Lists of Bests: funeralseason's "Recommended Reading for Advanced Placement English Literature" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/28344 This is a partial list of the Advanced Placement English Literature Canon. It does not even begin to cover all the books that are on the offiical list. I'll update it with new books as I find out about them/read them. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:41:03 GMT en-us 0 50 117 50 0 The Iliad (Collector's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2338032 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2338032"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1904633382.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43282293_.jpg" /></a></div> The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/834000 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/834000"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039954.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> The New Oxford Annotated Bible, New Revised Standard Version, Third Edition (Hardcover Indexed 9700) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1543874 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1543874"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/019528481X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Antigone http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1629372 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1629372"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/087220572X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sophocles</div> Oedipus the King ( Oedipus Rex ) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2399182 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2399182"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1599869519.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E, A Sophocles</div> Medea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1995388 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1995388"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580493467.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21550 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21550"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074347712X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> The Misanthrope and Tartuffe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94129 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94129"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156605171.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Moliere</div> Phaedra http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1408368 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1408368"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1419141171.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean Racine</div> L\'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas [EasyRead Comfort Edition] http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2724437 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2724437"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1425009131.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Milton</div> Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3150 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3150"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140424393.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Milton</div> The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-comical Poem in Five Cantos http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1597582 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1597582"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BWHX4S.01-A1AL8Q8LX1EQRB._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexander Pope</div> Gulliver’s Travels http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1590395 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Swift</div> Candide (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14658 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14658"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486266893.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Voltaire</div> The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140424385.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geoffrey Chaucer</div> Crime and Punishment (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/147560 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/147560"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393956237.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div> Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3758 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3758"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143035002.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> The Cherry Orchard (Methuen Drama) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1008373 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1008373"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0413774031.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anton Chekhov</div> Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74862 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74862"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684830515.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> Pope: An Essay On Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2426280 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2426280"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0023134607.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank Brady</div> An Essay On Criticism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1953628 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1953628"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1419106406.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexander Pope</div> A Doll's House http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2510607 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2510607"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1406914835.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44284720_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henrik Ibsen</div> Beowulf (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13941 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13941"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451527402.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> The Decameron (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13969 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13969"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528662.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Giovanni Boccaccio</div> Gargantua and Pantagruel (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65097 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65097"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679431373.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Francois Rabelais</div> Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437239.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra</div> King Lear (New Folger Library Shakespeare) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21570 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21570"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074348276X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Goethes Faust http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2338030 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe</div> The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/513922 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/513922"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437263.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathaniel Hawthorne</div> Jane Eyre. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2335969 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2335969"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/3717519646.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43632855_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Bronte</div> Les Misérables (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13908 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13908"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451525264.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Victor Hugo</div> Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/165785 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/165785"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393926362.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Secret Sharer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2747302 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2747302"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/075380722X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> The Awakening http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1145500 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Chopin</div> Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/113983 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/113983"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192839993.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> Desire Under the Elms http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/700874 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/700874"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1854591363.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eugene O'Neill</div> The Hairy Ape http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2750843 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2750843"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/140695683X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44274501_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eugene O\'Neill</div> The Iceman Cometh http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1012209 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1012209"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0300117434.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eugene O'Neill</div> The Metamorphosis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60073 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60073"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400047951.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Kuper</div> Trial, The http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2293 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2293"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099428644.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> A Streetcar Named Desire. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/981566 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/981566"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0822210894.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tennessee Williams</div> Cat on a Hot Tin Roof http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/264336 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/264336"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811216012.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tennessee Williams</div> Maggie a Girl of the Streets http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2069503 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2069503"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1420925245.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Crane</div> The Jungle Books (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/124047 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/124047"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529758.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rudyard Kipling</div> Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21552 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21552"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743477553.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> THE BEAN TREES http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1808600 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Kingsolver</div> In the Time of the Butterflies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14059 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14059"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452274427.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julia Alvarez</div> The Joy Luck Club http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1739199 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1739199"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143038095.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amy Tan</div> The Sound and the Fury http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679732241.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Tess Of The D'Urbervilles http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2107775 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hardy</div>