AP Literature & Composition Summer Assignment
Students entering the AP Literature & Composition class are required to
read Heart of Darkness and Their Eyes Were Watching God in preparation for
the first unit of study of the course. A reading journal for each book with dated
entries identifying a key quote* from each chapter with a brief written response
to that quote will be collected and graded during the first week of school.
Students should be ready to identify characters, setting, plot line and major
thematic elements. The reading journal may be generated electronically but will
need to be printed to hand in during the first week of school.
Students are also required to read two other books from the recommended list
below and be prepared to identify the use of literary elements such as plot,
character, setting, theme, point of view, symbol & irony, etc. These books will
create the source content for the practice “Free-response essay” found on the AP
exam. Please refer to the list below for suggested readings
* a key quote is one that identifies a major theme, illuminates a key character or
serves as a symbol or just seems to the reader to be important. The response will
clarify the importance of the quote.
WORKS LISTED ON AP ENGLISH LITERATURE EXAM-AMERICAN
Author Title (bold & italics indicates works read in Upper School
curriculum) Baldwin GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN Baraka, Amiri and Leroi Jones DUTCHMAN Cather MY ANTONIA Chopin THE AWAKENING Dreiser SISTER CARRIE Ellison INVISIBLE MAN Faulkner
AS I LAY DYING Fitzgerald
GREAT GATSBY Hansberry
RAISIN IN THE SUN
Hawthorne
THE SCARLET LETTER
Heller CATCH-22
Hemingway FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS Hosseini
KITE RUNNER
Hurston THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD Kesey ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST Knowles A SEPARATE PEACE
Melville
BILLY BUDD
Miller DEATH OF A SALESMAN Morrison
BELOVED O'Brien THE THINGS THEY CARRIED Potok MY NAME IS ASHER LEV Salinger
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE Steinbeck
GRAPES OF WRATH Steinbeck
OF MICE AND MEN Stowe UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
Tan THE JOY LUCK CLUB
Twain HUCKLEBERRY FINN
Updike THE CENTAUR Vonnegut
SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE Walker THE COLOR PURPLE
Warren ALL THE KING'S MEN Wharton ETHAN FROME Wilde THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY Wilder OUR TOWN
Williams
STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Williams
THE GLASS MENAGERIE Wilson FENCES
WORKS LISTED ON AP ENGLISH LITERATURE EXAM-BRITISH
Author Title
Austen PERSUASION Bronte, C. JANE EYRE
Bronte, E. WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Chaucer CANTERBURY TALES Conrad HEART OF DARKNESS
Dante THE DIVINE COMEDY Dickens GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Dickens TALE OF TWO CITIES
Eliot, G.
SILAS MARNER
Eliot, T.S. THE WASTELAND Forster PASSAGE TO INDIA
Friel (Irish) DANCING AT LUGHNASA Golding THE LORD OF THE FLIES Goldsmith THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD Hardy TESS OF THE D'UBERVILLES
Huxley BRAVE NEW WORLD Joyce (Irish) PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN Milton PARADISE LOST Orwell 1984 Shakespeare HAMLET Shakespeare KING LEAR
Shakespeare MACBETH Shakespeare MERCHANT OF VENICE Shakespeare OTHELLO Shakespeare ROMEO AND JULIET
Shaw PYGMALION
Shelley FRANKENSTEIN Stoppard
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD Swift GULLIVER'S TRAVELS Wilde THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST Woolf MRS. DALLOWAY
WORKS LISTED ON AP ENGLISH LITERATURE EXAM-WORLD
Author Nationality
Title
Achebe Nigerian
THINGS FALL APART
Camus French THE STRANGER Cervantes Spanish DON QUIXOTE Chekov Russian THE CHERRY ORCHARD Dostoevsky Russian THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV Dostoevsky Russian CRIME AND PUNISHMENT Euripides
Greek MEDEA Flaubert
French MADAME BOVARY Fugard South African MASTER HAROLD............AND THE BOYS Homer Greek THE ODYSSEY Ibsen Norwegian
A DOLL'S HOUSE Ishiguro Japanese THE REMAINS OF THE DAY Kafka German METAMORPHOSIS Kafka German THE TRIAL
Marquez Colombian
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE Moliere French THE MISANTHROPE Nabokov Russian/American
PALE FIRE
Paton South African CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY Sartre French NO EXIT Solzhenitsyn Russian ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DESINOVICH Sophocles Greek OEDIPUS REX Strindberg Swedish THE FATHER Tolstoy Russian ANNA KARENINA Turgenev Russian FATHERS AND SONS
Voltaire French CANDIDE