AP Lang Reading List

1.
Educated
Educated 4.47 avg rating — 1,773,174 ratings
2.
Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer
Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer 4.39 avg rating — 1,872 ratings
3.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything 4.22 avg rating — 412,851 ratings
4.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Slouching Towards Bethlehem 4.19 avg rating — 78,758 ratings
5.
Crazy Brave
Crazy Brave
by: Joy Harjo
4.20 avg rating — 7,639 ratings
6.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants 4.52 avg rating — 158,494 ratings
7.
The Autobiography of Malcom X
The Autobiography of Malcom X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,196 ratings
8.
Hiroshima
Hiroshima 4.04 avg rating — 86,443 ratings
9.
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 — 551,022 ratings
10.
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood 4.09 avg rating — 710,406 ratings
11.
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition 4.34 avg rating — 21,553 ratings
12.
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction 4.17 avg rating — 102,410 ratings
13.
Bird by Bird
Bird by Bird 4.24 avg rating — 108,485 ratings
14.
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here 4.14 avg rating — 6,982 ratings
15.
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 3.75 avg rating — 206,251 ratings
16.
The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids
The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids 3.86 avg rating — 3,499 ratings
17.
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America 3.84 avg rating — 27,113 ratings
18.
Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures 3.96 avg rating — 112,019 ratings
19.
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts 3.73 avg rating — 33,278 ratings
20.
Mao's Last Dancer
Mao's Last Dancer
by: Li Cunxin
4.14 avg rating — 32,151 ratings
21.
No Summit out of Sight: The True Story of the Youngest Person to Climb the Seven Summits
No Summit out of Sight: The True Story of the Youngest Person to Climb the Seven Summits 4.07 avg rating — 2,914 ratings
22.
When I Was Puerto Rican
When I Was Puerto Rican 4.07 avg rating — 13,512 ratings
23.
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 4.16 avg rating — 192,425 ratings
24.
Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 4.01 avg rating — 9,710 ratings
25.
Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,293 ratings
26.
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 — 465,746 ratings
27.
Lab Girl
Lab Girl 3.98 avg rating — 70,903 ratings
28.
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 4.01 avg rating — 885,848 ratings
29.
The Complete Maus
The Complete Maus 4.58 avg rating — 245,682 ratings
30.
The Complete Persepolis
The Complete Persepolis 4.40 avg rating — 199,596 ratings
31.
Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World
Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World 4.45 avg rating — 5,514 ratings
32.
Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir
Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir 3.89 avg rating — 727 ratings
33.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,109 ratings
34.
The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle 4.32 avg rating — 1,325,731 ratings
35.
Just Mercy
Just Mercy 4.63 avg rating — 254,511 ratings
36.
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood 4.49 avg rating — 778,847 ratings
37.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 568,987 ratings
38.
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Men We Reaped: A Memoir 4.30 avg rating — 27,670 ratings
39.
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media 3.86 avg rating — 3,086 ratings
40.
Crying in H Mart
Crying in H Mart 4.24 avg rating — 555,737 ratings
41.
Notes of a Native Son
Notes of a Native Son 4.37 avg rating — 23,284 ratings
42.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma 4.36 avg rating — 255,217 ratings
43.
Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor's Life
Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor's Life 4.01 avg rating — 152 ratings
44.
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir 4.34 avg rating — 19,533 ratings
45.
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life 3.95 avg rating — 7,194 ratings
46.
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,417 ratings
47.
Solito
Solito 4.48 avg rating — 65,976 ratings
48.
A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own 4.22 avg rating — 246,502 ratings
49.
The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy 4.15 avg rating — 2,842 ratings
50.
The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women
The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women 3.79 avg rating — 377 ratings
51.
Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World
Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World 3.84 avg rating — 5,309 ratings
52.
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life 4.27 avg rating — 37,928 ratings
53.
The 57 Bus
The 57 Bus 4.10 avg rating — 42,534 ratings
54.
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong 3.97 avg rating — 72,726 ratings
55.
How to Be an Antiracist
How to Be an Antiracist 4.37 avg rating — 118,333 ratings
56.
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman 4.18 avg rating — 27,465 ratings
57.
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail 4.07 avg rating — 850,531 ratings
58.
The Last Season
The Last Season 4.11 avg rating — 11,354 ratings
59.
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 — 117,725 ratings
60.
Into the Wild
Into the Wild 4.02 avg rating — 1,165,720 ratings
61.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,296 ratings
62.
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood 4.04 avg rating — 16,839 ratings
63.
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 — 114,826 ratings