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Humanities /AP -----Summer Reading

REQUIREMENT :    Three novels or plays from this list must be read by September.   (See Mrs. Rossillo if you would like to read any other novel or play of comparable literary merit. )

A Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler - Ibsen

Anna Karenina    - Tolstoy

A Farewell to Arms – Hemingway

An American Tragedy - Dreiser

Brave New World   - Huxley

The Color Purple – Walker

* Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky

Sister Carrie -  Dreiser

Frankenstein - Shelley

Heart of Darkness – Conrad

Lord Jim - Conrad

Mrs. Dalloway - Woolfe

The Invisible Man – Ellison

1984 – Orwell

Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Hardy

The Age of Innocence – Wharton

The Joy Luck Club – Tan

The Turn of the Screw – James

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Twain

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Hurston

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde

The Mayor of Casterbridge – Hardy

The Things They Carried – O’Brien

Pride and Prejudice - Austen

Wuthering Heights – Bronte

*Hamlet – Shakespeare

**These works are part of the Humanities curriculum

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