Choice Book List
Below are the choices for summer reading and dialectical journals. These novels are listed in order from most prevalent to least prevalent on the AP English Literature Exam. Keep in mind that the more you read, the more prepared you will be. One book is required, but you may read as many as you wish. Read the plot summaries online to help you decide, or ask me if you need suggestions.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Light in August by William Faulkner
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Native Son by Richard Wright
Antigone by Sophocles
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Candide by Voltaire
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Sula by Toni Morrison
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
Equus by Peter Shaffer
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
Medea by Euripides
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chkhov
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
The Bear by William Faulkner
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
he Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Below are the choices for summer reading and dialectical journals. These novels are listed in order from most prevalent to least prevalent on the AP English Literature Exam. Keep in mind that the more you read, the more prepared you will be. One book is required, but you may read as many as you wish. Read the plot summaries online to help you decide, or ask me if you need suggestions.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Light in August by William Faulkner
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Native Son by Richard Wright
Antigone by Sophocles
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Candide by Voltaire
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Sula by Toni Morrison
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
Equus by Peter Shaffer
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
Medea by Euripides
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chkhov
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
The Bear by William Faulkner
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
he Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini