AP Literature and Composition Class of 2013
Suggested Reading List
“Books are a load of crap” Philip Larkin
Books to Read before Graduation
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor
Dostoyevsky
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Othello, William Shakespeare
The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar
Wilde
1984, George Orwell
House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark
Twain
A Doll’s House, Fredrick Ibsen
A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee
Williams
Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
This Boy’s Life, Tobias Wolfe
The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
Lord of the Flies, James Aubrey
My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William
Shakespeare
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Metamorphosis, Franz Kaftka
Native Son, Richard Wright
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,
Tom Stoppard
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Difficult but Worth It
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Beowulf, Anonymous
On Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau
The Odyssey, Homer
Hedda Gabler, Frederick Ibsen
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, Edward
Albee
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
An American Childhood, Annie Dillard
The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Resurrection, Leo Tolstoy
Women Empowerment ( moxie!)
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
A Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
A Doll’s House, Frederick Ibsen
A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
Their Eyes are Watching God, Zora Neal
Hurston
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Antigone, Sophocles
Beneath a Marble Sky, John Shors
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
Hedda Gabler, Frederick Ibsen
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Beach Reads
The Hobbit, J.J.R. Tolkien
An Ideal Husband, Oscar Wilde
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel
Wilkerson
And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
Along for the Ride, Sarah Dessen
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Looking for Alaska, John Green
A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee
Williams
Under the Tuscan Sun, Frances Mayes
Safe Haven, Nicholas Sparks
Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher
Kissed by an Angel, Elizabeth Chandler
Rebecca, Daphine du Maurier
Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
Summer in the City, Elizabeth Chandler
The Little Foxes, Lillian Hellman
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
Flowers for Algernon, Daniele Keyes
A Change of Heart, Jodi Picoult
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann
Brashares
Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
The Hunger Games (trilogy), Suzanne
Collins
Ophelia, Lisa Klein
Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
Bourne (series), Robert Ludlum
The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton
Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
The Odyssey, Homer
To Read Before You See
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Perks of Being a Wall Flower, Stephen
Chbosky
The Stand, Stephen King
Les Miserables, Victory Hugo
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S.
Lewis
Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton
Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
Universe, Douglas Adams
The Hunger Games (trilogy), Suzanne
Collins
My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult
Bourne (series), Robert Ludlum
The Help, Katheryn Stockett
Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
Poets to Check Out
Billy Collins
William Wordworth
Emily Dickenson
E.E. Cummings
Adrienne Rich
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sylvia Plath
Philip Larkin
John Donne
Robert Frost
John Keats
Pablo Neruda
Elizabeth Bishop
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Naomi Shihab Nye
Margaret Atwood
William Butler Yeats
Edgar Allen Poe
Langston Hughes
Constantine Cavafy
T.S. Eliot
Yusef Komunyakaa
Wilfred Owen
Dudley Randall
A.E. Housman
George Herbert
Maya Angelou
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Lucille Clifton