Reading Help????????

Question

which books from this ap reading list should i read for outside reading and why??? or do you guys have suggestions for other books

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

• Walter Jackson Bate
o John Keats
o Samuel Johnson

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

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

• Van Wyck Brooks
o An AutobiographyC
o Days of Phoenix
o From A Writer’s Notebook

• Thomas Carlyle
o The French Revolution
o Past and Present


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

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

• Charles Dana
o (any nonfiction)

• Thomas De Quincy
o Confessions of an English Opium Eater

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

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

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

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

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

• Lillian Hellman
o Scoundrel Time
o An Unfinished Woman

• William Dean Howells
o Years of my Youth

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

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

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

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

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

• Malcolm X
o The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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

• Henry Newman
o (any nonfiction)

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

• Richard Rodriguez
o Days of Obligation
o Hunger or Memory

• Mari Sandoz
o The Battle of the Little Big Horn
o Old Jules

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

• George Trevelyan
o English Social History

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

• Richard Wright
o American Hunger
o Black Boy

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

• Essay, Fiction, and Criticism

• Joseph Addison
o Selections from the Tatler and the Spectator

• James Agee
o Collected Short Prose
o A Death in the Family

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

• Matthew Arnold
o (any criticism)

• Margaret Atwood
o Cat’s Eye
o The Handmaid’s Tale

• Sir Francis Bacon
o The Advancement of Learning
o The New Atlantis


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

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

• Kenneth Clark
o Another Part of the Wood
o Civilization
o The Other Half

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
o (any criticism)

• Arlene Croce
o (any criticism)

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

• Northrop Frye
o Anatomy of Criticism
o Fearful Symmetry
o Fools of Time

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

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

• William Hazlitt
o (any criticism)

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

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

• Samuel Johnson
o The Lives of the Poets
o Selection from the Idler

Answer 1

Best Answer - Chosen by Voters

I think you should definitely read:

*I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

*The Autobiography of Malcolm X

*Black Boy by Richard Wright

Answer 2

You can't honestly expect someone to read all that, can you?