| 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 | |
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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