AP Reading List

"Note: Each of the listed titles have been mentioned as possible references for use on the AP Literature Open Question. The years they are references are italicized following the title and author."

Absalom, Absalom  by Faulkner  (00, 07)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain (82, 85, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 99, 05, 08)

The Age of Innocence by Wharton (97, 02, 05, 08)

Agnes of God by Pielmeier (00)

Alias Grace by Atwood (00, 04, 06, 08)

All My Sons by Miller (85, 90)

All the King's Men by Warren (00, 02, 03, 04, 06, 08)

All the Pretty Horses by McCarthy (96, 08)

The American by James (05, 07, 10)

An American Tragedy by Dreiser (82, 95, 03)

Angle of Repose by Stegner (10)

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy (91, 99, 02, 08)

Another Country by Baldwin (95,10)

Antigone by Sophocles (90, 94, 99, 03)

Anthony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare (91)

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Richler (940

As I Lay Dying by Faulkner (90, 94, 01, 09)

As You Like It by Shakespeare (05,10)

Atonement by McEwan (07)

The Awakening by Chopin (87, 88, 91, 92, 95, 97, 99, 02, 07,09)

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by Johnson (02, 05)

The Bear by Faulkner (94)

Beloved by Morrison (90, 99, 01, 03, 07, 09)

Benito Cereno by Melville (90)

Billy Budd by Melville (81, 82, 83, 85, 99, 02, 05, 08)

The Birthday Party by Pinter (95, 97)

Bless Me, Ultima by Anaya (96, 97, 05)

Bleak House by Dickens (95, 00, 09)

The Blind Assassin by Atwood (07)

The Bluest Eye by Morrison (95)

The Bonesetter's Daughter by Tan (07)

Brave New World by Huxley (89, 05,10)

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky (90, 08)

Candide by Voltaire (85, 87, 91, 96, 04, 06)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Williams (00)

Catch-22 by Heller (82, 85, 87, 89, 94, 01, 05, 08)

Cat's Eye by Atwood (94, 09)

The Centaur by Updike (81)

Ceremony by Silko (94, 96, 97, 99, 01)

The Cherry Orchard by Chekov (07, 09)

Cold Mountain by Frazier (08)

The Color Purple by Walker (91, 92, 94, 96, 97, 05, 08,09)

Coming Through Slaughter by Ondaatije (01)

Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky (82, 89, 96, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 09,10)

The Crossing by McCarthy (09)

The Crucible by Miller (83, 87, 05, 09)

Cry, the Beloved Country by Paton (85, 87, 91, 95, 96, 07)

Daisy Miller by James (97)

Dancing at the Lughnasa by Friel (01)

David Copperfield by Dickens (83)

The Dead by Joyce (97)

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy (86)

Death of a Salesman by Miller (86, 88, 94, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07)

Delta Wedding by Welty (97)

Desire Under the Elms by Williams (81)

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Tyler (97)

The Diviners by Moody (95)

Doctor Faustus by Marlowe (86, 99, 04, 06)

The Dollmaker by Arnow (91)

A Doll's House by Ibsen (83, 87, 88, 95, 05, 09)

Don Quixote by Cervantes (92, 01, 04, 06, 08)

Dr. Zhivago by Pasternal (10)

Emma by Austen (96, 08)

An Enemy of the People by Ibsen (87, 99, 01, 07)

Equus by Shaffer (92, 99, 00, 01, 08)

Ethan Frome by Wharton (85, 03, 05, 07)

The Eumenides by Aeschylus (96)

The Fall by Camus (81)

A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway (91, 99, 09)

Fathers and Sons by Turgenev (90)

The Father by Strindberg (01)

Faust by Goethe (02, 03)

Fences by Wilson (02, 03, 09)

Fifth Business by Davies (00, 07)

The Fixer by Malamud (07)

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway (03)

Frankenstein by Shelley (89, 00, 03, 08)

A Gathering of Ghosts by Lewis (00)

A Gesture Life by Lee (04, 05, 06)

The Glass Menagerie by Williams (90, 94, 97, 99, 02, 08, 09)

Ghosts by Ibsen (00, 04, 06)

Going After Cacciato by O'Brien (01)

The Good Soldier by Madox (00)

The Golden Bowl by James (09)

