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1 Will be read in Title Author Date Published # times on AP test AP Invisible Man Ellison, Ralph AP Wuthering Heights Bronte, Emily Great Expectations Dickens, Charles Crime and Punishment Dostoevski, Fyodor AP Heart of Darkness Conrad, Joseph AP Jane Eyre Bronte, Charlotte AP King Lear Shakespeare, William AP Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Twain, Mark Moby Dick Melville, Herman Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James AP Awakening, The Chopin, Kate Catch-22 Heller, Joseph H9 Great Gatsby, The Fitzgerald, F. Scott AP Scarlett Letter, The Hawthorne, Nathaniel AP Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston, Zora Neale Billy Budd Melville, Herman Ceremony Silko, Leslie Marmon Color Purple, The Walker, Alice Glass Menagerie Williams, Tennessee Native Son Wright, Richard Song of Solomon Morrison, Toni Antigone Sophocles 441 BC 9 As I Lay Dying Faulkner, William Beloved Morrison, Toni Candide Voltaire Jude the Obscure Hardy, Thomas Othello Shakespeare, William Paradise Lost Milton, John Passage to India, A Forster, E. M AP Streetcar Named Desire, A Williams, Tennessee All the Pretty Horses McCarthy, Cormac Anna Karenina Tolstoy, Leo Bless Me, Ultima Anaya, Rudolfo AP Death of a Salesman Miller, Arthur Grapes of Wrath, The Steinbeck, John Jungle, The Sinclair, Upton Raisin in the Sun, A Hansberry, Lorraine Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Are Dead Stoppard, Tom Sula Morrison, Toni Waiting for Godot Beckett, Samuel All the King's Men Warren, Robert Penn H9 Crucible, The Miller, Arthur Cry, The Beloved Country Paton, Alan Doll's House, A Ibsen, Henrik Lord Jim Conrad, Joseph Madame Bovary Flaubert, Gustave Mayor of Casterbridge, The Hardy, Thomas Obasan Kogawa, Joy AP Oedipus Rex Sophocles 441 BC 7 Portrait of a Lady James, Henry Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane Sound and the Fury, The Faulkner, William Sun Also Rises, The Hemingway, Ernest Tempest, The Shakespeare, William Cherry Orchard, The Chekhov, Aton Enemy of the People, An Ibsen, Henrik

2 Equus Shaffer, Peter Ethan Frome Wharton, Edith Gulliver's Travels Swift, Jonathan Hairy Ape, The O'Neill, Eugene Hedda Gabler Ibsen, Henrik Major Barbara Shaw, George Bernard Merchant of Venice, The Shakespeare, William Moll Flanders Defoe, Daniel Mrs. Dalloway Woolf, Virginia Murder in the Cathedral Eliot, T. S Piano Lesson, The Wilson, August Tess of the D'Urbervilles Hardy, Thomas AP Things Fall Apart Achebe, Chinua Turn of the Screw, The James, Henry Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Albee, Edward Age of Innocence Wharton, Edith Bleak House Dickens, Charles Doctor Faustus Marlowe, Christopher AP Fences Wilson, August Frankenstein Shelley, Mary Go Tell It on the Mountain Baldwin, James Hamlet Shakespeare, William H10 Julius Caesar Shakespeare, William Macbeth Shakespeare, William Medea Euripides 431 BC 5 Mrs. Warren's Profression Shaw, George Bernard Native Speaker Lee, Chang-Rae Sister Carrie Dreiser, Theodore Wide Sargasso Rhys, Jean Wise Blood O'Connor, Flannery Orwell, George Absalom, Absalom Faulkner, William American Tragedy, An Dreiser, Theodore As You Like It Shakespeare, William Brave New World Huxley, Aldous Catcher in the Rye Salinger, J. D Cat's Eye Atwood, Margaret David Copperfield Dickens, Charles Don Quixote Cervantes, Miguel de Middlemarch Eliot, George My Antonia Cather, Willa (CP9) Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare, William Stranger, The Camus, Albert Tale of Two Cities, A Dickens, Charles H9 To Kill a Mockingbird Lee, Harper To the Lighthouse Woolf, Virginia Tom Jones Fielding, Henry Trial, The Kafka, Franz Twelfth Night Shakespeare, William Winter's Tale Shakespeare, William Alias Grace Atwood, Margaret American, The James, Henry Another Country Baldwin, James Atonement McEwan, Ian Black Boy Wright, Richard Bluest Eye Morrison, Toni Bonesetter's Daughter Tan, Amy Daisy Miller James, Henry

