There is no required summer reading for AP Statistics. However, if you're a bookworm or just a young person looking for some intellectual stimulation, try ONE of these books:

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt or and Stephen J. Dubner

Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt or and Stephen J. Dubner

Any book by Malcolm Gladwell: Outliers: The Story of Success , The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Difference, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, or What the Dog Saw. These bestselling books are quick reads, use some numbers to support assertions, dispel myths and turn conventional wisdom on its head.

Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won by Tobias J. Moskowitz and L. Jon Wertheim

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis

The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century by David Salsburg

Updated June 10, 2011