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INDEPENDENT READING FOR SENIOR AP ENGLISH Senior AP English students must read one work independently during the summer and one during each nine-week period, complete data sheets on each book, and be prepared to discuss the book in class. Each nine-week period, we concentrate on a particular theme, and the books are grouped according to that theme. Some books are long, some so short you must read two, some modern, and some not. Look up their descriptions and reviews on Amazon.com to get an idea of length, difficulty, and subject matter. You are welcome to read ahead and do these data sheets early. You may not report on any work you have previously read. While each work could be used on the open-ended essay question on the AP Literature Exam, those marked with an asterisk are frequently suggested. Those marked with two asterisks are worth 10 extra points due to their length. 1ST NINE WEEKS The Fall: The Tragic Flaw “I’m the reason it’s a no go.” - Lord of the Flies “Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”- William Blake - “The Tyger” Agee - Atwood - Cat’s Eye Camus - The Fall (counts as ½) The Plague Conrad - Lord Jim The Secret Agent Conroy - The Lords of Discipline Dickey - Deliverance Dickens - **Bleak House

Doctorow - Ragtime Dreiser - An American Tragedy Ellison - * Faulkner - *As I Lay Dying *Light in August Intruder in the Dust Flaubert - Madame Bovary Fowles - The French Lieutenant’s Woman Greene - The Heart of the Matter Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge **Tess of the d’Urbervilles Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises Hosseini - The Kite Runner A Thousand Splendid Suns Ishiguro - Malamud - McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses The McEwan - Atonement Melville - Billy Budd (counts as ½) Ng- Everything I Never Told You O’Connor - Wise Blood Ondaatje - Silko - Ceremony Sinclair - The Jungle Swift - Gulliver’s Travels Tsukiyama, The Samurai’s Garden: A Novel Tolstoy - **Anna Karenina Voltaire - Candide (counts as ½) Walker - Warren - All the King’s Men Wharton - The House of Mirth Williams - The Glass Menagerie (play- counts as ½) A Streetcar Named Desire (play-counts as ½) Wright - *Native Son 2ND NINE WEEKS Becoming Aware or Refusing Awareness “There is no coming to consciousness without pain.” Carl Jung Atwood - A Handmaid’s Tale Alvarez - In the Time of Butterflies Anaya - Bless Me, Ultima Austen - Emma Persuasion Baldwin - Go Tell It on the Mountain Bronte, C. - **Jane Eyre Bulosan - America Is in the Heart Cao - Monkey Bridge Cather - My Antonia Chekhov - The Seagull (play- counts as ½) Chopin - *The Awakening Conrad - Under Western Eyes Desai - Divakaruni - Sister of the Heart Ellison - *Invisible Man Faulkner - As I Lay Dying Forster - Howards End A Room with a View Frayn - Copenhagen (a play - counts as ½) Garcia Marquez - Chronicle of a Death Foretold (counts as ½) Gutterson - Falling on Cedars Hardy - **Tess of the d’Urbervilles Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls Hansberry - *A Raisin in the Sun (play-counts as ½) Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God Ibsen -An Enemy of the People (play - counts as ½) Ishiguro - The Other The Remains of the Day James - The American Washington Square Jin - A Free Life Kafka - Metamorphosis (counts as ½) Kallos - Broken for You Kidd - The Secret Life of Bees Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible Lawrence - Sons and Lovers Lee - Native Speaker Malamud - The Fixer McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses McEwan - Atonement Mukherjee - Jasmine Ng- Everything I Never Told You O’Brien - Going After Cacciato O’Connor - Wise Blood Orwell - Animal Farm (counts as ½) 1984 Remarque- All Quiet on the Western Front Roy - Sartre - No Exit (play-counts as ½) Shaw - Major Barbara (play-counts as ½) Silko - Ceremony Sinclair - The Jungle Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (counts as ½) Stegner - Tolstoy - The Death of Ivan Ilych (counts as ½) Tsukiyama- The Samurai’s Garden: A Novel Tyler - Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Walker - The Color Purple Warren - All the King’s Men Wharton - *Ethan Frome (counts as ½) The House of Mirth Williams - *The Glass Menagerie (play - counts as ½) *A Streetcar Named Desire (play - counts