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Titles from Open Response Questions*
Adapted from an
original list by Norma J. Wilkerson.
Works referred to on the AP Literature exams since 1971 (specific years in parentheses).
A
Absalom, Absalom by William
Faulkner (76, 00, 10)
Adam Bede by George Eliot (06)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
(80, 82, 85, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 99, 05, 06, 07, 08)
The Aeneid by Virgil (06)
Agnes of God by John Pielmeier
(00)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (97, 02, 03, 08)
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (00, 04, 08)
All
the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (00, 02, 04, 07, 08, 09)
All My Sons by Arthur Miller (85, 90)
All
the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (95, 96, 06, 07, 08, 10)
America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan (95)
An
American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (81, 82, 95, 03)
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
(09)
The American by Henry James (05, 07, 10)
Angels in America by Tony Kushner
(09)
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (10)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (80,
91, 99, 03, 04, 06, 08, 09)
Another Country by James Baldwin (95, 10)
Antigone by Sophocles (79, 80, 90,
94, 99, 03, 05, 09)
Anthony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (80, 91)
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
by Mordecai Richler (94)
Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer (76)
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
(78, 89, 90, 94, 01, 04, 06, 07, 09)
As You Like It by William Shakespeare (92 05, 06, 10)
Atonement by
Ian McEwan (07)
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson (02, 05)
The Awakening by Kate
Chopin (87, 88, 91, 92, 95, 97, 99, 02, 04, 07, 09)
B
"The Bear" by
William Faulkner (94, 06)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (90, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 10)
A Bend in the River
by V. S. Naipaul (03)
Benito Cereno by Herman Melville (89)
Billy Budd by Herman Melville (79, 81, 82,
83, 85, 99, 02, 04, 05, 07, 08)
The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter (89, 97)
Black Boy by Richard Wright
(06, 08)
Bleak House by Charles Dickens (94, 00, 04, 09, 10)
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya (94, 96,
97, 99, 04, 05, 06, 08)
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (07)
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (95,
08, 09)
Bone: A Novel by Fae M. Ng (03)
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (06, 07)
Brave New
World by Aldous Huxley (89, 05, 09, 10)
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (79)
Broken
for You by Stephanie Kallos (09)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevski (90, 08)
C
Candida by George Bernard
Shaw (80)
Candide by Voltaire (80, 86, 87, 91, 95, 96, 04, 06, 10)
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
(06)
The Caretaker by Harold Pinter (85)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (82, 85, 87, 89, 94, 01, 03, 04, 05,
07, 08)
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (01, 08)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
(00)
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (94, 08, 09)
The Centaur by John Updike (81)
Ceremony by Leslie
Marmon Silko (94, 96, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 06, 07, 09)
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (71, 77, 06, 07, 09, 10)
The
Chosen by Chaim Potok (08)
"Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau (76)
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
(06, 08)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker (92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 05, 08, 09)
Coming Through Slaughter by
Michael Ondaatje (01)
Copenhagen by Michael Frayn (09)
The Country of
the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett (10)
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton (85, 87, 91, 95, 96, 07, 09)
Crime
and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski (76, 79, 80, 82, 88, 96, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 09, 10)
"The Crisis" by Thomas
Paine (76)
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy (09)
The Crucible by Arthur Miller (71,
83, 86, 89, 04, 05, 09)
D
Daisy Miller by Henry James
(97, 03)
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel (01)
