Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition
Independent Reading Program
AP Independent Reading Plan:
As our academic schedule allows, you will be given each Thursday to engage in Independent Reading. While
in the past you have been afforded the opportunity to freely select your reading texts, now you will need to
choose texts that the AP Board has included in its “Suggested Reading List.”
Each marking period, you will need to read either one novel or one drama, and you will be required to keep a
reader’s log that consists of notes/quotes; text to text connections; text to self connections; and, text to world
connections.
Thereafter, you will be expected to complete the following tasks:
1.) use your selected text(s) to respond to Question 3 of practice AP exams;
2.) write an Annotated Bibliography based on one analytical/critical essay;
3.) write a Biographical Sketch focusing on the author of the text;
4.) engage in Literature Circles;
5.) provide oral presentations on your novel’s literary merit.
Numbers one through three are mandatory for each marking period. Numbers four and five will be additional
tasks assigned as our academic schedule allows.
Student Expectations for Independent Reading Day:
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Come to class each Independent Reading Day with a book of literary merit;
If you do not have your text with you, you will be provided with an optional text but lose class
participation/preparation points for the day;
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You will be expected to complete your text within a four to six week time frame;
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Read until the task is assigned;
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Remain on task for the entire class period or you will lose class participation points: sleeping, talking,
writing notes/completing other assignments are not acceptable ways to use Independent Reading time;
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Maintain your reading log/folder;
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Keep your reading log in the classroom unless you are given permission to sign it out. You will lose
10 points from your Independent Reading Program class participation/preparation marking period
average if your reading log is not accounted for on any given day;
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Use clear/legible handwriting on your tasks;
If you are absent for an Independent Reading Day, you will need to make up the time with a teacher
after school.
Student Signature: _______________________________________Date: _______________
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AP English Literature Suggested Reading List
The WP library has the following titles.
FICTION BOOKS
Author
James Agee
Margaret Atwood
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
James Baldwin
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Pearl Buck
Albert Camus
Willa Cather
Willa Cather
Willa Cather
Geoffrey Chaucer
James Fenimore Cooper
Stephen Crane
Dante
Miguel de Cervantes
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Fyofor Dostoevski
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
Alexander Dumas
George Eliot
George Eliot
George Eliot
Ralph Ellison
William Faulkner
Gustave Flaubert
E.M. Forster
Graham Greene
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Title
A Death in the Family
The Handmaid’s Tale
Emma
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Go tell it on the Mountain
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
The Good Earth
The Stranger
Death Comes for the Archbishop
My Antonia
One of Ours
The Canterbury Tales
The Last of the Mohicans
The Red Badge of Courage
Inferno
Don Quixote
Moll Flanders
Robinson Crusoe
David Copperfield
A Tale of Two Cities
Crime and Punishment
An American Tragedy
Sister Carrie
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Mill on the Floss
Middlemarch
Silas Marner
Invisible Man
The Sound and the Fury
Madame Bovary
Passage to India
The Power and The Glory
Jude the Obscure
The Return of the Native
Tess of the d”Urbervilles
The House of the Seven Gables
The Scarlet Letter
A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Call #
F AGE
F ATW
F AUS
F AUS
F AUS
F BAL
F BRO
F BRO
F BUC
F CAM
F CAT
F CAT
F CAT
F CHA
F COO
F CRA
F DAN
F DEC
F DEF
F DEF
F DIC
F DIC
F DOS
F DRE
F DRE
F DUM
F ELI
F ELI
F ELI
F ELL
F FAU
F FLA
F FOR
