AP ENGLISH RESEARCH PAPER BOOK LIST
Fiction:
Allende, Isabel
Austen, Jane
Bronte, Charlotte
Bronte, Emily
Camus, Albert
Cervantes, Miguel de
Conrad, Joseph
Defoe, Daniel
Dickens, Charles
Dostoevsky, Feodor
Flaubert, Gustave
Eliot, George
Forster, E.M.
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
Golding, William
Hardy, Thomas
Huxley, Aldous
Kafka, Franz
Lawrence, D.H.
Lessing, Doris
Orwell, George
Rhys, Jean
Shelley, Mary
Swift, Jonathan
Tolstoy, Leo
Voltaire
Waugh, Evelyn
Wilde, Oscar
Woolf, Virginia
THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, PERSUASION,
NORTHANGER ABBEY, EMMA, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
JANE EYRE
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
THE STRANGER
DON QUIXOTE
HEART OF DARKNESS, LORD JIM,
THE SECRET SHARER
MOLL FLANDERS
DAVID COPPERFIELD, GREAT EXPECTATIONS,
HARD TIMES
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT,
THE BROTHERS KARAMOZOV
MADAME BOVARY
MIDDLEMARCH, THE MILL ON THE FLOSS
A ROOM WITH A VIEW, HOWARD’S END
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE
LEAF STORM
THE LORD OF THE FLIES
THE INHERITORS
JUDE THE OBSCURE, TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES,
THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE, FAR FROM THE
MADDING CROWD
BRAVE NEW WORLD
THE TRIAL, THE CASTLE
SONS AND LOVERS, LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER
THE GRASS IS SINGING
THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK
1984
WIDE SARGASSO SEA
FRANKENSTEIN
GULLIVER’S TRAVELS
ANNA KARENINA
CANDIDE
BRIDESHEAD REVISTED
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
MRS. DALLOWAY, THE WAVES
Note: Often an interesting idea for a research paper comes from choosing a connection between
two plays, such as the idea of kingship in King Lear and Measure for Measure or the concept of
individual responsibility in two of Ibsen’s plays.
Drama:
Anouilh, Jean
Aristophanes
Chechov, Anton
ANTIGONE, BECKETT
LYSISTRATA
THE CHERRY ORCHARD, THE SEAGULL
Euripedes
Ibsen, Henrik
Sartre, Jean Paul
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, George Bernard
Wilde, Oscar
MEDEA
A DOLL’S HOUSE, GHOSTS, HEDDA GABLER
NO EXIT, DIRTY HANDS
MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, MEASURE FOR
MEASURE, MACBETH, MERCHANT OF VENICE,
TAMING OF THE SHREW, OTHELLO, RICHARD III, THE
TEMPEST, etc.
PYGMALION, ARMS AND THE MAN
LADY WINDEMERE’S FAN, THE IMPORTANCE OF
BEING EARNEST
This is a list of suggestions. If you would like to read another piece of world literature or
research a collection of poetry, just check your selection with me.
The following texts are our course material for A.P. English and so are not available for the
research paper:
Transl . Seamus Heaney
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Forster, E.M.
Gardner, John
Heaney, Seamus
Shakespeare, William
Stoppard, Tom
BEOWULF
THE CANTERBURY TALES
A PASSAGE TO INDIA
GRENDEL
Selected poems
HAMLET
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
SUMMER READINIG REQUIREMENT: In addition, incoming AP English 12
students are to read Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. This
acclaimed non-fiction work has been on national best sellers lists since it was published.
It is the heroic account of one man’s efforts to change life for impoverished youngsters in
remote parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan through building schools. One of the authors,
David Relin, was the keynote speaker at this year’s Food For Thought luncheon.