These titles have appeared as suggested works for AP English Literature and Composition “free response” prompts.
Jane Austen
Samuel Beckett
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Geoffrey Chaucer
Joseph Conrad
Daniel Defoe
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
T.S. Eliot
Henry Fielding
Ford Maddox Ford
E.M. Forster
Michael Frayn
William Golding
Graham Greene
Thomas Hardy
Aldous Huxley
Kazuo Ishiguro
Henry James
James Joyce
D.H. Lawrence
Christopher Marlowe
Ian McEwan
Milton
George Orwell
Harold Pinter
Alexander Pope
Barbara Pym
Samuel Richardson
Salman Rushdie
Peter Shaffer
William Shakespeare
George Bernard Shaw
Mary Shelley
Muriel Spark
Laurence Sterne
Tom Stoppard
Jonathan Swift
William Thackeray
Anthony Trollope
Evelyn Waugh
Oscar Wilde
Virginia Woolf
Anton Chekhov
Fyodor Doestoevsky
Leo Tolstoy
Boris Pasternak
Ivan Turgenev
Albert Camus
Alexandre Dumas
Persuasion; Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Emma
Waiting for Godot (drama)
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
The Canterbury Tales
Lord Jim; Victory; Heart of Darkness
Moll Flanders; Robinson Crusoe
A Tale of Two Cities; Oliver Twist; Great Expectations; David Copperfield; Bleak House;
Our Mutual Friend
The Mill on the Floss; Middlemarch; Silas Marner; Adam Bede
Murder in the Cathedral; The Wasteland
Tom Jones
The Good Soldier
Howard’s End
; Passage to India; Where Angels Fear to Tread
Copenhagen
Lord of the Flies
The Heart of the Matter; Brighton Rock; The Power and the Glory
Tess of the d’Urbervilles; Far From the Madding Crowd; Jude the Obscure;
The Mayor of Casterbridge; Return of the Native
Brave New World (sci fi)
Never Let Me Go; The Remains of the Day
The Portrait of A Lady; Washington Square; Turn of the Screw; Daisy Miller; The American
Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man; The Dead; Dubliners
Sons and Lovers
Dr. Faustus
Atonement
Paradise Lost
1984; Animal Farm
The Homecoming; The Birthday Party
The Rape of the Lock
Pamela; Clarissa
The Moor’s Last Sigh
Equus (drama)
King Lear
Richard III
Othello
Winter’s Tale
Macbeth The Merchant of Venice
Romeo and Juliet
The Tempest Hamlet Julius Caesar
As You Like It Twelfth Night Antony and Cleopatra
Man and Superman; Mrs. Warren’s Profession; Pygmalion; Candida; Major Barbara; Saint Joan
Frankenstein
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (novella)
Tristram Shandy
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (drama)
Gulliver's Travels
Vanity Fair
The Warden
Brideshead Revisited; The Loved One
The Importance of Being Earnest (drama);
Lady Windermere’s Fan
(drama)
Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse; A Room of One’s Own
The Cherry Orchard (drama)
Crime and Punishment; The Brothers Karamazov; Notes from the Underground
Anna Karenina; War and Peace; The Death of Ivan Illych
Doctor Zhivago
Fathers and Sons
The Stranger; The Fall
The Count of Monte Cristo
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Gustave Flaubert
Eugene Ionesco
Molière
Racine
Jean Paul Sartre
Voltaire
Emile Zola
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Laurence
Hugh MacLennon
W.O. Mitchell
Mordecai Richler
Madame Bovary
Rhinoceros (drama)
Tartuffe; The Misanthrope (drama)
Phaedre
No Exit
Candide
Germinal
The Handmaid’s Tale; Cat’s Eye; The Blind Assassin; Surfacing; Oryx and Crake
Stone Angel; The Diviners
The Watch That Ends the Night
Who Has Seen the Wind
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Cervantes
Dante
Bertolt Brecht
Franz Kafka von Goethe
Erich Maria Remarque
Harmann Hesse
Chinua Achebe
Athol Fugard
Alan Paton
Buchi Emecheta
Things Fall Apart
Master Harold and the Boys
Cry, the Beloved Country
The Joys of Motherhood
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Purple Hibiscus
Aeschylus
Aristophanes
Euripides
Homer
Sophocles
Virgil
Kiran Desai
Arundhati Roy
Don Quixote
The Divine Comedy
Mother Courage (drama)
The Trial; Metamorphosis
Faust (drama); The Sorrows of Young Werther (epistolary autobiography)
All Quiet on the Western Front
Siddhartha
Oresteia; The Eumenides
Lysistrata
Medea
The Odyssey; The Iliad
Antigone; Oedipus Rex
The Aeneid
The Inheritance of Loss
The God of Small Things
Ibsen
Isak Dinesen
Laura Esquivel
Joy Kogawa
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
V.S. Naipaul
Orhan Pamuk
Jean Rhys
Haruki Murakami
Edward Albee
Sherman Alexie
Rudolfo Anaya
Sherwood Anderson
Hedda Gabler; The Wild Duck; A Doll’s House; Enemy of the People; Ghosts
(drama)
Out of Africa
Like Water for Chocolate
Obasan
One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera
A House for Mr. Biswas
Snow
Wide Sargasso Sea
Kafka on the Shore
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Zoo Story
(drama)
Reservation Blues (Native American)
Bless Me, Ultima
Winesburg, Ohio
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Sarah Orne Jewett
Ha Jin
Stephanie Kallos
Barbara Kingsolver
John Knowles
Tony Kushner
Jhumpa Lahiri
Nella Larsen
Harper Lee
Sinclair Lewis
Lois Lowry
Archibald MacLeish
Norman Mailer
Bernard Malamud
Paule Marshall
Bobbie Ann Mason
Cormac McCarthy
Carson McCullers
Claude McKay
Herman Melville
Arthur Miller
N. Scott Momaday
Toni Morrison
Bharati Mukherjee
Vladimir Nabokov
Gloria Naylor
Frank Norris
Joyce Carol Oates
Tim O’Brien
Flannery O’Conner
John Okada
Eugene O’Neill
Julie Otsuka
Walker Percy
Ann Lane Petry
James Baldwin
Saul Bellow
Carlos Bulosan
Willa Cather
Kate Chopin
Sandra Cisneros
Stephen Crane
Edwidge Danticat
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Michael Dorris
John Dos Passos
Theodore Dreiser
Kim Edwards
Ralph Ellison
Louise Erdrich
Nicholas Evans
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Charles Fuller
Ernest J. Gaines
David Guterson
Lorraine Hansberry
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Joseph Heller
Lillian Hellman
Ernest Hemingway
Khaled Hosseini
Zora Neale Hurston
David Henry Hwang
John Irving
Henry James
Go Tell It on the Mountain; Another Country
The Adventures of Augie March
America Is in the Heart
My Antonia; Death Comes for the Archbishop
The Awakening essays and short stories
The Red Badge of Courage; Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Sister of My Heart
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (Native American)
U.S.A.
