Works Listed on AP English Literature Exam, Question 3
Freshman year
Sophomore year
Junior year
Senior year
List thru 2008 courtesy of Sally Pfeifer
List from 2009-2011 courtesy of Katie Doolittle
American Authors
AUTHOR
Albee
Albee
Alexie
Anaya
Baldwin
Baldwin
Bauermeister
Cao
Cather
Cather
Chopin
Cisneros
Divakaruni
Doctorow
Dreiser
Dreiser
Edwards
Ellison
Erdich
Faulkner
Faulkner
Faulkner
Faulkner
Faulkner
Fitzgerald
Frazier
Fuller
Gaines
Gaines
Glaspell
Guterson
Guterson
Hansberry
Hawthorne
Heller
Hellman
Hemingway
TITLE
The Zoo Story (play)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf (play)
Reservation Blues
Bless Me, Ultima
Another Country
Go Tell it on the Mountain
The Dollmaker
Monkey Bridge
My Antonia
O Pioneers!
The Awakening
The House on Mango
Street
Sister of My Heart
Ragtime
An American Tragedy
Sister Carrie
The Memory Keeper’s
Daughter
Invisible Man
Love Medicine
Absalom, Absalom
Light in August
Sound and the Fury
The Bear
As I Lay Dying
Great Gatsby
Cold Mountain
A Soldier’s Play
A Gathering of the Old
Men
A Lesson Before Dying
Trifles
Snow Falling on Cedars
The Other
Raisin in the Sun (play)
The Scarlet Letter
Catch-22
Little Foxes (play)
A Farewell to Arms
EXAM YEARS BOOK APPEARED
82,01
88,94,00,04,07, 11B
08, 09, 09B
96,97,05,06
10
88,90,05, 09B
91
00
94, 10
06
87,88,91,92,95,97,99,02,07, 09, 09B, 11B
10B
10
03,07
82,95,02,03
87,94,02,04, 09B, 10
09
76,78,82,83,85,86,89,91,94,95,96,97,01,04,05,08,
09, 09B, 10, 10B, 11
95
76,00,07
79,81,82,83,85,91,94,95,99,03, 11
86,97,01,04,08
94,06
78,89,90,94,01,06, 09, 11B
82,83,88,91,92,97,00,02,04,07, 10B
08
11B
00, 11
99, 11
00
00, 10
10
87,90,92,94,96,99, 09B
78,83,88,91,99,02,04,05,06, 11B
82,85,87,89,94,01,05,08, 11B
85,90, 10, 10B
91,99, 09
1
Hemingway
Hemingway
Hosseini
Hosseini
Hurston
Hwang
Irving
James
James
James
James
James
Jen
Jewett
Jin
Johnson
Kallos
Kesey
Kingsolver
Kingston
Knowles
Kushner
Lahiri
Larsen
Lee
Lee
Lee
Lewis
MacLeish
Mailer
Malamud
McCarthy
McCarthy
McCarthy
McCarthy
McCullers
McKay
Melville
Melville
Melville
Melville
Miller
Miller
Miller
Miller
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Sun also Rises
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Kite Runner
Their Eyes Were Watching
God
M. Butterfly (play)
A Prayer for Own Meany
The American
Golden Bowl
Portrait of a Lady
Turn of the Screw
Washington Square
Typical American
Country of the Pointed Firs
A Free Life
The Autobiography of an
Ex-Colored Man
Broken For You
One Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest
The Poisonwood Bible
Woman Warrior
A Separate Peace
Angels in America (play)
The Namesake
Passing
A Gesture Life
Native Speaker
To Kill a Mockingbird
Main Street
J.B.