as ½) Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway To the Lighthouse Wright - *Native Son 3RD NINE WEEKS Things fall apart: Disintegration/Alienation “And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.” “Dover Beach”- Matthew Arnold Achebe - Things Fall Apart Alvarez - In the Time of Butterflies Atwood - Cat’s Eye Baldwin - Native Son Bronte, C. - **Jane Eyre Camus - The Plague Cao - Monkey Bridge Conrad - The Secret Agent Under Western Eyes Desai - The Inheritance of Loss Dickens - **A Tale of Two Cities Doctorow - The Ellison - *Invisible Man Ford - The Good Soldier Frazer - Cold Mountain Garcia Marquez - Chronicle of a Death Foretold (counts as ½) Goodman - Kaaterskill Falls Hansberry - A Raisin in the Sun (play-counts as ½) Hegi - Stones from the River Heller - *Catch-22 Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises Hosseini - The Kite Runner A Thousand Splendid Suns Ibsen - An Enemy of the People (play - counts as ½) Hedda Gabler (play - counts as ½) Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day Jen - Typical American Kafka - The Trial Metamorphosis (counts as ½) Koestler - Darkness at Noon Kogawa - Obasan Lee - A Gesture Life Native Speaker McCarthy - Melville - **Moby Dick Momaday - Mukherjee - The Holder of the World Ng- Everything I Never Told You O’Brien - The Things They Carried Plath - The Bell Jar (counts as ½) Remarque- All Quiet on the Western Front Sartre - No Exit (play - counts as ½) Silko - Ceremony Smiley - Steinbeck - Tsukiyama- The Samurai’s Garden: A Novel Walker - the Color Purple Warren - All the King’s Men Williams - *The Glass Menagerie (play-counts as ½) *A Streetcar Named Desire (play-counts as ½) Wright - *Native Son 4TH NINE WEEKS Love, Marriage, Family Relationships “All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own fashion.” Leo Tolstoy- Anna Karenina Agee - A Death in the Family Allende - Daughter of Fortune Alvarez - In the Time of Butterflies Atwood - Austen - Emma Persuasion Sense and Sensibility Baldwin - Go Tell It on the Mountain Balzac - Père Goriot Byatt - Bronte, C. - **Jane Eyre Cao - Monkey Bridge Cather - O Pioneers Chekhov - The Three Sisters (play - counts as ½) Uncle Vanya (play - counts as ½) Chopin - *The Awakening Desai - The Inheritance of Loss Dinesen - Out of Africa Divakaruni - Sister of My Heart: A Novel Dreiser - An American Tragedy Sister Carrie Edwards - The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom *As I Lay Dying *Light in August Flaubert - Madame Bovary Forster - Howards End Garcia - Dreaming in Cuban Guterson - Snow Falling on Cedars Hansberry - *A Raisin in the Sun (play - counts as ½) Hardy - Jude the Obscure The Mayor of Casterbridge **Tess of the d’Urbervilles Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls The Sun Also Rises Hosseini - The Kite Runner A Thousand Splendid Suns Ibsen - A Doll House (play - counts as ½)- if we do not cover this in class- Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day James - The American Portrait of a Lady *Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Kafka - Metamorphosis (counts as ½) Kahiri - The Namesake Kallos - Broken for You Kidd - The Secret Life of Bees Kingsolver - Animal Dreams Lawrence - Sons and Lovers Women in Love Lee - A Gesture Life Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude McEwan - Atonement Mukherjee - Jasmine Ng- Everything I Never Told You Ondaatje - The English Patient O’Neill - Desire Under the Elms (play - counts as ½) Pasternak - Dr. Zhivago Paton - Cry, The Country Potok - The Chosen Remarque- All Quiet on the Western Front Roy - The God of Small Things Smiley - A Thousand Acres Stegner - Angle of Repose Steinbeck - East of Eden *The Grapes of Wrath Tan - The Bonesetter’s Daughter The Joy Luck Club The Kitchen God’s Wife Tolstoy - **Anna Karenina Toole - Tsukiyama- The Samurai’s Garden: A Novelg Tyler - Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Walker - The Color Purple Wharton - The Age of Innocence *Ethan Frome (counts as ½) Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest (play) (counts as ½) Williams - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (play - counts as ½) *The Glass Menagerie (play - counts as ½) *A Streetcar Named Desire (play - counts as ½) Wolfe - Look Homeward, Angel Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway