College Bound Student’s Reading List
Not all of these books are suitable for you right now. Ask the librarian, your teacher and your parents for
suggestions that might best suit you. Don’t be overwhelmed by the number of books on this list. Not many
people have read them all. It is just a good place to look for some literature to expand your horizons and
prepare you for the culturally literate world of college.
* = in CHMS Library, Underlined = on AP exam, # = good choice for MS student,
1001 Arabian Nights
1984– Orwell *#
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea *#
Absalom, Absalom – Faulkner
Adam Bede – Eliot
Adeventures of Augie March - Bellow
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Twain *#
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Doyle*#
Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Twain *#
The Aeneid – Virgil
African Queen - Forester
Age of Innocence - Wharton
Age of Reason – Sartre
Agnes of God – Pielmeir
Alias Grace – Atwood
Alice Adams - Tarkington
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Carroll *#
All Creatures Great and Small – Herriot *#
All my Sons - Miller
All Quiet on the Western Front – Remarque *
All the King’s Men – Warren
All the Pretty Horses - McCarthy
The Ambassadors – James
The American – James
American Pastoral - Roth
An American Tragedy – Dreiser *
Andersonville – Kantor
Angela’s Ashes – McCourt
Angels in America – Kushner
Angle of Repose - Stegner
Animal Farm – Orwell *#
Anna Karenina – Tolstoy *
Anne of Green Gables – Montgomery *#
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl – Frank *
Another Country - Baldwin
Antigone - Sophocles
Antony and Cleopatra – Shakespeare
As you Like it – Shakespeare
As I lay Dying - Faulkner
The Apprenticeship pf Duddy Kravitz – Richler
Armies of the Night - Mailer
Around the World in 80 Days – Verne *#
Arrowsmith – Lewis
Arthurian Tales (such as Morte d’ Arthur, Crystal Cave, etc) – Various *#
Atonement – McEwan
Atlas Shrugged - Rand
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Franklin
The Autobiography of an ex-colored man – Johnson
The Autobiography of Malcom X – Malcom X
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman – Gaines *#
The Awakening – Chopin
Babbit – Lewis
Barrio Boy – Galaraza *#
Bastard Out of Carolina - Allison
The Bear - Faulkner
Bell Jar – Plath
A Bend in the River - Naipaul
Benito Cereno – Melville
Beloved - Morrison
Beowolf – various authors #*
The Bible #*
Big Sky – Guthrie
Big Wave – Buck #*
Billy Budd – Melville
The Birthday Party - Pinter
Black Boy – Wright *#
Black Beauty – Sewell *#
Black Like Me – Griffin *
Bleak House – Dickens #
Bless the Beasts & Children – Swarthout *#
Bless me Ultima – Anaya *#
The Blind Assassin - Atwood
The Bluest Eye – Morrison
The Bonesetter’s Daughter - Tan
Born on the Fourth of July - Kovic
Brave New World – Huxley *#
Breathe, Eyes, Memories - Danticat
Briar Rose *#
Bride Price - Emecheta
Brideshead Revisited - Waugh
The Bridge at San Luis Rey – Wilder
The Bridge Over the River Kwai – Boulle
Brighton Rock – Greene
Broken for You - Kallos
Brothers Karamozov – Dostoyevski
Brown Girl, Brownstones - Marshall
Buddenbrooks - Mann
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Brown *
Caine Mutiny – Wouk
Call of the Wild – London *#
Candide – Voltaire
Candida - Shaw
Canterbury Tales - Chaucer
Captains Courageous – Kipling *#
The Caretaker - Kafka
The Castle – Kafka
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Williams
Cat’s Eye - Atwood
Catch -22 – Heller
The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger *
The Centaur - Updike
Ceremony – Silko
Chance - Conrad
Cherry Orchard - Chekov
Children’s Crusade – Vonnegut
Childhood’s End – Clark #*
The Chocolate War – Cormier *#
The Chosen – Potok *#
A Christmas Carol – Dickens*#
Cider House Rules - Irving
Civil Disobedience – Thoreau
Cold Mountain – Frasier
Collapse - Diamond
The Color of Water – McBride *
Color Purple – Walker
Coming of Age in Mississippi - Moody
Coming through Slaughter - Ondaatje
Complete Stories of Edgar Allen Poe – Poe *#
Confidence Man - Melville
