Recommended Reading List for College

Title	Author	Years
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	Faulkner	00, 07
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Twain	82, 85, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 99, 05, 08
The Age of Innocence	Wharton	97, 02, 05, 08
Agnes of God	Pielmeier	00,
Alias Grace	Atwood	00, 04, 06, 08
All My Sons	Miller	85, 90
All the King's Men	Warren	00, 02, 03, 04, 06, 08
All the Pretty Horses	McCarthy	96, 08
The American	James	05, 07, 10
An American Tragedy	Dreiser	82, 95, 03
Angle of Repose	Stegner	10
Anna Karenina	Tolstoy	91, 99, 02, 08
Another Country	Baldwin	95,10
Antigone	Sophocles	90, 94, 99, 03
Anthony and Cleopatra	Shakespeare	91
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	Richler	94
As I Lay Dying	Faulkner	90, 94, 01, 09
As You Like It	Shakespeare	05,10
Atonement	McEwan	07,
The Awakening	Chopin	87, 88, 91, 92, 95, 97, 99, 02, 07,09
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man	Johnson	02, 05
The Bear	Faulkner	94
Beloved	Morrison	90, 99, 01, 03, 07, 09
Benito Cereno	Melville	90,
Billy Budd	Melville	81, 82, 83, 85, 99, 02, 05, 08
The Birthday Party	Pinter	95, 97
Bless Me, Ultima	Anaya	96, 97, 05
Bleak House	Dickens	95, 00, 09
The Blind Assassin	Atwood	07,
The Bluest Eye	Morrison	95
The Bonesetter's Daughter	Tan	07,
Brave New World	Huxley	89, 05,10
The Brothers Karamazov	Dostoevsky	90, 08
Candide	Voltaire	85, 87, 91, 96, 04, 06
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Williams	00,
Catch-22	Heller	82, 85, 87, 89, 94, 01, 05, 08
Cat's Eye	Atwood	94, 09
The Centaur	Updike	81
Ceremony	Silko	94, 96, 97, 99, 01
The Cherry Orchard	Chekov	07, 09
Cold Mountain	Frazier	08,
The Color Purple	Walker	91, 92, 94, 96, 97, 05, 08,09
Coming Through Slaughter	Ondaatije	01,
Crime and Punishment	Dostoevsky	82, 89, 96, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 09,10
The Crossing	M Carthy	09,
The Crucible	Miller	83, 87, 05, 09
Cry, the Beloved Country	Paton	85, 87, 91, 95, 96, 07
Daisy Miller	James	97
Dancing at the Lughnasa	Friel	01,
David Copperfield	Dickens	83
The Dead	Joyce	97
The Death of Ivan Ilyich	Tolstoy	86
Death of a Salesman	Miller	86, 88, 94, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07
Delta Wedding	Welty	97
Desire Under the Elms	Williams	81
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant	Tyler	97
The Diviners	Moody	95
Doctor Faustus	Marlowe	86, 99, 04, 06
The Dollmaker	Arnow	91
A Doll's House	Ibsen	83, 87, 88, 95, 05, 09
Don Quixote	Cervantes	92, 01, 04, 06, 08
Dr. Zhivago	Pasternal	10
Emma	Austen	96, 08
An Enemy of the People	Ibsen	87, 99, 01, 07
Equus	Shaffer	92, 99, 00, 01, 08
Ethan Frome	Wharton	85, 03, 05, 07
The Eumenides	Aeschylus	96
The Fall	Camus	81
A Farewell to Arms	Hemingway	91, 99, 09
Fathers and Sons	Turgenev	90,
The Father	Strindberg	01,
Faust	Goethe	02, 03
Fences	Wilson	02, 03, 09
Fifth Business	Davies	00, 07
The Fixer	Malamud	07,
For Whom the Bell Tolls	Hemingway	03,
Frankenstein	Shelley	89, 00, 03, 08
A Gathering of Ghosts	Lewis	00,
A Gesture Life	Lee	04, 05, 06
The Glass Menagerie	Williams	90, 94, 97, 99, 02, 08,09
Ghosts	Ibsen	00, 04, 06
Going After Cacciato	O'Brien	1