3 Farewell to Arms, A Hemingway, Ernest God of Small Things, The Roy, Arundhati Going After Cacciato O'Brien, Tim Hard Times Dickens, Charles Henry IV, Parts I and II Shakespeare, William House Made of Dawn Momaday, N. Scott House of Mirth, The Wharton, Edith House on Mango Street, The Cisneros, Sandra Jasmine Mukherjee, Bharati H10 Joy Luck Club, The Tan, Amy Kite Runner, The Hosseini, Khaled Little Foxes, The Hellman, Lillian Long Day's Journey into Night O'Neill, Eugene M. Butterfly Wang, David Henry Master Harold... and the Boys Fugard, Athol Mill on the Floss, The Eliot, George Mother Courage and Her Children Brecht, Berthold Namesake, The Lahiri, Jhumpa (CP9) Odyssey, The Homer 700 BC 3 One Hundred Years of Solitude Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Persuasion Austen, Jane Plague, The Camus, Albert Poisonwood Bible, The Kingsolver, Barbara Pygmalion Shaw, George Bernard Remains of the Day, The Ishiguro, Kazuo H9 Separate Peace, A Knowles, John Snow Falling on Cedars Guterson, David Typical American Jen, Gish Woman Warrior Kingston, Maxine Hong Women of Brewster Place, The Naylor, Gloria "The Bear" Faulkner, William All My Sons Miller, Arthur Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare, William Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Johnson, James Weldon Birthday Party, The Pinter, Harold Blind Assassin Atwood, Margaret Brothers Karamazov,The Dostoevski, Fyodor Chosen, The Potok, Chaim Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles Dutchman Baraka, Amiri & Jones, Leroi Emma Austen, Jane Faust Goethe, Johann Fifth Business Davis, Robertson For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest Gathering of Old Men, A Gaines, Ernest Gesture Life, A Lee, Chang-Rae Ghosts Ibsen, Henrik Good Soldier, The Ford, Ford Maddox Handmaid's Tale, The Atwood, Margaret Homecoming, The Pinter, Harold J.B. MacLeish, Archibald Joe Turner's Come and Gone Wilson, August Lesson Before Dying, A Gaines, Ernest Letters from an American Farmer Crevecoeur Lord of the Flies Golding, William Main Street Lewis, Sinclair Mansfield Park Austen, Jane Member of the Wedding, The McCullers, Carson

4 Metamorphosis Kafka, Franz Midsummer Night's Dream, A Shakespeare, William Monkey Bridge Cao, Lan Never Let Me Go Ishiguro, Kazuo No Exit Sartre, John Paul One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Solzhenitsyn, Alexander One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Kesey, Ken Phaedre Racine, Jean Pocho Villarreal, Jose Antonio Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Spark, Muriel Ragtime Doctorow, E. L H10 Reservation Blues Alexie, Sherman Slaughterhouse Five Vonnegut, Kurt Sons and Lovers Lawrence, D. H Stone Angel, The Laurence, Margaret Story of Edgar Sawtelle, The Wroblewski, David Things They Carried, The O'Brien, Tim Thousand Splendid Suns, A Hosseini, Khaled Uncle Tom's Cabin Stowe, Harriet Beecher Zoo Story, The Albee, Edward "Civil Disobedience" Thoreau, Henry David AP "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Eliot, T. S AP "My Last Duchess" Browning, Robert "The Crisis" Paine, Thomas "The Dead" Joyce, James Adam Bede Eliot, George Adventures of Augie March, The Bellow, Saul Aeneid, The Virgil 19 BC 1 Agnes of God Pielmeier, John America is in the Heart Bulosan, Carlos American Pastoral Roth, Philip Angels in America Kushner, Tony Angle of Repose Stegner, Wallace Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Richler, Mordecai Armies of the Night Mailer, Norman Bend in the River, A Naipaul, V.S Benito Cereno Melville, Herman Bone: A Novel Ng, Fae M Breath, Eyes, Memory Danticat, Edwidge Brideshead Revisited Waugh, Evelyn Brighton Rock Greene, Graham Broken for You Kallos, Stephanie Brown Girl, Brownstones Marshall, Paule Candida Shaw, George Bernard Canterbury Tales, The Chaucer, Geoffrey Caretaker, The Pinter, Harold Cat on the Hot Tin Roof Williams, Tennessee Centaur, The Updike, John Cider House Rules, The Irving, John Coming Through Slaughter Ondaatje, Michael Copenhagen Frayn, Michael Country of the Pointed Firs, The Jewett, Sarah Orne Crossing, The McCarthy, Cormac Dancing at Lughnasa Friel, Brian Death of Ivan Ilyich Tolstoy, Leo Delta Wedding Welty, Eudora Desire Under the Elms O'Neill, Eugene Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Tyler, Anne

