Options for Grade 12 AP Research
Paper
Prose
Aeschylus
Dante Alighieri
Maya Angelou
Aristophanes
Arthurian legends (possible option: analyzing
four selections of the following writers?)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Chretien de Troyes
Thomas Malory
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
T.H. White
Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Albert Camus
Willa Cather
Anton Chekhov
Kate Chopin
Joseph Conrad
Daniel Defoe
Charles Dickens
Isak Dinesen
Fyodor Dostoevski
Alexandre Dumas
George Eliot
Ralph Ellison
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Euripides
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gustave Flaubert
E.M. Forster
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Graham Greene
Thomas Hardy
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ernest Hemingway
Herodotus
Homer
Zora Neale Hurston
Henrik Ibsen
Henry James
James Joyce
Christopher Marlowe
Gabriel Maria Marquez
M. Somerset Maugham
Carson McCullers
Herman Melville
Arthur Miller
Moliere
Toni Morrison
Tim O’Brien
Eugene O’Neill
George Orwell
Dorothy Parker
Edgar Allen Poe
Marcel Proust
Jean Racine
Sappho
William Shakespeare
George Bernard Shaw
Mary Shelley
Sophocles
Edmund Spenser
John Steinbeck
Jonathan Swift
William Makepeace Thackeray
Henry David Thoreau
Thucydides
Leo Tolstoy
Anthony Trollope
Ivan Turgenev
Mark Twain
Voltaire
Evelyn Waugh
Edith Wharton
Oscar Wilde
Tennessee Williams
P.G. Wodehouse
Virginia Woolf
Emile Zola
Poetry
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Maya Angelou
Matthew Arnold
Dante Alighieri
W.H. Auden
Elizabeth Bishop
William Blake
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Jorge Luis Borges
Lord Byron
Andre Breton
e.e. cummings
Geoffrey Chaucer
Samuel Coleridge
Billy Collins
Countee Cullen
Emily Dickinson
John Donne
William Dunbar
T.S. Eliot
Robert Frost
Allen Ginsberg
Thomas Hardy
George Herbert
Langston Hughes
Seamus Heaney
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A.E. Housman
Langston Hughes
James Joyce
John Keats
Omar Khayyam
Philip Larkin
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Federico Garcia Lorca
C.S. Lewis
Audre Lorde
Andrew Marvell
Edgar Lee Masters
John Milton
William Morris
Pablo Neruda
Wilfred Owen
Edgar Allen Poe
Octavio Paz
Sylvia Plath
Alexander Pushkin
Rainer Maria Rilke
Carl Sandburg
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Wallace Stevens
Siegfried Sassoon
William Shakespeare
Edmund Spenser
Sir Philip Sydney
Rabindranath Tagore
Sara Teasdale
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Walt Whitman
William Carlos Williams
William Wordsworth
William Butler Yeats