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funeralseason's "Recommended Reading for Advanced Placement English Literature"

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This is a partial list of the Advanced Placement English Literature Canon. It does not even begin to cover all the books that are on the offiical list. I’ll update it with new books as I find out about them/read them.

  1. 1.
    The Iliad (Collector's Library)

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    The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

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    Antigone
    by Sophocles

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    Oedipus the King ( Oedipus Rex )
    by E, A Sophocles

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    Medea
    by Euripides

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    Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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    The Misanthrope and Tartuffe
    by Moliere

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    Phaedra
    by Jean Racine

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    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

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    The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-comical Poem in Five Cantos
    by Alexander Pope

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    Gulliver’s Travels
    by Jonathan Swift

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    Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Voltaire

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    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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    Crime and Punishment (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  15. 17.
    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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    The Cherry Orchard (Methuen Drama)
    by Anton Chekhov

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    Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  18. 20.
    Pope: An Essay On Man
    by Frank Brady

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    An Essay On Criticism
    by Alexander Pope

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  20. 22.
    A Doll's House
    by Henrik Ibsen

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    Beowulf (Signet Classics)
    by Anonymous

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    The Decameron (Signet Classics)
    by Giovanni Boccaccio

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    Gargantua and Pantagruel (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Francois Rabelais

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  24. 26.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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  25. 27.
    King Lear (New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

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    Goethes Faust
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  28. 30.
    Jane Eyre.
    by Charlotte Bronte

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  29. 31.
    Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

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  30. 32.
    Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad

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  31. 33.
    Secret Sharer
    by Joseph Conrad

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  32. 34.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin

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  33. 35.
    Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics)
    by James Joyce

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  34. 36.
    Desire Under the Elms
    by Eugene O'Neill

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  35. 37.
    The Hairy Ape
    by Eugene O\'Neill

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  36. 38.
    The Iceman Cometh
    by Eugene O'Neill

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    The Metamorphosis
    by Peter Kuper

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  38. 40.
    Trial, The
    by Franz Kafka

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  39. 41.
    A Streetcar Named Desire.
    by Tennessee Williams

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  40. 42.
    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    by Tennessee Williams

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  41. 43.
    Maggie a Girl of the Streets
    by Stephen Crane

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  42. 44.
    The Jungle Books (Signet Classics)
    by Rudyard Kipling

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  43. 45.
    Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  44. 46.
    THE BEAN TREES
    by Barbara Kingsolver

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  45. 47.
    In the Time of the Butterflies
    by Julia Alvarez

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  46. 48.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan

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  47. 49.
    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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    Tess Of The D'Urbervilles
    by Thomas Hardy

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  49. 51.
    Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  50. 52.
    A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    by William Shakespeare

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  51. 53.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

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  52. 54.
    The Orestia
    by Aeschylus

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    The Handmaid's Tale

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  54. 56.
    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  55. 57.
    Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  56. 58.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin

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  57. 59.
    Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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  58. 60.
    A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
    by James Joyce

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  59. 61.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)

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  60. 62.
    Wuthering Heights (Folio Society)
    by Emily Brontë

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  61. 63.
    The Death of Ivan Ilych
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  62. 64.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather

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  63. 65.
    One of Ours (Dover Value Editions)
    by Willa Cather

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  64. 66.
    Death Comes For The Archbishop
    by Willa Cather

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  65. 67.
    The House on Mango Street
    by Sandra Cisneros

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    Lord Jim
    by Joseph Conrad

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  67. 69.
    The Red Badge of Courage
    by Stephan Crane

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  68. 71.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  69. 72.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  70. 73.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Oscar Wilde

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  71. 74.
    Silas Marner (Enriched Classics Series)
    by George Eliot

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  72. 75.
    Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

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  73. 76.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

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  74. 77.
    Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

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  75. 78.
    As I Lay Dying
    by William Faulkner

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  76. 79.
    A Thousand Acres: A Novel
    by Jane Smiley

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  77. 80.
    Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
    by Anne Tyler

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  78. 81.
    Nectar in a Sieve (Signet Classics)
    by Kamala Markandaya

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  79. 82.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  80. 83.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  81. 84.
    A Passage to India
    by E.M. Forster

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  82. 85.
    Jude the Obscure (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  83. 86.
    The Scarlet Letter
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  84. 87.
    Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
    by Joseph Heller

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  85. 88.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  86. 89.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  87. 90.
    The Remains of the Day
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

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  88. 92.
    One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey

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  89. 93.
    The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
    by Maxine Hong Kingston

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  90. 94.
    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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  91. 95.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel García Márquez

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  92. 96.
    Moby Dick (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Herman Melville

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  93. 97.
    Billy Budd, Sailor (Enriched Classics)
    by Herman Melville

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  94. 98.
    Death of a Salesman
    by Arthur Miller

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  95. 99.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  96. 100.
    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison

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  97. 101.
    A Bend in the River
    by V.S. Naipaul

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    The Things They Carried
    by Tim O'Brien

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  99. 103.
    Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  100. 104.
    The Bluest Eye
    by Toni Morrison

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  101. 105.
    The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover)
    by Ayn Rand

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    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
    by Tom Stoppard

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  103. 107.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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  104. 108.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  105. 109.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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  106. 110.
    Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  107. 111.
    Summer
    by Edith Wharton

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  108. 112.
    The House of Mirth (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Edith Wharton

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  109. 113.
    The Importance of Being Earnest
    by Oscar Wilde

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    Our Town
    by Thornton Wilder

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  111. 115.
    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams

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  112. 116.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  113. 117.
    To the Lighthouse (1927)
    by Virginia, Woolf

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Created by funeralseason on Mar 13, 2007.