Ap Lit Reading List
Ap Lit Reading List
Ap Lit Reading List
Please note that only authors were sometimes recommended in early years, not specific titles.
B
The Bear by William Faulkner (94. 06)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (90, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 10, 11, 14, 15)
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul (03, 15)
Benito Cereno by Herman Melville (89)
Billy Budd by Herman Melville (79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 99, 02, 04, 05, 07, 08, 15)
The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter (89, 97)
Black Boy by Richard Wright (06, 08, 13, 15)
Bleak House by Charles Dickens (94, 00, 04, 09, 10)
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya (94, 96, 97, 99, 04, 05, 06, 08)
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (07, 11)
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (95, 08, 09)
Bone: A Novel by Fae M. Ng (03)
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (06, 07, 11)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (89, 05, 09, 10)
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat (13)
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (12)
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (79)
Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos (09)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevski (90, 08)
Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall (13)
D
Daisy Miller by Henry James (97, 03, 12)
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel (01)
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (78, 83, 06, 13)
The Dead by James Joyce (97)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy (86)
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (86, 88, 94, 03, 04, 05, 07, 12, 14)
Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty (97)
Desire under the Elms by Eugene ONeill (81)
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler (97)
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (06)
The Diviners by Margaret Laurence (95)
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (79, 86, 99, 04, 11)
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (10)
A Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen (83, 87, 88, 95, 05, 09)
The Dollmaker by Harriet Arnot (91)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (01, 04, 06, 08)
Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia (03)
Dutchman by Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones (03, 06)
E
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (06)
Emma by Jane Austen (96, 08, 11)
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen (76, 80, 87, 99, 01, 07)
Equus by Peter Shaffer (92, 99, 00, 01, 08, 09)
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (80, 85, 03, 05, 06, 07, 14)
The Eumenides by Aeschylus (in The Orestia) (96)
F
The Fall by Albert Camus (81)
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (99, 04, 09)
The Father by August Strindberg (01)
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (90)
Faust by Johann Goethe (02)
The Federalist by Alexander Hamilton (76)
Fences by August Wilson (02, 05, 09, 10)
G
A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines (00, 11)
Germinal by Emile Zola (09)
A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee (04, 05, 15)
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen (00, 04)
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (71, 90, 94, 97, 99, 02, 08, 09, 10, 12)
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (10, 11, 13)
Going After Cacciato by Tim OBrien (01, 06, 10)
The Golden Bowl by Henry James (09)
The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford (00, 11)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (95, 03, 06, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (79, 80, 88, 89, 92, 95, 96, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08, 10, 12, 13,
15)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (82, 83, 88, 91, 92, 97, 00, 02, 04, 05, 07, 10)
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (83, 88, 90, 05, 09)
Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift (87, 89, 01, 04, 06, 09)
H
The Hairy Ape by Eugene ONeill (89, 09)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare (88, 94, 97, 99, 00)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (03, 09)
Hard Times by Charles Dickens (87, 90, 09)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (71, 76, 91, 94, 96, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 06, 09, 10, 11, 12, 15)
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene (71)
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen (79, 92, 00, 02, 03, 05)
Henry IV, Parts I and II by William Shakespeare (80, 90, 08)
Henry V by William Shakespeare (02)
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes (08)
The Homecoming by Harold Pinter (78, 90)
Home to Harlem by Claude McKay (10)
A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipul (10)
House Made of Dawn by N Scott Momaday (95, 06, 09)
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (04, 07, 10)
The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (89)
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (08, 10, 13)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (78, 79, 80, 88, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 00, 05, 07, 08. 10, 13)
Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee (99, 10, 13)
J.B. by Archibald MacLeish (81, 94)
Joe Turners Come and Gone by August Wilson (00)
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (97, 03, 13)
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding (99)
The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta (13)
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (71, 76, 80, 85, 87, 95, 09, 10)
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (82, 97, 07, 09)
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 90, 96, 09)
K
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (08)
King Lear by William Shakespeare (77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 90, 96, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 08, 10, 11, 12, 14)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (07, 08, 09, 15)
M
Macbeth by William Shakespeare (83, 99, 03, 05, 09)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (80, 85, 04, 05, 06, 09, 10)