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court - Twain *#
Copenhagen - Frayn
Count of Monte Cristo – Dumas *#
A Country Doctor – Jewett*
Crime and Punishment – Dostoyevski *
The Crisis – Churchill
The Crossing - McCarthy
Crucible - Miller
Cry, the Beloved Country – Paton
Crystal Cave – Stewart *#
Cyrano de Bergerac – Rostrand
Daddy Long-Legs – Webster *
Daisy Miller – James
Dancing at Lughnasa - Friel
Darkness at Noon – Koestler
David Copperfield – Dickens *#
The Dead - Joyce
Death Comes for the Archbishop – Cather
The Death of Artemio Cruz - Fuentes
A Death in the Family – Agee
Death of a Salesman – Miller
The Death of Ivan Illych - Tolstoy
Delta Wedding – Welty
Demian - Hesse
Democracy in American - Tocqueville
Desire Under the Elms – Williams
Devils Arithmetic – Yolen *#
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant – Tyler
Divine Comedy - Dante
Doctor Zhivago - Pasternak
The Dollmaker – Arnow
The Dollmaker – Bauermister
The Doll’s House - Ibsen
Don Quixote de la Mancha – Cervantes *
Double Helix - Watson
Dr. Faustus - Marlowe
Dracula – Stoker *#
Dreaming in Cuban - Garcia
Dune – Herbert*
Dutchman - Baraka
East of Eden - Steinbeck
Eight Men Out - Asinof
Emma – Austen *#
Emperor Jones – O’Neill
Ender’s Game – Card *#
The Enemy of the People - Ibsen
Ethan Frome – Wharton *#
Equus - Shaffer
The Eumenides - Aeschylus
Fables – Aesop *#
Fahrenheit 451 – Bradbury *#
The Fall – Camus
Far from the Maddening Crowd – Harding *#
A Farewell to Arms – Hemingway *
Farewell to Manzanar – Houston *#
The Father - Strindberg
Fathers and Sons – Turgenev
Faust - Goethe
Fences – Wilson
The Fifth Buisiness - Davies
The Fixer – Malamud
Flowers for Algernon – Keyes *#
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Hemingway *#
The Fountainhead – Rand
Frankenstein – Shelly *
A Free Life – Ha Jin
French Lieutenant’s Woman – Fowles
A Gathering of Old Men - Gaines
Germinal – Zola
Gesture Life - Lee
Giant – Ferber
Giants in the Earth – Rolvaag
Girl of the Limberlost – Stratton *#
Ghosts - Ibsen
Glass Menagerie – Williams *
Go tell it on the Mountain – Baldwin *
The God of Small Things - Roy
The Godfather - Puzzo
Going After Cacchiato – O’Brien
The Golden Bowl - James
Gone With the Wind – Mitchell
Good Earth – Buck *#
Good Soldier – Madux
Goodbye Mr. Chips – Hilton *#
Grapes of Wrath – Steinbeck *
Grass Dancer – Power
Great Expectations – Dickens *#
The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald *
Great Short Works of Conrad – Conrad
Green Mansions – Hudson
Grendel – Gardner *
Growing Up - Baker
Gulliver’s Travels – Swift *
The Hairy Ape – O’Neil
Hamlet – Shakespeare *
The Handmaid’s Tale - Atwood
Hard Times – Dickens *#
The Haunting of Hill House - Jackson
Having Our Say – Delaney *#
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – McCullers *#
The Heart of Darkness – Conrad
Hedda Gabler - Ibsen
Heidi – Spyri *#
Helen Keller: Story of My Life – Keller#*
Henderson the Rain King - Bellow
Henry V – Shakespeare *
High Wind in Jamaica - Hughes
Hiroshima – Hersey *#
The History of Tom Jones - Fielding
The Hobbit – Tolkien *#
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Doyle *#
Home to Harlem - McKay
Homecoming – Pinter
A House for Mr. Biswas - Naipul
House Made of Dawn - Momoday
The House of Mirth – Wharton
House of the Seven Gables – Hawthorne *#
House of the Spirits – Allende
The House on Mango Street – Cisneros *#
How Green was my Valley – Llewellyn*
Howards End - Forster
The Human Comedy - Saroyan
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Hugo *#
I Heard the Owl Call my Name – Craven *#
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Angelou *
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden – Greene
Ice Palace – Ferber
If Beale Street Could Talk - Baldwin
The Illiad – Homer *
The Importance of Being Earnest - Wilde
In the Lake of the Woods – O’Brien
In the Mecca Riot - Brooks
In this Sign – Greenberg
Incident at Hawks Hill – Eckert*#
Inferno - Dante
Invisible Man – Ellison
Invisible Men: Life in Baseball’s Negro Leagues - Rogosin
Ishmael – Quinn
Island of Dr. Moreau – Wells*
Ivanhoe – Scott
Jane Eyre – Bronte *#
