Some of you may be getting comfortable with this class and may even want to do some reading on your own. This is what AP students who score 4s and 5s do. Below is an incomplete list of titles that you may find interesting - some fiction, some non-fiction.
1421: The Year China Discovered America - Menzies, Gavin
1661: The World in Motion - Christensen, Thomas
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta - Dunn, Ross E.
All Quiet on the Western Front - Remarque, Erich Marie
The Bonesetter’s Daughter - Tan, Amy
Brunelleschi’s Dome - King, Ross
Dr. Zhivago - Pasternak, Boris
Feast of Roses - Sundaresan, Indu
Germainal - Zola, Emile
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Weatherford, Jack
Guns, Germs, and Steel - Diamond, Jared
In the Garden of Beasts - Larson, Erik
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit - Quinn, Daniel
King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa - Hochschild, Adam
Nectar in a Sieve - Markandaya, Kamala
The Prince - Machiavelli, Niccolo
Red Azalea - Min, Anchee
Salt: A World History - Kurlansky, Mark
Thing Fall Apart - Achebe, Chinua
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Manchester, William
The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture and the World Economy, 1400 to present - Pomeranz, Kenneth and Steven Topik
1421: The Year China Discovered America - Menzies, Gavin
1661: The World in Motion - Christensen, Thomas
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta - Dunn, Ross E.
All Quiet on the Western Front - Remarque, Erich Marie
The Bonesetter’s Daughter - Tan, Amy
Brunelleschi’s Dome - King, Ross
Dr. Zhivago - Pasternak, Boris
Feast of Roses - Sundaresan, Indu
Germainal - Zola, Emile
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Weatherford, Jack
Guns, Germs, and Steel - Diamond, Jared
In the Garden of Beasts - Larson, Erik
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit - Quinn, Daniel
King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa - Hochschild, Adam
Nectar in a Sieve - Markandaya, Kamala
The Prince - Machiavelli, Niccolo
Red Azalea - Min, Anchee
Salt: A World History - Kurlansky, Mark
Thing Fall Apart - Achebe, Chinua
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Manchester, William
The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture and the World Economy, 1400 to present - Pomeranz, Kenneth and Steven Topik