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From the 2005 AP Lit test, question 3
 
Adventures of Huck Finn The Age of Innocence The American
As You Like It The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Billy Budd
Bless Me, Ultima Brave New World Catch-22
The Color Purple The Crucible Death of a Salesman
A Doll's House Ethan Frome A Gesture of Life
Go Tell It On The Mountain Invisible Man King Lear
Madame Bovary Middlemarch Mrs. Dalloway
1984 Obasan One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Persuasion A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Portrait of a Lady
Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead The Scarlet Letter Surfacing
The Sun Also Rises Their Eyes Were Watching God Typical American
 

From the 2004 AP Lit test, question 3

Alias Grace All the King's Men Candide
Crime and Punishment Death of a Salesman Doctor Faustus
Don Quixote A Gesture Life Ghosts
Great Expectations The Great Gatsby Gulliver's Travels
Heart of Darkness Invisible Man Joe Turner's Come and Gone
King Lear Major Barbara Middlemarch
Moby Dick Obasan Oedipus Rex
Orlando A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead
The Scarlet Letter Sister Carrie The Sound and the Fury
Sula The Sun Also Rises Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Things They Carried  The Turn of the Screw Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

 

My reading list (this may vary from year to year)
 
Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder (Summer reading) Oedipus Rex, Sophocles The Canterbury Tales, (Selected Tales including the Knight's Tale) Chaucer
The Inferno, Dante The Metamorphosis, Kafka (Independent reading) Tess of The D’Urbervilles, Hardy
A Doll House, Ibsen The Death of Ivan Ilych, Tolstoy Paul’s Case, Cather
Greenleaf, A Good Man is Hard to Find, & Good Country People O’Connor Araby, The Dead, Joyce The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde
Brave New World, Huxley (Independent reading) 1984, Orwell One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez

Native Son, Wright (Independent reading)

Much Ado About Nothing or Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare  
Books in our Accelerated English 11 course
 
Scarlet Letter (Summer reading) The Crucible Walden
Uncle Tom's Cabin The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn My Antonia
The Sound and The Fury Death of a Salesman The Awakening
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (optional) Various short stories and poetry   
 

BookList from Nancy Keane

List from Jean Gritter: Titles for open question (pdf file)
Know of other lists that should be here? E-mail me please.

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