Author | Title | Rating |
European | ||
Balzac | Pere Goriot | |
Eugenie Granet | ||
Camus | The Stranger | |
The Plague | ||
The Fall | ||
Cervantes | Don Quixote | |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Crime and Punishment | |
The Brother Karamazov | **** | |
Notes from the Underground | ||
Flaubert | Madam Bovary | |
Hesse | Siddhartha | |
Damian | ||
Steppenwolf | ||
Victor Hugo | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | |
Les Miserables | ||
James Joyce | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | ** |
Franz Kafka | The Trail | |
The Castle | ||
The Metamorphosis | ||
Kazantzakis | Zorba the Greek | |
Pasternak | Doctor Zhivago | |
Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | |
War and Peace | ||
Voltair | Candide | |
18th -- 19th Century English | ||
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | ***** |
Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | |
Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | *** |
Butler | The Way of All Flesh | |
Celine | Journey to End of Night | |
Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | ***** |
David Copperfield | ||
Oliver Twist | ||
A Tale of Two Cities | ||
George Eliot | Silas Marner | |
Fielding | Tom Jones | |
Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | |
Green | The Heart of the Matter | |
Hardy | Jude the Obscure | |
Far from the Madding Crowd | ||
Tess of the D'Ubervilles | *** | |
The Return of the Native | ||
The Mayor of Casterbridge | ||
Lawrence | Sons and Lovers | |
Richardson | Pamela | |
Mary Shelly | Frankenstein | |
Scott | Ivanhoe | |
Sterne | Tristam Shandy | |
Swift | Gulliver's Travels | |
Thackeray | Vanity Fair | |
Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray | **** |
20th Century English | ||
Conrad | The Heart of Darkness | *** |
The Secret Sharer | ** | |
Lord Jim | ||
Victory | ||
E.M. Forster | A Passage to India | |
Fowles | The French Lieutenant's Woman | |
The Magus | ||
Golding | Lord of the Flies | |
Huxley | Brave New World | |
Point, Counterpoint | ||
Somerset Maugham | Of Human Bondage | |
George Orwell | 1984 | ***** |
Animal Farm | **** | |
Virginia Woolf | To a Lighthouse | |
Mrs. Dalloway | ||
Early American | ||
Willa Cather | My Antonia | |
Chopin | The Awakening | |
Steven Crane | The Red Badge of Courage | ** |
Dreiser | Sister Carrie | |
An American Tragedy | ||
Ellison | The Invisible Man | |
Faulkner | As I Lay Dying | |
A Light in August | ||
The Sound and the Fury | ||
Absalom, Absalom | ||
F. Scott Fitzgerald | Tender is the Night | |
This Side of Paradise | ||
Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter | **** |
The House of Seven Gables | ***** | |
Ernest Hemingway | The Old Man and the Sea | *** |
The Sun Also Rises | ||
A Farewell to Arms | ||
Hurston | Their Eyes were Watching God | |
Henry James | Daisy Miller | ** |
The Turn of the Screw | ** | |
Portrait of a Lady | ||
Lewis | Main Street | |
Jack London | The Call of the Wild | **** |
Martin Eden | ** | |
McCullers | A Member of the Wedding | *** |
Melville | Moby Dick | |
Norris | Octopus | |
Porter | Ship of Fools | |
John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath | |
East of Eden | ||
Of Mice and Men | ***** | |
Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin | ***** |
Mark Twain | Huckleberry Finn | |
Welty | The Optimist's Daughter | |
Edith Wharton | Ethan Frome | ** |
Wolfe | Look Homeward Angel | |
Wright | Native Son | |
Contemporary American | ||
