AP Reading List
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Seventh Grade
Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol (Play)
Gaines, Ernest -The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
George, Jean Craighead -My Side of the Mountain
Gilbreth, Frank Bo -Cheaper by the Dozen
Greek -Mythology Selections
Hinton, S. E. -The Outsiders
0' Dell, Scott -Island of the Blue Dolphins
-- Sarah Bishop
-- Sing Down the Moon
Patterson, Katherine -Bridge to Terabithia
-- Lyddie
Peck, Robert Newton -A Day No Pigs Would Die
Rawls, Wilson -Where the Red Fern Grows
Schaefer, Jack -Shane
Speare, Elizabeth G. -The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Steinbeck, John -The Red Pony
Stevenson, Robert Lo -Treasure Island
Twain, Mark -The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Voight, Cynthia - Dicey's Song
-Homecoming
Wilder, Laura IngalIs -Little House on the Prairie
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Eighth Grade
Adams, Richard -Watership Down
Alcott, Louisa May -Little Women
Asimov, Issac -Fantastic Voyage
Bagnold, Enid -National Velvet
Christie, Agatha -And Then There Were None
Cleaver, Vera -Where the Lilies Bloom
Cooper, Jo California -Homemade Love
Cormier, Robert -The Chocolate War
Douglass, Frederick -Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Fast, Howard -April Morning
Forbes, Esther -Johnny Tremain
Fox, Paula -The Slave Dancer
Goodrich, Frances and Albert Hackett -The Diary of Anne Frank (play)
Greene, Bette -The Summer of My German Soldier
Gunther, John -Death Be Not Proud
Hunt, Irene - Across Five Aprils
Hurston, Zora Neale -Dust Tracks on a Road
Jacobs, Harriet Ann -Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Kipling, Rudyard -Captains Courageous
London, Jack -The Call of the Wild
Lowry, Lois – The Giver
Patterson, Katherine -Jacob I Have Loved
Paulsen, Gary -- Hatchet
Rawlings, Marjorie -The Yearling
Richter, Conrad – A Light in the Forest
Stevenson, Robert Louis -Kidnapped
Taylor, Mildred -Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Tolkien, J.R.R. -The Hobbit
Twain, Mark- The Prince and The Pauper
Verne, Jules -Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Washington, Booker To -Up from Slavery
Wells, Ida -Crusade to Justice
Wyss, Johann -The Swiss Family Robinson
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Freshman
Achebe, Chinua -Things Fall Apart
Albom, Mitch – The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Angelou, Maya -I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Bach, Richard -Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Banks, Lynne -Indian in the Cupboard
Borland, Hal -When the Legends Die
Bradbury, Ray – Fahrenheit 451
--Martian Chronicles
Burns, Olive Ann -Cold Sassy Tree
Coelho, Paul – The Alchemist
Crutcher, Chris -Chinese Handcuffs
Dickens, Charles -Great Expectations
-- Oliver Twist
-- A Tale of Two Cities
-- David Copperfield
Fleischman, Paul – Dateline: Troy
Frank, Anne -The Diary of Anne Frank (diary)
Gibson, William – The Miracle Worker
Hamilton, Edith -- Mythology
Heinlein, Robert A. – Stranger in a Strange Land
Hemingway, Ernest – Old Man and the Sea
Hinton, S. E. -That Was Then, This is Now
Homer- The Odyssey (excerpts)
Keyes, Daniel – Flowers for Algernon
Kidd, Sue Monk – The Secret Life of Bees
Krisher, T. -Spite Fences
Lasky, Kathryn – Beyond the Divide
London, Jack -White Fang
Marsden, John – Letters from Inside
Mason, Bobbie Ann – In Country
Menendez, Ramon -Stand and Deliver
Mosley, Walter – 47
Namioka, Lensey – Ties that Bind, Ties that Break
Orczy, Baroness Emmuska – The Scarlet Pimpernel
