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Note: 9th graders in the FIRE program and other students taking AP Literature and Composition, APES, APUSH, Writing and Rhetoric, and The Plays of Shakespeare have specific texts to read that *will* *count* towards your total of three. The primary reading for FIRE this year is *Apeirogon* by Colum McCann.  **English** | FICTION | NONFICTION | | --- | --- | | *How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents* by Julia Alvarez *Jane Eyre* (pairs with *Wide Sargasso Sea*) by Charlotte Brontë *Their Eyes Were Watching God* by Zora Neale Hurston *Brave New World* by Aldous Huxley *Wide Sargasso Sea* (pairs with *Jane Eyre*) by Jean Rhys *Whose Names Are Unknown*, Sanora Babb *The Grapes of Wrath*, John Steinbeck *Dreaming in Cuban*, Cristina García | *The Code Breaker* by Walter Isaacson *Sapiens* by Yuval Noah Harari  *Tribe* by Sebastian Junger  *Born a Crime* by Trevor Noah *Gulp* by Mary Roach  *Just Mercy* by Bryan Stevenson *Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time* by Gaia Vince | **AP Literature and Composition Required Reading** *     - Pride and Prejudice* by Jane Austen (We recommend *The Annotated Pride and Prejudice*, David M Shapard, ed., but any print edition will do. You must bring your copy with you on the first day of class.) **The Plays of Shakespeare Required Reading ** *     - The Elizabethan World Picture* by E. M. W. Tillyard **Gothic Fiction Required Reading** *     - The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction* by Nick Groom **Writing and Rhetoric Required Reading ** *     - Apeirogon: A Novel* by Colum McCann **Freshmen Required Reading** *     - Apeirogon: A Novel* by Colum McCann, here is a [brief introduction to the book from Dr. Crowe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V9dG1xGOWw)   **Fine Arts** | VISUAL ARTS FICTION | VISUAL ARTS NONFICTION | | --- | --- | | *Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters* by Chip Kidd *Invisible Cities* By Italo Calvino | *The Diving Bell and the Butterfly* by Jean-Dominique Bauby *Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking* by David Bayles *Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light* by Leonard Shlain *The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World* by Lewis Hyde (Goodreads Author) *Your Inner Critic Is a Big Jerk: And Other Truths About Being Creative* by Danielle Krysa *Color: A Natural History of the Palette* by Victoria Finlay *Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers* by Leonard Koren *The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait* by Frida Kahlo, Carlos Fuentes (Introduction), Sarah M. Lowe (Introduction) *An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration From The Private Sketchbooks Of Artists, Illustrators And Designers* by Danny Gregory  *Ways of Seeing* by John Berger *Annie Leibovitz at Work* by Annie Leibovitz | **Performing Arts** | PERFORMING ARTS NONFICTION: MUSIC | PERFORMING ARTS NONFICTION: THEATRE | | --- | --- | | *Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece* by Ashley Kahn *Sing For Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family* by Daniel Bergner *This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession* by Daniel J. Levitin *How Music Works* by David Byrne *Evenings With the Orchestra* by Hector Berlioz, Translation by Jacques Barzun | *Other People's Shoes: Thoughts on Acting* by Harriet Walter *Will In The World* by Stephen Greenblatt *Finishing The Hat/Look I Made A Hat* by Stephen Sondheim *Sondheim & Co*. by Craig Zanan *Everything Was Possible* by Ted Chapin | **Global Language ** Please note that you do NOT need to be a student of the language in order to read and enjoy these books in English. Students taking AP French must read one of the French-only texts that they have not already read. | FICTION | NONFICTION | POETRY | | --- | --- | --- | | [*The Plague* by Albert Camus](https://www.amazon.com/Plague-Vintage-International-Albert-Camus-ebook/dp/B008QLVNII/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+plague+camus&qid=1588174687&sr=8-1) ([*La peste* in its original French](https://archive.org/details/albertcamus-lapeste-1947/page/n5/mode/2up)) [*Small Country:  A Novel*](https://www.amazon.com/Small-Country-Novel-Ga%C3%ABl-Faye/dp/1524759872) by