Baldwin | Go Tell it on the Mountain | |
Bellow | Herzog | |
Seize the Day | ||
Cheever | The Wapshot Scandal | |
Erdrich | Tracks | |
Gaines | A Lesson Before Dying | ***** |
Heller | Catch 22 | |
Irving | A Widow for One Year | |
Barbara Kingsolver | The Bean Trees | |
Animal Dreams | ||
Kesey | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | |
Malamund | The Fixer | |
The Assistant | ||
McCarthy | All the Pretty Horses | |
Morrison | The Song of Solomon | |
Beloved | ||
The Bluest Eye | ||
Nabokov | Lolita | |
Potok | The Chosen | |
The Promise | ||
Ny Name is Asher Lev | ||
Prolux | The Shipping News | |
Rand | The Fountainhead | *** |
Atlas Shrugged | ||
J.D. Salinger | Catcher in the Rye | **** |
Updike | The Centaur | |
Kurt Vonnegut | Slaughter House Five | |
Cat's Cradle | ||
Galapogos | ||
Warren | All the King's Men | |
West | The Day of the Locust | |
Other | ||
Achebe | Things Fall Apart | |
Dante | The Divine Comedy | |
Homer | The Illiad | |
The Odyssey | ||
Paton | Cry the Beloved Country |
To Be Read List
Thursday, February 22, 2007
AP English Reading List
To Be Read List
Author | Title | Rating | |
Romance | |||
A.S. Byatt | Posession | ||
Diane Gabaldon Josie Kilpack | The Outlander Series To Have or to Hold | ||
Anna Maxted | Getting Over It | ||
Julie Morgan | Indiscretion | ||
James Patterson | Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas | ||
Sam's Letters to Jennifer | |||
Rosamund Pilcher | Under Gemini | ||
Nora Roberts | Montana Sky | ||
Joanna Catherine Scott | Cassandra Lost | ||
Anya Seton | Green Darkness | ||
Katherine | |||
Classic | |||
Ray Bradbury | Fahrenheit 451 | ||
Pearl S. Buck | The Good Earth | ||
Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales | ||
James Fennimore Cooper | The Last of the Mohicans | ||
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Hounds of the Baskervilles | ||
Alexander Dumas | The Count of Monte Cristo | **** | |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby | *** | |
H. Rider Haggard | She | ||
Herodotus | The Histories | ||
C.S. Lewis | Till We have Faces | ||
Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the Wind | ||
Dame Murdock | Iris the Bell | ||
Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | ||
Mark Twain | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | ||
Alice Walker | The Color Purple | ||
Oscar Wilde | An Ideal Husband | ||
Fantasy/Sci Fi | |||
Margaret Atwood Frank Beddor | The Handmaid's Tale The Looking Glass Wars | ||
Linda Buckley-Archer | Gideon the Cutpurse | ||
Orson Scott Card | Enchantment | ||
Clifford Chase | Winkie | ||
Susanna Clark | Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell | ||
Suzanne Collins | Gregor the Overlander Hunger Games | **** | |
John Connelly | The Book of Lost Things | ||
Keith Donohue | The Stolen Child | ||
David Farland | Ravenspell Series | ||
Jean Ferris | Once Upon a Marigold | **** | |
Jack Finney | Time and Again | ||
Neil Gaiman | The Anansi Boys Stardust Neverwhere Good Omens American Gods | **** | |
William Goldman | Princess Bride | ||
Robin Hobb | Assassin's Apprentice | ||
Liz Jensen | Ark Baby | ||
Daniel Keyes | Flowers for Algernon | ||
Madeleine L'Engle | A Wrinkle in Time | ||
Hilda Lewis | The Ship that Flew | ||
Cormac McCarthy | The Road | **** | |
Stephenie Meyer Brandon Mull | The Host Fablehaven | ||
Audrey Niffenegger | Time Traveler's Wife | **** | |
Naomi Novik | Temeraire Dragon Series | ||
His Majesty's Dragon | |||
Throne of Jade | |||
Black Powder War | |||