Armies of the Night
The Fixer
All the Pretty Horses
The Crossing
No Country for Old Men
The Road
The Member of the
Wedding
Home to Harlem
Benito Cereno
Bill Budd
Moby Dick
Redburn
A View From the Bridge
All My Sons (play)
Death of a Salesman (play)
The Crucible (play)
03,06
85,91,95,04,05
11
07,08, 09
88,90,91,94,96,04,05,06,07,08, 10B, 11B
11B
09
05,07, 10
09
88,94,00,05, 11B
02,04
90
02,05
10B
10B
02,05
09B
01
10, 10B
91
82,07
09B
09, 10B
11B
04,05
99,07
09B, 11
87, 09, 09B
81,94
76
07
96,06,08, 10B, 11
09
11
10, 10B
97
10B
89
79,81,82,83,85,99,02,05,08
76,78,79,80,83,89,94,96,01,03,04,07, 09
87
94
85,90
86,88,94,03,04,05,07
83,87,05, 09, 09B
2
Momaday
Morrison
Morrison
Morrison
Morrison
Mukerjee
Naylor
Norris
O’Brien
O’Brien
O’Brien
O’Connor
O’Neill
O’Neill
O’Neill
Ondaatje
Pielmeier
Proulx
Rolvaag
Roth
Salinger
Saroyan
Silko
Sinclair
Smiley
Stegner
Styron
Styron
Steinbeck
Steinbeck
Steinbeck
Stowe
Tan
Tan
Thoreau
Twain
Tyler
Updike
Vonnegut
Walker
Warren
Welch
Welty
Wharton
Wharton
House Made of Dawn
Song of Solomon
Sula
Beloved
The Bluest Eye
Jasmine
The Women of Brewster
Place
The Octopus
Going After Cacciato
In the Lake of the Woods
The Things They Carried
Wise Blood
Long Day’s Journey into
Night
Mourning Becomes Electra
(play)
The Hairy Ape (play)
Coming Through Slaughter
Agnes of God
The Shipping News
Giants in the Earth
American Pastoral
The Catcher in the Rye
The Human Comedy
Ceremony
The Jungle
A Thousand Acres
Angle of Repose
Sophie’s Choice
Set This House on Fire
East of Eden
Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Bonesetter’s Daughter
The Joy Luck Club
Civil Disobedience
Huckleberry Finn
Dinner at the Homesick
Restaurant
The Centaur
Slaughterhouse Five
The Color Purple
All the King’s Men
Winter in the Blood
The Optimist’s Daughter
Ethan Frome
The Age of Innocence
95,06, 09B
81,88,96,00, 10B
92,97,02,04,08, 10B
90,94,99,01,03,07, 09, 10B, 11, 11B
95, 09B
99, 10
09, 09B, 10, 10B
09B
01, 10B
00
04, 09B
95, 09, 10B
90,03,07
94
89, 09
01
00
97
94
09B
01, 11B
94
94,96,97,99,01,06, 09B
77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 90, 96, 09B
06, 11
10
09B
11
06
81,85,87,95,06, 09, 09B, 10B, 11
01
87, 09B
06,07
97
76
80,82,85,91,92,94,95,96,99,05,06,08, 11B
97
81
91
91,92,94,96,97,05,08, 09
00,02,04,07,08, 09B, 11
95
94
80,95,03,05,06,07
97,02,05,08
3
Wharton
Wideman
Wilder
Williams
Williams
Williams
Williams
Wilson
Wilson
Wilson
Wolfe
Wolfe
Wright
Wright
Wroblewski
The House of Mirth
Sent of You Yesterday
Our Town (play)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
(play)
Desire Under the Elms
(play)
Streetcar Named Desire
(play)
The Glass Menagerie (play)
Fences (play)
Joe Turner’s Come and
Gone (play)
The Piano Lesson (play)
Look Homeward, Angel
You Can’t Go Home Again
Black Boy
Native Son
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
07, 10B
03
86,97, 09
00
81
91,92,01,07,08, 09, 10B, 11B
90,94,97,99,02,08, 09, 10B
02,03, 09, 10B
00,04
96,99,07,08, 10B
10B
94
06
79,82,85,87,89,01, 09B, 11, 11B
11
British Authors
AUTHOR
Austen
Austen
Austen
Austen
Beckett
Bronte, C.
TITLE
Emma
Mansfield Park
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Waiting For Godot
Jane Eyre
Bronte, E.
Wuthering Heights
Churchill
Conrad
Conrad
Conrad
Defoe
Dickens
Dickens
Dickens
Dickens
Dickens
Dickens
Dickens
Eliot, G.
Eliot, G.
Eliot, G.
Eliot, G.
Eliot, T.S.
