AP
English
Selected titles and
authors of quality, classic and/or challenging novels
1. Achebe,
Chineau -- Things Fall Apart
2. Adams, Richard --Watership Down
3. Agee, James --A Death in the Family
4. Albee, Edward -- Who's Afraid
of Virginia Woolf
5. Allende, Isabel --House of the Spirits
6. Anaya, Rudolfo -- Bless Me, Ultima
7. Angelou, Maya --I Know Why Caged Birds Sing
8. Atwood, Margaret --Handmaid’s Tale;* The Edible Woman;*
The Blind Assassin; Surfacing; Alias Grace
9. Austin, Jane --Pride and Predjudice*; Emma; Persuasion
10. Baldwin,
James -- Go Tell It on
the Mountain
11. Bradbury, Ray --Fahrenheit 451; The Martian
Chronicles
12. Bronte, Charlotte --Jane Eyre*
13. Bronte, Emily --Wuthering Heights*
14. Bunyan,
John -- The Prilgrim's
Progress
15. Camus,
Albert -- The
Stranger
16. Carroll, Lewis --Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland &
Through the Looking Glass
17. Cather,
Willa -- Paul’s
Case; My Antonia
18. Carson, Rachel --Silent Spring
19. Cervantes,
Miguel -- Don Quixote
20. Chaucer -- The Canterbury Tales, (Selected
Tales including the Knight's Tale)
21. Chopin, Kate --The Awakening*
22. Campbell, Joseph --The Power of Myth
23. Conrad, Joseph --Heart of Darkness* ; Lord
Jim
24. Conroy, Pat --The Great Santini; The Lords of Discipline
25. Cooper,
James Fenimore --The Last of the
Mohicans
26. Copeland, Douglas --Hey, Nostradamus!
27. Cormier, Robert --The Chocolate War
28. Courtney, Bryce --The Power of One
29. Crane,
Stephen --The Red Badge of
Courage
30. Darwin, Charles --The Origin of the Species*
31. Dante -- The Inferno
32. Defoe, Daniel --Robinson Crusoe
33. Diamant, Anita --The Red Tent
34. Dickens, Charles --Great Expectations;* A Tale of Two Cities* ; David
Copperfield
35. Douglass.
Frederick -- Narrative of theLife of
Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
36. Dostoevsky,
Fyodor --Crime and Punishment
37. Doyle, Roddy --Paddy Clark Ha Ha
38. Dreiser,
Theodore --An American Tragedy;
Sister Carrie
39. Dumas, Alexander --The Three Muskateers*
40. Elliot,
George --Adam Bede
41. Eliot,
George --Silas Marner;
Middlemarch
42. Ellison,
Ralph -- Invisible Man*
43. Esquivel, Laura --Like Water for Chocolate
44. Faulkner, William --The Wild Palms;* The Sound and theFury* ; As
I Lay Dying
45. Findlay, Timothy --The Wars; Famous Last Words
46. Fitzgerald, F. Scott --The Great Gatsby ;Tender
is the Night
47. Flaubert,
Gustave -- Madame Bovary
48. Frazier, Charles --Cold Mountain
49. Forster, E.M. --A Room With a
View*; A Passage to India
50. Fowles, John --The French Lieutenant’s Woman*
51. Garcia-Marquez, G. --Love in the Time of Cholera;* One Hundred Years of Solitude*
52. Golding, William --Lord of the Flies
53. Goldman, William --The Princess Bride
54. Guterson,
David -- Snow
Falling on Cedars
55. Haley, Alex --Roots; Autobiography
of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
56. Hansberry,
Lorraine -- A Raisin in the
Sun*
57. Hardy, Thomas --The Mayor of Casterbridge;* Tess of the D’Ubervilles* ; Far
From the Madding Crowd; The
Return of the Native
58. Hawthorne, Nathaniel --The Scarlet Letter*; The
House of Seven Gables
59. Heller, Joseph --Catch 22
60. Hemingway, Ernest --A Farewell to Arms; For Whom the Bell
Tolls; The Sun Also Rises; Death in the Afternoon; The Old Man and the Sea
61. Hersey, John --Hiroshima
62. Hesse, Hermann --Siddhartha
63. Homer
--The Iliad** ( complete,
not just Homer The Odyssey)**
64. Hugo, Victor --The Hunchback of Notre Dame*; Les
Miserables
65. Hurston,
Zora Neale --Their Eyes Were Watching
God
66. Huxley, Aldous --A Brave New World
67. Ibsen, Henrik --Four Major Plays; A
Doll's House
68. Irving, John --A Prayer for Owen Meany
69. Irving, W. --The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
70. James, Henry -- The Turn of
the Screw; The Portrait of a Lady; The American
71. Jen,
Gish --Typical American
72. Johnson,
James Weldon -- The Autobiography
of an Ex-Colored Man
73. Joyce, James --Ulysses; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Araby,
The Dead
74. Kafka -- The Metamorphosis
75. Keller, Helen --The Story of My Life
76. Keneally, Thomas --Schindler’s List
77. Kesey,
Ken --One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
78. Kingsolver, Barbara The Poisonwood Bible
79. Knowles, John --A Separate Peace
80. Kogawa, Joy -- Obasan
81. Laurence, Margaret --The Diviners
82. Lee, Chang-Rae -- A Gesture of Life
83. Lee, Harper --To Kill a Mockingbird
84. Lewis,
Sinclair --Arrowsmith; Babbit; Main
Street
85. London, Jack --Call
of the Wild
86. MacDonald, A.M. --Fall on Your Knees
87. MacLeod --No Great Mischief
88. McCarthy,
Cormac -- All the Pretty Horses
89. McCourt, Frank --Angela’s Ashes
90. McCullers,
Carson --The Heart is a Lonely
Hunter
91. Machiavelli, Niccolo --The Prince
92. Mailer, Norman --The Naked and the Dead
93. Malamud,
Bernard --The Fixer; The Natural
(Major differences between the book and the movie)
94. Marlowe,
Christopher -- Dr. Faustus
95. Marquez,
Gabriel Garcia -- One Hundred
Years of Solitude
96. Martel, Yann --The Life of Pi
97. Mathabane, Mark --Kaffir Boy
98. Melville, Herman --Moby Dick; Billy Budd
99. Michaels, Anne --Fugitive Pieces
100.