Jasmine - Mukerjee
J.B. – MacLeish
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone - Wilson
John Adams – McCullogh *#
Joseph Andrews – Fielding
A Journal of the Plague Year - Defoe
Joy Luck Club – Tan *
Jude the Obscure – Hardy
Julius Caesar – Shakespeare *
The Jungle – Sinclair *#
Jungle Book – Kipling *
Kaffir Boy – Mathabane
Kafka on the Shore - Murakami
Kidnapped – Stevensen *#
King Lear – Shakespeare *
The King Must Die – Renault
Kite Runner - Hossenii
Kristen Lavransdatter – Undsal
Lady Windermere’s Fan - Wilde
Lakota Woman – Crow Dog
The Last Misson – Mazer *#
Last of the Mohicans – Cooper *
Leatherstocking Tales – Cooper
The Learning Tree – Parks
Leaves of Grass – Whitman
Les Fluer du Mal - Baudelaire
A Lesson Before Dying – Gaines *
Les Miserables – Hugo *
Light in August – Faulkner
A Light in the Forest – Richter*#
Lilies of the Field - Barrett
Little Foxes – Hellman
Little Lord Fontleroy – Burnett
The Little Prince – De St. Exupury*#
Little Women – Alcott *#
Like Water for Chocolate – Esquivel
Linden Hills - Naylor
The Living Planet – Attenborough #
Long Days Journey into Night – O’Neill
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of the World –
Sobel
Lonesome Dove – McMurtry
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner - Sillitoe
Look Homeward Angel – Wolfe
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 - Bellamy
Lord Jim – Conrad
Lord of the Flies – Golding *#
The Lord of the Rings – Tolkien
Lorna Doone - Blackmore
Lost Bird of Wounded Knee – Flood *
Lost Horizon – Hilton *
Love Medicine – Erdrich
The Loved One - Waugh
Lust for Life – Stone
Lysistrata - Aristophanes
M. Butterfly - Hwang
Macbeth – Shakespeare *#
Madame Bovary – Flaubert *
Madame Curie – Curie
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Major Barbara – Shaw
Marjorie Morningstar - Wouk
Magic Mountain – Mann
Main Street – Lewis*#
Maltease Falcon – Hammett
The Man in the Iron Mask – Dumas*
Marble Faun - Hawthorne
Mansfield Park – Austen
Master Harold…and the boys - Fugard
Mayor of Casterbridge – Lewis *#
Medea – Euripides
The Member of the Wedding – McCullers
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter - Edwards
Merchant of Venice – Shakespeare *#
Metamorphosis – Kafka
Middlemarch – Eliot
Middle Passage - Naipaul
Midsummer’s Night Dream - Shakespeare
Mill on the Floss – Eliot
Misanthrope - Moliere
Moby Dick – Melville *
Moll Flanders – Defoe
Moonstone - Collins
Monkey Bridge - Cao
Le Morte d’Arthur – Malory *
The Moor’s Last Sigh - Rushdie
Mother Courage - Brecht
Mourning Becomes Electra – O’Neill
Mrs. Dalloway - Woolf
Mrs. Warren’s Profession - Shaw
Much Ado About Nothing – Shakeaspeare*
Mutiny on the Bounty – Nordhoff *
Murder in the Cathedral - Eliot
My Antonia – Cather *#
My Friend Flicka – O’Hara *#
My Heart at Wounded Knee - Brown
Mythology – Bullfinch *#
Mythology – Hamilton #
Namesake - Lahiri
Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass - Douglass
Native Son – Wright
National Velvet – Bagnold *#
Native Speaker - Lee
The Natural – Malamud
Nectar in a Sieve – Markandaya
Never Let Me Go - Ishiguro
Next of Kin: What Chimpanzees have Taught me About Who We Are - Fouts
Night – Weisal *#
No Exit – Sartre
Noah’s Compass - Tyler
Northwest Passage – Roberts
Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky
O Pioneers - Cather
Obasan – Kogawa
Octopus - Norris
The Odyssey – Homer *
Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
Of Human Bondage – Maugham
Of Mice and Men – Steinbeck *
The Old Man and the Sea – Hemingway *
Old School - Wolff
Old Yeller – Gipson *
Oliver Twist – Dickens *#
On the Beach – Shute*
On Wings of Joy: The Story of Ballet - Garfunkel
The Once and Future King – White *
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Solzhenitzen
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Marquez
Only Yesterday - Allen
The Optimist’s Daughter – Welty
Orestia - Aeschylus
Orlando – Woolf
Oryx and Crake - Atwood
The Other - Tryon
Othello – Shakespeare
Our Town – Wilder
Our Mutual Friend – Dickens
Out of Africa - Dineson
The Overcoat - Gogol
The Oxbow Incident - Clark
