AP Literature and Composition Summer Reading List 2020-2021

Drama

Ayad Akhtar, The Who & The What Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot Yasmina Reza, God of Carnage John Leguizamo, Latin History for Morons Peter Shaffer, Equus Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? William Shakespeare, King Lear Anton Chekhov, Three Sisters William Shakespeare, Henry V Kristoffer Diaz, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity Sophocles, Antigone T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral Sophocles, Oedipus Rex David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie Tony Kushner, Angels in America August Wilson, Gem of the Ocean Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey Into Night George C. Wolfe, The Colored Museum

Literature

Chimamanda Adichie , Americanah Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles Chimamanda Adichie , Half of a Yellow Sun Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me Ultima James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey James Joyce, Ulysses Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Joy Kogawa, Obasan James Baldwin, Go Tell it on the Mountain Chang-Rae Lee, Native Speaker James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera Kate Chopin, The Awakening Herman Melville, Billy Budd Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek Herman Melville, Moby Dick Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Toni Morrison, Sula Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country Charles Dickens, Bleak House Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony Charles Dickens, Great Expectations Upton Sinclair, The Jungle Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway E.M. Forster, A Passage to India Richard Wright, Black Boy Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure Richard Wright, Native Son Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge

Poetry

T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland and Other Poems Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair Robert Frost, Mountain Interval Ovid, Metamorphoses Terrance Hayes, Lighthead Clint Smith, Counting Descent Seamus Heaney, Opened Ground: Selected Poems, Wislawa Szymborska, View With a Grain of Sand 1966,1995 Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass Cathy Park Hong, Dance Dance Revolution