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
  2. 2.
    Watership Down (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard Adams
  4. 4.
    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee
  5. 5.
    The House of the Spirits
    by Isabel Allende
  6. 6.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou
  7. 7.
    Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
    by Aristophanes
  8. 8.
    The Blind Assassin
    by Margaret Atwood
  9. 9.
    The Edible Woman
    by Margaret Atwood
  10. 10.
    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Atwood
  11. 11.
    Pride and Prejudice (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Jane Austen
  12. 12.
    Waiting for Godot
    by Samuel Beckett
  13. 13.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury
  14. 14.
    The Martian Chronicles (Flamingo Modern Classics)
    by Ray Bradbury
  15. 15.
    Jane Eyre (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
    by Charlotte Bronte
  16. 16.
    Wuthering Heights (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Emily Bronte
  17. 17.
    The Pilgrim's Progress (Oxford World's Classics)
    by John Bunyan
  18. 18.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus
  19. 19.
    The Power of Myth
    by Joseph Campbell
  21. 21.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson
  22. 22.
  23. 23.
    Heart of Darkness (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Joseph Conrad
  24. 24.
    Lord Jim (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad
  25. 25.
    The Great Santini: A Novel
    by Pat Conroy
  26. 26.
    The Lords of Discipline: A Novel
    by Pat Conroy
  27. 27.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Modern Library Classics)
    by James Fenimore Cooper
  28. 28.
    The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the Civil War
    by Stephen Crane
  29. 29.
    Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe
  30. 30.
    Great Expectations (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Charles Dickens
  31. 31.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Charles Dickens
  32. 32.
    An American Tragedy (Signet Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser
  33. 33.
    Sister Carrie (Modern Library Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser
  34. 34.
    Rebecca (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Daphne Du Maurier
  35. 35.
    Adam Bede (Modern Library Classics)
    by George Eliot
  36. 36.
  37. 37.
    Invisible Man (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Ralph Ellison
  38. 38.
    Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
    by Euripides
  39. 39.
    As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  40. 40.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  41. 41.
    The Great Gatsby (Essential.penguin S.)
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald
  42. 42.
    A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
    by E. M. Forster
  43. 43.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Gabriel Marquez
  44. 44.
    Lord of The Flies
    by William Golding
  45. 45.
    Snow Falling on Cedars
    by David Guterson
  46. 46.
    "A Raisin in the Sun" (Modern Classics)
    by Lorraine Hansberry
  47. 47.
    Jude the Obscure (Modern Library Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy
  49. 49.
    The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  50. 50.
    Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
    by Joseph Heller

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