Suggested Reading List for AP English Language & Composition

1.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Braiding Sweetgrass 4.52 avg rating β€” 158,544 ratings
2.
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail 4.07 avg rating β€” 436,162 ratings
3.
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood 4.09 avg rating β€” 710,462 ratings
4.
Outliers: The Story of Success
Outliers: The Story of Success 4.19 avg rating β€” 845,903 ratings
5.
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 4.16 avg rating β€” 192,431 ratings
6.
Crying in H Mart
Crying in H Mart 4.24 avg rating β€” 555,895 ratings
7.
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet 4.36 avg rating β€” 161,149 ratings
8.
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood 4.49 avg rating β€” 778,918 ratings
9.
Kon-Tiki
Kon-Tiki 4.16 avg rating β€” 24,592 ratings
10.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking 4.08 avg rating β€” 465,764 ratings
11.
The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle 4.32 avg rating β€” 1,325,849 ratings
12.
Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II 3.87 avg rating β€” 46,528 ratings
13.
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake 4.04 avg rating β€” 61,420 ratings
14.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating β€” 787,167 ratings
15.
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating β€” 989,290 ratings
15.
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking 3.96 avg rating β€” 614,752 ratings
17.
The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus
The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus 3.24 avg rating β€” 677 ratings
18.
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex 4.16 avg rating β€” 115,994 ratings
19.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating β€” 194,447 ratings
20.
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster 4.26 avg rating β€” 551,079 ratings
21.
Into the Wild
Into the Wild 4.02 avg rating β€” 1,165,814 ratings
21.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 4.06 avg rating β€” 234,489 ratings
23.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales 4.05 avg rating β€” 239,844 ratings
24.
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea 4.12 avg rating β€” 117,729 ratings
25.
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 739,924 ratings
26.
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) 4.23 avg rating β€” 1,267,027 ratings
27.
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto 4.06 avg rating β€” 11,495 ratings
27.
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 3.97 avg rating β€” 2,719,595 ratings
29.
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attentionβ€” and How to Think Deeply Again
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attentionβ€” and How to Think Deeply Again 4.23 avg rating β€” 71,152 ratings
29.
Poeta chileno
Poeta chileno 4.37 avg rating β€” 21,816 ratings
31.
The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) 4.19 avg rating β€” 4,945 ratings
31.
Beyond Good and Evil
Beyond Good and Evil 4.03 avg rating β€” 109,338 ratings
33.
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism 3.82 avg rating β€” 108,687 ratings
34.
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know 4.13 avg rating β€” 136,076 ratings
34.
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer 4.12 avg rating β€” 257,812 ratings
36.
The Yellow House
The Yellow House 3.89 avg rating β€” 25,005 ratings
37.
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End 4.49 avg rating β€” 210,940 ratings
38.
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer 4.02 avg rating β€” 10,620 ratings
39.
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life 3.88 avg rating β€” 1,398 ratings
40.
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 329,353 ratings
41.
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Men We Reaped: A Memoir 4.30 avg rating β€” 27,673 ratings
42.
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen 4.31 avg rating β€” 14,904 ratings
43.
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup 4.41 avg rating β€” 276,400 ratings
44.
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1) 4.27 avg rating β€” 224,959 ratings
45.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity 3.98 avg rating β€” 114,830 ratings
46.
Heart Berries
Heart Berries 3.82 avg rating β€” 29,276 ratings
47.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Slouching Towards Bethlehem 4.19 avg rating β€” 78,772 ratings
48.
Upstream: Selected Essays
Upstream: Selected Essays 4.16 avg rating β€” 24,019 ratings
49.
Becoming
Becoming 4.44 avg rating β€” 1,160,777 ratings
50.
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating β€” 357,447 ratings
51.
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World 3.95 avg rating β€” 56,869 ratings
52.
When Breath Becomes Air
When Breath Becomes Air 4.41 avg rating β€” 767,462 ratings
53.
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books 3.66 avg rating β€” 138,482 ratings
54.
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo 3.76 avg rating β€” 12,198 ratings
55.
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War 4.34 avg rating β€” 13,219 ratings
56.
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia 4.16 avg rating β€” 13,135 ratings
57.
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban 4.16 avg rating β€” 612,744 ratings
58.
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness 4.09 avg rating β€” 233,289 ratings
59.
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 4.34 avg rating β€” 99,178 ratings
60.
Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History
Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History 3.88 avg rating β€” 3,003 ratings
61.
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business 4.13 avg rating β€” 549,188 ratings
62.
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 4.01 avg rating β€” 885,882 ratings
63.
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success 4.10 avg rating β€” 169,840 ratings
64.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow 4.17 avg rating β€” 564,678 ratings
65.
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen 4.30 avg rating β€” 228,824 ratings
66.
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin 3.89 avg rating β€” 215,206 ratings
67.
Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation 4.26 avg rating β€” 5,516 ratings
68.
In the Time of the Butterflies
In the Time of the Butterflies 4.15 avg rating β€” 77,537 ratings
69.
Zeitoun
Zeitoun 4.05 avg rating β€” 79,611 ratings
70.
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 4.15 avg rating β€” 77,303 ratings
71.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 4.34 avg rating β€” 1,202,027 ratings
72.
How Soccer Explains the World
How Soccer Explains the World 3.79 avg rating β€” 13,160 ratings
73.
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals 4.19 avg rating β€” 208,907 ratings
74.
This Boy's Life
This Boy's Life 3.97 avg rating β€” 30,192 ratings
75.
Burro Genius
Burro Genius 4.15 avg rating β€” 2,064 ratings
76.
An American Childhood
An American Childhood 3.91 avg rating β€” 10,427 ratings
77.
From Beirut to Jerusalem
From Beirut to Jerusalem 4.15 avg rating β€” 12,910 ratings
78.
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference 4.01 avg rating β€” 844,315 ratings
79.
The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life through the Pages of a Lost Journal
The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life through the Pages of a Lost Journal 3.44 avg rating β€” 3,591 ratings
80.
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft 4.34 avg rating β€” 310,176 ratings
81.
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life 4.14 avg rating β€” 51,792 ratings
82.
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
by: Ed Yong
4.47 avg rating β€” 32,533 ratings
83.
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution 4.12 avg rating β€” 39,127 ratings
84.
Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines 4.03 avg rating β€” 2,513 ratings
85.
Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout
Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout 4.02 avg rating β€” 6,059 ratings
86.
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
by: Beth Macy
4.07 avg rating β€” 44,194 ratings
87.
Parkland: Birth of a Movement
Parkland: Birth of a Movement 3.97 avg rating β€” 7,429 ratings
88.
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table 4.08 avg rating β€” 38,841 ratings
89.
The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal
The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal 3.64 avg rating β€” 1,569 ratings
90.
Always Running
Always Running 4.04 avg rating β€” 8,341 ratings
91.
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition 4.34 avg rating β€” 21,553 ratings
92.
But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past 3.66 avg rating β€” 18,275 ratings
93.
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why 3.94 avg rating β€” 14,162 ratings
94.
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 4.47 avg rating β€” 109,975 ratings
95.
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience 4.32 avg rating β€” 92,428 ratings
96.
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture 4.31 avg rating β€” 31,758 ratings
97.
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America 4.70 avg rating β€” 38,107 ratings