5 Divine Comedy, The Alighieri, Dante Diviners, The Laurence, Margaret Doctor Zhivago Pasternak, Boris Dollmaker, The Arnot, Harriet Dreaming in Cuban Garcia, Cristina East of Eden Steinbeck, John Eumenides, The Aeschylus 458 BC 1 Fall, The Camus, Albert Father, The Strindberg, August Fathers and Sons Turgenev, Ivan Federalist Hamilton, Alexander Fine Balance, A Mistry, Rohinton Fixer, The Malamud, Bernard Free Life: A Novel, A Jin, Ha Germinal Zola, Emile Golden Bowl, The James, Henry Heart of the Matter, The Greene, Graham Henry V Shakespeare, William High Wind in Jamaica, A Hughes, Richard Home to Harlem McKay, Claude House for Mr. Biswas, A Naipaul, V.S House of Seven Gables, The Hawthorne, Nathaniel Iliad, The Homer 762 BC 1 Importance of Being Earnest, The Wilde, Oscar In the Lake of the Woods O'Brien, Tim H10 In the Time of Butterflies Alvarez, Julia Inheritance of Loss, The Desai, Kiran Joseph Andrews Fielding, Henry Kafka on the Shore Murakami, Haruki Lady Windermere's Fan Wilde, Oscar Little Women Alcott, Louisa May Look Homeward, Angel Wolfe, Thomas Love Medicine Erdrich, Louise Loved One, The Waugh, Evelyn Lysistrata Aristophanes 411 BC 1 Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Crane, Stephen Man and Superman Shaw, George Bernard Memory Keeper's Daughter Edwards, Kim Middle Passage Naipaul, V.S Misanthrope, The Moliere Miss Lonelyhearts West, Nathanael Moor's Last Sign, The Rushdie, Salman Much Ado About Nothing Shakespeare, William My Name is Asher Lev Potok, Chaim No-No Boy Okada, John Notes from the Underground Dostoevski, Fyodor O Pioneers! Cather, Willa Octupus, The Norris, Frank H9 Of Mice and Men Steinbeck, John Old School Wolff, Tobia Oliver Twist Dickens, Charles Optimist's Daughter, The Welty, Eudora Orestia, The Aeschylus 458 BC 1 Orlando: A Biography Woolf, Virginia Oryx and Crake Atwood, Margaret Other, The Tryon, Thomas Our Mutual Friend Dickens, Charles Our Town Wilder, Thorton

6 Out of Africa Dinesen, Isaak Pale Fire Nabokov, Vladimir Pamela Richardson, Samuel Passing Larsen, Nella Peer Gynt Ibsen, Henrik Pere Goriot Balzac, Honore de AP Picture of Dorian Gray, The Wilde, Oscar Pnin Nabokov, Vladimir Power and Glory, The Greene, Graham Praisesong for the Widow Marshall, Paule Prayer for Owen Meany, A Irving, John Purple Hibiscus Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi Push Sapphire Rape of the Lock, The Pope, Alexander Red Badge of Courage, The Crane, Stephen Redburn Melville, Herman Return of the Native, The Hardy, Thomas Rhinoceros Ionesco, Eugene Richard III Shakespeare, William River Runs Through It, A Maclean, Norman H10 Road, The McCarthy, Cormac Robinson Crusoe Defoe, Daniel Room of One's Own, A Woolf, Virginia Room with a View, A Forster, E. M Saint Joan Shaw, George Bernard Sandbox, The Albee, Edward Secret Life of Bees, The Kidd, Sue Monk Sent for You Yesterday Wideman, John Edgar Set This House on Fire Styron, William Shipping News, The Proulx, E. Annie Siddhartha Hesse, Herman Silas Marner Eliot, George Sister of My Heart Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee Snow Pamuk, Orhan Soldier's Play, A Fuller, Charles Sophie's Choice Styron, William Sorrows of Young Werther, The Goethe, Johann Street, The Petry, Ann Surfacing Atwood, Margaret Tartuffe Moliere Thousand Acres, A Smiley, Jane Tracks Erdrich, Louise Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A Smith, Betty Trifles Glaspell, Susan Tristram Shandy Sterne, Laurence U.S.A. (trilogy) Passos, John Dos Vicar of Wakefield, The Goldsmith, Oliver Victory Conrad, Joseph Volpone Jonson, Ben Warden, The Trollope, Anthony Washington Square James, Henry AP Wasteland, The Eliot, T. S Watch on the Rhine Hellman, Lillian Way of the World, The Congreve, William Way We Live Now, The Trollope, Anthony We Were the Mulvaneys Oates, Joyce Carol When the Emperor was Divine Otsuka, Julie Who Has Seen the Wind Mitchell, W. O

7 Wild Duck, The Ibsen, Henrik Winter in the Blood Welch, James Zoot Suit Valdez, Luis

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