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bdark'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.
    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
    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
  51. 51.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck
  52. 52.
    Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by John Steinbeck
  53. 53.
    Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Signet Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson
  54. 54.
    Dracula (Signet Classics)
    by Bram Stoker
  55. 55.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan
  56. 56.
    Anna Karenina
    by Leo Tolstoy
  57. 57.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classic)
    by Mark Twain
  58. 58.
    The Age of Innocence (Modern Library Classics)
    by Edith Wharton
  59. 59.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker
  60. 60.
    The Time Machine
    by H. G. Wells
  61. 61.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics)
    by Oscar Wilde
  62. 62.
    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder
  63. 63.
    A Streetcar Named Desire
    by Tennessee Williams
  64. 64.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf
  65. 65.
    Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy
  66. 66.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright
  67. 67.
    A Raisin in the Sun
    by Lorraine Hansberry
  68. 68.
    Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
    by Euripides
  69. 69.
    Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics)
    by Voltaire
  70. 70.
    The Crucible
    by Arthur Miller
  71. 71.
    Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
    by Samuel Beckett
  72. 72.
    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    by Tom Stoppard
  74. 74.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe
  75. 75.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus
  76. 76.
    The Red Badge of Courage (Tor Classics)
    by Stephen Crane
  77. 77.
    Lord Jim
    by Joseph Conrad
  78. 78.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier
  79. 79.
    Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel
    by David Guterson
  80. 80.
    ?
    Woman Warrior
    by Maxine Hong Kingston
  81. 81.
    House Made of Dawn (Perennial Classics)
    by N. Scott Momaday
  82. 82.
    Sister Carrie (Signet Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser
  83. 83.
    The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by John Bunyan
  84. 84.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics)
    by James Fenimore Cooper
  85. 85.
    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe
  86. 86.
    An American Tragedy (Signet Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser
  87. 87.
    Adam Bede (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot
  88. 88.
    Silas Marner (Bantam Classics)
    by GEORGE ELIOT
  89. 89.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison
  90. 90.
    As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  91. 91.
    A Passage to India
    by E.M. Forster
  92. 92.
    The Odyssey
    by Homer
  93. 93.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston
  94. 94.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey
  95. 95.
    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles
  96. 96.
    Main Street (Signet Classics)
    by Sinclair Lewis
  97. 97.
    Moby-Dick (Bantam Classics)
    by Herman Melville
  98. 98.
    Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays)
    by Arthur Miller
  99. 99.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell
  100. 100.
    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison
  101. 101.
    The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Sylvia Plath
  102. 102.
    The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition
    by Upton Sinclair
  103. 103.
    Treasure Island (Signet Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson
  104. 104.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Bantam Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  105. 105.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy
  106. 106.
    Walden : An Annotated Edition
    by Henry David Thoreau
  107. 107.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren
  108. 108.
    Ethan Frome (Signet Classics)
    by Edith Wharton
  109. 109.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder
  110. 110.
    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams
  111. 111.
    Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
    by Aristophanes
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