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LaGypsyLuna's "Advanced Placement English Recommended Reading"

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Books/Literary Works that are useful to be familiar with before taking the AP English Composition and Literature exams. Well, books that are generally good to read period, whether you’re a high school student preparing to take the AP tests or not.

P.S. As of today (Apr. 3, 2006), I got a hold of the actual list I had in high school, so within the next few days, the list will have more books! And I NEVER expected so many people to adopt this list, so thanks everyone, and happy reading!

  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.
    Watership Down
    by Richard Adams
  6. 6.
    Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
    by Emily Brontë
  7. 7.
    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Atwood
  8. 8.
    The Edible Woman
    by Margaret Atwood
  9. 9.
    The Blind Assassin: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood
  10. 10.
    Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  11. 11.
    The Martian Chronicles (The Grand Master Editions)
    by Ray Bradbury
  12. 12.
    Jane Eyre (Signet Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë
  13. 13.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson
  14. 14.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin
  15. 15.
    The Power of Myth (Illustrated Edition)
    by JOSEPH CAMPBELL
  16. 16.
    Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad
  17. 17.
    The Lords of Discipline
    by Pat Conroy
  18. 18.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  19. 19.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  20. 20.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  21. 21.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  22. 22.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  23. 23.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding
  24. 24.
    The Scarlet Letter (Bantam Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  25. 25.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller
  26. 26.
    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway
  27. 27.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway
  28. 28.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway
  29. 29.
    Death in the Afternoon
    by Ernest Hemingway
  30. 30.
    ?
    The Old Man and The Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway
  31. 31.
    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Modern Library Classics)
    by Victor Hugo
  32. 32.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  34. 34.
  36. 36.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee
  37. 37.
    The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Toni Morrison
  38. 38.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison
  39. 39.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell
  40. 40.
    Nineteen Eighty-four
    by George Orwell
  41. 41.
    Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Alan Paton
  42. 42.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger
  43. 43.
    Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare
  44. 44.
    Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare
  45. 45.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare
  46. 46.
    Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare
  47. 47.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley
  48. 48.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck
  49. 49.
    Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by John Steinbeck
  50. 50.
    Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Signet Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson
  51. 51.
    Dracula (Signet Classics)
    by Bram Stoker
  52. 52.
    Gulliver's Travels (Signet Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift
  53. 53.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan
  54. 54.
    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy
  55. 55.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classic)
    by Mark Twain
  56. 56.
    The Age of Innocence (Modern Library Classics)
    by Edith Wharton
  57. 57.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker
  58. 58.
    The Time Machine
    by H. G. Wells
  59. 59.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics)
    by Oscar Wilde
  60. 60.
    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder
  61. 61.
    A Streetcar Named Desire
    by Tennessee Williams
  62. 62.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf
  63. 63.
    Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy
  64. 64.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright
  65. 65.
    A Raisin in the Sun
    by Lorraine Hansberry
  66. 66.
    Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
    by Euripides
  67. 67.
    Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics)
    by Voltaire
  68. 68.
    The Crucible
    by Arthur Miller
  69. 69.
    Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
    by Samuel Beckett
  70. 70.
    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    by Tom Stoppard
  72. 72.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe
  73. 73.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus
  74. 74.
    The Red Badge of Courage (Tor Classics)
    by Stephen Crane
  75. 75.
    Lord Jim
    by Joseph Conrad
  76. 76.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier
  77. 77.
    Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel
    by David Guterson
  78. 78.
    ?
    Woman Warrior
    by Maxine Hong Kingston
  79. 79.
    House Made of Dawn (Perennial Classics)
    by N. Scott Momaday
  80. 80.
    Sister Carrie (Signet Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser
  81. 81.
    The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by John Bunyan
  82. 82.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics)
    by James Fenimore Cooper
  83. 83.
    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe
  84. 84.
    An American Tragedy (Signet Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser
  85. 85.
    Adam Bede (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot
  86. 86.
    Silas Marner (Bantam Classics)
    by GEORGE ELIOT
  87. 87.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison
  88. 88.
    As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  89. 89.
    A Passage to India
    by E.M. Forster
  90. 90.
    The Odyssey
    by Robert Fagles
  91. 91.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston
  92. 92.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey
  93. 93.
    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles
  94. 94.
    Main Street (Signet Classics)
    by Sinclair Lewis
  95. 95.
    Moby-Dick (Bantam Classics)
    by Herman Melville
  96. 96.
    Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays)
    by Arthur Miller
  97. 97.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell
  98. 98.
    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison
  99. 99.
    The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Sylvia Plath
  100. 100.
    The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition
    by Upton Sinclair
  101. 101.
    Treasure Island (Signet Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson
  102. 102.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Bantam Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  103. 103.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy
  104. 104.
    Walden : An Annotated Edition
    by Henry David Thoreau
  105. 105.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren
  106. 106.
    Ethan Frome (Signet Classics)
    by Edith Wharton
  107. 107.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder
  108. 108.
    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams
  109. 109.
    Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
    by Aristophanes
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