Grade 11 APLA English Language & Composition Reading
Recommended Reading List Summer 2022
Non-Fiction Recommendations
Author | Book Title |
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Katherine Boo | Behind the Beautiful Flowers |
Ta-Nehisi Coates | Between the World and Me |
Andrea Elliott | Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City |
Atul Gawande | Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science |
Sam Kean | The Violinist’s Thumb and Other Lost Tales of Love, War, Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code |
Tracy Kidder | Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of De. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World |
Robin Wall Kimmerer | Braiding Sweetgrass |
Barbara Kingsolver | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life |
Jeanne Marie Laskas | Concussion |
Michelle Obama | Becoming |
Michael Pollan | The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals |
Richard Preston | Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus |
Robert Michael Pyle | Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land |
Matt Riddley | Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters |
Siddhartha Mukherjee | The Emperor of All Maladies |
Rebecca Skloot | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks |
Oliver Sacks | Uncle Tungsten: Memoir of a Chemical Boyhood |
Rebecca Traister | All the Single Ladies |
Alan Weisman | The World Without Us |
Isabel Wilkerson | Caste: The Origin of our Discontents |
Michelle Zaunder | Crying in H Mart |