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Lizie'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. A Death in the Family
by James Agee
  
2. Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
  
3. The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
  
4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
  
5. Slaughterhouse-Five
by KURT VONNEGUT
  
6. Watership Down
by Richard Adams
  
7. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
by Emily Bronte
  
8. The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
  
9. The Edible Woman
by MARGARET ATWOOD
  
10. The Blind Assassin: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
  
11. Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
12. The Martian Chronicles (The Grand Master Editions)
by Ray Bradbury
  
13. Jane Eyre (Signet Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
14. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
  
15. Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
  
16. The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
  
17. The Power of Myth (Illustrated Edition)
by JOSEPH CAMPBELL
  
18. Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Joseph Conrad
  
19. The Great Santini
by Pat Conroy
  
20. The Lords of Discipline
by PAT CONROY
  
21. Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
22. A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
23. The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
  
24. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
25. One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
26. Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
  
27. The Scarlet Letter
by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
  
28. Catch 22
by Joseph Heller
  
29. A Farewell To Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
  
30. For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
  
31. Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
  
32. DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON
by Ernest Hemingway
  
33. The Old Man and The Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
  
34. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Modern Library Classics)
by Victor Hugo
  
35. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
  
36. Four Major Plays: Volume 1: A Doll House; The Wild Duck; Hedda Gabler; The Master Builder (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by Henrik Ibsen
  
37. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
  
38. The Story of my Life (100th Anniversary Edition) (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by Helen Keller
  
39. To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
  
40. The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club)
by Toni Morrison
  
41. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
  
42. Animal Farm
by George Orwell
  
43. Nineteen Eighty-four
by George Orwell
  
44. Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club)
by Alan Paton
  
45. All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
  
46. The Catcher in the Rye  
47. Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
48. Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
49. A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
50. Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
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Created by Lizie on Apr 13, 2008.