AP Reading List

Pre-Approved Reading List

Sherman Alexie.  The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. (2005)

Stephen Ambrose.  Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. (1996)

James Axtell, The Invasion from Within: The contest of Cultures in Colonial America. (1986)

Bernanrd Bailyn, The Origins of American Politics. (1968)

Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.  American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.  (2006)

Isabelle Allende, Daughter of Fortune (historical fiction-CA gold rush)

John W. Blassingame, The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Ante-bellum South. (1972)

Benson Bobrick.  Testament: A Soldier’s Story of the Civil War. (2003)

Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissembaum, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft. (1974)

Allide Black.  Casting Her Own Shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt.

Douglas Blackmon, Slavery By Another Name.

Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

William Cronon, ed.  Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. (1996)

James C. Curtis, Andrew Jackson and the Search for Vindication. (1976)

John Demos.  A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony. (1970)

Michael Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight (Cold War)

Thomas Dublin, Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860. (1979)

W.E.B. Dubois, The Souls of Black Folk.

John Ehle, Trail of Tears.

Joseph Ellis, Founding Brothers.

John M. Farragher, Daniel Boone, The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer. (1992)

David Hacket Fischer, Paul Revere’s Ride. (1994)

Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War. (1970)

Benjamin Franklin.  Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.

Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique.

Thomas Freedman, The World is Flat.

Niall Ferguson.  Colossus: The Price of America’s Empire.  (2004)

Graham Greene, The Quiet American.

Robert Griffith, Politics of Fear.

George Herring, America’s Longest War.

Jane Hunter, The Iran-Contra Connection.

Winthrop Jordan, The White Man’s Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States. (1974)

John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage.

John Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven.

Jerome Lawrence, Inherit the Wind.

William Manchest, American Ceasar.

David McCullough, 1776.

David McCullough, John Adams.

McKissack, Ain’t I a Woman?

James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. (1988)

Devon Mihesuah, American Indians: Stereotypes and Realities.

Thomas Paine, Rights of Man. 

Stanford Parker, FDR: The Words the Reshaped America.

David M. Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861. (1976)

Erich Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front.

Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives.

Cokie Roberts.  Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation.

David Rothman, The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic. (1971)

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.  The Age of Jackson.

Michael Sharra, Killer Angels.

Martin Sherwin, A World Destroyed: Hiroshima.

Hampton Sides, Ghost Soldiers.

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle.

Jane I. Smith.  Islam in America. (1999)

Jean Edward Smith, George Bush’s War.

June Sochen.  Herstory.

Studs Terkel, Hard Times.

Mark Twain, The Gilded Age.

Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August.

Richard Brent Turner.  Islam in the African-American Experience. (1997)

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.  A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812. (1982)

Gore Vidal.  Burr: A Novel.  (2000)

David von Drehle, Triangle: The Fire that Changed History.

Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery.

Charles Frazier, Thirteen Moons.

Jack Weatherford.  Indian Givers.

Laura Wexler.  Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Lynching in America.

Garry Wills.  Lincoln at Gettysburg.

Garry Wills.  Certain Trumpets.