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The following is the comprehensive list of books that have appeared on the AP English: Literature and Comprehension in the past thirty years or so as well as books that appeared on Dariane’s AP list.

  1. 1.
    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee

  2. 2.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

  3. 3.
    The House of the Spirits
    by Isabel Allende

  4. 4.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou

  5. 5.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  6. 6.
    Watership Down
    by Richard Adams

  7. 7.
    Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
    by Emily Brontë

  8. 8.
    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Atwood

  9. 9.
    The Edible Woman
    by Margaret Atwood

  10. 10.
    The Blind Assassin: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

  11. 11.
    Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  12. 12.
    The Martian Chronicles (The Grand Master Editions)
    by Ray Bradbury

  13. 13.
    Jane Eyre (Signet Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  14. 15.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson

  15. 16.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin

  16. 17.
    The Power of Myth (Illustrated Edition)
    by JOSEPH CAMPBELL

  17. 18.
    Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad

  18. 19.
    The Great Santini: A Novel
    by Pat Conroy

  19. 20.
    The Lords of Discipline
    by Pat Conroy

  20. 21.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  21. 22.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  22. 23.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  23. 24.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  24. 25.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  25. 26.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

  26. 27.
    The Scarlet Letter (Bantam Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  27. 28.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  28. 29.
    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

  29. 30.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

  30. 31.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

  31. 32.
    Death in the Afternoon
    by Ernest Hemingway

  32. 33.
    ?
    The Old Man and The Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway

  33. 34.
    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Modern Library Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

  34. 35.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  35. 37.

  36. 39.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

  37. 40.
    The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Toni Morrison

  38. 41.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

  39. 42.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

  40. 43.
    Nineteen Eighty-four
    by George Orwell

  41. 44.
    Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Alan Paton

  42. 45.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

  43. 46.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

  44. 47.
    Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  45. 48.
    Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  46. 49.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  47. 50.
    Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  48. 51.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

  49. 52.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (Signet Classics)
    by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  50. 53.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

  51. 54.
    Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by John Steinbeck

  52. 55.
    Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Signet Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

  53. 56.
    Dracula (Signet Classics)
    by Bram Stoker

  54. 57.
    Gulliver's Travels (Signet Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

  55. 58.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan

  56. 59.
    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  57. 60.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classic)
    by Mark Twain

  58. 61.
    The Age of Innocence (Modern Library Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

  59. 62.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

  60. 63.
    The Time Machine
    by H. G. Wells

  61. 64.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics)
    by Oscar Wilde

  62. 65.
    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

  63. 66.
    A Streetcar Named Desire
    by Tennessee Williams

  64. 67.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

  65. 68.
    Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

  66. 69.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright

  67. 70.
    A Raisin in the Sun
    by Lorraine Hansberry

  68. 71.
    Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
    by Euripides

  69. 72.
    Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics)
    by Voltaire

  70. 73.
    The Crucible
    by Arthur Miller

  71. 74.
    Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
    by Samuel Beckett

  72. 75.
    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    by Tom Stoppard

  73. 77.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

  74. 78.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

  75. 79.
    The Red Badge of Courage (Tor Classics)
    by Stephen Crane

  76. 80.
    Lord Jim
    by Joseph Conrad

  77. 81.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier

  78. 82.
    Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel
    by David Guterson

  79. 83.
    ?
    Woman Warrior
    by Maxine Hong Kingston

  80. 84.
    House Made of Dawn (Perennial Classics)
    by N. Scott Momaday

  81. 85.
    Sister Carrie (Signet Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser

  82. 86.
    The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by John Bunyan

  83. 87.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics)
    by James Fenimore Cooper

  84. 88.
    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  85. 89.
    An American Tragedy (Signet Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser

  86. 90.
    Adam Bede (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

  87. 91.
    Silas Marner (Bantam Classics)
    by GEORGE ELIOT

  88. 92.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

  89. 93.
    As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  90. 94.
    A Passage to India
    by E.M. Forster

  91. 95.
    The Odyssey
    by Robert Fagles

  92. 96.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

  93. 97.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey

  94. 98.
    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles

  95. 99.
    Main Street (Signet Classics)
    by Sinclair Lewis

  96. 100.
    Moby-Dick (Bantam Classics)
    by Herman Melville

  97. 101.
    Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays)
    by Arthur Miller

