ALL Classes: Have a Great Summer!
If you are in AICE OR AP for Next Year, these are the Summer Reading Selections
AICE and AP Literature Summer Reading Requirements
2024-25
If you are taking AP Literature or AICE Literature next year at Mandarin High, you are responsible for reading one of the following novels by the end of summer break. In addition to reading for pleasure, you should bear in mind you will be writing the first week of school about its language, its themes, and its emotional and visceral effect on you. Make sure you choose a book you can appreciate. (Click Book Title for PDF or Amazon Link)
The Chosen by Chaim Potok It’s about the intense, complicated friendship between two Jewish boys who meet in 1940s Brooklyn.
Dracula by Bram Stoker It’s a gothic horror story about a vampire’s attempts to gain a foothold in England in order to find fresh blood and the attempts of a group of courageous individuals to stop him.
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle It’s a detective novel featuring the brilliant Sherlock Holmes tackling a case that involves a centuries-old curse.
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith It’s a story told in diary form about a seventeen-year-old girl living in a dilapidated but beautiful castle in the English countryside with her fascinating and eccentric family.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison It’s about a young Black college student who leaves the South for New York City, experiencing a series of surreal encounters and incidents.
Kindred by Octavia Butler It’s a time-travel story in which a Black woman in the 1970s is summoned back in time to a farm with slaves in Maryland in 1815.
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga It’s a coming-of-age story about a thirteen-year-old Zimbabwean girl who grabs the chance to study at a mission school when her brother dies.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro It’s a dystopian tale that takes place in an alternate reality of England during the 1990s in which mass human cloning is authorized and performed.
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie It’s a coming-of-age story about a fifteen-year-old Nigerian Catholic teenager who experiences the emotional turmoil of her family coming apart and her first love.
A Separate Peace by John Knowles Set against the backdrop of World War II, the novel explores morality, patriotism, and loss of innocence through its narrator, Gene Forrester, in his relationship with classmate and friend Phineas.