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Suggested AP Reading List

 

Dramas

 

Aeschylus, Agamemnon; The Libation Bearer; Oresteia

 

Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?

 

Maxwell Anderson, Winterset

 

Aristophanes, The Frogs; Lysistrata

 

Alan Ayckbourn, The Revengers’ Comedies; Man of the Moment

 

Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

 

S. N. Behrman, The Second Man

 

Rudolf Besier, The Barretts of Wimpole Street

 

Ugo Betti, Corruption in the Palace of Justice

 

Bertolt Breckett, The Caucasian Chalk Circle; Mother Courage and Her Children; The Good Women of Setzuan

 

Anton Chekov, The Cherry Orchard; The Seagull; Three Sisters; Uncle Vanya

 

William Congreve, The Way of the World

 

Marc Connelly, The Green Pastures

 

Friedich Duerrenmatt, The Visit

 

T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral; The Cocktail Party

 

Euripides, Medea

 

Athol Fugard, Blood Knot and Other Plays

 

John Galsworthy, Loyalties

 

John Guare, Six Degrees of Separation

 

A. R. Gurney, Love Letters and Two Other Plays; The Cocktail Hour and Two Other Plays

 

Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun

 

Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes

 

David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

 

Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House; Enemy of the People; Hedda Gabler; Ghosts; Wild Duck

 

William Inge, Picnic

 

Eugene Ionesco, Rhinoceros

 

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

 

Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman; The Crucible

 

Moliere, Tartuffe; The Misanthrope

 

Eugene O'Neill, The Hairy Ape; The Iceman Cometh

 

Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party;Homecoming; No Exit

 

Peter Schaffer, Amadeus; Equus

 

William Shakespeare, As You Like It; Hamlet; Julius Ceasar; King Lear; Much Ado About Nothing; The Merchant of Venice; The Tempest; Twelfth Night; The Winter's Tale; Othello

 

George Bernard Shaw, Arms and the Man; Major Barbara; Man and Superman; Mrs. Warren's Profession; Pygmalion; St. Joan;

 

Sam Shepard, Buried Child

 

Sophocles, Antigone; Electra; Oedipus Rex

 

Tom Stoppard, Arcadia; The Real Thing; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

 

Luis Valdez, Zoot Suit

 

Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire

 

August Wilson, Fences; The Piano Player; Joe Turner's Come and Gone

 

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Blithe Spirit

 

Thornton Wilder, Our Town

 

 

 

 

 

Fiction

 

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

 

Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows

 

Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me; Ultima

 

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale; Cat's Eye; Lady Oracle

 

Jane Austen, Emma; Jane Eyre; Pride and Prejudice

 

James A. Baldwin, Another Country; Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni’s Room

 

J. G. Ballard, The Crystal World; The Day of Creation

 

Honore de Balzac, Eugenie Grandet; Pere Goriot

 

Saul Bellow, More Die of Heartbreak

 

Herman Bridwell, The Birthday Party

 

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

 

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

 

Carlos Bulosan, America Is in the Heart

 

Willa Cather, My Antonia

 

Albert Camus, The Stranger, The Plague

 

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha

 

Kate Chopin, The Awakening

 

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Lord Jim

 

Edwidge Danticat, Krik Krak

 

Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

 

Charles Dickens, Bleak House; Hard Times; Great Expectations; Our Mutual Friend

 

D. L. Doctorow, Ragtime

 

Fydor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov

 

Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy; Sister Carrie

 

George Eliot, Middlemarch; The Mill on the Floss

 

T.S. Elliot, Murder in the Cathedral

 

Ralph Emerson, Invisible Man

 

Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine; Tracks

 

William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!; As I Lay Dying; Light: in August; The Bear; The Sound and the Fury

 

Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones

 

F. Scott Fitzsgerald, The Great Gatsby

 

Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

 

E. M. Forster, A Passage to India

 

John Fowles, The Collector, The French Lieutenant's Women

 

Carlos Fuentes, Terra Nostra

 

Nadine Gardiner, July's People

 

John Gardner, Grendel

 

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper

 

William Golding, Lord of the Flies

 

Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

 

Jane Hamilton, A Map of the World

 

Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure; Return of the Native; The Mayor of Casterbridge

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

 

Joeseph Heller, Catch-22

 

Ernest Hemmingway, The Sun Also Rises

 

Homer (Fagel’s translation), The Odyssey, The Iliad

 

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

 

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World; Point Counter Point

 

John Irving, The World According to Garp

 

Henry James, A Portrait of a Lady; Washington Square; Daisy Miller, The Turn of the Screw

 

Charles Johnson, Middle Passage

 

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

 

Franz Kafka, The Castle; The Trial

 

Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days

 

Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

 

D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow; Sons and Lovers

 

Margaret Lawrence, The Diviners

 

Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

 

Hugh MacLennan, The Watch that Ends the Night

 

Bernard Malamud, The Assistant; The Natural

 

Gabriei Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera; One Hundred Years of Solitude; Chronicle of a Death Foretold

 

Bobby Ann Mason, In Country

 

Paule Marshall, Praisesong for the Widow

 

Carmac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

 

Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding

 

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

 

John Milton, Paradise Lost

 

N, Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn

 

Toni Morrison, Beloved; Song of Solomon; Sula; The Bluest Eve

 

Bharath Muhkurjee, Jasmine Fae Myenne Ng, Bone

 

Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

 

Carol O'Connell, The Stone Angel

 

Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

 

Joy Ogawa, Obasan

 

John Okada, No-No Boy

 

George Orwell, 1984

 

Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

 

J.B. Phillips, Your God Is Too Small

 

Plato, Phedreus

 

Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

 

Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

 

Mordecai Richier, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

 

Arandati Roy, The God of Small Things

 

JD Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

 

Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

 

Mary Shelly, Frankenstein

 

Ivan Sergeevich, Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

 

Lestie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

 

Zadie Smith, White Teeth

 

Standhal, The Red and Black

 

John Steinback, The Grapes of Wrath

 

Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy

 

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

 

Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

 

Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife

 

William Thackeray, Vanity Fair

 

Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ityich; War and Peace

 

Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

 

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

 

Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

 

Voltaire, Candide

 

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

 

Alice Walker, The Color Purple

 

Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men

 

James Welch, Winter in the Blood

 

Eudora Welty, Delta Wedding

 

Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence; Ethan Frome; The House of Mirth

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse; Orlando

 

Richard Wright, Native Son

 

A. B. Yehoshua, The Late Divorce