Ryan, Pam Munoz – Esperanza Rising
Shakespeare, William -Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
Smith, Betty – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Soto, Gary -Taking Sides
Steinbeck, John -The Pearl
Taylor, Mildred -Let the Circle Be Unbroken
ten Boom, Corrie -The Hiding Place
Wilson, August – The Piano Lesson
Yates, Elizabeth -Amos Fortune, Free Man
Yen Mah, Adeline – Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Zendal, Paul -The Pigman
-- The Pigman’s Legacy
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Sophomore
Albom, Mitch – Tuesdays with Morrie
Allende, Isabel -The Infinite Plain
Alvarez, Julia -How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Anaya, Rudolfo -Bless Me, Ultima
Anderson, Laurie Halse -- Speak
Appleman-Jurman, Alicia – Alicia, My Story
Beatty , Lupita -Lupita Manana
Boulle, Pierre -The Bridge on the River Kwai
Bradbury , Ray -Dandelion Wine
-- Something Wicked This Way Comes
Buck, Pearl -The Good Earth
Camus, Albert – The Plague
Christie, Agatha -Murder on the Orient Express
-- Ten Little Indians
Cisneros, Sandra -The House on Mango Street
Conrad, Joseph -The Secret Sharer
Cormier, Robert -I am the Cheese
Crichton, Michael -Jurassic Park
Delaney, Sarah & Elizabeth – Having Our Say
Dinesen, Isak – Out of Africa
Dorris, Michael- A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Dumas, Alexandre -The Count of Monte Cristo
-- The Man in the Iron Mask
Frank, Pat -Alas, Babylon
Golding, William -Lord of the Flies
Grisham, John -A Time to Kill
Guest, Judith -Ordinary People
Guterson, David -Snow Falling on Cedars
Hayslip, Le Ly -When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
Hedges, Peter -What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Hersey, John -- Hiroshima
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki and James Houston -Farewell to Manzanar
Huxley, Aldous -Brave New World
Kinsella, W.P. -Shoeless Joe
Kingsolver, Barbara -Animal Dreams
--.The Bean Trees
Kipling, Rudyard - Kim
Knowles, John -A Separate Peace
Kogawa, Joy –Obasan
Krakauer, Jon – Into Thin Air
Markandaya, Kamala – Nectar in Sieve
Martell, Yann – Life of Pi
McCarthy, Cormac -All the Pretty Horses
McCullers, Carson -The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
--The Member of the Wedding
Q'Brien, Tim -In the Lake of the Woods
Orwell, George -Animal Farm
Potok, Chaim -The Chosen
-- I am the Clay
-- My Name is Asher Lev
Rose, Reginald -Twelve Angry Men
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
-- The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
Shelley, Mary –Frankenstein
Smith, Dodie – I Capture the Castle
Sophocles –Antigone
--Oedipus the King
Spiegelman, Art – Maus I: My Father Bleeds History
Steinbeck, John – Travels with Charley
Stevenson, Robert Louis – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Tan, Amy -The Hundred Secret Senses
-- The Joy Luck Club
-- The Kitchen God's Wife
Wiesel, Elie -Night
Wright, Richard -Black Boy
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Junior
Agee, James – A Death in the Family
Anaya, Rudolfo -Tortuga
Albee, Edward –Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
-- The Zoo Story
Anderson, Sherman -Winesburg, Ohio
Baldwin, James -Go Tell It on the Mountain
Berry, Wendall - The Memory of Old Jack
Butler, Octavia E. -- Kindred
Capote, Truman -In Cold Blood
Cather, Willa -My Antonia
Chestnutt, Charles -The Marrow of Tradition
Chopin, Kate -The Awakening
Cooper, James F. -The Last of the Mohicans
Conroy, Pat -The Prince of Tides
Crane, Stephen -The Red Badge of Courage
Danticat, Elwidge – Breath, Eyes, Memory
-- Krik? Krak!