Painted Bird – Kosinski
Pale Fire – Nabokov
Pale Horse, Pale Rider - Porter
Pamela - Richardson
Paradise Lost – Milton
Parable of the Sower - Butler
Passage to India – Forster
Passing – Nella Larson
Pastwatch Redemption – Card *
The Pawnbroker - Wallant
The Pearl – Steinbeck *
Peer Gynt - Ibsen
Le Pere Goriot – Balzac
Persuasion – Austen
Phantom of the Opera – Leroux *#
Phedre - Racine
The Piano Lesson – Wilson
Picture Bride - Uchida
Picture of Dorian Gray – Wilde
Pilgrim’s Progress – Bunyan
The Plague – Camus
The Poisonwood Bible - Kingsolver
Portrait of a Lady – James
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – Joyce
Power and Glory – Greene
A Prayer for Owen Meany – Irving
Pride and Prejudice – Austen *#
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Spark
The Prince – Machiavelli
The Prince and the Pauper – Twain *#
The Prisoner of Zenda – Hope *#
Profiles in Courage – Kennedy *#
The Promise – Potok
Purple Hibiscus - Adichie
Push - Sapphire
Pygmalion – Shaw
Quo Vadis – Sienkiewicz
Rabbit Run – Updike
Raisin in the Sun – Hansbury *#
Ragtime - Doctorow
The Rape of the Lock – Pope
Razor’s edge - Maugham
Redburn - Melville
Rebecca – Du Maurier
Rebecca of Sunnybrooke Farm – Wiggin *#
Red and the Black – Stendahl
Red Badge of Courage – Crane *
The Red Pony – Steinbeck *
Red Scarf Girl – Jiang *#
Remains of the Day - Ishigura
Return of the Native – Hardy *
Rhinoceros - Ionesco
Richard III - Shakespeare
Rise of Silas Lapham – Howells
A River Runs Through It – Maclean
The Road - McCarthy
Robinson Crusoe – DeFoe *
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry – Taylor *#
Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare *#
A Room of One’s Own – Woolf
Room with a View - Forester
Roots – Haley *
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – Stoppard
Saint Joan – Shaw
Saratoga Trunk - Ferber
Say it Loud: the Story of Rap Music – Jones *
Savage Inequalities: Children in American Schools - Kozol
The Scarlet Letter – Hawthorne *
Schindler’s List (Ark) - Keneally
The Sea Around Us – Carson
Secret Garden – Burnett *#
Seize the Day – Bellow
Selected Tales - Poe
Sense and Sensibility – Austen *#
Sent for you Yesterday - Wideman
A Separate Peace – Knowles *#
Set This House on Fire - Styron
Shane – Schaefer *#
She Stoops to Conquer - Goldsmith
Sherlock Holmes – Doyle *
The Shipping News – Proulx
Shogun – Clavell
Showboat - Ferber
Siddhartha - Hesse
Sister Carrie – Dreiser
Sister of my Heart - Divakaruni
Silas Marner – Eliot *
Silent Spring – Carson
A Single Pebble - Hersey
Six Wings: Men of Science in the Renaissance - Sarton
Slaughterhouse Five – Vonnegut
Snow - Pamuk
Snow Falling on Cedars – Gutterson
So Big - Ferber
Song of Roland –
Song of Solomon – Morrison
Sons and Lovers – Lawrence
Sophie’s Choice - Styron
Sophie’s World – Gaardner
Sorrows of Young Werther - Geothe
The Sound and the Fury – Faulkner
The Sound of Waves – Mishima
The Street - Petry
The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Stevenson *
The Stranger – Camus
A Streetcar Named Desire – Williams
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - Wroblewoski
The Story of my Life – Keller *
The Sword in the Stone – White
Sula - Morrison
The Sun Also Rises – Hemingway
Surfacing - Atwood
Swan’s Way - Proust
Swiss Family Robinson – Wyss *#
A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens *#
Tartuffe – Moliere
Tarzan – Borroughs *
Tell me a Riddle – Olsen
Ten Days that Shook the World – Reed
Tender is the Night - Fitzgerald
The Tempest – Shakespeare
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Hardy
Thanksgiving Visitor - Capote
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Hurston
There Are No Children Here - Kotlowitz
Things Fall Apart – Achebe *
The Things They Carried – O’Brien *
This Little Light of Mine – Mills
Thirteen Stories – Welty
A Thousand Acres – Smiley
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Hosseini
Three Musketeers – Dumas
Three Soldiers – Dos Possos
Through the Looking Glass – Carroll
The Time Machine – Wells *
The Tin Drum – Grass
Time and Again – Finney*
To Destroy You is no Loss - Criddle