The Good Soldier	Madox	00,
The Golden Bowl	James	09,
Go Tell it on the Mountain	Baldwin	88, 90, 05
The Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck	81, 85, 87, 95, 09
Great Expectations	Dickens	88, 89, 92, 95, 96, 00, 01, 02, 04, 06, 07
The Great Gatsby	Fitzgerald	82, 83, 88, 91, 92, 97, 00, 04, 06, 07
Gulliver's Travels	Swift	87, 89, 01, 04, 06
The Hairy Ape	O'Neill	89, 09
Hamlet	Shakespeare	88, 92, 93, 94, 97, 99, 00
The Handmaid's Tale	Atwood	92
Hard Times	Dickens	87, 90
Heart of Darkness	Conrad	91, 94, 96, 00, 01, 02, 0406, 09, 10
Hedda Gabler	Ibsen	92, 00, 02, 03
Henry IV	Shakespeare	90, 08
Henry V	Shakespeare	02,
Homecoming	Pinter	90,
House Made of Dawn	Momaday	95,
The House of Mirth	Wharton	07,
The House of Seven Gables	Hawthorne	89,
In the Lake of the Woods	O'Brien	00,
Invisible Man	Ellison	82, 83, 85, 87, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 01, 04, 05, 06, 08 ,09,10
Jane Eyre	Bronte	88, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 01, 07,10
Jasmine	Mukerjee	99,10
J.B.	MacLeish	81, 94
Joe Turner's Come and Gone	Wilson	00, 04, 06
Joseph Andrews	Fielding	91
The Joy Luck Club	Tan	97
Jude the Obscure	Hardy	85, 87, 91, 95, 09,10
Julius Caesar	Shakespeare	82, 97
The Jungle	Sinclair	87
King Lear	Shakespeare	82, 89, 90, 96, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 08,10
The Kite Runner	Hosseini	07, 08, 09
Lady Windermere's Fan	Wilde	09,
A Lesson Before Dying	Gaines	99
Light in August	Faulkner	81, 82, 83, 85, 99, 03
The Little Foxes	Hellman	85, 90,10
Long Day's Journey into the Night	O'Neill	90, 03, 07
Lord Jim	Conrad	82, 86, 00, 03, 07
Lord of the Flies	Golding	85, 92
Love Medicine	Erdrich	95
The Loved One	Waugh	89
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	Eliot	85
Lysistrata	Aristophanes	87
Madame Bovary	Flaubert	85, 05, 09,10
Macbeth	Shakespeare	83, 99, 03, 09
Main Street	Lewis	87
Major Barbara	Shaw	96, 04, 06
Mansfield Park	Austen	91
The Mayor of Castorbridge	Hardy	94, 99, 00, 02,10
Medea	Euripides	82, 92, 95, 01, 03
The Member of the Wedding	McCullers	97
The Merchant of Venice	Shakespeare	85, 91, 95, 02
The Metamorphosis	Kafka	89
The Memory Keeper's Daughter	Edwards	09,
Middlemarch	Eliot	95, 04, 05, 06, 07
A Midsummer Night's Dream	Shakespeare	91
The Mill on the Floss	Eliot	89, 92
The Misanthrope	Moliere	95, 08
Moby Dick	Melville	89, 94, 96, 01, 03, 04, 06, 07, 09
Moll Flanders	DeFoe	86, 87, 95
Monkey Bridge	Cao	00,
The Moor's Last Sigh	Rushdie	07,
Mother Courage	Brecht	85, 87
Mrs. Dalloway	Woolf	85, 87, 05, 07
Mrs. Warren's Profession	Shaw	87, 90, 95, 0
Much Ado About Nothing	Shakespeare	97
Murder in the Cathedral	Eliot	85, 95
My Antonia	Cather	10
The Namesake	Lahiri	09,
Native Son	Wright	82, 83, 85, 87, 95, 01
Native Speaker	Lee	99, 07
Nineteen Eighty-Four	Orwell	87, 94, 05, 09
No Exit	Sartre	86
Notes from the Underground	Dostoevsky	89
Obasan	Kogawa	94, 95, 04, 05, 06, 07,10
The Odyssey	Homer	86,10
Oedipus Rex	Sophocles	82, 00, 03, 04, 06
Of Mice and Men	Steinbeck	01,
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Kesey	01,
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich	Solzhenitsyn	05,10
One Hundred Years in Solitude	Marquez	89