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane (12)
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (87, 09)
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw (79, 96, 04, 07, 09, 11)
Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw (81)
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (03, 06, 15)
Master Harold...and the Boys by Athol Fugard (03, 08, 09)
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (94, 99, 00, 02, 07, 10, 11)
M. Butterfly by David Henry Wang (95, 11, 12)
Medea by Euripides (82, 92, 95, 01, 03, 11, 15)
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers (97, 08)
The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards (09, 14)
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (85, 91, 95, 02, 03, 11, 15)
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (78, 89)
Middlemarch by George Eliot (95, 04, 05, 07)
Middle Passage by V. S. Naipaul (06)
A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare (06, 12)
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (90, 92, 04)
The Misanthrope by Moliere (2008)
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West (89)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 89, 94, 96, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 09)
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (76, 77, 86, 87, 95, 09)
Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao (00, 03)
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie (07)
Mother Courage and Her Children by Berthold Brecht (85, 87, 06)
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (94, 97, 04, 05, 07, 11)
Mrs. Warrens Profession by George Bernard Shaw (87, 90, 95, 02, 09)
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (97, 14)
Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot (76, 80, 85, 95, 07, 11)
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning (85)
N
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (09, 10, 13)
Native Son by Richard Wright (79, 82, 85, 87, 95, 01, 04, 09, 11, 12)
Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee (99, 03, 07, 08)
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (09, 10)
Night by Elie Weisel (15)
1984 by George Orwell (87, 94, 09)
Noahs Compass by Anne Tyler (14)
No Exit by John Paul Sartre (86, 12)
No-No Boy by John Okada (95)
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevski (89)
P
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (01)
Pamela by Samuel Richardson (86)
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster (71, 77, 78, 88, 91, 92, 07, 09, 12)
Paradise Lost by John Milton (85, 86, 10)
Passing by Nella Larsen (11)
Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (06)
Pre Goriot by Honore de Balzac (02)
Persuasion by Jane Austen (90, 05, 07)
Phaedre by Jean Racine (92, 03)
The Piano Lesson by August Wilson (96, 99, 07, 08, 10, 12)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (02)
The Plague by Albert Camus (02, 09, 12)
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (97)
Pocho by Jose Antonio Villareal (02, 08)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (10, 11, 12, 14)
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (88, 92, 96, 03, 05, 07, 11, 14)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (76, 77, 80, 86, 88, 96, 99, 04, 05, 08, 09, 10, 11,
13)
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (95)
Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall (96)
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (09, 14)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (83, 88, 92, 97, 08, 11, 12)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (90, 08)
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (13)
Push by Sapphire (07)
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (03, 05, 08)
R
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (03, 07)
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (87, 90, 94, 96, 99, 07, 09, 12, 14)
The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope (81)
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (08, 15)
Redburn by Herman Melville (87)
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (00, 03, 11)
Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie (08, 09)
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (07)
Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco (09)
Richard III by William Shakespeare (79)
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean (08)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (10)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (10)
A Room of Ones Own by Virginia Woolf (76)
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster (03)
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (90, 92, 97, 08)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (81, 94, 00, 04, 05, 06, 10, 11)
S
Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw (95)
The Sandbox by Edward Albee (71)
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (71, 77, 78, 83, 88, 91, 99, 02, 04, 05, 06, 11, 14, 15)
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (13)
Sent for You Yesterday by John E. Wideman (03)
A Separate Peace by John Knowles (82, 07, 13)
Set This House on Fire by William Styron (11)
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (97)
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (13)
Silas Marner by George Eliot (02)
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (87, 02, 04, 09, 10, 15)
Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (10)
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (91, 04)
A Soldiers Play by Charles Fuller (11)
Snow by Orhan Pamuk (09)
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (00, 10, 12)
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (81, 88, 96, 00, 04, 05, 06, 07, 10, 13)
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence (77, 90)
Sophie's Choice by William Styron (09, 15)
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (13)
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (77, 86, 97, 01, 07, 08, 13)
The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence (96, 04)
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (11, 13)
The Stranger by Albert Camus (79, 82, 86, 04, 11)
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (91, 92, 01, 04, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 14)
