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

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. The Iliad (Collector's Library)  
2. The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
by Homer
  
3. The New Oxford Annotated Bible, New Revised Standard Version, Third Edition (Hardcover Indexed 9700)  
4. Antigone
by Sophocles
  
5. Oedipus the King ( Oedipus Rex )
by E, A Sophocles
  
6. Medea
by Euripides
  
7. Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
8. The Misanthrope and Tartuffe
by Moliere
  
9. Phaedra
by Jean Racine
  
10. L\'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas [EasyRead Comfort Edition]
by John Milton
  
11. Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
by John Milton
  
12. The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-comical Poem in Five Cantos
by Alexander Pope
  
13.
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 Gulliver’s Travels
by Jonathan Swift
  
14. Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Voltaire
  
15. The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
  
16. Crime and Punishment (Norton Critical Editions)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
17. Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
18. The Cherry Orchard (Methuen Drama)
by Anton Chekhov
  
19. Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
  
20. Pope: An Essay On Man
by Frank Brady
  
21. An Essay On Criticism
by Alexander Pope
  
22. A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
  
23. Beowulf (Signet Classics)
by Anonymous
  
24. The Decameron (Signet Classics)
by Giovanni Boccaccio
  
25. Gargantua and Pantagruel (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Francois Rabelais
  
26. Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  
27. King Lear (New Folger Library Shakespeare)
by William Shakespeare
  
28.
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 Goethes Faust
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  
29. The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
30. Jane Eyre.
by Charlotte Bronte
  
31. Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
by Victor Hugo
  
32. Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions)
by Joseph Conrad
  
33. Secret Sharer
by Joseph Conrad
  
34.
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 The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
  
35. Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics)
by James Joyce
  
36. Desire Under the Elms
by Eugene O'Neill
  
37. The Hairy Ape
by Eugene O\'Neill
  
38. The Iceman Cometh
by Eugene O'Neill
  
39. The Metamorphosis
by Peter Kuper
  
40. Trial, The
by Franz Kafka
  
41. A Streetcar Named Desire.
by Tennessee Williams
  
42. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Tennessee Williams
  
43. Maggie a Girl of the Streets
by Stephen Crane
  
44. The Jungle Books (Signet Classics)
by Rudyard Kipling
  
45. Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
46.
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 THE BEAN TREES
by Barbara Kingsolver
  
47. In the Time of the Butterflies
by Julia Alvarez
  
48. The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
  
49. The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
  
50.
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 Tess Of The D'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
  
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Created by acupcakeslife on May 05, 2007.