Edgewood AP Lit Summer Reading List

Explore Edgewood's AP Lit Summer Reading List featuring must-read books to prepare for the course. Discover classic and contemporary literature to enhance your critical analysis skills.

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The Road

by Cormac McCarthy

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival …
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The Optimist's Daughter

by Eudora Welty

A young woman who has left the South, returns to New Orleans several years later when her father is dying. After his death, she and …
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Galapagos

by Kurt Vonnegut

“A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.”—The New York Times Book Review Galápagos takes the reader back one million …
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

by Mark Haddon

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic—both poignant and funny—about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor's dog and …
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You Shall Know Our Velocity

by Dave Eggers

An “entertaining and profoundly original” (San Francisco Chronicle) moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a …
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Girl with a Pearl Earring

by Tracy Chevalier

Holland comes to dazzling life in this richly imagined portrait of Griet, a sixteen year old of the 1660s who inspired one of Vermeer's most …
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In the Lake of the Woods

 

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Falling Man

by Don DeLillo

Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers …
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Leviathan

by Paul Auster

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “compelling” (Los Angeles Times) novel of friendship, betrayal, estrangement, and the unpredictable intrusions of violence in the everyday—from “a literary original …
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The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

This extraordinary, magical novel is the story of Clare and Henry who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and …
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