Gaël Faye ([Petit pays : roman](https://www.amazon.com/Petit-pays-Litt%C3%A9rature-Fran%C3%A7aise-French-ebook/dp/B01KPRKJP8) in its original French) [*Madame Bovary* by Gustave Flaubert](https://www.amazon.com/Madame-Bovary-Classics-Gustave-Flaubert-dp-0451418506/dp/0451418506/ref=mt_mass_market_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1588175929) ([*Madame Bovary* in its original French](https://www.amazon.com/Madame-Bovary-moeurs-province-French-ebook/dp/B005R5Q8QI/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=madame+bovary+french+edition&qid=1621990714&s=books&sr=1-5)) [*Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow:  A Novel*](https://www.amazon.com/Kiffe-Tomorrow-Novel-Fa%C3%AFza-Gu%C3%A8ne-ebook/dp/B004H1U2TM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1YITZNQNQM88N&dchild=1&keywords=kiffe+kiffe+tomorrow&qid=1621989121&s=books&sprefix=Kiff%2Cstripbooks%2C158&sr=1-1) by [Faiza Guene](https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&field-author=Faiza+Guene&text=Faiza+Guene&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books) ([*Kiffe kiffe demain*](https://www.amazon.com/Kiffe-Demain-Livre-Poche-French/dp/2253113751) in its original French) [*Nineteenth-Century French Short Stories*](https://www.amazon.com/Nineteenth-Century-Stories-Dual-Language-English-Edition/dp/0486411265) (a dual-language book) [In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez](https://www.arts.gov/national-initiatives/nea-big-read/time-butterflies)  (*En el tiempo de mariposas* in Spanish) [Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes](http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/grapes-and-crowbars-undocumented-labor-in-helena-maria-viramontess-under-the-feet-of-jesus/) [名叫牛皮的插班生\_在线阅读\_马小跳系列书\_皮皮少儿阅读频道](https://www.ppzuowen.com/book/mingjiaoniupidechabansheng/) Paper copy of novels for Chinese II students: (Students pick one to read) *My Teacher is A Martian* *The Secret Garden* *A Journey to the Center of the Earth* | [*Persepolis* by Marjane Satrapi](https://www.amazon.com/Persepolis-Childhood-Pantheon-Graphic-Library/dp/037571457X) ([*Persepolis* in its original French](https://www.amazon.com/Persepolis-1-French-Marjane-Satrapi/dp/2844140580)) [Common Knowledge about Chinese Culture (bilingual book)](http://www.hwjyw.com/textbook/schzhsh/whchsh.pdf) Readings in Chinese Culture Vol. I (Paper copy) for Coming Chinese III  Readings in Chinese Culture Vol. II (paper copy) for Coming AP Chinese | [*Introduction to French Poetry*](https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-French-Dual-Language-English-Edition/dp/0486267113) (a dual-language book) [【诗歌之美】十六首中国现代诗巅峰之作！\_但斌](http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4a78b4ee0102vc8b.html) | **History** Students taking APUSH must read one (1) of the three texts in **bold.** | FICTION | NONFICTION | | --- | --- | | *The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet* by David Mitchell *The Ministry of Utmost Happiness* by Arundati Roy *The Underground Railroad* by Colson Whitehead *Washington Black* by Esi Edugyan *The Water Dancer* by Ta-Nehisi Coates *The Killer Angels* by Michael Shaara *The Sympathizer* by Viet Thanh Nguyen *Things Fall Apart* by Chinua Achebe *Lincoln in the Bardo* by George Saunders *The Things We Cannot Say* by Kelly Rimmer | ***New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America* by Wendy Warren ** ***The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America* by John Demos** ***The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England* by Carol Karlsen ** *Unruly Waters: how rains, rivers, coasts, and seas have shaped Asia’s history* by Sunil Amrith  *Plutopia: Nuclear families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters* by Kate Brown  *Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom* by David W. Blight *The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America* by Timothy Eagan *American Dialogue: The Founders and Us* by Joseph J. Ellis *Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World* by David Epstein *Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI* by David Grann *Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America* by Ibram X. 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