bdark's "Advanced Placement English Recommended Reading"

Add to my lists | Print this list

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!

Pages: 1 3

  1. 1.
    Gulliver's Travels (Signet Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift
  2. 2.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare
  4. 4.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury
  5. 5.
    Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad
  6. 6.
    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee
  7. 7.
    The House of the Spirits
    by Isabel Allende
  8. 8.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou
  9. 9.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  10. 10.
    Watership Down
    by Richard Adams
  11. 11.
    Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
    by Emily Brontë
  12. 12.
    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Atwood
  13. 13.
    The Edible Woman
    by Margaret Atwood
  14. 14.
    The Blind Assassin: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood
  15. 15.
    Jane Eyre (Signet Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë
  16. 16.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson
  17. 17.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin
  18. 18.
    The Power of Myth (Illustrated Edition)
    by JOSEPH CAMPBELL
  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.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  23. 23.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  24. 24.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  25. 25.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding
  26. 26.
    The Scarlet Letter (Bantam Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  27. 27.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller
  28. 28.
    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway
  29. 29.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway
  30. 30.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway
  31. 31.
    Death in the Afternoon
    by Ernest Hemingway
  32. 32.
    ?
    The Old Man and The Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway
  33. 33.
    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Modern Library Classics)
    by Victor Hugo
  34. 34.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  36. 36.
  38. 38.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee
  39. 39.
    The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Toni Morrison
  40. 40.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison
  41. 41.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell
  42. 42.
    Nineteen Eighty-four
    by George Orwell
  43. 43.
    Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Alan Paton
  44. 44.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque
  45. 45.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger
  46. 46.
    Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare
  47. 47.
    Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare
  48. 48.
    Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare
  49. 49.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley
  50. 50.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (Signet Classics)
    by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Pages: 1 3

This is bdark's list. Only bdark can edit it. You can make your own version of this list.
Created by bdark on Jul 28, 2008.
 

Comments



or
Login with Facebook