SUGGESTIONS FOR SUMMER READING (or later in the year):

About a third of these books could be consideredappropriate material for the AP exam; the rest are bonus. If you have extra time like a long summer or a long weekend or holiday, we urge you to pick one of these up. We suggest them because they’re fantastic and could change your life.

Underworld by Don DeLillo

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

Possession by A.S. ByattThe Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (AP)The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe Moviegoer by Walker Percy (AP)The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (AP)Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (AP)Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryAngle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Crossing to Safety by Wallace StegnerDelta Wedding by Eudora WeltyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (AP)

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (AP)The Color Purple by Alice Walker (AP)The Fire Next Time by James BaldwinMama Day by Gloria NaylorThe Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos KazantzakisCat on A Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams (AP)In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteOn The Road by Jack Kerouac (AP)Accidental Tourist by Anne TylerThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (AP)A Thousand Acres by Jane SmileyBeauty and Sadness by Yasunari KawabataThe Stranger by Albert Camus (AP)Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill (AP)Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett (AP)The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O’Connor (AP)Burger’s Daughter by Nadine Gordimer (AP)The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest HemingwayDog Soldiers by Robert StoneFathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (AP)The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael ChabonEmpire Falls by Richard RussoThe Hours by Michael CunninghamThe River Why by David James Duncan

The Brothers K by David James Duncan