Dear 12AP Students,

I want to begin by wishing you a Happy New Year! When I was a kid, 2020 sounded like some Sci-Fi distance in the future—but here we are.  I hope that you have been enjoying your break and getting some time to restore.  

Below you will see the list of outside reading books you may choose from. Once you do your research and peruse a few authors and pages, please feel free to email me your first and second choice. You will have until Friday, January 10th, to make your final decisions. Once your book has been recorded, you will have the opportunity to prepare individually or within a group that has chosen the same book. Book conferences will begin on Monday, February 10th, and will end on Friday, February 21st. 

Feel free to email me with any questions or if you want me to make some individual suggestions for you. 

• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
  
• All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy 
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• Blindness by José Saramago
  
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Jazz by Toni Morrison
• The Known World by Edward P. Jones
• Light in August by William Faulkner
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
• The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
• The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• White Noise by Don DeLillo