Dickinson, Emily -Selected Poems
Dunbar, Paul Lo -The Sport of the Gods
Du Maurier, Daphne - Rebecca
Dreiser, Theodore -An American Tragedy
-- Sister Carrie
Ellison, Ralph -Invisible Man
Esquivel, Laura – Like Water for Chocolate
Faulkner, William -Absalom, Absalom
-- As I Lay Dying
-- Light in August
-- The Sound and the Fury
-- The Unvanquished
Fitzgerald, F. Scott -The Great Gatsby
-- This Side of Paradise
Frost, Robert -Selected Poems
Gaines, Ernest J. – A Lesson Before Dying
Garcia Marques, Gabriel – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Haley, Alex and Malcom X – Autobiography of Malcom X
Hansberry , Lorraine - A Raisin in the Sun
Harper, Frances W. -Iola Leroy
Harris, Joann - Chocolat
Hawthorne, Nathaniel- The House of the Seven Gables
-- The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph -Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
-- For Whom the Bell Tolls
-- The Sun Also Rises
Hurston, Zora Neale -Their Eyes Were Watching God
Irving, John -The World According to Garp
Jones, Edward P. – The Known World
Kesey, Ken -One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Kingston, Maxine Hong -The Woman Warrior
Lawrence, Jerome and Robert E. Lee – Inherit the Wind
Lee, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird
Lee, Jerome -The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Lewis, Sinclair -Elmer Gantry
-- Main Street
MacLeish, Archibald -J.B.
Malamud, Bernard -The Natural
--The Assistant
McBride, James – The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother
McClanahan, Ed – The Natural Man
McCourt, Frank – Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
McMurtry , Larry -The Last Picture Show
-- Lonesome Dove
-- Terms of Endearment
Melville, Herman -Benito Cereno
-- Billy Budd
--.Moby Dick
Michener, James -Centennial
-- The Drifters
Miller, Arthur -All My Sons
-- The Crucible
-- Death of a Salesman
Momaday, Scott – House Made of Dawn
Morrison, Toni –Beloved (contains language that may be offensive)
-- The Bluest Eye
-- Song of Solomon
O'Brien, Tim -Going After Cacciato
O'Connor, Flannery -Selected Short Stories
O'Neill, Eugene -Desire Under the Elms
-- Long Day's Journey into Night
Plath, Sylvia -The Bell Jar
Quinonez, Ernesto –Bodega Dreams
Rand, Ayn -Atlas Shrugged
-- The Fountainhead
-- Anthem
Salinger, J.D. -The Catcher in the Rye
Sinclair, Upton -The Jungle
-- Main Street
Steinbeck, John -East of Eden (contains language that may be offensive)
--The Grapes of Wrath
--Of Mice and Men
--The Winter of Our Discontent
Stowe, Harriet Beecher -Uncle Tom's Cabin
Styron, William -Confessions of Nat Turner
-- Sophie's Choice
Thomas, Piri – Down These Mean Streets
Thoreau, Henry David -Walden
Twain, Mark -The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
-- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Updike, John Selected -Short Stories
Vonnegut, Kurt -Breakfast of Champions
--Cat's Cradle
--Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker , Alice -The Color Purple
-- The Temple of My Familiar
Warren, Robert Po -All the King's Men
Watson, Larry – Montana 1948
West, Nathaniel- The Day of the Locust
-- Miss Lonelyhearts
Wharton, Edith -The Age of Innocence
--.Ethan Frome
Wilder, Thornton -The Bridge of San Luis Rey
-- Our Town
-- The Skin of Our Teeth
Williams, Tennessee -Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
-- The Glass Menagerie
-- A Streetcar Named Desire
Wilson, August -- Fences
Wolfe, Thomas -Look Homeward, Angel
--You Can't Go Home Again
Wolfe, Tom -The Bonfire of the Vanities
--The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Wright, Richard -Native Son
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Senior
Aeschylus -The Oresteia
--.Prometheus Bound
Alighieri, Dante -Inferno (Mandlebaum trans. pref.)
-- Paradiso (Mandlebaum trans. pref.)
-- Purgatorio (Mandlebaum trans. pref.)
