamesh
Selections from Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
Myths –the story of the Deluge from three cultures (printed packet)
The Alchemist by Coelho, Paulo <-such a great book!
Antigone by Sophocles
Night by Elie Wiesel
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Chronicles of a death foretold by Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare

Outside reading:
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (sp?)
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
A Year in Provence by I forgot the Author
and one other book...

For Junior Year: I dropped down from honors to cp hahaha
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines

Freshman year:
-To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
-Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
-The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
-The Odyssey by Homer

Summer reading going Sophomore:
-Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Outside reading:
-Three men in a boat by Jerome K. Jerome
-The Count of Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

All easy books. D:

All of your reading lists looks interesting. For senior year, I have to read The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama...

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
There's another book; but these two are my summer assignments. IDK what I have to come up to.

----> Entering my senior year
- 1984
- Hardball
- Another AP Gov textbook
- Some spanish titled book that I totally forgot the name of... it's not translated. XD

Night is such a touching and deep book.

I hope you like it haha.