The Street by Ann Petry (07)
Sula by Toni Morrison (92, 97, 02, 04, 07, 08, 10, 12)
Surfacing by Margaret Atwood (05, 11)
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (85, 91, 95, 96, 04, 05, 12)
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (82, 91, 04, 08, 14)
Tartuffe by Moliere (87)
The Tempest by William Shakespeare (71, 78, 96, 03, 05, 07, 10)
Tess of the DUrbervilles by Thomas Hardy (82, 91, 03, 06, 07, 12, 14, 15)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston (88, 90, 91, 96. 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 10, 11, 13, 14)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (91, 97, 03, 09, 10, 11, 14)
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (04, 09)
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (06, 11, 14)
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (11, 13)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (08, 09, 11, 13, 15)
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (77, 86, 88, 08)
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (90, 00, 06, 08)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (13)
The Trial by Franz Kafka (88, 89, 00, 11)
Trifles by Susan Glaspell (00)
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (86)
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (92, 94, 00, 02, 04, 08)
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (85, 94, 96, 11)
Typical American by Gish Jen (02, 03, 05)
U
Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (87, 09)
U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos (09)
V
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (06)
Victory by Joseph Conrad (83)
Volpone by Ben Jonson (83)
W
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (77, 85, 86, 89, 94, 01, 09, 12)
The Warden by Anthony Trollope (96)
Washington Square by Henry James (90)
The Wasteland by T. S. Eliot (81)
Watch on the Rhine by Lillian Hellman (87)
The Way of the World by William Congreve (71)
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (06)
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates (07)
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (12)
Who Has Seen the Wind? by W. O. Mitchell (11)
Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (88, 94, 00, 04, 07, 11, 15)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (89, 92, 05, 07, 08)
The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen (78)
Winter in the Blood by James Welch (95)
Winters Tale by William Shakespeare (82, 89, 95, 06)
Wise Blood by Flannery OConnor (82, 89, 95, 09, 10)
Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (91, 08, 13)
The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor (09, 10, 12, 14)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (71, 77, 78, 79, 83, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 96, 97, 99, 01, 06, 07, 08,
10, 12, 15)
15 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain; Moby Dick by Herman Melville
14 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce; The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne;
13 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston
12 The Awakening by Kate Chopin; Billy Budd by Herman Melville; The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald;
11 Beloved by Toni Morrison; Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko; Light in August by William Faulkner;
Othello by William Shakespeare
10 Antigone by Sophocles; As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner; The Color Purple by Alice Walker;
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams; Native Son by Richard Wright;
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison; A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
9 The Crucible by Arthur Miller; A Passage to India by E. M. Forster; A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry;
8 All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy; Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy; Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya;
Candide by Voltaire; Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller; The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck;
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy; The Jungle by Upton Sinclair; Portrait of a Lady by Henry James;
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard; Sula by Toni Morrison; Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy;
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
7 All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren; Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton; Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton;
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad; Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert; Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy;
Medea by Euripides; The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare; Oedipus Rex by Sophocles;
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner;
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway; The Tempest by William Shakespeare; Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe;
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
6 A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen; An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen; Equus by Peter Shaffer;
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift; Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen;
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw; Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe; Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf;
Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot; Obasan by Joy Kogawa; The Piano Lesson by August Wilson;
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser; The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
5 Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; Bleak House by Charles Dickens; The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov;
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe; Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin;
Hamlet by William Shakespeare; Macbeth by William Shakespeare; Mrs. Warrens Profession by George Bernard Shaw;
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee; Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys; Wise Blood by Flannery OConnor