AP English Literature & Composition DCE Author List
Choose three novels or three plays written by one the following authors. These must be full-length works of fiction. Requests for short stories or non-fiction books, essays, or articles, will be denied.
National origin or Genre Author’s Name African Chinua Achebe Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche Isak Dinesena
African American James Baldwin Ralph Ellison Zora Neale Hurston Ernest J. Gaines Toni Morrison Gloria Naylor Alice Walker August Wilson Richard Wright
American Rudolfo Anaya Joyce Carol Oates Willa Cather Truman Capote Pat Conroy Don Delillo Dave Eggers Louise Erdrich Jeffrey Eugenides William Faulkner David Guterson Ernest Hemingway John Irving Shirley Jackson Henry James Jack Kerouac Barbara Kingsolver Cormac McCarthy Larry McMurtry Chuck Palahniuk Thomas Pynchon Ayn Rand Philip Roth John Steinbeck Edith Wharton John Updike
Asian American Amy Tan (not The Joy Luck Club) Maxine Hong Kingston Ha Jin
Asian Gao Xingjian (Chinese) Kim Si-seup (Korean) Haruki Murakami (Japanese)
British Jane Austen Charlotte Brontë (not Jane Eyre) Joseph Conrad Daniel Defoe Charles Dickens George Eliot National origin or Genre Author’s Name British Henry Fielding Thomas Hardy Kazuo Ishiguro James Joyce (if they dare) D.H. Lawrence C.S. Lewis Ian McEwan Salman Rushdie Virginia Woolf
Canadian Margaret Atwood
Detective Raymond Chandler Agatha Christie Dashiell Hammett
European Albert Camus (French) Victor Hugo (French) Franz Kafka (Czech) Milan Kundera (Czech) Jean-Paul Sartre (French)
Indian Jhumpa Lahiri Bharati Mukherjee Rabindranath Tagore
Latin American Isabel Allende (Chilean) Sandra Cisneros (Mexican) (not House on Mango Street) Paulo Coelho (Brazilian) Carlos Fuentes (Mexican) Gabriel García-Márquez (Columbian)
Lost Generation F. Scott Fitzgerald (not The Great Gatsby) Ernest Hemingway
Middle Eastern Khaled Hosseini
Native American Sherman Alexie (not Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian) Louise Erdrich Leslie Marmon Silko
Playwright Edward Albee George Bernard Shaw Henrik Ibsen David Mamet Arthur Miller Molière Eugene O’Neill Sam Shepard Oscar Wilde August Wilson Tennessee Williams
Russian Fyodor Dostoevsky Vladimir Nabokov Leo Tolstoy