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (78, 83, 06)
"The
Dead" by James Joyce (97)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy (86)
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
(86, 88, 94, 03, 04, 05, 07)
Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty (97)
Desire under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill
(81)
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler (97)
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (06)
The
Diviners by Margaret Laurence (95)
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (79, 86, 99, 04)
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (10)
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (71, 83, 87, 88, 95, 05, 09)
The
Dollmaker by Harriet Arnot (91)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (01, 04, 06, 08)
Dreaming in Cuban
by Cristina Garcia (03)
Dutchman by Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones (03, 06)
E
East of Eden
by
John Steinbeck (06)
Emma by Jane Austen (96, 08)
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen (76, 80, 87, 99,
01, 07)
Equus by Peter Shaffer (92, 99, 00, 01, 08, 09)
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (80, 85, 03, 05,
06, 07)
The Eumenides by Aeschylus (in The Orestia) (96)
F
The Fall by Albert Camus
(81)
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (99, 04, 09)
The Father by August Strindberg (01)
Fathers
and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (90)
Faust by Johann Goethe (02, 03)
The Federalist by Alexander Hamilton
(76)
Fences by August Wilson (02, 03, 05, 09, 10)
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (03)
Fifth Business
by Robertson Davis (00, 07)
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (07)
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
(03, 06)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (89, 00, 03, 06, 08)
A Free Life: A Novel by Ha Jin (10)
G
A Gathering
of Old Men by Ernest Gaines (00)
Germinal by Emile Zola (09)
A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee (04, 05)
Ghosts
by Henrik Ibsen (00, 04)
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (71, 90, 94, 97, 99, 02, 08, 09, 10)
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (10)
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien (01, 06, 10)
The
Golden Bowl by Henry James (09)
The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford (00)
The Grapes of Wrath by John
Steinbeck (95, 03, 06, 09, 10)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (79, 80, 88, 89, 92, 95, 96, 00, 01, 02, 03,
04, 05, 07, 08, 10)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (82, 83, 88, 91, 92, 97, 00, 02, 04, 05, 07, 10)
Go
Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (83, 88, 90, 05, 09)
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (87, 89,
01, 04, 06, 09)
H
The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill
(89, 0994, 97, 99, 00)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (03, 09)
Hard Times by Charles Dickens (87,
90, 09)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (71, 76, 91, 94, 96, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 06, 09, 10)
The Heart
of the Matter by Graham Greene (71)
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen (79, 92, 00, 02, 03, 05)
Henry IV, Parts
I and II by William Shakespeare (80, 90, 08)
Henry V by William Shakespeare (02)
A High Wind in Jamaica
by Richard Hughes (08)
The Homecoming by Harold Pinter (78, 90)
Home to Harlem by Claude McKay
(10)
A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S.Naipul (10)
House Made of Dawn by N Scott
Momaday (95, 06, 09)
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (04, 07, 10)
The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel
Hawthorne (89)
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (08, 10)
I
The Iliad by Homer (80)
The
Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (06)
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (10)
In the
Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien (00)
In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (05)
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison (76, 77, 78, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 01, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08, 09, 10)
J
Jane Eyre by Charlotte
Bronte (78, 79, 80, 88, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 00, 05, 07, 08, 10)
Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee (99, 10)
J.B.
