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AP Literature and Composition Novels Reading List
(Most other works by these same authors would also be appropriate)
1. Angelou, Maya \ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
2. Austen, Jane \ Emma
3. Austen, Jane\ Pride and Prejudice
4. Baldwin, James\ Go Tell It on the Mountain
5. Bronte, Charlotte\ Jane Eyre
6. Bronte, Emily\ Wuthering Heights
7. Camus, Albert\ The Stranger
8. Cather, Willa \Death Comes for the Archbishop
9. Cather, Willa\ My Antonia
10. Cather, Willa\ The Song of the Lark
11. Chopin, Kate\ The A wakening
12. Conrad, Joseph \Heart of Darkness
13. Conrad, Joseph\ Lord Jim
14. Cooper, James Fenimore \The Last of the Mohicans
15. Crane, Stephen\ The Red Badge of Courage
16. de Cervantes, Miguel\ Don Quixote
17. Defoe, Daniel \Moll Flanders
18. Defoe, Daniel\ Robinson Crusoe
19. Dickens, Charles \Bleak House
20. Dickens, Charles \David Copperfield
21. Dickens, Charles\ A Tale of Two Cities
22. Dickens, Charles\ Oliver Twist
23. Dickens, Charles \Nicholas Nickleby
24. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor \Crime and Punishment
25. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor \The Brothers Karamazov
26. Dreiser, Theodore\ An American Tragedy
27. Dreiser, Theodore\ Sister Carrie
28. Dumas, Alexandre \The Three Musketeers
29. Eliot, George \Middlemarch
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30. Eliot, George \The Mill on the Floss
31. Ellison, Ralph \Invisible Man
32. Faulkner, William \Light in August
33. Faulkner, William \As I Lay Dying
34. Faulkner, William \The Sound and the Fury
35. Fielding, Henry \Tom Jones
36. Fitzgerald, F. Scott \The Great Gatsby
37. Flaubert, Gustave \Madame Bovary
38. Ford, Ford Madox \The Good Soldier
39. Forster, E. M. \ A Passage to India
40. Forster, E. M. \Where Angels Fear to Tread
41. Golding, William\ Lord of the Flies
42. Hardy, Thomas\ Tess of the d'Urbervilies
43. Hawthorne, Nathaniel \The Scarlet Letter
44. Heller, Joseph \Catch 22
45. Hemingway, Ernest\ A Farewell to Arms
46. Hemingway, Ernest \For Whom the Bell Tolls
47. Hemingway, Ernest\ The Sun Also Rises
48. Hesse, Herman\ Steppenwolf
49. Hugo, Victor \The Hunchback of Notre Dame
50. Hurston, Zora Neale\ Their Eyes Were Watching God
51. Huxley, Aldous \Brave New World
52. James, Henry\ The American
53. James, Henry\ The Portrait of a Lady
54. James, Henry \The Turn of the Screw
55. Joyce, James\ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
56. Kafka, Franz \The Metamorphosis
57. Kingston, Maxine Hong \The Woman Warrior
58. Kozinski, Jerzy\ Being There
59. Kozinski, Jerzy \The Painted Bird
60. Lee, Harper\ To Kill a Mockingbird
61. Lewis, Sinclair \Babbitt
62. Lewis, Sinclair \Main Street
63. London, Jack \The Call of the Wild
64. London, Jack \White Fang
65. Mann, Thomas \The Magic Mountain
66. Marquez, Gabriel Garcia \One Hundred Years of Solitude
67. Melville, Herman\ Moby Dick
68. Melville, Herman \Bartleby the Scrivener
69. Melville, Herman \Billy Budd
70. Momaday, Scott \House Made of Dawn
71. Morris, Wright\ Ceremony in Lone Tree
72. Morris, Wright\ The Field of Vision
73. Morrison, Toni \Beloved
74. Norris, Frank \McTeague
75. Norris, Frank \The Octopus
76. O'Neill, Eugene\ Long Day's Journey into Night
77. Orwell, George\ Animal Farm
78. Orwell, George\ 1984
79. Pasternak, Boris\ Doctor Zhivago
80. Plath, Sylvia \The Bell Jar
81.Proust, Marcel \Swann's Way
82. Pynchon, Thomas\ The Crying of Lot 49
83. Rand, Ayn\ Atlas Shrugged
84. Rand, Ayn \The Fountainhead
85. Remarque, Erich Maria\ All Quiet on the Western Front
86. Richter, Conrad\ The Light in the Forest
87. Roth, Henry\ Call It Sleep
88. Salinger, J. D. \The Catcher in the Rye
89. Sandoz, Mari\ Old Jules
90. Shelley, Mary\ Frankenstein
91. Silko, Leslie Marmon \Ceremony
92. Solzhenitsyn, Alexander \One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
93. Steinbeck, John\ Cannery Row
94. Steinbeck, John\ East of Eden
95. Steinbeck, John\ The Grapes of Wrath
96. Steinbeck, John \The Winter of Our Discontent
97. Stevenson, Robert Louis \The Black Arrow
98. Stevenson, Robert Louis \Kidnapped
99. Stevenson, Robert Louis \Treasure Island
100. Swift, Jonathan\ Gulliver's Travels
10l. Thackeray, William \Vanity Fair
102. Tolstoy, Leo\ Anna Karenina
103. Tolstoy, Leo \War and Peace
104. Twain, Mark \Tom Sawyer.
105. Twain, Mark\ The Prince and the Pauper
106. Updike, John\ Pigeon Feathers
107. Updike, John\ The Poorhouse Fair
108. Verne, Jules \Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
109. Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. \Cat's Cradle
110. Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.\ Slaughterhouse-Five
111. Walker, Alice\ The Color Purple
112. White, T. H. \The Once and Future King
113. Wilder, Thornton \The Bridge of San Luis Rey .
114. Woolf, Virginia\ Mrs. Dalloway
l15. Woolf, Virginia \To the Lighthouse
l16. Wright, Richard Native Son