Allende, Isabel -The House of the Spirits
Anonymous -Beowulf
-- Everyman
-- Gilgamesh
--.La Chanson de Roland
-- The Mabinogion
--.Poema de El Cid
Aristophanes -The Birds
--.The Clouds
-- The Frogs
--.Lysistrata
Atwood, Margaret -Cat's Eye
--.The Robber Bride
-- The Handmaid’s Tale
Auden, W .H. -Collected Poems
Austen, Jane -Emma
-- Persuasion ;
--.Pride and Prejudice
-- Sense and Sensibility
Beckett, Samuel- Waiting for Godot
Blake, William -Collected Poems
Bolt, Robert -A Man For All Seasons
Bradley, Marion Zimmer – The Mists of Avalon
Bronte, Charlotte -Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily -Wuthering Heights
Browning, Robert -Collected Poems
Bunyan, John -Pilgrim's Progress
Byatt, A.S - Possession
Byron, Lord G. Gordon -Collected Poems
--.Don Juan
Calvino, Italo -The Baron in the Trees
Camus, Albert -The Stranger
Carroll, Lewis -Alice in Wonderland
-- Through the Looking Glass
Cervantes, Miguel de -Don Quixote de la Mancha
Chaucer, Geoffrey -The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton -Collected Stories
-- The Cherry Orchard
-- Uncle Vanya
Chevalier, Tracy – The Girl with the Pearl Earring
Coleridge, Samuel T. -Collected Poems
Conrad, Joseph -Heart of Darkness
-- Lord Jim
-- Nostromo
Cunningham, Michael – The Hours
de Bernieres, Louis – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
Defoe, Daniel -Moll Flanders
Dickens, Charles -Bleak House
-- Hard Times
-- Martin Chuzzlewit
-- Nicholas Nickleby
-- Our Mutual Friend
Dinesen, Isak -Anecdotes of Destiny
--.Seven Gothic Tales
--.Winter's Tales
Dostoevsky , Fyodor
--.The Brothers Karamazov
-- Crime and Punishment
-- The Idiot
-- The Possessed
Donne, John -Collected Poems
-- Selected Prose
Dreiser, Theodore – Sister Carrie
Dumas, Alexandre -The Three Musketeers (unabridged)
Eliot, George -Middlemarch
-- Silas Marner
Eliot, T .S. -Collected Poems
--.Murder in the Cathedral
Eschenbach, Wolf. von -Parzival
Euripides -Alcestis
--.The Bacchae
-- Electra
--.Hippolytus
-- phigenea at Aulis
--.Medea
-- The Trojan Women
Fielding, Henry -The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Flaubert, Gustave -Madame Bovary
Forster, E.M. -Howard's End
--.A Passage to India
-- A Room With A View
-- Where Angels Fear to Tread
Fowles, John -The French Lieutenant's Woman
Fuentes, Carlos -A Change of Skin Terra Nostra
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel- Love in the Time of Cholera
-- One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gardner, John -Grendel
Goethe, Johann -Faust (part 1)
Gogol, Nikolai -Dead Souls
-- The Collected Stories
Golden, Arthur – Memoirs of a Geisha
Goldsmith, Oliver -She Stoops to Conquer
-- The Vicar of Wakefield
Greene, Graham -Brighton Rock
-- The Heart of the Matter
-- The Power and the Glory
Hardy, Thomas -Jude the Obscure
-- The Mayor of Casterbridge
--.The Return of the Native
-- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
-- Far from the Madding Crowd
Heaney, Seamus -Collected Poems
-- Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
Herbert, Frank - Dune
Hesse, Hermann -Demian
--.Siddartha
-- Steppenwolf
Homer- The Iliad (Lattimore, Fagles, Mandlebaum or Fitzgerald trans.)
--.The Odyssey (Lattimore, Fagles, Mandlebaum or Fitzgerald tr.)
