Sarah
Are there any funny, interesting AP books, like ones that are actually fun to read? Or any new AP lit books? Like ones written it the 90s or in the 2000s?
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This is a very good question. The vast majority of the books I was assigned to read I enjoyed immensely. There were only a handful I could have left alone and only one I absolutely hated.
Great Books
Candide--A really fun and rather crazy adventure story. Seriously a lol book.
1984--Interesting to see how some things in this book are really coming true. For instance, there is a description where everyone's tv turns on and people watch them exercise. Now in the real world some children are being taken away from parents, claiming obesity as a form of abuse.
The Color Purple
Flowers for Algernon
Things Fall Apart--Actually used this book for my essay on the AP test.
Wuthering Heights--a bit slower in the reading, but the plot makes it worth while.
Crime and Punishment--I had actually acquired the AP required list for my class the summer before to get a jump on my reading. I saved this one until the end as I thought it would be boring. I was very pleasantly surprised. It turned out to be one of my favorites. The characters are so complex and really make the story amazing.
Their Eyes Were Watching God--Simply just a beautiful, amazing story.
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn--One of my all time favorites
Don Quixote--One of the few fantasy-associated lit books.
Great Expectations
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Pride and Prejudice
The Great Gatsby--Love this book
The Lord of the Flies
The Old Man and the Sea
A Separate Peace
The Doll's House (play)--Really loved this one
The Crucible (play)
Death of a Sales Man (play)
A Raisin in the Sun (play)
Anything by Shakespeare. I especially liked Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado about Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth.
Greek plays--Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and Prometheus Bound
Great More-Modern Books
Obasan--1981--About Japanese internment
The Kite Runner--2003
A Thousand Splendid Suns--2007
Okay books that I had to read, but probably wouldn't read again
The Scarlet Letter--Liked the movie much better
The Grapes of Wrath--liked the movie since I was little, but the book--not so much
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man--Slow, not much plot, religious content.
Fences (play)
Absolutely hated and would never read ever again of my own free will--The Heart of Darkness. When I read this book it was so bad I couldn't even follow the plot at all. When we went back over it in class and the teacher told us what was going on I grew to dislike it even more. Just a terrible, gruesome tale that is not even worth picking up just to see how bad it is!
Hope this has helped. Happy Reading.
This is a very good question. The vast majority of the books I was assigned to read I enjoyed immensely. There were only a handful I could have left alone and only one I absolutely hated.
Great Books
Candide--A really fun and rather crazy adventure story. Seriously a lol book.
1984--Interesting to see how some things in this book are really coming true. For instance, there is a description where everyone's tv turns on and people watch them exercise. Now in the real world some children are being taken away from parents, claiming obesity as a form of abuse.
The Color Purple
Flowers for Algernon
Things Fall Apart--Actually used this book for my essay on the AP test.
Wuthering Heights--a bit slower in the reading, but the plot makes it worth while.
Crime and Punishment--I had actually acquired the AP required list for my class the summer before to get a jump on my reading. I saved this one until the end as I thought it would be boring. I was very pleasantly surprised. It turned out to be one of my favorites. The characters are so complex and really make the story amazing.
Their Eyes Were Watching God--Simply just a beautiful, amazing story.
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn--One of my all time favorites
Don Quixote--One of the few fantasy-associated lit books.
Great Expectations
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Pride and Prejudice
The Great Gatsby--Love this book
The Lord of the Flies
The Old Man and the Sea
A Separate Peace
The Doll's House (play)--Really loved this one
The Crucible (play)
Death of a Sales Man (play)
A Raisin in the Sun (play)
Anything by Shakespeare. I especially liked Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado about Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth.
Greek plays--Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and Prometheus Bound
Great More-Modern Books
Obasan--1981--About Japanese internment
The Kite Runner--2003
A Thousand Splendid Suns--2007
Okay books that I had to read, but probably wouldn't read again
The Scarlet Letter--Liked the movie much better
The Grapes of Wrath--liked the movie since I was little, but the book--not so much
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man--Slow, not much plot, religious content.
Fences (play)
Absolutely hated and would never read ever again of my own free will--The Heart of Darkness. When I read this book it was so bad I couldn't even follow the plot at all. When we went back over it in class and the teacher told us what was going on I grew to dislike it even more. Just a terrible, gruesome tale that is not even worth picking up just to see how bad it is!
Hope this has helped. Happy Reading.
Scary kids book early 90s?
croftman86
Ive been looking online forever for this. All i can remember is this childrens book was told at halloween time. Its paperback and i believe published in or around 1991. On the cover is a cartoon kid sneaking by a wall or something holding a lantern. I think one story dealt with a little girl hitchhiker in a sweater. It was fully illustrated also.
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Could it have been one of the Goosebumps books?
Could it have been one of the Goosebumps books?
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