A.P. English 12
Summer Reading
Below are a list of titles from which you can choose. All of them are taken from the lists of titles on
A.P. English Literature Free-Response questions over the past thirty years.
Over the next week, please do a little research and determine which SIX (6) of these plays or novels you
would find tolerable to read. (Ask smart people you know, check out Wikipedia, read SparkNotes . . .)
Email me (johnpolivka@foresthills.edu) with your list of 6 by Monday, June 9.
I do not want everyone reading the same thing for this assignment, so I will sort out all of the requests
and let you know which ONE you are to read.
DO NOT begin reading one of these until I tell you which one.
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
King Lear
Othello
The Merchant of Venice
A Winter’s Tale
The Tempest
Equus
An Enemy of the People
Fences
The Piano Lesson
All My Sons
Death of a Salesman
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
The Hairy Ape
The Color Purple
The Metamorphosis
The Cherry Orchard
Three Sisters
The Importance of Being Ernest
Miss Julie
Major Barbara
Arms and the Man
Man and Superman
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Notes from the Underground
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Waiting for Godot
Candide
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
A Streetcar Named Desire
J.B.
The Awakening
As I Lay Dying
The Sun Also Rises
All the Pretty Horses
Wide Sargasso Sea
Tom Stoppard
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Peter Shaffer
Henrik Ibsen
August Wilson
August Wilson
Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller
Eugene O’Neill
Eugene O’Neill
Alice Walker
Franz Kafka
Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
Oscar Wilde
August Strindberg
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Leo Tolstoy
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Edward Albee
Samuel Beckett
Voltaire
Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams
Archibald MacLeish
Kate Chopin
William Faulkner
Ernest Hemingway
Cormac McCarthy
Jean Rhys