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“Books of Literary Merit”
The works of literature (mostly novels and plays) most commonly referenced on the AP English Literature Exam
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Antigone by Sophocles
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Candide by Voltaire
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Light in August by William Faulkner
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Medea by Euripides
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw
Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot
Native Son by Richard Wright
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
Othello by William Shakespeare
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Sula by Toni Morrison
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Great authors in general:
J. Steinbeck
T. Morrison
J. Irving
A. Rand
K. Vonnegut
S. Lewis
G. Garcia Marquez
G. Orwell
M. Atwood
H. Lee
W. Shakespeare
E. Hemingway
J. Austen
C. Dickens
J.D. Salinger
R. Bradbury
M. Twain
Generally, if something is considered a 'classic' or if it has been assigned class reading for a high school English class, it would qualify as a "book of literary merit" for the AP Exam.
Happy reading!
The works of literature (mostly novels and plays) most commonly referenced on the AP English Literature Exam
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Antigone by Sophocles
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Candide by Voltaire
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Light in August by William Faulkner
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Medea by Euripides
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw
Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot
Native Son by Richard Wright
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
Othello by William Shakespeare
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Sula by Toni Morrison
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Great authors in general:
J. Steinbeck
T. Morrison
J. Irving
A. Rand
K. Vonnegut
S. Lewis
G. Garcia Marquez
G. Orwell
M. Atwood
H. Lee
W. Shakespeare
E. Hemingway
J. Austen
C. Dickens
J.D. Salinger
R. Bradbury
M. Twain
Generally, if something is considered a 'classic' or if it has been assigned class reading for a high school English class, it would qualify as a "book of literary merit" for the AP Exam.
Happy reading!