AP Lit Outside Reading

Big, Fat, & Important
Herman Melville	Moby-Dick
Fyodor Dostoevsky	Crime and Punishment
Leo Tolstoy	War and Peace
Gustave Flaubert	Madame Bovary
John Steinbeck	The Grapes of Wrath
High Modernism
James Joyce	Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Franz Kafka	The Trial
Virginia Woolf	To the Lighthouse
William Faulkner	The Sound and the Fury
Thomas Mann	The Magic Mountain
African-American
Toni Morrison	Beloved
Alice Walker	The Color Purple
Ralph Ellison	Invisible Man
Richard Wright	Native Son
James Baldwin	Go Tell It on the Mountain
The British novel, part 1
Daniel Defoe	Moll Flanders
Henry Fielding	Tom Jones
Janes Austen	Emma
Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte	Wuthering Heights
The British novel, part 2
Charles Dickens	David Copperfield
Thomas Hardy	Tess of the D'Urbevilles
Joseph Conrad	Heart of Darkness
E.M. Forster	A Passage to India
D.H. Lawrence	Sons and Lovers
Women
Sylvia Plath	The Bell Jar
Kate Chopin	The Awakening
Virginia Woolf	Mrs. Dalloway
Margaret Atwood	The Handmaid's Tale
Henrik Ibsen	A Doll's House
Greek Classics
Homer	The Odyssey
Sophocles	Oedipus
Sophocles	Antigone
Aristophanes	The Frogs
Euripedes	The Trojan Women
Contemporary World Literature
Gabriel Garcia	One Hundred Years of Solitude
Milan Kundera	Unbearable Lightness of Being
Salman Rushdie	The Moor's Last Sigh
Umberto Eco	The Name of the Rose
Chinua Achebe	Things Fall Apart
Modern Plays
Henrik Ibsen	Enemy of the People
Arthur Miller	Death of a Salesman
Anton Chekhov	The Cherry Orchard
G. B. Shaw	Mrs. Warren's Profession
Bertolt Brecht	Mother Courage
The Absurd
Fyodor Dostoevsky	Notes from the Underground
Albert Camus	The Stranger
Samuel Becket	Waiting for Godot
Joseph Heller	Catch-22
Edward Albee	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Recent & Noteworthy
Louise Erdrich	Love Medicine
Barbara Kingsolver	The Poisonwood Bible
Oscar Hijuelos	The Mambo King Plays...
Jane Smiley	A Thousand Acres
Kaguo Ishiguro	Remains of the Day
Shakespeare
	King Lear
	Measure for Measure
	The Tempest
	Othello
	Julius Caesar
Prizewinners or Nominees
Richard Ford	Independence Day
Ian McEwan	Enduring Love
Annie Proulx	The Shipping News
Roddy Doyle	A Star Called Henry
David Foster Wallace	Infinite Jest
More Prizewinners & Nominees
Ron Hansen	Atticus
Ursula Hegi	Stones from the River
Pat Barker	The Ghost Road
Arundhati Roy	The God of Small Things
Charles Frazier	Cold Mountain
AP Test Favorites
Zora Neale Hurston	Their Eyes Were Watching God
Ernest Hemingway	The Sun Also Rises
Alan Paton	Cry the Beloved Country
Flannery O'Connor	Wise Blood
Edith Wharton	The Age of Innocence
More AP Test Favorites
Leslie Marmon Silko	Ceremony
Joy Kogawa	Obasan
George Orwell	1984
Moliere	The Misanthrope
Kurt Vonnegut	Slaughterhouse Five
Maine Writers
Sarah Orne Jewett	Country of the Pointed Firs
Ruth Moore	Speak to the Winds
Carolyn Chute	The Beans of Egypt Maine
Cathie Pelletier	The Funeral Makers
Susan Kenney	In Another Country