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Hawthorne High AP Language Summer Reading List

For AP Language Students.  Please choose a book you have not read.  

All books from this list can be counted towards the Teen Summer Reading List Program.


Quiet : the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by Susan Cain
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Quiet : the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking

by Susan Cain


In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences by Truman Capote
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In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences

by Truman Capote


The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brain by Nicholas Carr
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The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brain

by Nicholas Carr


How soccer explains the world : an unlikely theory of globalization by Franklin Foer
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How soccer explains the world : an unlikely theory of globalization

by Franklin Foer


Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth by Adam Frank
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Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth

by Adam Frank


The Brontes: Charlotte Bronte and her Family by Rebecca Fraser
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The Brontes: Charlotte Bronte and her Family

by Rebecca Fraser


Talking to strangers what we should know about the people we don't know by Malcolm Gladwell
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Talking to strangers what we should know about the people we don't know

by Malcolm Gladwell


Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

by David Grann


Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
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Salt: A World History

by Mark Kurlansky


Ghettoside: a true story of murder in America by Jill Leov
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Ghettoside: a true story of murder in America

by Jill Leov


Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
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Angela's Ashes

by Frank McCourt


Reading Lolita in the Tehran: a memoir in books by Azar Nafisi
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Reading Lolita in the Tehran: a memoir in books

by Azar Nafisi


We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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We Should All Be Feminists

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

by Trevor Noah


Killing Lincoln : the shocking assassination that changed America forever by Bill O'Reilly
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Killing Lincoln : the shocking assassination that changed America forever

by Bill O'Reilly


Undocumented : A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League by Dan-El Padilla Peralta
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Undocumented : A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League

by Dan-El Padilla Peralta


The Arm: Inside the Billion Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports by Jeff Passan
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The Arm: Inside the Billion Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports

by Jeff Passan


Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

by Daniel Pink


Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

by Mary Roach


The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth by Alexandra Robbins
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The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth

by Alexandra Robbins


Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sederis
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Me Talk Pretty One Day

by David Sederis


Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

by Bryan Stevenson


The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
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The Glass Castle

by Jeannette Walls


Educated by Tara Westover
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