To Kill a Mockingbird – Lee *#
To the Lighthouse – Woolf
Tortilla Flat - Steinbeck
Tracks - Erdrich
Treasure Island – Stevenson *#
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Smith *#
The Trial - Kafka
Trifles – Glaspell
Tristram Shandy - Sterne
Turn of the Screw – James
Twelfth Night – Shakespeare
Two Years Before the Mast – Dana *
Typical American - Jen
U.S.A. - Dos Passos
Ugly American – Lederer
Ulysses - Joyce
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Stowe *
Undaunted Courage – Ambrose *
Understood Betsy – Fisher
Vanity Fair – Thackeray
The Vicar of Wakefield - Goldsmith
Victory – Conrad
A View from the Bridge – Miller
Virus Ground Zero - Regis
Waiting for Godot – Beckett
Walden – Thoreau AR
Walkabout – Marshall *#
The Wall - Hersey
War and Peace – Tolstoy
The Warden - Trollope
Washington Square - James
Watership Down – Adams *#
The Watch that Ends the Night – MacLennan
Way of all Flesh – Butler
The Way we Live Now – Trollope
We - Zamyatin
We Real Cool and other poetry - Brooks
We Were the Mulvaneys - Oats
Whale Rider – Ihimaera *#
What’s Bred in the Bone – Davies
When the Emperor was Divine Where the Red Fern Grows – Rawls *#
Who Has Seen the Wind - Mitchell
Who’s Afriad of Virginia Woolf – Albee
Wide Saragasso Sea – Rhys
The Wild Duck - Ibsen
Wind, Sand and Stars – de Saint-Exupery
Winesburg, Ohio – Anderson
Winter in the Blood – Welch
Winter’s Tale - Shakespeare
Wise Blood – O’Conner
Woman Warrior - Kingston
Women in Love – Lawrence
The Women of Brewster Place - Naylor
Wuthering Heights – Bronte *
The Yearling – Rawlings *#
Yellow Raft in Blue Water – Dorris *
You Can’t Go Home Again – Wolfe
The Zoo Story - Albee
Zorba the Greek – Kazantzakis
Most Frequently Cited On AP Exam 1970-2013
26 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
20 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
18 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
16 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski
16 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
16 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
16 King Lear by William Shakespeare
15 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
15 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
14 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
12 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
12 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
12 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston
12 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
11 The Awakening by Kate Chopin
11 Billy Budd by Herman Melville
11 Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
11 Light in August by William Faulkner
10 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
10 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
10 The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
10 Native Son by Richard Wright
10 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
9 Antigone by Sophocles
9 Beloved by Toni Morrison
9 Othello by William Shakespeare
9 A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
9 A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
8 All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
8 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
8 Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
8 Candide by Voltaire
8 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
8 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
8 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
8 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
8 A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
8 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
8 Sula by Toni Morrison
8 Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
7 All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
7 The Crucible by Arthur Miller
7 Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
7 Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
7 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
7 The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