Go Tell it on the Mountain by Baldwin (88, 90, 05)

The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck (81, 85, 87, 95, 09)

Great Expectations by Dickens (88, 89, 92, 95, 96, 00, 01, 02, 04, 06, 07)

The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald (82, 83, 88, 91, 92, 97, 00, 04, 06, 07)

Gulliver's Travels by Swift (87, 89, 01, 04, 06)

The Hairy Ape by O'Neill (89, 09)

Hamlet by Shakespeare (88, 92, 93, 94, 97, 99, 00)

The Handmaid's Tale by Atwood (92)

Hard Times by Dickens (87, 90)

Heart of Darkness by Conrad (91, 94, 96, 00, 01, 02, 0406, 09, 10)

Hedda Gabler by Ibsen (92, 00, 02, 03)

Henry IV by Shakespeare (90, 08)

Henry V by Shakespeare (02)

Homecoming by Pinter (90)

House Made of Dawn by Momaday (95)

The House of Mirth by Wharton (07)

The House of Seven Gables by Hawthorne (89)

In the Lake of the Woods by O'Brien (00)

Invisible Man by Ellison (82, 83, 85, 87, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 01, 04, 05, 06, 08 ,09 ,10)

Jane Eyre by Bronte (88, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 01, 07,10)

Jasmine by Mukerjee (99,10)

J.B. by MacLeish (81, 94)

Joe Turner's Come and Gone by Wilson (00, 04, 06)

Joseph Andrews by Fielding (91)

The Joy Luck Club by Tan (97)

Jude the Obscure by Hardy (85, 87, 91, 95, 09 ,10)

Julius Caesar by Shakespeare (82, 97)

The Jungle by Sinclair (87)

King Lear by Shakespeare (82, 89, 90, 96, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 08 ,10)

The Kite Runner by Hosseini (07, 08, 09)

Lady Windermere's Fan by Wilde (09)

A Lesson Before Dying by Gaines (99)

Light in August by Faulkner (81, 82, 83, 85, 99, 03)

The Little Foxes by Hellman (85, 90 ,10)

Long Day's Journey into the Night by O'Neill (90, 03, 07)

Lord Jim by Conrad (82, 86, 00, 03, 07)

Lord of the Flies by Golding (85, 92)

Love Medicine by Erdrich (95)

The Loved One by Waugh (89)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by Eliot (85)

Lysistrata by Aristophanes (87)

Madame Bovary by Flaubert (85, 05, 09,10)

Macbeth by Shakespeare (83, 99, 03, 09)

Main Street by Lewis (87)

Major Barbara by Shaw (96, 04, 06)

Mansfield Park by Austen (91)

The Mayor of Castorbridge by Hardy (94, 99, 00, 02 ,10)

Medea by Euripides (82, 92, 95, 01, 03)

The Member of the Wedding by McCullers (97)

The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare (85, 91, 95, 02)

The Metamorphosis by Kafka (89)

The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Edwards (09)

Middlemarch by Eliot (95, 04, 05, 06, 07)

A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare (91)

The Mill on the Floss by Eliot (89, 92)

The Misanthrope by Moliere (95, 08)

Moby Dick by Melville (89, 94, 96, 01, 03, 04, 06, 07, 09)

Moll Flanders by DeFoe (86, 87, 95)

Monkey Bridge by Cao (00)

The Moor's Last Sigh by Rushdie (07)

Mother Courage by Brecht (85, 87)

Mrs. Dalloway by Woolf (85, 87, 05, 07)

Mrs. Warren's Profession by Shaw (87, 90, 95, 0)

Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare (97)

Murder in the Cathedral by Eliot (85, 95)

My Antonia by Cather (10)

The Namesake by Lahiri (09)

Native Son by Wright (82, 83, 85, 87, 95, 01)

Native Speaker by Lee (99, 07)

Nineteen Eighty-Four by Orwell (87, 94, 05, 09)

No Exit by Sartre (86)

Notes from the Underground by Dostoevsky (89)

Obasan by Kogawa (94, 95, 04, 05, 06, 07,10)

The Odyssey by Homer (86,10)

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (82, 00, 03, 04, 06)

Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck (01)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Kesey (01)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn (05,10)

One Hundred Years in Solitude by Marquez (89)

