Lists of Bests: MomsMyJob's "Advanced Placement English Recommended Reading" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/50237 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! Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:22:13 GMT en-us 0 50 115 50 0 Things Fall Apart (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1736202 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1736202"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0141186887.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chinua Achebe</div> Watership Down (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1379 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1379"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060935456.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Adams</div> The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides (Everyman's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/278563 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/278563"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400041929.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aeschylus</div> A Death in the Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9020 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9020"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375701230.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Agee</div> The House of the Spirits http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15485 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15485"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0552995886.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isabel Allende</div> I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/85338 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/85338"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/055338001X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122549029_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maya Angelou</div> Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3328 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3328"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140448144.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristophanes</div> The Blind Assassin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337828 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337828"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1860498809.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> The Edible Woman http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10321 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10321"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0385491069.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by MARGARET ATWOOD</div> The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10315 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10315"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/038549081X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> Pride and Prejudice (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2286709 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2286709"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679405429.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134082742_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Waiting for Godot http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781205 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781205"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/015GFMFRQTL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Beckett</div> Fahrenheit 451 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/819486 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/819486"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0007181701.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ray Bradbury</div> The Martian Chronicles (Flamingo Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3622955 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3622955"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01D888QEDRL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ray Bradbury</div> Jane Eyre (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18427 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18427"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679405828.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Bronte</div> Wuthering Heights (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/77177 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/77177"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679405437.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Bronte</div> The Pilgrim's Progress (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46720 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46720"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192803611.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Bunyan</div> The Stranger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18614 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18614"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679720200.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46690014_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> The Power of Myth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10206 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10206"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385418868.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43057146_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Campbell</div> Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9429 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9429"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375761381.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lewis Carroll</div> Silent Spring http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17214 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17214"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/061825305X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rachel Carson</div> The Awakening and Other Stories (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/509016 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/509016"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679783334.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Chopin</div> Heart of Darkness (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2151094 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2151094"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679428011.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Lord Jim (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59258 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59258"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141183543.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> The Great Santini http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499908 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499908"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553381555.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pat Conroy</div> The Lords of Discipline http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/979848 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/979848"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553381563.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pat Conroy</div> The Last of the Mohicans (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1783729 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1783729"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375757643.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113606020_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Fenimore Cooper</div> The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the Civil War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3623241 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3623241"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/011GWX40H6L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Crane</div> Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3527 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3527"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439823.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Defoe</div> Great Expectations (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18426 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18426"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679405798.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1136843949_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> A Tale of Two Cities (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2856976 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2856976"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01KW5HRJZNL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> An American Tragedy (Signet Classics (Paperback)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13947 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13947"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0451527704.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodore Dreiser</div> Sister Carrie (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1018684 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1018684"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0375753214.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438495_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodore Dreiser</div> Rebecca (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3457885 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3457885"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/0132XSCEEML.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daphne Du Maurier</div> Adam Bede (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/826721 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/826721"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375759018.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div> Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/175125 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/175125"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/037575749X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div> Invisible Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1822104 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1822104"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141184426.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962978 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962978"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449299.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> As I Lay Dying (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18743 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18743"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/067973225X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> The Sound and the Fury http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742 <div id="position">40</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> The Great Gatsby (Essential.penguin S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1603529 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1603529"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140274138.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1110577973_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F.Scott Fitzgerald</div> A Passage to India (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/163250 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/163250"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014144116X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.M. Forster</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70356 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70356"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014118499X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> Lord of the Flies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2364951 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2364951"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571084834.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056456553_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Golding</div> Snow Falling on Cedars http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2932666 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2932666"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01QMDV5FD0L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Guterson</div> A Raisin in the Sun (Methuen Modern Plays) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1232145 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1232145"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413762408.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lorraine Hansberry</div> Jude the Obscure (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2189673 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2189673"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0375757414.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hardy</div> Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/143480 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/143480"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375756795.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hardy</div> The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19150 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19150"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679783385.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathaniel Hawthorne</div> Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19589 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19589"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684865130.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div>