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Great books used by the AP exam since 1971. Many times students
ask me which books to read on their own, so this is a list of books
considered by the AP people to be GREAT. NOTE: This is NOT my summer reading
list, but you may certainly find many ideas for good reads on here!
Absalom, Absalom!, 76, 00,
07
Adam Bede, 06
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 80, 82, 85, 91, 92,
94, 95, 96. 99. 05, 06
Age of Innocence, 97, 02, 05, 08
Agnes of God, 00
Alias Grace, 00, 03, 04, 08
All the King’s Men, 00, 02, 03, 04, 07, 08
All My Sons, 85, 90
All the Pretty Horses, 96, 06, 08
America is in the Heart, 95
The American, 05, 07
American Tragedy, 82, 95
Anna Karenina, 80, 91, 99, 02, 06, 08
Another Country, 95
Antigone, 79, 80, 91, 99, 02
Antony and Cleopatra, 80, 91
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, 94
As I Lay Dying, 78, 89, 90, 94, 01, 06
As You Like It, 92, 06
Atonement, 07
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, 02, 05
The Awakening, 87, 88, 92, 92, 95, 97, 99, 02
The Bear, 94, 06
Beloved, 90, 99, 01, 07
Benito Cereno, 89
Billy Budd, 79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 99, 02, 05, 08
Birthday Party, 89. 97
Black Boy, 06
Bleak House, 94, 00
Bless me, Ultima, 96, 97, 05, 06
The Blind Assassin, 07
The Bluest Eye, 95
The Bonesetter’s Daughter, 06, 07
Brave New World, 89, 05
Brighton Rock, 79
Brothers Karamazov, 90, 08
Candide, 80, 86, 87, 91, 96, 03, 04
Caretaker, 85
Catch-22, 82, 85, 87, 91, 96, 03, 04, 08
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 00
Cat’s Eye, 94
Centaur, 81
Ceremony, 94, 96, 97, 99, 01, 06
Cherry Orchard, 71, 77. 06, 07
Civil Disobedience, 76
Cold Mountain, 08
The Color Purple, 91, 92, 94, 96, 97, 05, 08
Coming Through Slaughter, 01
Crime and Punishment, 76, 79, 80, 82, 88, 96, 99,
00, 01, 02, 03, 04
The Crucible, 71, 83, 87, 05
Cry, the Beloved Country, 85, 87, 91, 95, 96, 07
Daisy Miller, 97
Dancing and Lughnasa, 01
David Copperfield 78, 83, 06
The Dead, 97
Death of a Salesman, 86, 88, 94, 03, 04, 05, 07
Death of Ivan Illyich, 86
Delta Wedding, 97
Desire Under the Elms, 81
The Diviners, 95
Doctor Faustus, 79, 86, 99, 03, 04
A Doll’s House, 71, 83, 87, 88, 95, 05
Dollmaker, 91
Don Quixote, 92, 01, 03, 04, 06, 08
East of Eden, 06
Emma, 96, 08
Enemy of the People, 76, 80, 87, 99, 01, 07
Equus, 92, 99, 00, 01, 08
Ethan Frome, 80, 85, 05, 06, 07
The Eumenides, 96
Fall, 81
Farewell to Arms, 91, 99
The Father, 01
Fathers and Sons, 90
Faust, 02
Federalist, 96
Fences, 02
Fifth Business, 00, 07
The Fixer, 07
For Whom the Bell Tolls, 06
Frankenstein, 89, 00, 06, 08
Gathering of Old Men, 00
A Gesture Life, 03, 04, 05
Ghosts, 00, 03, 04
Glass Menagerie, 71, 90, 94, 97, 99, 02, 08
Go Tell it on the Mountain, 88, 90, 05
Going After Cacciato, 01
The Good Soldier, 00
