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AP English Literature and Composition Suggested Authors List AP English Literature and Composition Suggested Authors List There is no required or recommended reading list from The College Board. However, they provide a list of authors that suggest the range and quality of reading expected in preparation for the AP course. Poetry W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, William Blake, Anne Bradstreet, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Browning, George Gordon, Lord Byron, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Geoffrey Chaucer, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Rita Dove, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Joy Harjo, Seamus Heaney, George Herbert, Garrett Hongo, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Langston Hughes, Ben Jonson, John Keats, Philip Larkin, Robert Lowell, Andrew Marvell, John Milton, Marianne Moore, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Pope, Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Leslie Marmon Silko, Cathy Song, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Derek Walcott, Walt Whitman, Richard Wilbur, William Carlos Williams, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats Drama Aeschylus, Edward Albee, Amiri Baraka, Samuel Beckett, Anton Chekhov, William Congreve, Oliver Goldsmith, Lorraine Hansberry, Lillian Hellman, David Henry Hwang, Henrik Ibsen, Ben Jonson, David Mamet, Arthur Miller, Molière, Sean O’Casey, Eugene O’Neill, Harold Pinter, Luigi Pirandello, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Sam Shepard, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Sophocles, Tom Stoppard, Luis Valdez, Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, August Wilson Fiction (Novel and Short Story) Chinua Achebe, Kinsley Amis, Rudolfo Anaya, Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Raymond Carver, Willa Cather, Sandra Cisneros, John Cheever, Kate Chopin, Colette, Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crane, Anita Desai, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Ralph Ellison, Louise Erdrich, William Faulkner, Henry Fielding, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, E. M. Forster, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, Kazuo Ishiguro, Henry James, James Joyce, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa, Margaret Laurence, D. H. Lawrence, Bernard Malamud, Katherine Mansfield, Gabriel García Márquez, Bobbie Ann Mason, Carson McCullers, Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, Bharati Mukherjee, Vladimir Nabokov, Flannery O’Connor, Cynthia Ozick, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Rhys, Jonathan Swift, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, John Updike, Luisa Valenzuela, Alice Walker, Evelyn Waugh, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, John Edgar Wideman, Virginia Woolf, Richard Wright Expository Prose Joseph Addison, Gloria Anzaldúa, Matthew Arnold, James Baldwin, James Boswell, Thomas Carlyle, Jesús Colón, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Hazlitt, Samuel Johnson, Charles Lamb, Norman Mailer, Mary McCarthy, H. L. Mencken, John Stuart Mill, George Orwell, Richard Steele, Lewis Thomas, Henry David Thoreau, Barbara Tuchman, Virginia Woolf Source: AP Central Course Descriptions. 2006. The College Board. 7 February 2008 <http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/52272_apenglocked5_30_4309.pd f>. Sampling of titles available at Radford High School Library Check our online catalog for titles by these authors! Radford High School Library http://rhslibrary.k12.hi.us AP English Literature and Composition Works Listed on AP English Literature Exam - American At RHS Author Title Exam Years Library Albee, Edward The Zoo Story 82, 01 Albee, Edward Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf 88, 94, 00, 04 Anaya, Rudolfo Bless Me, Ultima 94, 96, 97, 99, 04, 05, 06 Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain 88, 90, 05 Baraka, Amiri and Leroi Jones Dutchman 03, 06 Bulosan, Carlos America is in the Heart 95 Cao, Lan Monkey Bridge 00, 03 Cather, Willa My Antonia 94, 03, 06 Chopin, Kate The Awakening 87, 88, 91, 92, 95, 97, 99, 02, 04, 07 Davies, Robertson Fifth Business 00 de Crèvecoeur, Jean Letters from an American 76 Farmer Doctorow, E. L. Ragtime 03 Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy 82, 95, 03 Dreiser, Theodore Sister Carrie 87, 94, 02, 04 Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man 76, 78, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 01, 03, 04, 05, 07 Erdrich, Louise Love Medicine 95 Erdrich, Louise Tracks 05 Faulkner, William Absalom, Absalom 76, 00 Faulkner, William Light in August 79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 91, 94, 95, 99, 03, 06 Faulkner, William Sound and