Recommended Reading

This page contains AP-level books that feature biology/science

in new and exciting ways

Fiction

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The Octopus by Frank Norris

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

The Last Man by Mary Shelly

The Red Plague by Jack London

"The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allen Poe

Science Fiction

Galopagos by Kurt Vonnegut

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series by Douglas Adams

Strata by Terry Pratchett

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

The Children Star by Joan Slonszewski

Dawn by Octavia Butler

Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov

Non-Fiction

Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams

Into the Wild by John Krakaur

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery

Collapse bu Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson

The Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

The Panda's Thumb by Stephen Jay Gould

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

The Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver