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AP Summer Reading List

Drama

Samuel Beckett- Peter Shaffer- Equus Euripides- The Bacchae William Shakespeare- King Lear - Who’s Afraid of ? Sophocles- Antigone - Three Sisters Sophocles- Oedipus Rex T.S. Eliot- Murder in the Cathedral Tennessee Williams- A Streetcar Named Desire David Henry Hwang- M. Butterfly Tennessee Williams- The Glass Menagerie Eugene O’Neill- Long Day’s Journey Into Night August Wilson- Gem of the Ocean Suzan-Lori Parks- Topdog/Underdog

Literature

Rudolfo Anaya- Bless Me Ultima Ernest - The Sun Also Rises Margaret Atwood- The Handmaid’s Tale Joy Kogawa- Obasan Jane Austen- Northanger Abbey Chang-Rae Lee- Native Speaker Jane Austen- Pride and Prejudice Gabriel García Márquez- One Hundred Years of Charlotte Brontë- Jane Eyre Solitude Emily Brontë- Wuthering Heights - Billy Budd Kate Chopin- The Awakening Toni Morrison- Sula - Heart of Darkness Flannery O’Connor- Wise Blood Edwidge Danticat- Breath, Eyes, Memory Alan Paton- Cry, the Beloved Country Charles Dickens- Bleak House Leslie Marmon Silko- Ceremony Charles Dickens- Great Expectations Jean Rhys- Wide Sargasso Sea Fyodor Dostoevsky- Crime and Punishment Upton Sinclair- The Jungle - Leo Tolstoy- Anna Karenina George Eliot- The Mill on the Floss - Ethan Frome E.M. Forster- A Passage to India Virginia Woolf- Mrs. Dalloway Thomas Hardy- Jude the Obscure Richard Wright- Black Boy Thomas Hardy- The Mayor of Casterbridge Richard Wright- Native Son Thomas Hardy- Tess of the d’Urbervilles