  98. 102.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

  99. 103.
    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison

  100. 104.
    The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Sylvia Plath

  101. 105.
    The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition
    by Upton Sinclair

  102. 106.
    Treasure Island (Signet Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

  103. 107.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Bantam Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  104. 108.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy

  105. 109.
    Walden : An Annotated Edition
    by Henry David Thoreau

  106. 110.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

  107. 111.
    Ethan Frome (Signet Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

  108. 112.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

  109. 113.
    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams

  110. 114.
    Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
    by Aristophanes

  111. 115.
    Absalom, Absalom! (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

  112. 116.
    Agnes of God
    by John Pielmeier

  113. 117.
    Alias Grace: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

  114. 118.
    All My Sons (Penguin Classics)
    by Arthur Miller

  115. 119.
    ?
    All the Pretty Horses
    by Susan Jeffers

  116. 120.

  117. 121.
    Another Country
    by James Baldwin

  118. 122.
    Antigone
    by Sophocles

  119. 123.
    Antony and Cleopatra (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  120. 124.
    ?
    The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz; a Novel
    by mordecai richler

  121. 125.
    As You Like It (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  122. 126.
    Benito Cereno
    by Herman Melville

  123. 127.
    Billy Budd and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
    by Herman Melville

  124. 128.
    ?
    The Bear
    by WIlliam Faulkner

  125. 129.
    Bleak House
    by Charles Dickens

  126. 130.
    Bless Me, Ultima
    by Rudolfo Anaya

  127. 131.
    Brighton Rock (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Graham Greene

  128. 132.
    The Brothers Karamazov (Signet Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  129. 133.
    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Signet)
    by Tennessee Williams

  130. 134.
    Cat's Eye
    by Margaret Atwood

  131. 135.
    Ceremony (Contemporary American Fiction Series)
    by Leslie Marmon Silko

  132. 136.
    The Cherry Orchard (Methuen Drama)
    by Anton Chekhov

  133. 137.
    Civil Disobedience (Dodo Press)
    by Henry David Thoreau

  134. 138.
    Coming Through Slaughter
    by Michael Ondaatje

  135. 139.
    Daisy Miller
    by Henry James

  136. 140.
    Dancing at Lughnasa: A Play
    by Brian Friel

  137. 141.
    David Copperfield (Modern Library Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  138. 142.
    ?
    The Dead
    by James Joyce

  139. 143.
    The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Bantam Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  140. 144.
    Delta Wedding
    by Eudora Welty

  141. 145.
    ?

  142. 147.
    The Diviners : A Novel
    by Rick Moody

  143. 148.
    Doctor Faustus and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Christopher Marlowe

  144. 149.
    A Doll's House (Dodo Press)
    by Ibsen Henrik Ibsen

  145. 150.
    Dollmaker, The
    by Harriette Simpson Arnow

  146. 151.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes

  147. 152.
    Emma (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  148. 153.
    An Enemy of the People (Penguin Plays)
    by Henrik Ibsen

  149. 154.
    Equus (Penguin Plays)
    by Peter Shaffer

  150. 155.
    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev

  151. 156.
    ?
    The Federalist

  152. 157.
    Fifth Business (Penguin Classics)
    by Robertson Davies

  153. 158.
    A Gathering of Old Men
    by Ernest J. Gaines

  154. 159.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin

  155. 160.
    Going After Cacciato
    by Tim O'Brien

  156. 161.
    The Good Soldier
    by Ford Madox Ford

  157. 162.
    Hard Times (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  158. 163.
    Henry IV, Part I (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  159. 164.
    Homecoming (Tillerman Series)
    by Cynthia Voigt

  160. 165.
    The House of the Seven Gables (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  161. 167.
    In the Lake of the Woods
    by Tim O'Brien

  162. 168.
    J.B.: A Play in Verse
    by Archibald MacLeish

  163. 169.
    Jasmine
    by Bharati Mukherjee

  164. 170.
    Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Plume)
    by August Wilson

  165. 171.
    Joseph Andrews (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henry Fielding

  166. 172.
    Julius Caesar (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  167. 173.
    King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  168. 174.
    A Lesson Before Dying (Five Star)
    by Ernest J. Gaines

  169. 175.
    Letters from an American Farmer (Oxford World's Classics)
    by J. Hector St John de Crèvecoeur

  170. 176.
    ?
    LIGHT IN AUGUST
    by William Faulkner

  171. 177.
    The Little Foxes.
    by Lillian Hellman

  172. 178.
    Long Day's Journey into Night
    by Eugene O'Neill

  173. 179.
    Love Medicine: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Louise Erdrich

  174. 180.
    ?

