AP reading helppppppppppp????

Question

so i need to read a book from the AP reading list every quarter do you guys have any favorites from the list or do you guys have any other suggestions on what i should read?? thanks in advance sorry if the list is long....


Maya Angelou
Gather Together In My Name
The Heart of a Woman
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Singin’ and Swingin’ and Getting’ Merry Like Christmas

Walter Jackson Bate
John Keats
Samuel Johnson

Charles A. Beard
An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution
The Rise of America n Civilization (with Mary R. Beard)

James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Van Wyck Brooks
An Autobiography
Days of Phoenix
From A Writer’s Notebook

Thomas Carlyle
The French Revolution
Past and Present


Bruce Catton
Mr. Lincoln’s Army
A Stillness at Appomattox

Sir Winston Churchill
Blood, Sweat, and Tears
Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
In the Balance: Speeches 1949 and 1950
Marlborough
My Early Life
Their Finest hour
Triumph and Tragedy

Charles Dana
(any nonfiction)

Thomas De Quincy
Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Frederick Douglass
The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
My Bondage and My Freedom
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Leon Edel
Bloomsbury: A House of Lions
Henry James, a Life
The Stuff of Sleep and Dreams
Telling Lives

Richard Ellmann
Eminent Domain: Yeats Among Wilde, Joyce, Pound, Eliot, and Auden
James Joyce

Antonia Fraser
King James I of England
Mary, Queen of Scots
Oliver Cromwell
The Warrior Queens
The Weaker Vessel: Women’s Lot in Seventeenth-Century England

Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Lillian Hellman
Scoundrel Time
An Unfinished Woman

William Dean Howells
Years of my Youth

Alfred Kazin
New York Jew
Starting Out in the Thirties
A Walker in the City

Helen Keller
A Story of my Life
Maxine Hong Kingston
China Men
The Woman Warrior

T.E. Lawrence
The Revolt in the Desert
Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Gerda Lerner
The Creation of Patriarchy
The Female Experience: An American Documentary
The Majority Finds its Path: placing Women in History

Thomas Macaulay
Critical and Historical Essays
History of England from the Accession of James II

Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Samuel Eliot Morison
Christopher Columbus, Admiral of the Ocean Sea
The Growth of the American Republic
Harrison Gray Otis: Urbane Federalist

Henry Newman
(any nonfiction)

Francis Parkman
The Oregon Trail
Pioneers of France in the New World
Samuel Pepys
Diary

Richard Rodriguez
Days of Obligation
Hunger or Memory

Mari Sandoz
The Battle of the Little Big Horn
Old Jules

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The Age of Jackson
The Age of Roosevelt
The Bitter Heritage
Robert Kennedy and His Times
A Thousand Days

George Trevelyan
English Social History

Barbara Tuchman
Bible and Sword
A Distant Mirror
The Guns of August
The Proud Tower

Richard Wright
American Hunger
Black Boy

Anzia Yezierska
Bread and Givers
The Open Cage
Red Ribbon on a White Horse

Essay, Fiction, and Criticism

Joseph Addison
Selections from the Tatler and the Spectator

James Agee
Collected Short Prose
A Death in the Family

Michael Arlen
An American Verdict
The Camera Age: Essays on Television
Exiles

Matthew Arnold
(any criticism)

Margaret Atwood
Cat’s Eye
The Handmaid’s Tale

Sir Francis Bacon
The Advancement of Learning
The New Atlantis


James Baldwin
Another Country
The Devil Finds Work
The Evidence of Things Not Seen
The First Next Time
Go Tell It on the Mountain
If Beale Street Could Talk
Notes of a Native Son

G.K. Chesterton
Heretics
St. Francis of Assisi
St. Thomas Aquinas
The Victorian Age in Literature

Kenneth Clark
Another Part of the Wood
Civilization
The Other Half

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(any criticism)

Arlene Croce
(any criticism)

Joan Didion
A Book of Common Prayer
Salvador
Slouching Toward Bethlehem
(any essays)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks
(any essays)

Northrop Frye
Anatomy of Criticism
Fearful Symmetry
Fools of Time

Paul Fussell
Bad, Or the Dumbing of America
The Great War and Modern Memory
Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays

Nadine Gordimer
Face to Face
My Son’s Story
Not for Publication

William Hazlitt
(any criticism)

Zora Neale Hurston
Dust Tracks on a Road
Jonah’s Gourd Vine
Their Eyes Were Watching God

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Heart and Dust
In Search of Love and Beauty

Samuel Johnson
The Lives of the Poets
Selection from the Idler and the Rambler

Pauline Kael
5001 Nights at the Movies
I Lost it at the Movies
State of the Art

William Hugh Kenner
A Colder Eye

Charles

Answer 1

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Try Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Janie’s relationship with Nanny, her grandmother, demonstrates her need for love. She aims to please Nanny and, for this, she is rewarded by being coerced into marriage with an older man she cannot love. From her brief marriage with Logan Killicks, Janie learns that marriage does not necessarily entail love.

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Answer 2

I loved Black Boy and State of the Art.