AP Language and Composition
Non-Fiction Suggested Titles
From AP Language Students:
The Intepretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza
The Legacy of Luna by Julia Hill
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson by Corey Seymour
Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga by Hunter S. Thompson
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Kraukauer
The Faiths of the Founding Fathers by David L. Holmes
Infamous Scribblers by Eric Burns
All the President’s Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Burnstein
From Mrs. Buono:
Beautiful Boy by David Shef
Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You are Engulfed in
Flames by David Sedaris
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Anything by Jon Krakauer
From Mr. Schott (Social Studies):
Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven
D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America by Cullen Murphy
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder and Paulette Moller
From Mr. Masucci (AP Econ):
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan.
Zipper by Robert Friedel
Jefferson's Declaration of Independence by Allen Jayne
...and a Hard Rain Fell by John Ketwig
Maus I and II by Art
The Communist Road to Power in Vietnam by William Duiker
France and the French by Rod Kewward
The Language Police by Diane Ravitch
From Ms. Graupner and Ms. Miller (AP Psych)
Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality by Joan Frances Casey and Lynn Wilson
The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Washing: The Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Judith
L. Rapoport
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat By Oliver Sacks
One Child by Torey Hayden
An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
A Tribe Apart by Patricia Hersch
The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness by Lori Schiller and Amanda Bennett
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
From Mr. Murray (Chemistry):
That’s the Way the Cookie Crumbles by Dr. Joe Schwarcz
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History by Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson
The Genie in the Bottle: 67 All-New Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life by Dr. Joe
Schwarcz
The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison by John Emsley
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
From Mr. Zook (Physics):
The Flying Circus of Physics by Jearl Walker
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Revolutions in Physics by Barry Casper & Richard Noer
The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman
Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman
Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence Krauss
Ancient Puzzles by Dominic Olivastro
A History of Classical Physics by J.D. Bernal
Science and Society by Alan Smith
From Mrs. Lamontia (Biology):
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Collapse by Jared Diamond
The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim
Flannery
Artic Dreams by Barry Lopez
It’s a Jungle Up There by Margaret D. Loman, Edward Burgess, & James Burgess.
The Control of Nature by John McPhee
McPhee's other books include:
The Pine Barrens -- the wilds of New Jersey
Coming into The Country -- an exploration of Alaska.
Basin and Range -- the intersection of geology and biology as seen through the humble road
In Suspect Terrain -- Pennsylvania & The Delaware Water Gap
Assembling California -- San Andreas Fault and more...
Rising from the Plains -- a history of the Rocky Mountains
Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone by Douglas Smith and Gary Ferguson
The Herring Gull's World by Niko Tinbergen
The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson
Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson
In Search of Nature by Edward O. Wilson
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
Rosalind Franklin, the Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
The Double Helix by James Watson