The Crisis
Heart of Darkness
Lord Jim
Victory
Moll Flanders
Bleak House
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
Hard Times
Oliver Twist
Our Mutual Friend
A Tale of Two Cities
Adam Bede
Middlemarch
The Mill on the Floss
Silas Marner
The Wasteland
EXAM YEARS
96,08, 11B
91,06
83,88,92,94,05,07
83,88,92,94,97,08, 11B
94,01, 09
78,79,82,83,86,89,90,91,92,97,99,00,07, 10,
10B
78,79,82,83,86,89,9091,92,96,97,99,01,06,08,
10B, 10
76
76,91,94,96,99,00,01,02,04, 09, 10, 11B
78,82,83,86,00,03,07
83
76,83,86,87,95, 09B
94, 09, 10B
78,83,06
79,80,88,89,92,94,95,96,00,01,02, 10B
09B
09B
90
82,91,08
06
95,04,05,07
91,92
02
81
4
Eliot, T.S.
Fielding
Fielding
Ford
Forster
Freyn
Friel
Golding
Goldsmith
Greene
Greene
Hardy
Hardy
Hardy
Huxley
Ishiguro
Ishiguro
Joyce(Irish)
Joyce(Irish)
Lawrence
Madox
Marlowe
McEwan
Milton
Orwell
Pinter
Pinter
Pope
Rhys
Richardson
Shaffer
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Murder in the Cathedral
Joseph Andrews
Tom Jones
The Good Soldier
Passage to India
Copenhagen (play)
Dancing at Lughnasa
The Lord of the Flies
The Vicar of Wakefield
Brighton Rock
The Power and the Glory
Jude the Obscure
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Brave New World
Never Let Me Go
Remains of the Day
Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man
The Dead
Sons and Lovers
The Good Soldier
Dr. Faustus (play)
Atonement
Paradise Lost
1984
The Birthday Party
The Homecoming
The Rape of the Lock
Wide Sargasso Sea
Pamela
Equus (play)
Antony and Cleopatra (play)
As You Like it (play)
Hamlet (play)
Henry IV, Part I (play)
Henry V (play)
Julius Caesar (play)
King Lear (play)
Macbeth (play)
Merchant of Venice (play)
A Midsummer’s Night
Dream (play)
Much Ado about Nothing
(play)
Othello (play)
Richard III (play)
Romeo and Juliet (play)
76,80,85,95, 11
91
90,00,06,08
11B
78,83,88,91,92,07, 09B
09B
01
85,92
06
79
95
76,80,85,87,91,95, 09, 09B, 10
82,91,03,06,07
94,99,00,02, 10, 11B
89,05, 09B
09B, 10B
00, 11B
76,80,81,83,86,88,96,99,04,05, 09, 10, 10B,
11B
97
83,90
00
79,86,99,04, 11B
07, 11
85,86, 10
94,05, 09, 09B
89,97
78,90
81
89,92
86
86,92,94,99,00,01, 08, 09, 09B
80,91
92,05,06, 10
88,92,94,97,99,00
08
02
82,97
78,82,83,88,89,90,94,96,01,03,04,05,06,08,
10, 11
83,99,03
85,91,95,02
91,06
97
79,85,88,92,95, 11B
79
90,97
5
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Shaw
Shaw
Shaw
Shaw
Shaw
Shelley
Spark
Sterne
Stevenson
Stoppard
Swift
Trollope
Trollope
Waugh
Wilde
Wilde
Woolf
Woolf
Woolf
Woolf
The Tempest (play)
Twelfth Night (play)
The Winter’s Tale (play)
Candida (play)
Major Barbara (play)
Mrs. Warren’s Profession
(play)
Pygmalion (play)
Saint Joan (play)
Frankenstein
The Prime of Miss Jean
Brodie
Tristram Shandy
Robinson Crusoe
Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern are Dead (play)
Gulliver’s Travels
The Warden
The Way We Live Now
Brideshead Revisited
Lady Windemere’s Fan (play)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mrs. Dalloway
Orlando
