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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

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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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    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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    The Blind Assassin
    by Margaret Atwood

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    The Edible Woman
    by MARGARET ATWOOD

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    The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

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

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    Waiting for Godot
    by Samuel Beckett

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    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

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    The Martian Chronicles (Flamingo Modern Classics)
    by Ray Bradbury

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

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

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

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    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

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    The Power of Myth
    by Joseph Campbell

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    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson

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

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    Lord Jim (Penguin Modern Classics)
    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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    The Last of the Mohicans (Modern Library Classics)
    by James Fenimore Cooper

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    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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    An American Tragedy (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Theodore Dreiser

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    Sister Carrie (Modern Library Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser

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    Rebecca (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Daphne Du Maurier

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    Adam Bede (Modern Library Classics)
    by George Eliot

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    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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    Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
    by Euripides

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    As I Lay Dying (Vintage International)
    by William Faulkner

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    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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    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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    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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  48. 51.
    Death in the Afternoon
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  49. 52.
    A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  50. 53.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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    Old Man And The Sea (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  52. 55.
    Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  53. 56.
    The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

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  54. 57.
    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Modern Library Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

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  55. 58.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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    Brave New World (P.S.)
    by Aldous Huxley

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    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
    by Ken Kesey

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    The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
    by Maxine Hong Kingston

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    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles

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  61. 67.
    Main Street (Modern Library)
    by Sinclair Lewis

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    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
    by Herman Melville

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    The Crucible (Penguin Classics)
    by Arthur Miller

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    Death of a Salesman (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Arthur Miller

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  65. 71.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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  66. 72.
    House Made of Dawn (Perennial Classics)
    by N. Scott Momaday

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    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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    The Bluest Eye
    by Toni Morrison

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    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison

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  70. 76.
    Animal Farm (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

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    Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

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  72. 78.
    Cry, the Beloved Country
    by Alan Paton

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  73. 79.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

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  74. 80.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

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  75. 81.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  76. 82.
    Hamlet (Penguin Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

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  77. 83.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Penguin Shakespeare S.)
    by William Shakespeare

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  78. 84.
    Othello (Penguin Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

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  79. 85.
    Romeo and Juliet (Penguin Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

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  80. 86.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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  81. 87.
    The Jungle (Modern Library Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair

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  82. 88.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn

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  83. 89.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by John Steinbeck

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  84. 90.
    Of Mice and Men (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by John Steinbeck

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  85. 92.
    Treasure Island (Penguin Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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    Dracula (Penguin Classics)
    by Bram Stoker

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  87. 94.
    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    by Tom Stoppard

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    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

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  90. 97.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan

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  91. 98.
    Walden (Everyman's Library)
    by Henry David Thoreau

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  92. 99.
    Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  93. 100.
    War and Peace (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  94. 101.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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  95. 102.
    Candide: Or, Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Francois Voltaire

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  96. 103.
    Slaughterhouse 5
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  97. 104.
    The Color Purple: Tenth Anniversary Editon
    by Alice Walker

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  98. 105.
    All the King's Men (Film Ink)
    by Robert Penn Warren

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  99. 106.
    The Time Machine (Penguin Classics)
    by H.G. Wells

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  100. 107.
    The Age of Innocence (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  101. 108.
    Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  102. 109.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray
    by Oscar Wilde

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  103. 110.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

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  104. 111.
    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

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  105. 112.
    Glass Menagerie (Penguin Plays & Screenplays)
    by Tennessee Williams

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  106. 113.
    A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Tennessee Williams

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  107. 114.
    Mrs. Dalloway (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf

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  108. 115.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright

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Created by MomsMyJob on Feb 24, 2008.