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