Phillip Pullman | His Dark Materials Trilogy | ||
A Golden Compass | |||
The Subtle Knife | |||
The Amber Spyglass | |||
Salman Rushdie | Haroun and the Sea of Stories | ||
Sam Savage | Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife | ||
Rie Sheridan | The Lute and the Liar | ||
Obert Skye | Leven Thumps | ||
Ree Soesbee | Wind of Honor | ||
May Stewart | The Crystal Cave | ||
Jonathan Stroud | The Bartamaeus Trilogy | ||
Amulet of Samarkand | |||
The Golem's Eye | |||
Ptolemy's Gate | |||
Lisa Tuttle | The Silver Bough | ||
Jo Walton Thomas Wharton | Tooth and Claw Salamander | ||
Marcus Zusak | The Book Thief | ** | |
Era | |||
Pamela Aidan | Fitzwilliam, Darcy Gentleman | ||
Tash Alexander | And Only to Deceive | ||
Bess Street Aldrich | A White Bird Flying | ||
Geraldine Brooks | March | ||
Taylor Caldwell | Grandmother and the Priests | ||
Tracey Chevalier | The Lady and the Unicorn | ||
Girl with a Pearl Earring | |||
Collins | Woman in White | ||
Moonstone | |||
Margaret Craven | I Heard the Owl Call My Name | ||
Charles Fazer | Cold Mountain | ||
Stella Gibbons | Cold Comfort Farm | ||
Kate Grenville | The Secret River | ||
Sara Gruen | Water for Elephants | ||
Jane Guill | Nectar from a Stone | ||
Jane Harris | The Observations | ||
Edward Jones | The Known World | ||
Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Love in the Time of Cholera | ||
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer | The Snow Fox | ||
Lisa See | Snowflower and the Secret Fan | *** | |
Mary Sharatt | The Vanishing Point | ||
Susan Vreeland | Girl in Hyacinth Blue | ||
Edith Wharton | Glimpses of the Moon | ||
Modern Drama | |||
James Agee | A Death in the Family | ||
Mitch Albom | For One More Day | *** | |
Maya Angelou | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | ||
John Banville | The Sea | ||
Elizabeth Berg | Ordinary Life (short stories) | ||
Miranda Beverly-Whitemore | The Effects of Light | ||
Maeve Binchy | Tara Road | ||
Ray Bradbury | Dandelion Wine | ||
Farewell Summer | |||
Italo Calvino | If On a Winter's Night a Traveler | ||
Paul Coehlo | The Alchemist | **** | |
Elizabeth Crook | The Night Journal | ||
Renate Dorrestein Kim Edwards | A Heart of Stone The Memory Keeper's Daughter | *** | |
Leif Engel | Peace Like a River | **** | |
Tom Franklin Beth Gutcheon | Hell at the Breech More Than You Know | ||
Jane Hamilton | A Map of the World | ||
Joanne Harris | Gentlemen and Players | ||
John Hershey Kaled Hosseini | A Bell for Adano The Kite Runner A Thousand Splendid Suns | ***** | |
John Irving | A Prayer for Owen Meany | ||
Joshilyn Jackson | Between Georgia | ||
Gods in Alabama | |||
Sue Monk Kidd | The Secret Life of Bees | ***** | |
Nicole Krauss | The History of Love | ***** | |
Sandra Kring | The Book of Bright Ideas | ||
Michael Lavigne | Not Me | ||
Lori Lansens | The Girl | ||
Kamala Markandaya | Nectar in a Sieve | ||
Ian McKewan | Atonement: A Novel | ||
Jacqueline Mitchard | Cage of Stars | ||
David Mitchell | Black Swan Green | ||
L.M Montgomery | A Tangled Web | ||
Ann Pratchett | Bel Canto | ||
Sharon Pywell | Everything After | ||
Penny Sanseviery | Candlewood Lake | ||
Scott Simon | Pretty Birds | ||
Amy Tan | The Bonesetter's Daughter | ||
The Hundred Secret Senses | |||
The Joy Luck Club | |||
Lisa Tucker | Once Upon a Day | ||
Thrity Umrigar | The Space Between Us | ||
Anne Ursu | Spilling Clarence | ||
Michelle Wildgen | You're Not You | ||
Marcia Willett | The Children's Hour | ||
Comedy | |||
Peter Carey | Illywhacker | ||