  175. 181.
    Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  176. 182.
    Madame Bovary
    by Gustave Flaubert

  177. 183.
    Pygmalion and Major Barbara (Bantam Classics)
    by George Bernard Shaw

  178. 184.
    Man And Superman a Comedy And a Philosophy
    by Bernard Shaw

  179. 185.
    Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  180. 186.
    The Mayor of Casterbridge (Modern Library Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

  181. 187.
    The Member of the Wedding (Time Reading Program)
    by Carson McCullers

  182. 188.
    Merchant of Venice, The (Penguin) (Shakespeare, Penguin)
    by William Shakespeare

  183. 190.
    Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

  184. 191.
    The Mill on the Floss (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by George Eliot

  185. 192.
    The Misanthrope and Other Plays: A New Selection (Penguin Classics)
    by Jean-Baptiste Moliere

  186. 193.
    Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust
    by Nathanael West

  187. 194.
    Moll Flanders (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  188. 195.
    Monkey Bridge
    by Lan Cao

  189. 196.
    Mother Courage and Her Children: Adapted By David Hare
    by Bertolt Brecht

  190. 197.
    Mrs. Warren's Profession
    by Bernard Shaw

  191. 198.
    Much Ado About Nothing (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  192. 199.
    Murder in the Cathedral
    by T S Eliot

  193. 200.
    My Last Duchess and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Robert Browning

  194. 201.
    Native Speaker
    by Chang-rae Lee

  195. 202.
    No-No Boy
    by John Okada

  196. 203.
    No Exit and Three Other Plays
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

  197. 204.
    Oedipus Rex (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Sophocles

  198. 205.
    The Optimist's Daughter
    by Eudora Welty

  199. 206.
    Pale Fire (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  200. 207.
    Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Samuel Richardson

  201. 208.
    Paradise Lost (Oxford World's Classics)
    by John Milton

  202. 209.
    Persuasion (Tor Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  203. 210.
    Phedre (Petits Classiques)

  204. 211.
    The Piano Lesson
    by August Wilson

  205. 212.
    Pnin (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  206. 213.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

  207. 214.
    The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics)
    by Graham Greene

  208. 215.
    Praisesong for Widow (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)
    by Paule Marshall

  209. 216.
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Perennial Classics)
    by Muriel Spark

  210. 217.
    Rape of the Lock and Other Poems
    by Alexander Pope

  211. 219.
    Richard III (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  212. 220.
    A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf

  213. 221.
    Saint Joan (Penguin Classics)
    by George Bernard Shaw

  214. 222.
    The Sandbox
    by Lynn Conrad

  215. 223.
    The Shipping News : A Novel
    by Annie Proulx

  216. 224.
    Sons and Lovers
    by D.H. Lawrence

  217. 225.
    The Stone Angel
    by James W. Nichol

  218. 226.
    Sula
    by Toni Morrison

  219. 227.
    Tartuffe (Drama Classics)
    by Moliere

  220. 228.
    The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  221. 229.
    ?

  222. 230.
    To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf

  223. 231.
    Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

  224. 232.
    The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
    by Franz Kafka

  225. 235.
    Twelfth Night
    by William Shakespeare

  226. 236.
    Volpone
    by Ben Jonson

  227. 237.
    Washington Square
    by Henry James

  228. 239.
    ?
    Watch on the Rhine.
    by Lillian Hellman

  229. 240.
    The Watch That Ends the Night
    by Hugh MacLennan

  230. 241.
    The Way of the World
    by William Congreve

  231. 242.
    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    by Edward Albee

  232. 244.
    The Winter's Tale: Third Series (Arden Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  233. 245.

  234. 246.
    Wise Blood: A Novel
    by Flannery O'Connor

  235. 247.
    The Zoo Story (Acting Edition)
    by Edward Albee

  236. 248.
    Zoot Suit and Other Plays
    by Luis Valdez

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