The Optimist's Daughter by Welty (94)

Orlando by Woolf (04, 06)

Oresteia by Aeschylus (90)

Othello by Shakespeare (85, 88, 92, 95)

The Other by Tryon (10)

Our Mutual Friend by Dickens (90)

Our Town by Wilder (86, 97, 09)

Pale Fire by Nabokov (01)

Pamela by Richardson (86)

Paradise Lost by Milton (85, 86,10)

A Passage to India by Forster (88, 91, 92, 07)

Pere Goriot by DeBlazac (02)

Persuasion by Austen (90, 05, 07)

Phedre by Racine (92, 03)

The Piano Lesson by Wilson (96, 99, 07, 08)

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilder (02)

The Plague by Camus (02, 09)

Pnin by Nabokov (97)

Poccho by Villarreal (02)

The Poisonwood Bible by Kingslover (81, 86, 88, 96, 99, 04, 05, 06 ,09,10)

A Portriat of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce (92, 96, 05)

The Portrait of a Lady by James (92, 96, 05)

The Power and the Glory by Greene (95)

A Prayer for Owen Meany by Irving

Pride and Prejudice by Austen (83, 88, 92, 97, 08)

Pygmalion by Shaw (92, 08)

Ragtime by Doctorow (03, 07)

A Raisin in the Sun by Hansberry (87, 90, 91, 94, 96, 99, 09)

The Rape of the Lock by Pope (81)

Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare (90, 92, 97)

The Road by McCarthy (10)

Robinson Crusoe by DeFoe (10)

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Stoppard (81, 94, 00, 04, 05, 06,10)

St. Joan by Shaw (95)

The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne (83, 88, 94, 00, 04, 05, 06)

Sent for You Yesterday by Wideman (03)

A Separate Peace by Knowles (82, 07)

The Shipping News by Proulx (97)

Silas Marner by Eliot (0)

Sister Carrie by Dreiser (87, 02, 04, 06,10)

Sister of My Heart by Divakarani (10)

Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut (91)

Snow by Pamuk

Snow Falling on Cedars by Guterson (00,10)

Song of Solomon by Morrison (81, 88, 96, 00)

Sons and Lovers by Lawrence (90)

The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner (86, 97, 01, 04, 06, 08)

The Stone Angel by Laurence (96)

The Stranger by Camus (82, 86)

A Streetcar Named Desire by Williams (91, 92, 01, 07, 08, 09)

Sula by Morrison (92, 97, 02, 04, 06, 08)

The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway (85, 91, 95, 04, 05, 06)

Surfacing by Atwood (05)

A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens (82, 91, 08)

Tartuffe by Moliere (87)

The Tempest by Shakespeare (96, 07,10)

Tess of the D'Urbevilles by Hardy (82, 91, 03, 07)

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Hurston (88, 90, 91, 96, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08)

The Things They Carried by O'Brien (04, 06)

Things Fall Apart by Achebe (91, 97, 03, 09,10)

To the Lighthouse by Woolf (86, 88)

Tom Jones by Fielding (90, 00, 08)

The Trial by Kafka (89, 00)

Trifles by Glaspell (00)

Tristam Shandy by Sterne (86)

The Turn of the Screw by James (92, 94, 00, 02, 04, 06)

Twelfth Night by Shakespeare (85, 94, 96)

Typical American by Jen (05)

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe (87)

Victory by Conrad (83)

Volpone by Jonson (83)

Waiting for Godot  by Beckett (85, 86, 89, 94, 01, 09)

The Warden by Trollope (96)

Washington Square by James (90)

The Wasteland by Eliot (81)

Watch on the Rhine by Hellman (87)

The Watch that Ends the Night by MacLennan (92)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Albee (88, 94, 00, 04, 06, 07)

Wide Sargasso Sea by Rhys (89, 92)

Winter in the Blood by Welch (82, 89, 95)
A Winter's Tale by Shakespeare (86, 89)

Wise Blood by O'Connor (82, 89, 95, 09)

The Women of Brewster Place by Naylor (09,10)

Woman Warrior by Kingston (01)

Wuthering Heights by Bronte (82, 83, 86, 89, 90, 91, 92, 96, 97, 99, 01, 07, 08)

The Zoo Story by Albee (01)