acupcakeslife'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.

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  1. 2.
    The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

  2. 4.
    Antigone
    by Sophocles

  3. 5.
    Oedipus the King ( Oedipus Rex )
    by E, A Sophocles

  4. 6.
    Medea - Literary Touchstone Classic
    by Euripides

  5. 7.
    Hamlet ( Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  6. 8.
    The Misanthrope and Tartuffe
    by Moliere

  7. 9.
    Phaedra
    by Jean Baptiste Racine

  8. 11.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

  9. 12.
    The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-comical Poem in Five Cantos
    by Alexander Pope

  10. 13.
    ?
    Gulliver’s Travels
    by Jonathan Swift

  11. 14.
    Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Voltaire

  12. 15.
    The Canterbury Tales
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

  13. 16.
    Crime and Punishment (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  14. 17.
    Anna Karenina
    by Leo Tolstoy

  15. 18.
    The Cherry Orchard (Methuen Drama)
    by Anton Chekhov

  16. 19.
    The Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

  17. 20.
    Pope: An Essay On Man
    by Frank Brady

  18. 21.
    An Essay On Criticism
    by Alexander Pope

  19. 22.
    A Doll's House
    by Henrik Ibsen

  20. 23.
    Beowulf (Signet Classics)

  21. 24.
    The Decameron (Signet Classics)
    by Giovanni Boccaccio

  22. 26.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

  23. 27.
    King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  24. 28.
    ?
    Goethes Faust
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  25. 29.
    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  26. 30.
    Jane Eyre.
    by Charlotte Bronte

  27. 31.
    Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

  28. 32.
    Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad

  29. 33.
    Secret Sharer
    by Joseph Conrad

  30. 34.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin

  31. 35.
    Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics)
    by James Joyce

  32. 36.
    Desire Under the Elms
    by Eugene O'Neill

  33. 37.
    The Hairy Ape
    by Eugene O\'Neill

  34. 38.
    The Iceman Cometh
    by Eugene O'Neill

  35. 39.
    The Metamorphosis
    by Peter Kuper

  36. 40.
    Trial, The
    by Franz Kafka

  37. 41.
    A Streetcar Named Desire.
    by Tennessee Williams

  38. 42.
    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    by Tennessee Williams

  39. 43.
    Maggie a Girl of the Streets
    by Stephen Crane

  40. 44.
    The Jungle Books (Signet Classics)
    by Rudyard Kipling

  41. 45.
    Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  42. 46.
    THE BEAN TREES
    by Barbara Kingsolver

  43. 47.
    In the Time of the Butterflies
    by Julia Alvarez

  44. 48.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan

  45. 49.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  46. 50.
    ?
    Tess Of The D'Urbervilles
    by Thomas Hardy

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Created by acupcakeslife on May 05, 2007.
 

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