F GRE
F HAR
F HAR
F HAR
F HAW
F HAW
F HEM
F HEM
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Author
Ernest Hemingway
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
Kazuuo Ishiguro
Henry James
Henry James
Henry James
James Joyce
James Joyce
Maxine Hong Kingston
John Knowles
D.H. Lawrence
Sinclair Lewis
Jack London
Thomas Mann
Bernard Malamud
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
W. Somerset Maugham
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
Toni Morrison
Frank Norris
George Orwell
Tim O’Brien
Boris Pasternak
Alan Paton
Sylvia Plath
Edmond Rostand
Upton Sinclair
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
Robert Louis Stevenson
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Jonathan Swift
William Thackeray
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Ivan Turgenev
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Alice Walker
Robert Penn Warren
Edith Warton
Virginia Woolf
Richard Wright
Title
The Sun Also Rises
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Les Miserables
The Remains of the Day
The American
Portrait of a Lady
Washington Square
Dubliners
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Woman Warrior
A Separate Peace
Sons and Lovers
Babbitt
Call of the Wild
The Magic Mountain
The Fixer
One Hundred Tears of Solitude
Of Human Bondage
Billy Budd
Moby Dick
Beloved
The Octopus
1984
The Things They Carried
Doctor Zhivago
Cry, the Beloved Country
The Bell Jar
Cyrano de Bergerac
The Jungle
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Cannery Row
Grapes of Wrath
Treasure Island
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Gulliver’s Travels
Vanity Fair
Anna Karenina
War and Peace
Fathers and Sons
Slaughterhouse Five
The Color Purple
All the King’s Men
The House of Mirth
Mrs. Dalloway
Native Son
Call #
F HEM
F HUG
F HUG
F ISH
F JAM
F JAM
F JAM
F JOY
F JOY
F MAX
F KNO
F LAW
F LEW
F LON
F MAN
F MAL
F MAR
F MAU
F MEL
F MEL
F MOR
F NOR
F ORW
F OBR
F PAS
F PAT
F PLA
F ROS
F SIN
F SOL
F STE
F STE
F STE
F STO
F SWI
F THA
F TOL
F TOL
F TUR
F VON
F WAL
F WAR
F WHA
F WOO
F WRI
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PLAYS
Author
Aeschylus
William Gibson
Lorraine Hansberry
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
Arthur Miller
Jean-Paul Sartre
Thorton Wilder
Title
Agamemnon
The Miracle Worker
A Raisin in the Sun
A Doll’s House
Hedda Gabler
Death of a Salesman
No Exit
Our Town
Call #
882.08 AES
812 GIB
812 HAN
813 IBS
813 IBS
812 MIL
808.82 SAR
812 WIL
CLASSIC WORKS
Author
Anonymous
Euripides
Homer
Homer
John Milton
Racine
Voltaire
Title
Beowulf
Medea
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Paradise Lost
Phaedra
Candide
Call #
829.3 LEH
851 EUR
883.01 HOM
883 HOM
811 MIL
808.82 HAR
812 HEL
BIOGRAPHIES
Author
Maxine Hong Kingston
Title
The Woman Warrior
Call #
B KIN
ESSAYS
Author
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Title
Selected Essays
Call #
814 EME
Recommended Reading
The titles below are recommended readings for AP English. The books are not in the high school
library, but may be found at a public library or be purchased.
FICTION BOOKS
Author
Saul Bellow
Kate Chopin
Joseph Conrad
Don Delillo
Charles Dickens
Alexandre Dumas
William Faulkner
Title
The Adventures of Augie March
The Awakening
The Secret Sharer
White Noise
Great Expectations
The Three Musketeers
As I Lay Dying
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Henry Fielding
Ford Madox Ford
Henry James
Herman Melville
Toni Morrison
V. S. Naipul
Marcel Proust
Thomas Pynchon
Jean Rhys
Henry Roth
Amy Tan
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Tom Jones
The Good Soldier
Turn of the Screw
Bartleby the Scrivener
Song of Solomon
A Bend in the River
Swann’s Way
The Crying of Lot 49
Wide Sargasso Sea
Call It Sleep
The Kitchen God’s Wife
To the Lighthouse
A Room of One’s Own
SHORT STORIES
Author
Flannery O’Connor
Title
A Good Man is Hard to Find
PLAYS
Author
Samuel Beckett
Anton Chekhov
Johann Goethe
Eugene O’Neil
Eugene O’Neil
Jean-Paul Sarte
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Tom Stoppard
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Tennesse Williams
Title
Waiting for Godot
The Cherry Orchard
Faust
Desire Under the Elms
Long Day’s Journey into Night
Nausea
Major Barbara
Man and Superman
Pygmalion
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
CLASSIC WORKS
Author
Bocaccio
Voltaire
Title
The Decameron
Candide
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