A Room of One’s Own
To The Lighthouse
78,96,07, 10
94,96, 11B
86,89,06
80
79,96,04, 09B, 11B
90,95,02, 09B
92,08
95
89,00,03,06,08
90
86
10
81,94,00,04,05, 10, 11
87,88,01,04, 09B
96
06
94,96
09
02
94,97,05,07, 11B
04
76
83,86,88
World Authors
AUTHOR
Achebe (Nigerian)
Aeschylus (Greek)
Aeschylus (Greek)
Aristophanes (Greek)
Atwood (Canadian)
Atwood (Canadian)
Atwood (Canadian)
Atwood (Canadian)
Atwood (Canadian)
Balzac (French)
Brecht (German)
Camus (French)
Camus (French)
Camus (French)
Cervantes (Spanish)
Chekov (Russian)
Davies (Canadian)
Desai (Indian)
Dinesen (Danish)
TITLE
Thing Fall Apart
Oresteia
The Eumenides
Lysistrata
Alias Grace
The Blind Assassin
Cat’s Eye
The Handmaid’s Tale
Surfacing
Per Goriot
Mother Courage (play)
The Fall
The Plague
The Stranger
Don Quixote
The Cherry Orchard (play)
Fifth Business
The Inheritance of Loss
Out of Africa
EXAM YEARS
81,87,03, 09, 10, 10B, 11
90,94
96
87
00,04,08
07, 11
94, 09
92, 09B
05, 11B
02
85
81
02, 09
79,82,86, 11
92,01,04,06,08
83,06,07, 09, 10B
00,07
10B
06
6
Dostoevsky (Russian)
Dostoevsky (Russian)
Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punishment
Dostoevsky (Russian)
Euripides (Greek)
Flaubert (French)
Fugard (South African)
Goethe (German)
Homer (Greek)
Ibsen (Norwegian)
Ibsen (Norwegian)
Ibsen (Norwegian)
Ibsen (Norwegian)
Ibsen (Norwegian)
Ionesco (Romanian)
Kafka (German)
Kafka (German)
Kafka (German)
Kogawa (Canadian)
MacLennan (Canadian)
Notes from the Underground
Medea (play)
Madame Bovary
Master Harold and the Boys
Faust
The Odyssey
A Doll’s House (play)
An Enemy of the People
Ghosts
Hedda Gabler
The Wild Duck
Rhinoceros (play)
Metamorphosis
The Caretaker
The Trial
Obasan
The Watch That Ends The
Night
One Hundred Years of
Solitude
Who Has Seen the Wind
Tartuffe (play)
The Misanthrope (play)
Pale Fire
Pnin
A House for Mr. Biswas
Marquez (Colombian)
Mitchell (Canadian)
Moliere (French)
Moliere (French)
Nabokov (Russian)
Nabokov (Russian)
Naipaul
(Indo-Trinidadian-British)
Pamuk (Turkish)
Pasternak (Russian)
Paton (South African)
Racine (French)
Richler (Canadian)
Roy (world citizen)
Sartre (French)
Solzhenitsyn (Russian)
Sophocles (Greek)
Sophocles (Greek)
Tolstoy (Russian)
Tolstoy (Russian)
Turgenev (Russian)
Voltaire (French)
Zola (French)
Snow
Doctor Zhivago
Cry the Beloved Country
Phedre (play)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy
Cravitz
The God of Small Things
No Exit
One Day in the Life of Ivan
Denisovich
Antigone (play)
Oedipus Rex (play)
Anna Karenina
The Death of Ivan Illych
Fathers and Sons
Candide
Germinal
90,08
76,80,82,88,96,99,00,01,02,03,04,
09, 10, 11
89
82,92,95,01,03, 11
80,85,05,06, 09, 10
09B
02,03
94
83,88,94,95,00,05, 09, 09B
99,01,07
00,04
79,92,02,03
78
09B
78,98
85
89,00, 11
94,95,97,04,05,06,07, 10
92
89,94
11B
87
92,08
01
97
10B
09
10
85,87,91,95,96,07, 09B
92,03
94
10B, 11
86
05, 10
79,80,90,94,99,03, 09B, 11
83,88,00,03,04, 11, 11B
80,91,99,02,03,06,08, 09B
86
90
86,97,91,96,04, 10B
09B
7