Grade 11 APLA English Language & Composition Reading
Recommended Reading List Summer 2022
Non-Fiction Recommendations
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| 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 |