Maria Anparo Escardon | Esperanza's Box of Saints | ||
Craig Ferguson | Between the Bridge and the River | ||
Shannon Hale | Austenland | ***** | |
Christopher Morley | Parnassus on Wheels | ||
Carolyn Parkhurst | Lost and Found | ||
Peter Rock | The Ambidestrist | ||
Richard Russo | The Straight Man | ||
Non-Fiction | |||
Roger Angell | Let Me Finish | ||
Bauby | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | ||
Bill Bryson | A Walk in the Woods | ||
The Life and Times of Thunderbolt Kid | |||
Lewis Buzbee | The Yellow Lighted Bookshop | ||
Jung Chung | Wild Swan and 3 Daughters of China | ||
Colin Evans | Great Feuds in History | ||
Julia Gilardi | Born to Rule | ||
Elizabeth Gilbert | Eat, Pray, Love | *** | |
Katherine Graham | Personal History | ||
Katherine and Richard Green | Inside the Dream | ||
Ken Jennings | Brainiac | ||
C.S. Lewis | Miracles | ||
David McCullough | 1776 | ||
The Great Bridge | |||
The Path Between the Seas | |||
Frank McCourt | Angela's Ashes | ||
Malika Oufkir | Stolen Lives | ** | |
Ron Powers | Mark Twain | ||
Jean Sasson | Mayada, Daughter of Iraq | ||
Cornelia Otis Skinner | Our Hearts were Young and Gay | ||
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | A Midwife's Tale | ||
Jeannette Walls | The Glass Castle | **** | |
Historical Fiction | |||
Geraldine Brooks | Year of Wonders | **** | |
Sarah Dunant | The Birth of Venus | ||
In the Company of the Courtesan | |||
Philippa Gregory | The Other Boelyn Girl | **** | |
Karen Harper | The Princess of Wales | ||
Robert Harris | Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome | ||
Arthur Japin | In Lucia's Eyes | ||
Jaan Kross | The Czar's Madman | ||
David Liss | A Conspiracy of Paper | ||
Rohinton Mistry | A Fine Balance | ||
Tristi Pinkston | Nothing to Regret | ||
Strength to Endure | |||
Judith Riley | The Oracle Glass | ||
Mary Doria Russell | A Thread of Grace | ||
John Shors | Beneath a Marble Sky | ||
Luis Alberto Urrea | The Hummingbird's Daughter | ||
Brenda Rickman Vantrease | The Illuminator | ||
Elie Wiesel | Night | ||
Young Adult Fiction | |||
Avi Liz Berry | The Book Without Words The China Garden | ||
L.M. Boston | The Children of Green Knowe | ||
Dia Calhoun | Aria of the Sea | ||
Firegold | |||
Sharon Creech | Walk Two Moons | ||
Kate DiCamillo | The Tale of Despereaux The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane | ||
Edward Eager | Half Magic | ||
Cornelia Funke | The Thief Lord | ||
Inkheart | |||
Inkspell | |||
Sally Gardner | I, Coriander | ||
Beth Gutcheon | More Than You Know | ||
Shannon Hale | Princess Academy | **** | |
Goose Girl | **** | ||
Enna Burning | *** | ||
River Secrets | |||
Book of a Thousand Days | *** | ||
Jennifer Holm | Boston Jane | ||
Robin McKinley | The Blue Sword | ||
Meg Rosof | How I Live Now | ||
Zilpha Kentley Snyder | The Changeling | ||
Oscar Wilde | The Happy Prince | ||
Horror/Thriller | |||
T.C. Boyle | Talk, Talk | ||
Dan Brown | Angels and Demons | ||
Truman Capote | In Cold Blood | ||
Daphne Du Maurier | Rebecca | *** | |
Jasper Fjorde | The Eyre Affair | ||
Colleen Gleason | The Gardetta Vampire Chronicles | *** | |
Linda Howard | Son of the Morning | ||
Dean Koontz | Forever Odd | ||
Odd Thomas | |||
Brother Odd | |||
Elizabeth Kostova | The Historian | ||
Stephanie Meyer | Twilight Series | ***** | |
Dianne Setterfield | The Thirteenth Tale | ||
Bram Stoker | Dracula | *** | |
Anne Rice | Interview with a Vampire |
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