Thursday, February 22, 2007

AP English Reading List




AuthorTitleRating

European

BalzacPere Goriot
Eugenie Granet
CamusThe Stranger
The Plague
The Fall
CervantesDon Quixote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Crime and Punishment


The Brother Karamazov****
Notes from the Underground
FlaubertMadam Bovary
HesseSiddhartha
Damian
Steppenwolf
Victor HugoThe Hunchback of Notre Dame
Les Miserables
James JoycePortrait of the Artist as a Young Man**
Franz KafkaThe Trail
The Castle
The Metamorphosis
KazantzakisZorba the Greek
PasternakDoctor Zhivago
TolstoyAnna Karenina
War and Peace
VoltairCandide

18th -- 19th Century English

Jane AustenPride and Prejudice*****
Charlotte BronteJane Eyre
Emily BronteWuthering Heights***
ButlerThe Way of All Flesh
CelineJourney to End of Night
DefoeRobinson Crusoe
Charles DickensGreat Expectations*****
David Copperfield
Oliver Twist
A Tale of Two Cities
George EliotSilas Marner
FieldingTom Jones
GoldsmithThe Vicar of Wakefield
GreenThe Heart of the Matter
HardyJude the Obscure
Far from the Madding Crowd
Tess of the D'Ubervilles***
The Return of the Native
The Mayor of Casterbridge
LawrenceSons and Lovers
RichardsonPamela
Mary ShellyFrankenstein
ScottIvanhoe
SterneTristam Shandy
SwiftGulliver's Travels
ThackerayVanity Fair
Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray****

20th Century English

ConradThe Heart of Darkness***
The Secret Sharer**
Lord Jim
Victory
E.M. ForsterA Passage to India
FowlesThe French Lieutenant's Woman
The Magus
GoldingLord of the Flies
HuxleyBrave New World
Point, Counterpoint
Somerset MaughamOf Human Bondage
George Orwell1984*****
Animal Farm****
Virginia WoolfTo a Lighthouse
Mrs. Dalloway

Early American

Willa CatherMy Antonia
ChopinThe Awakening
Steven CraneThe Red Badge of Courage**
DreiserSister Carrie
An American Tragedy
EllisonThe Invisible Man
FaulknerAs I Lay Dying
A Light in August
The Sound and the Fury
Absalom, Absalom
F. Scott FitzgeraldTender is the Night
This Side of Paradise
Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet Letter****
The House of Seven Gables*****
Ernest HemingwayThe Old Man and the Sea***
The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell to Arms
HurstonTheir Eyes were Watching God
Henry JamesDaisy Miller**
The Turn of the Screw**
Portrait of a Lady
LewisMain Street
Jack LondonThe Call of the Wild****
Martin Eden**
McCullersA Member of the Wedding***
MelvilleMoby Dick
NorrisOctopus
PorterShip of Fools
John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath
East of Eden
Of Mice and Men*****
StoweUncle Tom's Cabin*****
Mark TwainHuckleberry Finn
WeltyThe Optimist's Daughter
Edith WhartonEthan Frome**
WolfeLook Homeward Angel
WrightNative Son

Contemporary American

BaldwinGo Tell it on the Mountain
BellowHerzog
Seize the Day
CheeverThe Wapshot Scandal
ErdrichTracks
GainesA Lesson Before Dying*****
HellerCatch 22
IrvingA Widow for One Year
Barbara KingsolverThe Bean Trees
Animal Dreams
KeseyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
MalamundThe Fixer
The Assistant
McCarthyAll the Pretty Horses
MorrisonThe Song of Solomon
Beloved
The Bluest Eye
NabokovLolita
PotokThe Chosen
The Promise
Ny Name is Asher Lev
ProluxThe Shipping News
RandThe Fountainhead***
Atlas Shrugged
J.D. SalingerCatcher in the Rye****
UpdikeThe Centaur
Kurt VonnegutSlaughter House Five
Cat's Cradle
Galapogos
WarrenAll the King's Men
WestThe Day of the Locust

Other

AchebeThings Fall Apart
DanteThe Divine Comedy
HomerThe Illiad
The Odyssey
PatonCry the Beloved Country

5 comments:

Framed said...

I put some of these of my list because they looked interesting. So I'm working on a good selection for the next Classics Challenge.

Framed said...

I have an extra copy of Jane Eyre. You can have it.

Alyson said...

I take it the ones not in black are the ones you've already read. And are the stars your rating of them?

Alyson said...

Nevermind about the rating question. I just realized that column had the header rating.

Booklogged said...

You did it! BUT what a daunting list. and when you put the two lists together it really is scary. The thing I hate about lists is they can be so long and overwhelming. The thing I like about lists is crossing items off.

There are lots on your lists that I want to read, too. I can't believe they put Bean Trees on this list. It's a wonderfully enjoyable book, but does it really belong with all these others?