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br1074'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.
    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee
  2. 2.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury
  3. 3.
    The House of the Spirits
    by Isabel Allende
  4. 4.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou
  5. 5.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  6. 6.
    Watership Down
    by Richard Adams
  7. 7.
    Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
    by Emily Brontë
  8. 8.
    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Atwood
  9. 9.
    The Edible Woman
    by Margaret Atwood
  10. 10.
    The Blind Assassin: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood
  11. 11.
    Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  12. 12.
    The Martian Chronicles (The Grand Master Editions)
    by Ray Bradbury
  13. 13.
    Jane Eyre (Signet Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë
  15. 15.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson
  16. 16.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin
  17. 17.
    The Power of Myth (Illustrated Edition)
    by JOSEPH CAMPBELL
  18. 18.
    Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad
  19. 19.
    The Great Santini: A Novel
    by Pat Conroy
  20. 20.
    The Lords of Discipline
    by Pat Conroy
  21. 21.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  22. 22.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  23. 23.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  24. 24.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  25. 25.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  26. 26.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding
  27. 27.
    The Scarlet Letter (Bantam Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  28. 28.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller
  29. 29.
    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway
  30. 30.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway
  31. 31.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway
  32. 32.
    Death in the Afternoon
    by Ernest Hemingway
  33. 33.
    ?
    The Old Man and The Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway
  34. 34.
    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Modern Library Classics)
    by Victor Hugo
  35. 35.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  37. 37.
  39. 39.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee
  40. 40.
    The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Toni Morrison
  41. 41.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison
  42. 42.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell
  43. 43.
    Nineteen Eighty-four
    by George Orwell
  44. 44.
    Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Alan Paton
  45. 45.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque
  46. 46.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger
  47. 47.
    Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare
  48. 48.
    Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare
  49. 49.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare
  50. 50.
    Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare
  51. 51.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley
  52. 52.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (Signet Classics)
    by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  53. 53.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck
  54. 54.
    Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by John Steinbeck
  55. 55.
    Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Signet Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson
  56. 56.
    Dracula (Signet Classics)
    by Bram Stoker
  57. 57.
    Gulliver's Travels (Signet Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift
  58. 58.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan
  59. 59.
    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy
  60. 60.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classic)
    by Mark Twain
  61. 61.
    The Age of Innocence (Modern Library Classics)
    by Edith Wharton
  62. 62.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker
  63. 63.
    The Time Machine
    by H. G. Wells
  64. 64.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics)
    by Oscar Wilde
  65. 65.
    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder
  66. 66.
    A Streetcar Named Desire
    by Tennessee Williams
  67. 67.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf
  68. 68.
    Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy
  69. 69.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright
  70. 70.
    A Raisin in the Sun
    by Lorraine Hansberry
  71. 71.
    Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
    by Euripides
  72. 72.
    Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics)
    by Voltaire
  73. 73.
    The Crucible
    by Arthur Miller
  74. 74.
    Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
    by Samuel Beckett
  75. 75.
    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    by Tom Stoppard
  77. 77.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe
  78. 78.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus
  79. 79.
    The Red Badge of Courage (Tor Classics)
    by Stephen Crane
  80. 80.
    Lord Jim
    by Joseph Conrad
  81. 81.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier
  82. 82.
    Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel
    by David Guterson
  83. 83.
    ?
    Woman Warrior
    by Maxine Hong Kingston
  84. 84.
    House Made of Dawn (Perennial Classics)
    by N. Scott Momaday
  85. 85.
    Sister Carrie (Signet Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser
  86. 86.
    The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by John Bunyan
  87. 87.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics)
    by James Fenimore Cooper
  88. 88.
    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe
  89. 89.
    An American Tragedy (Signet Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser
  90. 90.
    Adam Bede (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot
  91. 91.
    Silas Marner (Bantam Classics)
    by GEORGE ELIOT
  92. 92.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison
  93. 93.
    As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  94. 94.
    A Passage to India
    by E.M. Forster
  95. 95.
    The Odyssey
    by Robert Fagles
  96. 96.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston
  97. 97.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey
  98. 98.
    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles
  99. 99.
    Main Street (Signet Classics)
    by Sinclair Lewis
  100. 100.
    Moby-Dick (Bantam Classics)
    by Herman Melville
  101. 101.
    Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays)
    by Arthur Miller
  102. 102.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell
  103. 103.
    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison
  104. 104.
    The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Sylvia Plath
  105. 105.
    The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition
    by Upton Sinclair
  106. 106.
    Treasure Island (Signet Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson
  107. 107.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Bantam Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  108. 108.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy
  109. 109.
    Walden : An Annotated Edition
    by Henry David Thoreau
  110. 110.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren
  111. 111.
    Ethan Frome (Signet Classics)
    by Edith Wharton
  112. 112.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder
  113. 113.
    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams
  114. 114.
    Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
    by Aristophanes
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