Books Not on AP List but Recommended Anyway Books Written as Social Protest:

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1 Books Not on AP List but Recommended Anyway All the Light We Cannot See The Life of Pi Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close The Help The Book Thief Reading Lolita in Tehran Middlesex Memoirs of a Geisha V for Vendetta Like Water for Chocolate Lonesome Dove The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay The History of Love The Children of Men American Gods Any novel by Margaret Atwood Any novel by Louise Erdrich Station Eleven The Invention of Wings The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy The Lord of the Rings series The Power of One The Princess Bride Water for Elephants Will Grayson, Will Grayson Books Written as Social Protest: America Uncle Tom s Cabin 1852 (slavery) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1885 (slavery) The Jungle 1906 (exploitation of immigrants and industrial labor practices) Brave New World 1943 (American culture of sex, drugs and materialism, oh my!) The Grapes of Wrath 1939 (conditions of the working class during The Depression) Native Son 1940 (treatment of Blacks post-slavery) Black Boy (treatment of Blacks post-slavery) Go Tell it on the Mountain 1953 ( ) The Crucible (McCarthyism and black-listing during 1950 s) One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest 1975 (treatment of mentally ill) Angels in America 1993 (treatment of homosexuals, AIDS epidemic) Europe Oliver Twist (conditions of the poor in turn of century England) Bleak House ( ) Hard Times 1854 ( ) Les Miserables 1862 (social inequality in France)

2 Crime and Punishment 1866 (Russian nihilism and radicalism) The American (Critique of American culture of the time) Politics All the King s Men The Crucible Gulliver s Travels Heart of Darkness A Tale of Two Cities The Jungle 1984 War Commentaries: Catch-22 Slaughterhouse Five Going After Cacciato The Things They Carried In the Lake of the Woods GLBT: Books with GLBT Protagonist or Themes Angels in America The Color Purple The Picture of Dorian Gray Magic Realism: One Hundred Years of Solitude The House of Spirits Love in the Time of Cholera The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Love Medicine Dreaming in Cuban Coming of Age Stories: The Adventures of Augie March Adventures of Huckleberry Finn All the Pretty Horses Atonement Black Boy Breath, Eyes, Memory Brown Girl, Brownstones Cat s Eye The Chosen The Cider House Rules The Color Purple

3 David Copperfield The God of Small Things The Grapes of Wrath Great Expectations Invisible Man Jane Eyre The Joys of Motherhood A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Purple Hibiscus The Secret Life of Bees A Separate Peace Siddhartha Song of Solomon The Sound and the Fury The Story of Edgar Sawtelle Their Eyes Were Watching God A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Early Victorian / Turn of Century Social Commentary: Life is hard for the American privileged class Age of Innocence Washington Square The American The Awakening Daisy Miller The House of Mirth Let s gently mock the trials of the British Upper Class Lady Windermere s Fan The Importance of Being Earnest A Room With a View Pride and Predjudice Emma Pygmalian Major Barbara Let s melodramatically detail the trials of the British less fortunate Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights Hard Times Oliver Twist

4 Bleak House Novels where setting (time and place) influences character: The Joys of Motherhood The Kite Runner A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Purple Hibiscus The Secret Life of Bees Siddhartha Song of Solomon The Sound and the Fury The Story of Edgar Sawtelle Their Eyes Were Watching God A Tree Grows in Brooklyn No Exit One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest One Hundred Years of Solitude Oryx and Crake The Plague The Poisonwood Bible Pride and Prejudice Snow Falling on Cedars Sula The Sun Also Rises When the Emperor Was Divine The Women of Brewster Place Wuthering Heights The Immigrant Experience: From Central/South America: Pocho The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao From Asia (including India): (China) Woman Warrior (China) Typical American (China) No-No Boy (Japan) Snow Falling on Cedars (Japan) (India)

5 The Kite Runner (Afghanistan) From Europe: The Jungle (Lithuania) O! Pioneers (Sweden) Asian/Middle Eastern/Indian Setting or Protagonist and author: The Kite Runner The God of Small Things A Fine Balance No-No Boy The Monkey Bridge Typical American Latino Authors: Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Dominican-American) In the Time of Butterflies (Dominican) (Mexican-American) Pocho (Mexican-American) One Hundred Years of Solitude (Colombian) Love in the Time of Cholera (Colombian) The House of Spirits (Chilean) Dreaming in Cuban (Cuban-American)