the Fury 86, 97, 01 Faulkner, William The Bear 94, 06 Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying 78, 89, 90, 94, 01, 04, 06, 07 Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby 82, 83, 88, 91, 92, 97, 00, 02, 04, 05, 07 Ford, Maddox Ford The Good Soldier 00 Gaines, Ernest A Gathering of Old Men 00 Gaines, Ernest A Lesson Before Dying 99 Glaspell, Susan Trifles 00 At RHS Author Title Exam Years Library Guterson, David Snow Falling on Cedars 00 Hansberry, Lorraine A Raisin in the Sun 87, 90, 92, 94, 96, 99 Hawthorne, Nathaniel House of Seven Gables 89, 96 Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter 78, 83, 88, 91, 99, 02, 04, 05 Heller, Joseph Catch-22 82, 85, 87, 89, 94, 01, 03, 04, 05, 07 Hellman, Lillian Little Foxes 85, 90 Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms 91, 99, 04 Hemingway, Ernest For Whom the Bell Tolls 03, 06 Hemingway, Ernest The Sun Also Rises 85, 91, 95, 04, 05 Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner 07 Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God 88, 90, 91, 94, 96, 04, 05, 06 James, Henry Daisy Miller 97, 03 James, Henry Portrait of a Lady 88, 92, 96, 03, 05 James, Henry The American 05 James, Henry Turn of the Screw 92, 94, 00, 02, 04 James, Henry Washington Square 90 Jen, Gish Typical American 02, 03, 05 Johnson, James Welden Autobiography of an Ex- 02, 05 Colored Man Kesey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s 01 Nest Kingston, Maxine Hong Woman Warrior 91 Knowles, John A Separate Peace 82 Lee, Chang-Rae A Gesture Life 04, 05 Lee, Chang-Rae Native Speaker 99, 03, 05 MacLeish, Archibald J.B. 81, 94 Mailer, Norman Armies of the Night 76 McCarthy, Cormac All the Pretty Horses 95, 96, 06, 07 McCullers, Carson The Member of the Wedding 97 Malamud, Bernard The Fixer 07 Melville, Herman Benito Cereno 89 Melville, Herman Billy Budd 79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 99, 02, 04, 05, 07 Melville, Herman Moby Dick 76, 78, 79, 80, 83, 89, 94, 96, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07 Melville, Herman Redburn 87 At RHS Author Title Exam Years Library Miller, Arthur A View from the Bridge 94 Miller, Arthur All My Sons 85, 90 Miller, Arthur Death of a Salesman 86, 88, 94, 03, 04, 05, 07 Miller, Arthur The Crucible 83, 87, 04, 05 Momaday, N. Scott House Made of Dawn 95, 06 Morrison, Toni Song of Solomon 81, 88, 96, 00, 04, 05, 06 Morrison, Toni Sula 92, 97, 04 Morrison, Toni Beloved 90, 94, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07 Morrison, Toni The Bluest Eye 95 Mukerjee, Bharati Jasmine 99 Ng, Fae Myenne Bone: A Novel 03 O’Brien, Tim Going After Cacciato 01 O’Brien, Tim In the Lake of the Woods 00 O’Brien, Tim The Things They Carried 04 O’Connor, Flannery Wise Blood 95 O’Neill, Eugene Desire Under the Elms 81 O’Neill, Eugene Long Days Journey Into Night 90, 03, 07 O’Neill, Eugene Mourning Becomes Electra 94 O’Neill, Eugene The Hairy Ape 89 Pielmeier, John Agnes of God 00 Potok, Chaim My Name is Asher Lev 03 Proulx, E. Annie The Shipping News 97 Rolvaag, O. E. Giants in the Earth 94 Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye 01 Saroyan, William The Human Comedy 94 Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony 94, 96, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 06, 07 Smiley, Jane Thousand Acres 06 Steinbeck, John East of Eden 06 Steinbeck, John Grapes of Wrath 81, 85, 87, 95, 03 Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men 01 Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom’s Cabin 87 Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club 97, 04 Tan, Amy The Bonesetter’s Daughter 06, 07 Twain, Mark Huckleberry Finn 80, 82, 85, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 99, 05, 06, 07 At RHS Author Title Exam Years Library Tyler, Anne Dinner at the Homesick 97 Restaurant Updike, John The Centaur 81 Villareal, Jose Antonio Pocho 02 Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse Five 91, 04 Walker, Alice The Color Purple 91, 92, 94, 96, 97, 05 Warren, Robert Penn All the King’s Men 00, 02, 04, 07 Welch, James Winter in the Blood 95 Welty, Eudora Delta Wedding 97 Welty, Eudora The Optimist’s Daughter 94 Wharton, Edith Ethan Frome 80, 95, 03, 05, 06, 07 Wharton, Edith The Age of Innocence 97, 02, 03 Wideman, John Edgar Sent for You Yesterday 03 Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray 02 Wilder, Thornton Our Town 86, 97 Williams, Tennessee Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 00 Williams, Tennessee A Streetcar Named Desire 91, 92, 01, 04 Williams, Tennessee The Glass Menagerie 90, 94, 97, 99, 02 Wilson, August Fences 02, 03, 05 Source: Plaut, Woody. Konawaena High School Virtual Library. 28 January 2008. AP Suggested Reading List. 7 February 2008 <http://www.k12.hi.us/~konawahs/ap_suggested_reading_list.htm>.
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