AP World History Suggested Summer Reading
“Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed” – Jared Diamone
“Ghengis Khan and the Making of the Modern World” – Jack Weatherford
“A World Lit Only by Fire” – William Manchester
“SALT: A World History” – Mark Kurlansky
“1421: The Year the Chinese Discovered America” – G. Menzies
“Life Along the Silk Road” – Susan Whitfield
“The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century” - Dunn, Ross E.
“The Human Web” - McNeill, John Robert
“The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle
East, Africa, and Asia – and How it Died” by John Philip Jenkins
“The World that Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy” by Kenneth
Pomeranz and Steven Topik
“When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433” - Louise
Levathes
“Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America” - John Charles Chasteen
“Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World” - Margaret MacMillan
“The Middle East” - Bernard Lewis