Grapes of Wrath, 81, 85, 87, 95, 06
Great Expectations, 79, 80, 88, 89, 92, 95, 96, 00,
01, 02, 03, 04, 07
Great Gatsby, 82, 83, 88, 91, 97, 00, 02, 03, 04, 07
Gulliver’s Travels, 87, 89, 01, 03, 04
Hairy Ape, 89
Hamlet, 88, 94, 97, 99, 00
Hard Times, 87, 90
Heart of Darkness, 71, 76, 91, 94, 96, 99, 00, 01,
02, 03, 04
Hedda Gabler, 79, 92, 00, 02
Henry IV, 80, 99, 08
Henry V, 02
Homecoming, 78, 90
House Made of Dawn, 95, 06
House of Mirth, 07
House of the Seven Gables, 89
Huckleberry Finn, 08
Iliad, 80
In the Lake of the Woods, 00
Invisible Man, 77, 78, 82, 83, 85, 87, 88, 89, 91,
94, 95, 96, 91, 01, 03, 04, 05, 08
J.B., 81, 94
Jane Eyre, 78, 79, 80, 88, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99,
00, 07
Jasmine, 99
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, 00, 03, 04
Joseph Andrews, 91
Joy Luck Club, 97
Jude the Obscure, 71, 76, 80, 85, 87, 91, 95
Julius Caesar, 82, 97
Jungle, 87
King Lear, 77, 78, 82, 89, 90, 96, 01, 03, 04, 05,
06, 08
The Kite Runner, 07, 08
A Lesson Before Dying, 99
Letters from an American Farmer, 76
Light in August, 71, 79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 95, 99
Little Foxes, 85, 90
Long Day’s Journey into Night, 90, 07
Lord Jim, 77, 78, 82, 86, 00, 07
Lord of the Flies, 85, 92
Love Medicine, 95
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, 85
Lysistrata, 87
Macbeth, 83, 99
Madam Bovary, 80, 85, 95, 05, 06
Main Street, 87
Major Barbara, 79, 96, 03, 04
Man and Superman, 81
Mansfield Park, 91, 06
Major of Casterbridge, 94, 99, 00, 02
Medea, 82, 92, 95, 01
Member of the Wedding, 97
Merchant of Venice, 85, 91, 95, 02
Metamorphosis, 78, 89
Middlemarch, 95, 03, 04, 05, 07
Midsummer Night’s Dream, 91, 06
Mill on the Floss, 90, 92, 95
Misanthrope, 92, 08
Miss Lonelyhearts, 89
Moby Dick, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 89, 94, 96, 01, 03,
04
Moll Flanders, 76, 77, 86, 87
The Moor’s Last Sigh, 07
Monkey Bridge, 00
Mother Courage, 85, 87
Mrs. Dalloway, 94, 97, 05, 07
Mrs. Warren’s Profession, 87, 90, 95, 02
Much Ado About Nothing, 97
Murder in the Cathedral, 76, 80, 85, 95
My Last Duchess, 85
Native Son, 79, 82, 83, 85, 87, 95, 01
Native Speaker, 07
1984, - 87, 94, 05
No-No Boy, 95
No Exit, 86
Notes from the Underground, 89
Obasan, 94, 95, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07
Odyssey, 86
Oedipus Rex, 77, 00, 03, 04
Of Mice and Men, 01
One day in the Live of Ivan Denisovich, 05
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 01
One Hundred Years of Solitude, 89
O Pioneers! , 06
Optimist’s Daughter, 94
Orlando, 03, 04
Oresteia, 90
Othello, 79, 85, 88, 92, 95
Our Town 86, 97
Out of Africa, 06
Pale Fire, 01
Pamela, 86
Paradise Lost, 85, 86
Passage to India, 71, 77, 78, 88, 91, 92, 07
Pe’re Goriot, 02
Persuasion 90, 05, 07
Phedre, 92
The Piano Lesson, 96, 99, 07, 08
Picture of Dorian Gray, 02
