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MomsMyJob's "Advanced Placement English Recommended Reading"

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. Things Fall Apart (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Chinua Achebe
  
2. Watership Down (Perennial Classics)
by Richard Adams
  
3. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides (Everyman's Library)
by Aeschylus
  
4. A Death in the Family
by James Agee
  
5. The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
  
6. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
  
7. Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
by Aristophanes
  
8. The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
  
9. The Edible Woman
by MARGARET ATWOOD
  
10. The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
  
11. Pride and Prejudice (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Jane Austen
  
12. Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
  
13. Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
  
14. The Martian Chronicles (Flamingo Modern Classics)
by Ray Bradbury
  
15. Jane Eyre (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Charlotte Bronte
  
16. Wuthering Heights (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Emily Bronte
  
17. The Pilgrim's Progress (Oxford World's Classics)
by John Bunyan
  
18. The Stranger
by Albert Camus
  
19. The Power of Myth
by Joseph Campbell
  
20. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Modern Library Classics)
by Lewis Carroll
  
21. Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
  
22. The Awakening and Other Stories (Modern Library Classics)
by Kate Chopin
  
23. Heart of Darkness (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Joseph Conrad
  
24. Lord Jim (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Joseph Conrad
  
25. The Great Santini
by Pat Conroy
  
26. The Lords of Discipline
by Pat Conroy
  
27. The Last of the Mohicans (Modern Library Classics)
by James Fenimore Cooper
  
28. The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the Civil War
by Stephen Crane
  
29. Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics)
by Daniel Defoe
  
30. Great Expectations (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Charles Dickens
  
31. A Tale of Two Cities (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Charles Dickens
  
32. An American Tragedy (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by Theodore Dreiser
  
33. Sister Carrie (Modern Library Classics)
by Theodore Dreiser
  
34. Rebecca (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Daphne Du Maurier
  
35. Adam Bede (Modern Library Classics)
by George Eliot
  
36. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (Modern Library Classics)
by George Eliot
  
37. Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
  
38. Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
by Euripides
  
39. As I Lay Dying (Vintage International)
by William Faulkner
  
40. The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
  
41. The Great Gatsby (Essential.penguin S.)
by F.Scott Fitzgerald
  
42. A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
by E.M. Forster
  
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
44. Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
  
45. Snow Falling on Cedars
by David Guterson
  
46. A Raisin in the Sun (Methuen Modern Plays)
by Lorraine Hansberry
  
47. Jude the Obscure (Modern Library Classics)
by Thomas Hardy
  
48. Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman (Modern Library Classics)
by Thomas Hardy
  
49. The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
50. Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
by Joseph Heller
  
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Created by MomsMyJob on Feb 24, 2008.