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Dariane'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!

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    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee

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    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

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    The House of the Spirits
    by Isabel Allende

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    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou

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    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by KURT VONNEGUT

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    Watership Down
    by Richard Adams

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    Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

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    The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

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    The Edible Woman
    by MARGARET ATWOOD

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    The Blind Assassin: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

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    Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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

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    Jane Eyre (Signet Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson

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    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin

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    The Power of Myth (Illustrated Edition)
    by JOSEPH CAMPBELL

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

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    The Great Santini
    by Pat Conroy

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    The Lords of Discipline
    by PAT CONROY

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    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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

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  23. 23.
    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

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    The Scarlet Letter
    by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

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    Catch 22
    by Joseph Heller

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    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

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

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  31. 31.
    Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

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    DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON
    by Ernest Hemingway

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    The Old Man and The Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway

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

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  35. 35.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  36. 37.
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    by James Joyce

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  37. 39.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

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  38. 40.
    The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Toni Morrison

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  39. 41.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  40. 42.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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  41. 43.
    Nineteen Eighty-four
    by George Orwell

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  42. 44.
    Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Alan Paton

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  43. 45.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

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  44. 46.
    The Catcher in the Rye

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  45. 47.
    Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  46. 48.
    Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  47. 49.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  48. 50.
    Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  49. 51.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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  50. 52.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (Signet Classics)
    by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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  51. 53.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  52. 54.
    Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by John Steinbeck

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  53. 55.
    Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  54. 56.
    Dracula (Signet Classics)
    by Bram Stoker

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  55. 57.
    Gulliver's Travels (Signet Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

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  56. 58.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan

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  57. 59.
    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  58. 60.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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  59. 61.
    The Age of Innocence (Modern Library Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  60. 62.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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  61. 63.
    The Time Machine (Tor Classics)
    by H. G. Wells

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  62. 64.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics)
    by Oscar Wilde

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  63. 65.
    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

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  64. 66.
    A Streetcar Named Desire
    by Tennessee Williams

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  65. 67.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

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  66. 68.
    Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  67. 69.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright

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  68. 70.
    A Raisin in the Sun (Vintage)
    by Lorraine Hansberry

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  69. 71.
    Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
    by Euripides

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  70. 72.
    Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics)
    by Voltaire

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  71. 73.
    The Crucible (Penguin Classics)
    by Arthur Miller

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  72. 74.
    Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
    by Samuel Beckett

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  73. 75.
    Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (An Evergreen Book)
    by Tom Stoppard

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  74. 77.
    Things Fall Apart: A Novel
    by Chinua Achebe

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  75. 78.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

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  76. 79.
    The Red Badge of Courage (Tor Classics)
    by Stephen Crane

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  77. 80.
    Lord Jim
    by Joseph Conrad

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  78. 81.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier

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  79. 82.
    Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel
    by David Guterson

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    Woman Warrior
    by Maxine Hong Kingston

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  81. 84.
    House Made of Dawn (Perennial Classics)
    by N. Scott Momaday

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  82. 85.
    Sister Carrie (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Theodore Dreiser

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  83. 86.
    The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by John Bunyan

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  84. 87.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics)
    by James Fenimore Cooper

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  85. 88.
    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

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  86. 89.
    An American Tragedy (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Theodore Dreiser

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  87. 90.
    Adam Bede (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

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  88. 91.
    Silas Marner (Bantam Classics)
    by GEORGE ELIOT

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  89. 92.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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  90. 93.
    As I Lay Dying (Vintage International)
    by William Faulkner

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  91. 94.
    A Passage to India
    by E.M. Forster

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  92. 95.
    The Odyssey
    by Homer

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  93. 96.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  94. 97.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey

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  95. 98.
    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles

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  96. 99.
    Main Street (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Sinclair Lewis

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  97. 100.
    Moby-Dick (Bantam Classic)
    by Herman Melville

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  98. 101.
    Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays)
    by Arthur Miller

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  99. 102.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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  100. 103.
    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison

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  101. 104.
    The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Sylvia Plath

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  102. 105.
    The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition
    by Upton Sinclair

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  103. 106.
    Treasure Island (Signet Classic)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  104. 107.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Bantam Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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  105. 108.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  106. 109.
    Walden
    by Henry David Thoreau

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  107. 110.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

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  108. 111.
    Ethan Frome (Signet Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  109. 112.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

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  110. 113.
    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams

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    Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
    by Aristophanes

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Created by Dariane on Mar 10, 2006.