7 Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
7 Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
7 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
7 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
7 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
7 The Tempest by William Shakespeare
6 A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
6 An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
6 Equus by Peter Shaffer
6 Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
6 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
6 Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
6 Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
6 Medea by Euripides
6 The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
6 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
6 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
6 Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot
6 Obasan by Joy Kogawa
6 The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
6 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
6 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
6 The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
6 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
5 Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
5 Bleak House by Charles Dickens
5 The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chkhov
5 Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
5 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
5 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
5 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
5 Macbeth by William Shakespeare
5 Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw
5 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
5 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
5 Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
Shakespeare - All Plays Total = 86
Classical Greek & Roman Literature = 29
2 Anthony and Cleopatra
4 As You Like It
5 Hamlet
3 Henry IV, Parts I and II
1 Henry V
1 The Aeneid by Virgil
9 Antigone by Sophocles
1 The Eumenides by Aeschylus
1 The Iliad by Homer
1 Lysistrata by Aristophanes
4 Julius Caesar
14 King Lear
5 Macbeth
6 Merchant of Venice
2 A Midsummer Night's Dream
1 Much Ado About Nothing
9 Othello
1 Richard III
4 Romeo and Juliet
7 The Tempest
4 Twelfth Night
4 Winter's Tale
6 Medea by Euripides
3 The Odyssey by Homer
6 Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
1 The Orestia by Aeschylus
This list appears on the 2013 AP materials as authors to source from:
Drama
Aeschylus; Edward Albee; Amiri Baraka; Samuel Beckett; Anton Chekhov; Caryl
Churchill; William Congreve; Athol Fugard; Lorraine Hansberry; Lillian Hellman;
David Henry Hwang; Henrik Ibsen; Ben Jonson; David Mamet; Arthur Miller;
Molière; Marsha Norman; Sean O’Casey; Eugene O’Neill; Suzan-Lori Parks; Harold
Pinter; Luigi Pirandello; William Shakespeare; George Bernard Shaw; Sam Shepard;
Sophocles; Tom Stoppard; Luis Valdez; Oscar Wilde; Tennessee Williams; August
Wilson
Fiction (Novel and Short Story)
Chinua Achebe; Sherman Alexie; Isabel Allende; Rudolfo Anaya; Margaret Atwood;
Jane Austen; James Baldwin; Saul Bellow; Charlotte Brontë; Emily Brontë; Raymond
Carver; Willa Cather; John Cheever; Kate Chopin; Sandra Cisneros; Joseph Conrad;
Edwidge Danticat; Daniel Defoe; Anita Desai; Charles Dickens; Fyodor Dostoevsky;
George Eliot; Ralph Ellison; Louise Erdrich; William Faulkner; Henry Fielding;
F. Scott Fitzgerald; E. M. Forster; Thomas Hardy; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Ernest
Hemingway; Zora Neale Hurston; Kazuo Ishiguro; Henry James; Ha Jin; Edward P.
Jones; James Joyce; Maxine Hong Kingston; Joy Kogawa; Jhumpa Lahiri; Margaret
Laurence; D. H. Lawrence; Chang-rae Lee; Bernard Malamud; Gabriel García
Márquez; Cormac McCarthy; Ian McEwan; Herman Melville; Toni Morrison; Bharati
Mukherjee; Vladimir Nabokov; Flannery O’Connor; Orhan Pamuk; Katherine Anne
Porter; Marilynne Robinson; Jonathan Swift; Mark Twain; John Updike; Alice Walker;
Evelyn Waugh; Eudora Welty; Edith Wharton; John Edgar Wideman; Virginia Woolf;
Richard Wright