MomsMyJob'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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  1. 1.
    Things Fall Apart (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Chinua Achebe

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    Watership Down (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard Adams

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    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee

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    The House of the Spirits
    by Isabel Allende

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  5. 6.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou

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    Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
    by Aristophanes

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  7. 8.
    The Blind Assassin
    by Margaret Atwood

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  8. 9.
    The Edible Woman
    by MARGARET ATWOOD

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  9. 10.
    The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

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  10. 11.
    Pride and Prejudice (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Jane Austen

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  11. 12.
    Waiting for Godot
    by Samuel Beckett

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  12. 13.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

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  13. 14.
    The Martian Chronicles (Flamingo Modern Classics)
    by Ray Bradbury

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  14. 15.
    Jane Eyre (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Charlotte Bronte

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  15. 16.
    Wuthering Heights (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Emily Bronte

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  16. 17.
    The Pilgrim's Progress (Oxford World's Classics)
    by John Bunyan

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  17. 18.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

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  18. 19.
    The Power of Myth
    by Joseph Campbell

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  19. 21.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson

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    Heart of Darkness (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Joseph Conrad

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  22. 24.
    Lord Jim (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

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  23. 25.
    The Great Santini
    by Pat Conroy

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  24. 26.
    The Lords of Discipline
    by Pat Conroy

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  25. 27.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Modern Library Classics)
    by James Fenimore Cooper

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  26. 28.
    The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the Civil War
    by Stephen Crane

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    Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

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    Great Expectations (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Charles Dickens

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    A Tale of Two Cities (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Charles Dickens

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  30. 32.
    An American Tragedy (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Theodore Dreiser

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  31. 33.
    Sister Carrie (Modern Library Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser

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  32. 34.
    Rebecca (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Daphne Du Maurier

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  33. 35.
    Adam Bede (Modern Library Classics)
    by George Eliot

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    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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  36. 38.
    Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
    by Euripides

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  37. 39.
    As I Lay Dying (Vintage International)
    by William Faulkner

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  38. 40.
    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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  39. 41.
    The Great Gatsby (Essential.penguin S.)
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald

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  40. 42.
    A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
    by E.M. Forster

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  41. 43.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  42. 44.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

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  43. 45.
    Snow Falling on Cedars
    by David Guterson

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  44. 46.
    A Raisin in the Sun (Methuen Modern Plays)
    by Lorraine Hansberry

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  45. 47.
    Jude the Obscure (Modern Library Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  46. 49.
    The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  47. 50.
    Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
    by Joseph Heller

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