Recommend a book? for 10th grade honors english ?

Question

For school:

Assignment:

Students should read two books that have been referenced in the AP Literature exam. (Link Below)

One of the two selections may be an award-winning book or author’s work published

since 1990, as recognized by the following: The Nobel Prize for Literature; the

PEN/Faulkner Award; The Booker Prize; The National Book Award; or The National Book

Critics Circle Award.

LINK: http://www.berkley.k12.mi.us/index.asp?folder=5747&name=AP%20Literature%20and%20Composition

*click "Titles of Texts Referenced in the AP Lit Free Response Question - 1971-2007"

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What should I read? I am a 10th grader in honors english. I want one thats easy to understand because we have to write an impromptu about it!

PLEASE HELP! thanks in advance.

Answer 1

easy reads with tons of references online:

Canterbury Tales -the story is actually about people telling stories to each other so it's easy to stop and come back to the book

The Scarlett Letter (there's a movie) -

The Color Purple (there's a movie and a play based on this)

The Tempest

Waiting for Godot

Gulliver's Travels

A Streetcar Named Desire (there's also a movie and a play)

Answer 2

you have several great titles to choose from such as The Great Gatsby,  Great Expectations, Lord of the Flies, The Scarlet Letter , A Tale of Two Cities. I hope that these help you out and you pass.

Answer 3

I think the following are easy enough to read.  They're not incredibly long, not incredibly complex vocabulary, and definitely worth your while:

Our Town (Thornton Wilder)

Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)

Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The Great Gatsby is still one of my favorite reads.