Oldham County High School Reading List
Advanced English I:
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Advanced English II:
Night by Elie Wiesel
Anthem by Ayn Rand
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
AP English Literature:
Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
Passage to India by E. M. Forster
Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien
Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
AP Environmental Science:
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
A Green History of the World by Clive Pointing
An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
A Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall
A Sand Country Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Atmosphere, Climate, and Change by Thomas Graedal and Paul Crutzen
Beyond Malthus by Lester Brown
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
Collapse by Jared Diamond
Crimes Against Nature by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Death in the Marsh by Tom Harris
Deep Ecology by Bill Devall
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Earth in Mind by David Orr
Earth in the Balance by Al Gore
Earth Under Siege by Richard P. Turco
Ecology, Economics, and Ethics: The Broken Circle by F. Herbert Bormann and Stephen R. Kellert
Ecology of Fear by Mike Davis
Eco Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement by Rik Scarce
Encounter With the Archdruid by John McPhee
Green Delusions by Martin Lewis
Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
How Many People Can the Earth Support? by Joel E. Cohen
In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run by Davis Brower and Steve Chapple
Life in Balance: Humanity and Biodiversity by Niles Eldredge
Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth by Williams Rees
Our Stolen Future by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers
Road Ecology by Richard T. T. Forman (Editor), Daniel Sperling (Editor)
Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Silent Springs by Rachel Carson
Small is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher
Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
Sustainable Planet, a collection of essays on changing our ways
The Burning Season by Andrew Revkin
The Coming Plague by Laurie Garret
The Control of Nature by John McPhee
The Diversity of Life by E. O. Wilson
The Hydrogen Economy* by Jeremy Rifkin
The Future of Life by E.O. Wilson
The Limits to Growth 2nd Edition by Donnella Meadows
The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich
Plan B by Lester Brown
The Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx
The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrich
The Sixth Extinction : Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind by Richard E. Leakey and Roger Lewin
The Stork and The Plow by Paul Ehrich
Tinkering With Eden by Kim Todd
Tracking the Vanishing Frogs by Kathryn Phillips
Walden; Or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
A Wilderness Bill of Rights by William O. Douglas
Wolves of Isle Royale by Rolk Peterson
AP Government:
10 things you can’t say in America by Larry Elder
AP Economics:
Basic Economics 3rd Ed: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy (Hardcover) by Thomas Sowell
AP US History:
Lies My Teacher Told Meby James Loewen