Pre-AP / AP English
2014 Required Summer Reading
Welcome to Pre-AP / AP English. In this course, you will read extensively from a variety of texts and be
introduced to advanced placement strategies. The expectations of students and demands of the Pre-AP
/ AP curriculum are greater than in on-level courses. This course serves as a foundation for the
Advanced Placement tests; if passed, college credit can be earned.
Purpose
The Pre-AP / AP English courses include a required summer reading component. The purpose of the
summer reading assignment is to promote wide reading of notable literature, to establish the rigor for
class, and to further develop life-long reading skills.
You will choose one required novel from the English course list below for your summer reading
assignment. You are encouraged to read a novel from the further suggested novel list, but only one
required novel is expected to be read by the first day of school, August 26. There will be a summer
reading assessment over your required novel after the third week of school. Preparation for the
assessment will begin the first day of school.
You can purchase any of the books at local bookstores: Barnes and Noble, Half-price Books or online –
www.amazon.com, www.barnesandnoble.com, www.alibris.com/.
If a question arises that must be addressed in the summer, you may contact the Secondary Language
Arts Coordinator at 281.498.8110, x 5836.
Pre-AP English I
Required Novels
Pre-AP English II
Required Novels
AP English III
Required Novels
AP English IV
Required Novels
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott
Card
The Kite Runner by Khaled
Hosseini
Why We Can’t Wait by Martin
Luther King, Jr.
A Brave New World by Aldous
Huxley
Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba
Pattillo Beals
Native Son by Richard Wright
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Cry the Beloved Country by
Alan Paton
Further Suggested
Reading
Further Suggested
Reading
Further Suggested
Reading
Further Suggested
Reading
(recommended by College
Board for AP exam)
The Complete Persepolis by
Marjane Satrapi
(recommended by College
Board for AP exam)
Wuthering Heights by Emily
Bronte
(recommended by College
Board for AP exam)
Demon in the Freezer by Richard
Preston
(recommended by College
Board for AP exam)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Of Mice and Men by John
Steinbeck
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon
Silko
Same Kind of Different as Me:
International Art Dealer, and the
Unlikely Woman who Bound them
Together by Ron Hall
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Great Expectations by Charles
Dickens
Their Eyes are Watching God by
Zora Neale Hurston
Kabul Beauty School: An American
Woman Goes Behind the Veil by
Deborah Rodriguez and Kristin
Ohlson
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan