The following list contains both required and recommended titles listed by department and course.  These titles are chosen because of their importance works in increasing the reader’s understanding of the subject.  The only required reading is listed with AP History and English courses; all other titles are recommended.  Look at the classes you will be taking and use this list to guide your choice of reading material.

Social Studies Department

Geography:
  Blue Highways – William Least Heat Moon
  Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
World History:
  All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
  The Legends of Charlemagne: The Illustrated Bullfinch’s Mythology – Thomas Giovanni
      Casselli (illustrator)
  Any book by L. Leakey on anthropology
U. S.  History:
  Born on the Fourth of July – Ron Kovic
  The Greatest Generation – Tom Brokaw
  The Killer Angels – Michael Shaara
  The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
  An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreisser
  Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
  The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
A.P. U.S. History
 Required:
  Democracy in America (Abridged Version) – Alexis de Tocqueville (Publisher: New America has a good one.)
  With Malice Toward None: A Life of A. Lincoln – Stephen B. Oates
 Recommended:
  The Imperial Presidency – Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
  Profiles in Courage – JFK
  The Frontier in American History – Fredrick Jackson Turner
  My Generation – Michael Gross
Economics
  Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith
  Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx
  Inside Wall Street – Michael Smith
  Free To Choose – Milton Friedman
  The Pit – Frank Norris
Government
  Boss – Mike Royko
  Democracy in America – Alexis de Tocqueville
  The Republic – Plato
  Advise and Consent – Allen Drury
  The Final Days – Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
Sociology
  1984 – George Orwell
  Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  A Nation at Risk: The Full Account – USA Research, Inc. (Editor)
  Jefferson’s Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture – Leon Boorstein
  Black Like Me – John Howard Griffin
American Studies
  The Bastard (The Kent Family Chronicles #1) – John Jakes
  Hidden History – Daniel J. Boorstin
  Hiroshima – John R. Hersey
  The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II – Stephen Ambrose
  The Declaration of Independence
  The Constitution
Psychology
  The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath - Autobiographical account of the author's nervous breakdown
        during college.
  A Brilliant Madness: Living With Manic-Depressive Illness - Patty Duke - True account of
        Ms. Duke's struggle with manic depression including information on this illness. NYT best
        seller
  Dibs: In Search of Self - Virginia Axline - Dibs is a little boy who will never speak nor play,
        but is helped through play therapy.
  Ghost Girl: The True Story of a Child In Peril - Torey Hayden - True story of a child who
        refused to speak due to sexual abuse and possible exposure to satanic rituals.
  I Never Promised You a Rose Garden - Joanne Greenberg - Story of a teenage girl's three
        year stay in a mental hospital as she tries to escape, with the help of a doctor, from the
        imaginary world she inhabits.
  Lisa, Bright and Dark - John Neufeld - A smart, successful sixteen year olds girl's friends are
        the only ones who realize she is having a nervous breakdown. They try to help her.
  Murphy's Boy - Torey Hayden - True account of an educational psychologist's work with a
        fifteen-year-old boy who hasn't spoken in eight years.
  One Child - Torey Hayden - Story of Sheila, a highly intelligent 6 year old who has been
        abused, and how her young teacher is able to reach her.
  One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - Ken Kesey - Classic novel of a sane man who is in a
        mental institution and goes to battle with Big Nurse.
  The Tiger's Child - Sequel to One Child tells how Sheila, as a young woman, comes to terms
        with the abuse she suffered as a child.
  The Wind Blows Backwards - Mary Downing Hahn - A shy, high school senior is attracted to
        a popular classmate who is moody and self-destructive.
  Sybil – Flora Rhea Schreiber - True account of an adult survivor of child abuse who
        begins having blackouts.

 Note: In the Psychology area, it is recommended that students discuss their
          selections with their parents or guardians.