The Plague, 02
Poccho, 02
Pnin, 97
Portrait of a Lady, 92, 96, 05
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 76, 77, 80,
81, 86, 88, 96, 99, 03, 04, 05
The Power and Glory, 95
Praisesong for the Widow, 96
Pride and Prejudice, 83, 88, 92, 97, 08
Pygmalion, 92, 08
Prime of Mis Jean Brodie, 90
Ragtime, 07
Raisin in the Sun, 87, 90, 91, 92, 94, 96, 99
Rape of the Lock, 81
Redburn, 87
The Remains of the Day, 00
Reservation Blues, 08
Richard III, 79
Romeo and Juliet, 90, 92, 97
Room of One’s Own, 76
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, 81, 94, 03,
04, 05
Saint Joan, 95
Sandbox, 71
Scarlet Letter, 71, 77, 78, 83, 88, 91, 99, 02, 03,
04, 05, 06
Separate Peace, 82, 07
Shipping News, 97
Silas Marner, 02
Sister Carrie, 87, 02, 03, 04
Slaughterhouse Five, 91
Snow Falling on Cedars, 00
Song of Solomon, 81, 88, 96, 00
Sons and Lovers, 77, 90
Sound and the Fury, 86, 97, 01, 03, 04, 08
The Stone Angel, 96
Stranger, 79, 82, 86
Streetcar Named Desire, 91, 92, 01, 07, 08
Sula, 92, 97, 02, 03, 04, 08
The Sun Also Rises, 85, 91, 95, 03, 04, 05
Surfacing, 05
A Tale of Two cities, 82, 91, 08
Tartuffe, 87
The Tempest, 71, 78, 96, 07
Tess of D’Urbervilles, 82, 91, 06, 07
Their Eyes were Watching God, 88, 90, 91, 96, 03,
04, 05, 06, 07, 08
Things Fall Apart, 91, 97
The Things They Carried, 03, 04
A Thousand Acres, 06
To The Lighthouse, 77, 86, 88,
Tom Jones, 90, 00, 06, 08
Trial, 89, 00
Trifles, 00
Trstram Shandy, 86
Turn of the Screw, 92, 94, 00, 02, 03, 04
Twelfth Night, 85, 94, 96
Typical American, 02, 05
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 87
The Vicar of Wakefield, 06
Victory, 83
Volpone, 83
Waiting for Godot, 77, 85, 86, 89, 94, 01
The Warden, 96
Washington Square, 90
Waste Land, 81
Watch on the Rhine, 87
Watch that Ends the NIght, 92
Way of the World , 71
The Way We Live Now, 06
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, 88, 94, 00, 03, 04,
07
Wide Sargasso Sea, 89, 92
Wild Duck, 78
A Winter’s Tale, 86, 89, 06
Winter in the Blood, 95
Wise Blood, 82, 89, 95
Woman Warrior, 91
Wuthering Heights, 71, 77, 78, 79, 82, 83, 86, 89,
90, 91, 92, 96, 97, 99, 01, 06, 07, 08
Zoo Story, 82, 01
Zoot Suit, 95
In 1993 the test did not list specific works, but
instead, authors. Authors listed are below:
Aristophanes Moliere
Margaret Atwood Vladimir Nabokov
Jane Austen Gloria Naylor
Samuel Beckett Walker Percy
Lord Byron Harold Pinter
Geoffrey Chaucer Alexander Pope
Charles Dickens Barbara Pym
T.S. Eliot Mordecai Richler
William Faulkner William Shakespeare
Henry Fielding George Bernard Shaw
Zora Neale Hurston Tom Stoppard
Aldous Huxley Jonathan Swift
Henry James Anthony Trollope
Ben Jonson Mark Twain
Franz Kafka Voltaire
Margaret Laurence Evelyn Waugh
Bobbie Ann Mason Oscar Wilde
No specific works nor authors were listed in 1998.
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