Additional Suggested Summer Readings

Compiled by other AP Human Geography Teachers

*marks books I have actually read


100 Things to Do Before You Die: Travel Events You Just Can't Miss
by Dave Freeman, Neil Teplica

Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer
by Anatoli Boukreev, Linda Wylie

Accident
By Christina Wolf

Across China
by Peter Jenkins

The Adventurist : My Life in Dangerous Places
by Robert Young Pelton

Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
by Piers Paul Read

All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty
by P.J. O'Rourke

Annals of the Former World
by John McPhee

Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan
by Jamie Zeppa

The Bookseller of Kabul
by Asne Seierstad

Boonville: A Novel
by Robert Mailer Anderson

Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala
by Victoria Sanford

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
by Marc Reisner

China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power
by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl Wudunn

The City of Joy
by Dominique Lapierre

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
by Samuel P. Huntington

*Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
by Mark Kurlansky

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond

Come Back Alive: The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Disasters, Kidnapping, Animal Attacks and Other Nasty Perils of Modern Travel
by Robert Young Pelton

Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West
by T.R. Reid

Contempt and Pity: Social Policy and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, 1880-1996
by Daryl Michael Scott

Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
by Marvin Harris

Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress
by Lawrence E. Harrison, Samuel P. Huntington

Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey Of A Desert Nomad
by Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller

Desert Solitaire
by Edward Abbey

The Devil's Highway
by Luis Alberto Urrea

Doing Business With the Dictators: A Political History of United Fruit in Guatemala, 1899-1944 (Latin American Silhouettes)
by Paul J. Dosal

Down the River
by Edward Abbey

Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
by Fatima Mernissi

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
by Janisse Ray

Edge City: Life on the New Frontier
by Joel Garreau

An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power
by John Steele Gordon

The End of History and the Last Man
by Francis Fukuyama

The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century
by Charles A. Kupchan

The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy (Vintage Departures)
by Robert Kaplan

Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America
by Francis Bok

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser

Fear as a Way of Life
by Linda Green

A Field Guide to Sprawl
by Dolores Hayden, Jim Wark (Photographer)

The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel
by Edward Abbey

The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy
by William Strauss, Neil Howe

*From Beirut to Jerusalem (Updated with a New Chapter)
by Thomas L. Friedman

The Future in Plain Sight: The Rise of the "True Believers" and Other Clues to the Coming Instability
by Eugene Linden

The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
by Fareed Zakaria

The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold (Vintage)
by Gretel Ehrlich

Geography Of Nowhere: The Rise And Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
by James Howard Kunstler

Global Village or Global Pillage: Economic Reconstruction from the Bottom Up
by Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello

God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island, Georgia
by Cornelia Walker Bailey, Christena Bledsoe

*Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond

Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad

How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken
by Alex Marshall

I Give You My Word: Sharing the Language of Life
by C. Welton Gaddy, Walter Cronkite

Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer

Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
by Erik Larson, Isaac Monroe Cline

*Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World
by Benjamin R. Barber, Andrea Schulz

Johnston Flood
by David McCullough

The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
By Spencer Wells, Mark Read

Kiss the Dust
by Elizabeth Laird

A Long Walk Home
by Rachel Clark, Naomi Jeffries, John Hasler, David Pendleton

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel

*Longitudes and Attitudes : The World in the Age of Terrorism
by Thomas L. Friedman

Maggie's American Dream: The Life and Times of a Black Family
by James P. Comer

*The Monkey Wrench Gang (Perennial Classics)
by Edward Abbey, Douglas Brinkley

Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
by Peter Godwin

My Jihad: One American's Journey Through the World of Usama Bin Laden--as a Covert Operative for the American Government
by Aukai Collins

Myths of Rich & Poor: Why We're Better Off Than We Think
by W. Michael Cox, Richard Alm

Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order
by Robert Kagan

Our Kind : Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going
by Marvin Harris

Out of This Furnace
by Thomas Bell

*Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places
by John R. Stilgoe John Stilgoe

Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
by Jean Sasson

The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor
by Ken Silverstein

Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
by Donald Worster

The Road to Mecca
by Muhammad Asad

Robert Young Pelton's The World's Most Dangerous Places : 5th Edition (Robert Young Pelton the World's Most Dangerous Places)
by Robert Young Pelton

The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan
by Christina Lamb

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
by Romeo A. Dallaire, Brent Beardsley

Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
by Dean King

Songs to an African Sunset: A Zimbabwean Story
by Sekai Nzenza, Sekai Nzenza-Shand

Sprawl Kills: How Blandburbs Steal Your Time, Health and Money
by Richard E. Killingsworth (Foreword), Joel S. Hirschhorn (Foreword), Joel S. Hirschhorn

States of Mind
by Brad Herzog

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck

The Templars and the Assassins: The Militia of Heaven
by James Wasserman

*Things Fall Apart: A Novel
by Chinua Achebe

Three Worlds Gone Mad: Dangerous Journeys through the War Zones of
Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific by Robert Young Pelton

Travels With Charley: In Search of America
by John Steinbeck

The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
by Jonathan Schell

Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader : North Korea and the Kim Dynasty
by Bradley K. Martin

Walk Across America, A
by Peter Jenkins

Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
by Marq de Villiers

Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly and the Politics of Thirst
by Diane Raines Ward

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
by Philip Gourevitch

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
by David S. Landes

Who Are We: The Challenges to America's National Identity
by Samuel P. Huntington

Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World
by Eric Foner

Who We Are Now: The Changing Face of America in the 21st Century
by Sam Roberts

Wild: Stories of Survival from the World's Most Dangerous Places (Adrenaline Books Series)
by Clint Willis

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
by Thomas L. Friedman

The World's Most Dangerous Places
by Robert Young Pelton

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