The Optimist's Daughter	Welty	94
Orlando	Woolf	04, 06
Oresteia	Aeschylus	90
Othello	Shakespeare	85, 88, 92, 95
The Other	Tryon	10
Our Mutual Friend	Dickens	90
Our Town	Wilder	86, 97, 09
Pale Fire	Nabokov	01,
Pamela	Richardson	86
Paradise Lost	Milton	85, 86,10
A Passage to India	Forster	88, 91, 92, 07
Pere Goriot	DeBlazac	02,
Persuasion	Austen	90, 05, 07
Phedre	Racine	92, 03
The Piano Lesson	Wilson	96, 99, 07, 08
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Wilder	02,
The Plague	Camus	02, 09
Pnin	Nabokov	97
Poccho	Villarreal	02,
The Poisonwood Bible	Kingslover	81, 86, 88, 96, 99, 04, 05, 06 ,09,10
A Portriat of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce	92, 96, 05
The Portrait of a Lady	James	92, 96, 05
The Power and the Glory	Greene	95
A Prayer for Owen Meany	Irving
Pride and Prejudice	Austen	83, 88, 92, 97, 08
Pygmalion	Shaw	92, 08
Ragtime	Doctorow	03, 07
A Raisin in the Sun	Hansberry	87, 90, 91, 94, 96, 99, 09
The Rape of the Lock	Pope	81
Romeo and Juliet	Shakespeare	90, 92, 97
The Road	McCarthy	10
Robinson Crusoe	DeFoe	10
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead	Stoppard	81, 94, 00, 04, 05, 06,10
St. Joan	Shaw	95
The Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne	83, 88, 94, 00, 04, 05, 06
Sent for You Yesterday	Wideman	03,
A Separate Peace	Knowles	82, 07
The Shipping News	Proulx	97
Silas Marner	Eliot	02,
Sister Carrie	Dreiser	87, 02, 04, 06,10
Sister of My Heart	Divakarani	10
Slaughterhouse Five	Vonnegut	91
Snow	Pamuk
Snow Falling on Cedars	Guterson	00,10
Song of Solomon	Morrison	81, 88, 96, 00
Sons and Lovers	Lawrence	90
The Sound and the Fury	Faulkner	86, 97, 01, 04, 06, 08
The Stone Angel	Laurence	96
The Stranger	Camus	82, 86
A Streetcar Named Desire	Williams	91, 92, 01, 07, 08, 09
Sula	Morrison	92, 97, 02, 04, 06, 08
The Sun Also Rises	Hemingway	85, 91, 95, 04, 05, 06
Surfacing	Atwood	05,
A Tale of Two Cities	Dickens	82, 91, 08
Tartuffe	Moliere	87
The Tempest	Shakespeare	96, 07,10
Tess of the D'Urbevilles	Hardy	82, 91, 03, 07
Their Eyes Were Watching God	Hurston	88, 90, 91, 96, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08
The Things They Carried	O'Brien	04, 06
Things Fall Apart	Achebe	91, 97, 03, 09,10
To the Lighthouse	Woolf	86, 88
Tom Jones	Fielding	90, 00, 08
The Trial	Kafka	89, 00
Trifles	Glaspell	00,
Tristam Shandy	Sterne	86
The Turn of the Screw	James	92, 94, 00, 02, 04, 06
Twelfth Night	Shakespeare	85, 94, 96
Typical American	Jen	05,
Uncle Tom's Cabin	Stowe	87
Victory	Conrad	83
Volpone	Jonson	83
Waiting for Godot	Beckett	85, 86, 89, 94, 01, 09
The Warden	Trollope	96
Washington Square	James	90
The Wasteland	Eliot	81
Watch on the Rhine	Hellman	87
The Watch that Ends the Night	MacLennan	92
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Albee	88, 94, 00, 04, 06, 07
Wide Sargasso Sea	Rhys	89, 92
Winter in the Blood	Welch	82, 89, 95
A Winter's Tale	Shakespeare	86, 89
Wise Blood	O'Connor	82, 89, 95, 09
The Women of Brewster Place	Naylor	09,10
Woman Warrior	Kingston	01,
Wuthering Heights	Bronte	82, 83, 86, 89, 90, 91, 92, 96, 97, 99, 01, 07, 08
The Zoo Story	Albee	01,

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