Advanced Placement English Recommended Reading top 50 books

Add to my lists | Print this list
  1. 1.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

  2. 2.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou

  3. 3.
    Watership Down (Puffin Modern Classics)
    by Richard Adams

  4. 4.
    Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Emily Brontë

  5. 5.
    The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary Classics)
    by Margaret Eleanor Atwood

  6. 6.
    Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  7. 7.
    SILENT SPRING

  8. 8.
    The Awakening (A Women's Press Classic)
    by Kate Chopin

  9. 9.
    The Power of Myth
    by Joseph Campbell

  10. 10.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph Conrad

  11. 11.
    The Lords of Discipline: A Novel
    by Pat Conroy

  12. 12.
    Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charles Dickens

  13. 13.
    Sound and the Fury (Picador Books)
    by William Faulkner

  14. 14.
    The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics)
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  15. 15.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  16. 16.
    Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by William Golding

  17. 17.
    The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  18. 18.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  19. 19.
    A Farewell to Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

  20. 20.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (War Promo)
    by Ernest Hemingway

  21. 21.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

  22. 22.
    The Old Man and the Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway

  23. 23.
    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
    by Victor Hugo

  24. 24.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  25. 28.
    To Kill A Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

  26. 29.
    The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)
    by Toni Morrison

  27. 30.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

  28. 31.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

  29. 32.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four, Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

  30. 33.
    Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Alan Paton

  31. 34.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  32. 35.
    Othello (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  33. 36.
    Hamlet (Norton Critical Editions)
    by William Shakespeare

  34. 37.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Signet Classics)
    by William Shakespeare

  35. 38.
    Romeo and Juliet (Simply Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  36. 39.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

  37. 40.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

  38. 41.
    Of Mice and Men
    by Jon Steinbeck

  39. 42.
    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Whole Story)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

  40. 43.
    Dracula (Case Study in Contemporary Criticism)
    by Bram Stoker

  41. 44.
    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

  42. 45.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan

  43. 46.
    Anna Karenina (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  44. 47.
    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    by Mark Twain

  45. 48.
    The Age of Innocence
    by Edith Wharton

  46. 49.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

This is a community list. You can contribute, edit, or help maintain it by adding it to your lists.
Created by Avaleigh_Marissa on Jan 12, 2008.
 

Comments

Untitled — 13 weeks ago

What happened to book 50? There are currently only 49…




or
Login with Facebook