Miller, Arthur --The Crucible*; Death
of a Salesman
101.
Mitchell, Margaret --Gone with the Wind
102.
Mitchell, W.O. --Who
Has Seen the Wind?
103.
Morrison, Toni --The
Bluest Eye (AP); Beloved; Song of Solomon; Sula
104.
Munro, Alice --Who
Do You Think You Are?
105.
O’Brien, Tim --
The Things They Carried; Going After Cacciato
106.
O’Connor, Flannery --
A Good Man is Hard to Find; Good Country People
107.
Ondaatje, M. --The
English Patient;* The Skin of a Lion*
108.
Orwell, George --1984;* Animal Farm
109.
Pasternak, Boris --Doctor
Zhivago*
110.
Paton, Alan --Cry,
the Beloved Country
111.
Plath, Sylvia --The
Bell Jar
112.
Pirsig, Robert -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
113.
Potok, Chaim --The
Chosen
114.
Remarque, Erich --All
Quiet on the Western Front
115.
Rolvaag, 0. E. --Giants in the Earth
116.
Ross, Sinclair --As
for Me and My House
117.
Roy, Arundhati --The God
of Small Things*
118.
Saint Exupery j Antoine De --The Little Prince
119.
Salinger , J.D. --The
Catcher in the Rye
120.
Saroyan, William --The Human Comedy
121.
Scott, Sir Walter --Ivanhoe
122.
Sebold, --The
Lovely Bones
123.
Shakespeare, William --Othello;
Hamlet ; As You Like It; King Lear; Much Ado About
Nothing; Merchant of Venice
124.
Shaw, George Bernard --Saint Joan
125.
Shields, Carol --Stone
Diaries
126.
Shelley, Mary W. --Frankenstein
127.
Sinclair, Upton --The Jungle
128.
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander --One
Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich*
129.
Sophocles --
Oedipus Rex
130.
St. Pierre, Paul --Breaking
Smith’s Quarter Horse
131.
Steinbeck, John --The
Grapes of Wrath; Of Mice and Men; The Moon is Down
132.
Stevenson, R.L. --Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde* ; Treasure Island
133.
Stoker, B. --Dracula*
134.
Stoppard, Tom --
Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead
135.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher --Uncle Tom's Cabin
136.
Swift, Jonathan --Gulliver’s
Travels
137.
Synge, John --Playboy
of the Western World
138.
Tam, Amy --The
Joy Luck Club
139.
Thackeray, William M. --Vanity Fair
140.
Thoreau, Henry David -- Walden
141.
Tolstoy, Leo --Anna
Karenina*; War and Peace; The
Death of Ivan Ilych
142.
Twain, Mark --The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
143.
Urqhart, Jane --Away;
The Stone Carvers
144.
Voltaire --
Candide
145.
Vonnegut, Kurt --Slaughterhouse-Five
146.
Wharton, Edith --The Age
of Innocence;* The House of Mirth* ; Ethan Frome
147.
Waugh, Evelyn --Brideshead
Revisited; A Handful of Dust
148.
Walker, Alice --The
Colour Purple
149.
Warren, Robert Penn --All the King's Men
150.
Wells, H.G. --The
Time Machine*; The Invisible Man
151.
Weisel, Elie --Night
152.
Wilde, Oscar --The
Importance of Being Earnest; Picture of the Dorian Gray
153.
Wilder, Thorton --Our
Town ; The Bridge of San Luis Rey
154.
Williams, Tennessee --A
Streetcar named Desire; The Glass Menagerie*
155.
Wilson, August --
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
156.
Wilson, Ethel --Swamp
Angel
157.
Wolfe, Thomas --Look
Homeward, Angel
158.
Woolf, Virginia --Mrs.
Dalloway
159.
Wright, Richard --Black Boy; Native Son
160.
Various short stories and poetry
Additional
Interesting Books
·
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books -
by Azar Nafisi
·
How to read literature like a professor - by
Thomas C. Foster
·
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
·
Monkey Bridge-by Lan Cao
·
The Shipping News - by E. Annie Proulx
I
will see you in August. Bring your
journal, two PowerPoints, and reports with you to the first day of class. Remember, the PowerPoint is the
review for our AP library, not your report.
In the past I have found that students avoid problems by emailing
PowerPoint materials to me. If you wish
to do this, my school address is lauteda@clearlake.k12.ia.us Have a great summer.