2013/2014 AP English Language and Composition Reading Selections/Novels
These Works must be purchased or may be borrowed from a Library. These Works compromise the necessary sources for class
discussion and skill development. The works should be annotated for ideas, literary elements, and style. Students should actively
engage the reading. These reading selections will often generate new ideas and thought, a written response, class discussion,
projects, commentary, and/or assessment.
Texts:
DiYanni
Atwan
Literature Reading Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (sixth edition)
America Short Readings from Recent Periodicals (ninth edition)
Novels:
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
Brave New World Revisited
Hillenbrand, Laura
Unbroken
Krakauer, Jon
Into the Wild
Thoreau, Henry David
Walden
Civil Disobedience
Hesse, Hermann
Siddhartha
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Scarlet Letter
J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
Plath, Silvia
The Bell Jar
Douglass, Frederick
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Faulkner, William
As I Lay Dying
Steinbeck, John
or
Ellison, Ralph
The Grapes of Wrath
or
Invisible Man
The following Works will be found in one of our Texts or will be given as a class hand-out. These reading selections should be
annotated for ideas, literary elements and style. Students should actively engage the reading. These selections also generate thought,
class discussion, a written response, projects, commentary, and/or assessment.
Drama:
Sophocles
O’Neill, Eugene
Antigone
The Hairy Ape
Essays:
Plato
Miner, Horace
Goodman, Ellen
Emerson
Mairs, Nancy
Forster, E. M.
Dilliard, Annie
AP Central text
Myth of the Cave
Body Ritual among the Nacirema
The Company Man
School and others
I am a cripple
My Wood
Living Like Weasels and others
On the Corner lived a drunk. . . .
There may be additional selections from the texts, AP Central, NYTimes, LATimes or other sources.
Personal Narrative
Orwell, George
Momaday, N. Scottt
Chabon, Michael
Kingston
James Joyce
Langston Hughes
Maya Angelou
Malcom X
E.B. White
James Baldwin
Shooting an Elephant
Revisiting Sacred Ground
Wilderness of Childhood
No Name Woman
Araby
Salvation
Grandmother’s Victory
Coming to an Awareness of Language
Once More to the Lake
Fifth Avenue, Uptown
Poems
DiYanni
DYanni
DiYanni
The History Teacher
Theme for English B
The Mirror
Langston Hughes
Sylvia Plath
Other Reading Selections from the DiYanni Book
Poe Stories:
The Black Cat
Cask of Amontillado
The Purloined Letter
Fall of the House of Usher
William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily
Chopin, Kate
The Story of an Hour
Gillman, Charlotte Perkins The Yellow Wallpaper
Humor Unit
Shouts and Murmurs
Sedaris, David
Frazier, Ian
Swift, Jonathon
Brady, Judy
Britt, Suzanne
Didion, Joan
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Coyote v. Acme
A Modest Proposal
Why I Want a Wife
Neat People vs. Sloppy People
Marrying Absurd
The Onion
The Dam Letters
The Coke Letters
Other Options and Considerations
Cisneros, Sandra
Kafka
William Faulkner
T.C. Boyle
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Margaret Atwood
James Baldwin
Ralph Ellison
John Steinbeck
Eudora Welty
D. H. Lawrence
Salvador, Early or Late
Metamorphosis
Barn Burning
After the Plague
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Happy Endings
Sonny's Blues
Battle Royal
The Chrysanthemums
Why I live at the P.O.
The Rocking-Horse Winner