Upper School Summer Reading: US Summer Reading 2023

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ENGLISH

HISTORY

Suggested Reading

ENGLISH

The English Department strongly suggests that all students read one or more of the following books in addition to the required read. Teachers will consider giving extra credit to students who read at least one from the following list and who write an essay during the first week of school.

• • Albert Camus: The Plague
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Water Dancer
  • Damon Galgut: The Promise
  • Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory
  • Abdulrazak Gurnah: Paradise
  • Yaa Gyasi: Homegoing
  • Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha or Steppenwolf
  • Brandon Hobson: Where the Dead Sit Talking
  • Kazuo Ishiguro: Klara and the Sun
  • Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall
  • Somerset Maugham: The Razor’s Edge
  • Yoko Ogawa: The Memory Police
  • Tommy Orange: There There
  • Richard Powers: Bewilderment
  • Jason Reynolds: Long Way Down
  • Sally Rooney: Normal People
  • J.D. Salinger: Nine Stories
  • John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces
  • Ivan Turgenev: Fathers and Sons
  • Larry Watson: Montana 1948
  • Tobias Wolff: Old School
  • Richard Wright: Black Boy
  • Charles Yu: Interior Chinatown: A Novel

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HISTORY

MATH

The Mathematics Department is not giving required summer reading this year. However, the following books in the fields of math and statistics all make very interesting reading and are highly recommended.
 

MATH

• • Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics, William Dunham
  • Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem, Simon Singh
  • The Math Instinct: Why You're a Mathematical Genius (Along with Lobsters, Birds, Cats, and Dogs), Keith Devlin
  • Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin A. Abbott
  • The Mathematical Tourist: New and Updated Snapshots of Modern Mathematics, Ivars Peterson
  • Brain Busters! Mind-Stretching Puzzles in Math and Logic, Barry R. Clarke

STATISTICS

• • Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell
  • Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, Dan Ariely
  • The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, Leonard Mlodinow
  • Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Steven D. Levitt
  • Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart, Ian Ayres

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ENGLISH

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ENGLISH

All students are expected to buy their respective AP books on their own in July when schedules are finalized.
 

AP U.S. GOVERNMENT

AP U.S. HISTORY

AP EUROPEAN HISTORY

AP WORLD HISTORY

The assignment will be emailed to students.

AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

No summer book

AP ECONOMICS

AP PSYCHOLOGY

AP ART HISTORY

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AP COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT