Suggested Works for AP English Students

 

Achebe, Chinua                   Things Fall Apart               

Aeschylus                             The Oresteia

                                                The Eumenides

Albee, Edward                      The Zoo Story,

                                                Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Anaya, Rudolfo                    Bless Me, Ultima

Aristophanes                        Lysistrata

Arnot, Harriet                       The Dollmaker

Atwood, Margaret               The Handmaid’s Tale

                                                Cat’s Eye

Austen, Jane                         Emma

                                                Persuasion

                                                Pride and Prejudice

Baldwin, James                     Go Tell It On the Mountain

                                                The Fire Next Time

Beckett, Samuel                    Waiting for Godot

The Bible

Brecht, Berthold                   Mother Courage and Her Children

Bronte, Charlotte                  Jane Eyre

Bronte, Emily                        Wuthering Heights

Browning, Robert ÒMy Last DuchessÓ

Bulfinch                                 Mythology

Bulosan, Carlos                    America is in the Heart

Camus, Albert                       The Stranger

                                                The Plague

Carroll, Lewis                        Alice in Wonderland

Carson, Rachel                     The Sea Around Us

                                                Silent Spring

Cather, Willa                         Death Comes to the Archbishop

                                                My Antonia

Cervantes, Miguel               Don Quixote de la Mancha

Chopin, Kate                         The Awakening

Conrad, Joseph                    Heart of Darkness                              

                                                Lord Jim

                                                Victory

Cooper, James Fenimore     The Deerslayer

                                                The Pioneers

Crane, Stephen                     The Red Badge of Courage

Defoe, Daniel                        Moll Flanders

                                                Robinson Crusoe

Dickens, Charles                  Bleak House

                                                David Copperfield

                                                Hard Times,

                                                Great Expectations

                                                Oliver Twist

                                                Our Mutual Friend

                                                Tale of Two Cities

Dostoevski, Fyodor             The Brothers Karamazov

                                                Crime and Punishment,

                                                Notes from the Underground

Dreiser, Theodore                An American Tragedy

                                                Sister Carrie

Eliot, George                         The Mill on the Floss

Eliot, T.S.                               The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

                                                The Wasteland

                                                Murder in the Cathedral

Ellison, Ralph                        Invisible Man

Eldrich, Louise                      Love Medicine

Euripides                               Medea

Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying

                                                The Bear               

                                                Light in August

                                                The Sound and the Fury

Fielding, Henry                     Joseph Andrews

                                                Tom Jones

Fitzgerald, F. Scott               The Great Gatsby

Flaubert, Gustave                 Madame Bovary

Forster, E. M.                        A Passage to India

Franklin, Benjamin               Autobiography

Garcia-Marquez, Gabriel      One Hundred Years of Solitude

Golding, William                   Lord of the Flies

Greene, Graham                    Brighton Rock

                                                The Power and the Glory

Hamilton, Edith                     Mythology

Hansberry, Loraine              A Raisin in the Sun

Hardy, Thomas                     Jude the Obscure

                                                The Mayor of Casterbridge

                                                Tess of the DÕUrbervilles

Hawthorne, Nathaniel         House of the Seven Gables

                                                The Scarlet Letter

Heller, Joseph                       Catch-22

Hellman, Lillian                     The Little Foxes

                                                Watch on the Rhine

Hemingway, Ernest              A Farewell to Arms

                                                The Sun Also Rises

Homer                                    The Iliad

                                                The Odyssey

Hurston, Zora Neale            Their Eyes Were Watching God

Huxley, Aldous                    Brave New World

Hwang, David Henry           M. Butterfly

Ibsen, Henrik                        A Doll’s House

                                                An Enemy of the People,

                                                Hedda Gabler

 

 

 

James, Henry                        Daisy Miller

                                                The Portrait of a Lady

                                                Washington Square

                                                The Turn of the Screw

Jonson, Ben                          Volpone

Joyce, James                         A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

                                                Dubliners

Kafka, Franz                          The Metamorphosis

                                                The Trial

Kingston, Maxine Hong     Warrior Woman

Knowles, John                      A Separate Peace

Kogawa, Joy                         Obasan

Laurence, Margaret             The Diviners

                                                The Stone Angel

Lewis, Sinclair                       Main Street

MacLeish, Archibald           J.B.

MacCarthy, Cormac             All the Pretty Horses

MacLennan, Hugh               The Watch That Ends the Night

Malcom X                              The Autobiography of Malcom X

Marlowe, Christopher         Doctor Faustus

Marshall, Paule                     Praisesong for the Widow

Melville, Herman                  Benito Cereno

                                                Billy Budd

                                                 Moby Dick,

                                                Redburn

Miller, Arthur                        All My Son,

                                                The Crucible

                                                Death of a Salesman

Milton, John                         Paradise Lost

Moliere                                  Tartuffe

                                                The Misanthrope

Momaday, N. Scott              House Made of Dawn

Morrison, Toni                     Beloved

                                                The Bluest Eye

                                                Song of Solomon

                                                Sula

OÕConnor, Flannery           Wise Blood

OÕNeill, Eugene                   Desire Under the Elms

                                                The Hairy Ape

                                                Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Okada, Johm                         No-No Boy

Orwell, George                      1984

                                                Animal Farm

Paton, Alan                           Cry, the Beloved Country

Persig, Robert                       Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Pinter, Harold                        The Birthday Party

                                                The Caretaker

                                                The Homecoming

Plutarch                                 Lives

Poe, Edgar Allan                  Tales

Pope, Alexander                   The Rape of the Lock

Racine                                    Phedre

Rhys, Jean                             Wide Sargasso Sea

Richardson, Samuel             Pamela

Richler, Mordecai Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Rostand, Edmond                                Cyrano de Bergerac

Salinger, J.D.                         The Catcher in the Rye

Sartre, Jean-Paul                   No Exit

Scott, Sir Walter                   Ivanhoe

Shaffer, Peter                        Equus

Shakespeare                          Antony and Cleopatra                       The Merchant of Venice

                                                As You Like It                                       Midsummer NightÕs Dream

                                                Hamlet                                                   Othello

                                                Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2                         Richard III

                                                Julius Caesar                                       Romeo and Juliet

                                                King Lear                                              The Tempest

                                                Macbeth                                                                Twelfth Night      

                                                The Winter’s Tale

Shaw, George Bernard         Candida                                                                Mrs. Warren’s Profession

                                                Major Barbara                                     Pygmalion

                                                Man and Superman                                            Saint Joan

Shelley, Mary                       Frankenstein

Silko, Leslie                           Ceremony

Sinclair, Upton                      The Jungle

Sophocles                             Antigone

                                                Oedipus Rex

Spark, Muriel                        The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Steinbeck, John                    East of Eden

                                                The Grapes of Wrath

                                                Of Mice and Men

                                                The Pearl

                                                The Red Pony

Sterne, Laurence                  Tristam Shandy

Stoppard, Tom                      Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Stowe, Harriet Beecher        Uncle Tom;s Cabin

Swift, Jonathan                     Gulliver’s Travels

Thoreau, Henry David        Walden

Tolstoy, Leo                         Anna Karenina

                                                The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Trollope, Anthony               The Warden

Turgenev, Ivan                     Fathers and Sons

Twain, Mark                          The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

                                                Life on the Mississippi

Updike, John                         The Centaur

                                                Stories

Valdez, Luis                           Zoot Suit

Virgil                                       The Aeneid

Voltaire                                  Candide

Vonnegut, Kurt                    Slaughterhouse Five

Walker, Alice                        The Color Purple

Waugh, Evelyn                    The Loved One

Welch, James                        Winter in the Blood

West, Nathaniel                   Miss Lonelyhearts

Wharton, Edith                     Ethan Frome

Wilder, Thorton                   The Bridge of San Luis Rey

                                                Our Town

Williams, Tennessee           The Glass Menagerie

                                                A Streetcar Named Desire

Wilson, August                   The Piano Lesson

Woolf, Virginia                     To the Lighthouse

                                                Mrs. Dalloway

Wright, Richard                    Black Boy

                                                Native Son