Hopkins, Gerard -CoUected Poems
Housman, A. E. -Collected Poems
Hugo, Victor M. -Les Miserables (unabridged)
--.Notre Dame of Paris (unabridged)
Ibsen, Henrik -A Doll's House
-- Ghosts
--.Hedda Gabler
James, Henry – Washington Square
Jonson, Ben -Volpone
Joyce, James -Dubliners
-- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
-- Ulysses
Kafka, Franz -The Metamorphosis
-- The Trial
Keats, John -Collected Poems
Kingsolver, Barbara – The Poisonwood Bible
Koestler, Arthur – Darkness at Noon
Kundera, Milan -Immortality
-- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Laclos, Chloderos de
-- Dangerous Liaisons 1
Larkin, Philip -Collected Poems
Lawrence, D.H. -Collected Stories
--.Sons and Lovers
Lessing, Doris -The Golden Notebook
--.The Grass is Singing
Lewis, C. S. Perelandra -Out of the Silent Planet
--.That Hideous Strength
-- Till We Have Faces
Lewis, Sinclair – Babbitt
Machiavelli, Niccolo – The Prince
Malamud, Bernard – The Fixer
Malory , Sir Thomas -Le Morte D' Arthur
Marlowe, Christopher -Doctor Faustus
Milton, John -Paradise Lost
--.Paradise Regained
-- Samson Agonistes
Mistry, Rohinton – A Fine Balance
More, Sir Thomas -Utopia
Moliere -The Bourgeois Gentilhomme
-- The Misanthrope
-- Tartuffe
O’Brien, Tim – The Things They Carried
Orwell, George -1984
Owens, Wilfred -Collected Poems
Ovid -The Metamorphoses
Patchett, Ann – Bel Canto
Parks, Suzan-Lori – Getting Mother’s Body: A Novel
Pasternak, Boris -Doctor Zhivago
Paton, Alan -Cry , the Beloved Country
Pope, Alexander -Essay on Man
--.The Rape of the Lock
Rabelais, Francois -Gargantua and Pantagruel
Remarque, Erich Marie -All Quiet on the Western Front
Rilke, Rainer Maria -Collected Poems
Rostand, Edmond -Cyrano de Bergerac
Rushdie, Salman -Midnight's Children
Sartre, Jean Paul – No Exit
Shakespeare – As You Like It
-- Hamlet
-- Henry IV parts 1 and 2
--.Henry V
-- King Lear
--.Love's Labour's Lost
-- Macbeth
--The Merchant of Venice
--Much Ado About Nothing
-- Othello
-- Richard II
-- Richard III
-- The Taming of the Shrew
-- The Tempest
-- Twelfth Night
-- Complete Sonnets
Shaw, George B. -Major Barbara
-- Man and Superman
-- Saint Joan
Shelley, Percy Bysshe -Collected Poems
Singer, Isaac B. -Collected Stories
-- Enemies, A Love Story
Smith, Alexander McCall – The Number One Ladies’ Detective Agency
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander -Cancer Ward
-- The First Circle
--.One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles -Electra
-- Oedipus at Colonus
-- Oedipus Rex
--.Philoctetes
Soyinka, Wole -Death and the King's Horseman
-- Euripides' The Bacchae
--.The Lion and the Jewel
Spenser, Edmund -The Faerie Queen
Stendhal -The Red and the Black
Sterne, Lawrence -Tristam Shandy
Stoker, Bram - Dracula
Stoppard, Tom -Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Swift, Jonathan -"The Battle of the Books"
-- Gulliver's Travels
--" A Modest Proposal"
Tennyson, Alfred -Idylls of the King
Thomas, Dylan -Collected Poems
Tolkien, J.R.R. -The Fellowship of the Ring
--The Return of the King
--The Two Towers
Tolstoy, Leo -Anna Karenina
--The Death of Ivan Ilyich
--War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan -Fathers and Sons
Vargas Llosa, Mario -Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
-- The War of the End of the World
Vreeland, Susan – The Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Virgil- The Aeneid
Voltaire -Candide
Walcot, Derek -Omeros
--.Collected Poems
Wangerian, Walter – Book of the Dun Cow
Well, H.G. – Time Machine
Wilde, Oscar -The Importance of Being Earnest
--.The Picture of Dorian Gray
Woolf, Virginia -Mrs. Dalloway
--.Orlando
--To the Lighthouse
Wordsworth, William -Collected Poems
Yeats, William B. -Collected Poems