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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!

  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
  51. 51.
    Death in the Afternoon
    by Ernest Hemingway
  52. 52.
    A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway
  53. 53.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway
  54. 54.
    Old Man And The Sea (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway
  55. 55.
    The Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway
  56. 56.
    The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer
  57. 57.
    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Modern Library Classics)
    by Victor Hugo
  58. 58.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston
  59. 59.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  61. 61.
  63. 63.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
    by Ken Kesey
  64. 64.
    The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
    by Maxine Hong Kingston
  65. 65.
    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles
  67. 67.
    Main Street (Modern Library)
    by Sinclair Lewis
  68. 68.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
    by Herman Melville
  69. 69.
    The Crucible
    by Arthur Miller
  70. 70.
    Death of a Salesman (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Arthur Miller
  71. 71.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell
  72. 72.
    House Made of Dawn (Perennial Classics)
    by N. Scott Momaday
  73. 73.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison
  74. 74.
    The Bluest Eye
    by Toni Morrison
  75. 75.
    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison
  76. 76.
    Animal Farm (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell
  77. 77.
    Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell
  78. 78.
    Cry, the Beloved Country
    by Alan Paton
  79. 79.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath
  80. 80.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque
  81. 81.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger
  82. 82.
    Hamlet (Penguin Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare
  83. 83.
    Midsummer Night's Dream (Penguin Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare
  84. 84.
    Othello (Penguin Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare
  85. 85.
    Romeo and Juliet (Penguin Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare
  86. 86.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley
  87. 87.
    The Jungle (Modern Library Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair
  88. 88.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
  89. 89.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by John Steinbeck
  90. 90.
    Of Mice and Men (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by John Steinbeck
  92. 92.
    Treasure Island (Penguin Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson
  93. 93.
    Dracula (Penguin Classics)
    by Bram Stoker
  94. 94.
    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    by Tom Stoppard
  95. 95.
  96. 96.
    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift
  97. 97.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan
  98. 98.
    Walden (Everyman's Library)
    by Henry David Thoreau
  99. 99.
    Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy
  100. 100.
    War and Peace (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy
  101. 101.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain
  102. 102.
    Candide: Or, Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Francois Voltaire
  103. 103.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Duty-Dance with Death
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  104. 104.
    The Color Purple: Tenth Anniversary Editon
    by Alice Walker
  105. 105.
    All the King's Men (Film Ink)
    by Robert Penn Warren
  106. 106.
    The Time Machine (Penguin Classics)
    by H.G. Wells
  107. 107.
    The Age of Innocence (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Edith Wharton
  108. 108.
    Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics)
    by Edith Wharton
  109. 109.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray
    by Oscar Wilde
  110. 110.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder
  111. 111.
    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder
  112. 112.
    Glass Menagerie (Penguin Plays & Screenplays)
    by Tennessee Williams
  113. 113.
    Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Tennessee Williams
  114. 114.
    Mrs. Dalloway (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf
  115. 115.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright
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