An American Tragedy; Sister Carrie
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
The Invisible Man
Love Medicine
The Horse Whisperer (romance)
The Sound and the Fury; Absalom, Absalom; Light in August; As I Lay Dying; The Bear
The Great Gatsby; The Beautiful and Damned; This Side of Paradise; Tender Is the Night
A Soldier’s Play
(drama)
A Gathering of Old Men
Snow Falling on Cedars; The Other
A Raisin in the Sun (drama)
House of the Seven Gables; The Scarlet Letter
Catch-22
Little Foxes (drama)
The Sun Also Rises; A Farewell to Arms; For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Kite Runner; A Thousand Splendid Suns; And the Mountains Echoed
Their Eyes Were Watching God
M. Butterfly
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Washington Square; Portrait of a Lady; Turn of the Screw; Daisy Miller; The American;
The Golden Bowl
The Country of the Pointed Firs
A Free Life: A Novel
Broken for You
The Poisonwood Bible; The Bean Trees
A Separate Peace
Angels in America
The Namesake
Passing (Harlem Renaissance)
To Kill A Mockingbird
Main Street; Babbitt; Arrowsmith
The Giver
J.B.
Armies of the Night
The Fixer
Praisesong for the Widow; Brown Girl, Brownstones
All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing; The Road; No Country for Old Men
The Member of the Wedding; The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Home to Harlem
Moby Dick; Billy Budd; Benito Cereno; Redburn
All My Sons; The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; A View from the Bridge (drama)
House Made of Dawn
Beloved; Song of Solomon; Sula; The Bluest Eye
Jasmine
Pnin essays; The Women of Brewster Place
The Octopus
We Were the Mulvaneys
Going After Cacciato (Vietnam War story); The Things They Carried
Wise Blood
No-No Boy
A Long Day’s Journey Into Night; Hairy Ape; Mourning Becomes Electra; Desire Under the Elms
When the Emperor Was Divine
The Moviegoer; Love in the Ruins; The Second Coming
The Street
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Annie Proulx
Ole E. Rolvaag
Philip Roth
J.D. Salinger
Sapphire
Leslie Marmon Silko
Upton Sinclair
Jane Smiley
Betty Smith
Wallace Stegner
John Steinbeck
Harriet Beecher Stowe
William Styron
Amy Tan
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
Anne Tyler
John Updike
Luis Valdez
Kurt Vonnegut
Alice Walker
Robert Penn Warren
James Welch
Eudora Welty
Nathaniel West
Edith Wharton
Thornton Wilder
Tennessee Williams
August Wilson
Thomas Wolfe
Richard Wright
David Wroblewski
The Shipping News
Giants in the Earth
American Pastoral
The Catcher in the Rye
Push
Ceremony (Native American)
The Jungle
A Thousand Acres
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Angle of Repose
The Grapes of Wrath; East of Eden; Of Mice and Men; Cannery Row
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Sophie’s Choice; Set This House on Fire
The Joy Luck Club; The Bonesetter’s Daughter; The Kitchen God’s Wife;
Saving Fish from Drowning; The Hundred Secret Senses
On Civil Disobedience; Walden
Huckleberry Finn; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant; Breathing Lessons; A Patchwork Planet
The Centaur
Zoot Suit (drama)
Slaughterhouse Five; Cat’s Cradle
The Color Purple
All the King’s Men
Winter in the Blood
Delta Wedding; The Optimist’s Daughter
Miss Lonelyhearts
Ethan Frome; The Age of Innocence; House of Mirth
Our Town (drama)
The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire (drama)
The Piano Lesson (African-American drama);
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
You Can’t Go Home Again; Look Homeward, Angel
Native Son; Black Boy
The Story of Edgar Sawtell
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Authors/ http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/
Writers for Young Adults (Volumes 1 – 3)
(in the public library)
The Undergraduate’s Companion to American Writers and Their Websites
by James K. Bracken and Larry G. Hinman
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