by Archibald MacLeish (81, 94)
Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson (00, 04)
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan (97, 03)
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding (99)
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (71, 76, 80,
85, 87, 95, 04, 09, 10)
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (82, 97, 05, 07, 09)
The Jungle by Upton
Sinclair (77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 90, 96, 09)
K
Kafka on the
Shore by Haruki Murakami (08)
King Lear by William Shakespeare (77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 90, 96, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06,
08, 10)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseinii (07, 08, 09)
L
Lady Windermere's
Fan by Oscar Wilde (09)
A Lesson before Dying by Ernest Gaines (99)
Letters from an American Farmer
by de Crevecoeur (76)
Light in August by William Faulkner (71, 79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 95, 99, 03, 06)
The Little
Foxes by Lillian Hellman (85, 90, 10)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (08)
Long Day's Journey into Night
by Eugene O'Neill (90, 03, 07)
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe (10)
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
(77, 78, 82, 86, 00, 03, 07)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (85, 08)
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
(89)
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (95)
"Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot (85)
Lysistrata
by Aristophanes (87)
M
Macbeth by William
Shakespeare (83, 99, 03, 05, 09)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (80, 85, 04, 05, 06, 09, 10)
Main Street
by Sinclair Lewis (87, 09)
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw (79, 96, 04, 07, 09)
Man and Superman
by George Bernard Shaw (81)
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (03, 06)
Master Harold...and the Boys by Athol
Fugard (03, 08, 09)
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (94, 99, 00, 02, 07, 10)
M. Butterfly by
David Henry Wang (95)
Medea by Euripides (82, 92, 95, 01, 03)
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
(97, 08)
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (09)
The Merchant of Venice by William
Shakespeare (85, 91, 95, 02, 03)
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (78, 89)
Middlemarch by George Eliot (95,
04, 05, 07)
Middle Passage by V. S. Naipaul (06)
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (06)
The
Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (90, 92, 04)
The Misanthrope by Moliere (08)
Miss Lonelyhearts by
Nathanael West (89)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 89, 94, 96, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 09)
Moll
Flanders by Daniel Defoe (76, 77, 86, 87, 95, 09)
Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao (00, 03)
The Moor's Last Sigh
by Salman Rushdie (07)
Mother Courage and Her Children by Berthold Brecht (85, 87, 06)
Mrs. Dalloway by
Virginia Woolf (94, 97, 04, 05, 07)
Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw (87, 90, 95, 02, 09)
Much
Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (97)
Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot (76, 80, 85, 95, 07)
"My
Last Duchess" by Robert Browning (85)
My Antonia by Willa Cather (03, 08, 10)
My Name is Asher Lev by
Chaim Potok (03)
N
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
(09, 10)
Native Son by Richard Wright (79, 82, 85, 87, 95, 01, 04, 09)
Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee
(99, 03, 05, 07, 08)
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (09, 10)
1984 by George Orwell
(87, 94, 05, 09)
No Exit by John Paul Sartre (86)
No-No Boy by John Okada (95)
Notes from the Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevski (89)
O
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
(94, 95, 04, 05, 06, 07, 10)
The Octopus by Frank Norris (09)
The Odyssey by Homer (86,
06, 10)
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (77, 85, 88, 00, 03, 04)
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (01)
Old
School by Tobia Wolff (08)
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (09)
One Day in the Life of Ivan
Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (05, 10)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (89, 04)
One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (01)
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (06)
The Optimist's Daughter
by D. H. Lawrence (94)
The Orestia by Aeschylus (90)
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (04)
Othello
by William Shakespeare (79, 85, 88, 92, 95, 03. 04, 07)
The Other by Thomas Tryon (10)
Our
Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (90)
Our Town by Thornton Wilder (86, 97, 09)
Out of Africa by Isaak
Dinesen (06)
P
Pale Fire by Vladimir
Nabokov (01)
Pamela by Samuel Richardson (86)
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster (71, 77, 78, 88, 91,
92, 07, 09)
Paradise Lost by John Milton (85, 86, 10)
Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (06)
Père Goriot
by Honore de Balzac (02)
Persuasion by Jane Austen (90, 05, 07)
Phaedre by Jean Racine (92, 03)
The
Piano Lesson by August Wilson (96, 99, 07, 08, 10)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (02)
The
Plague by Albert Camus (02, 09)
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (97)
Pocho by Jose Antonio Villarreal (02,
08)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (10)
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
( 88, 92, 96, 03, 05, 07)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (76, 77, 80, 86, 88, 96, 99, 04,
05, 08, 09, 10)
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (95)
Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall
(96)
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (09)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (83, 88, 92, 97, 08)
The
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (90, 08)
Push by Sapphire (07)
Pygmalion by George Bernard
Shaw (03, 05, 08)
R
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
(03, 07)
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (87, 90, 94, 96, 99, 07, 09)
The Rape of the Lock by
Alexander Pope (81)
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (08)
Redburn by Herman Melville (87)
The
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (00, 03)
Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie (08, 09)
The Return
of the Native by Thomas Hardy (07)
Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco (09)
Richard
III by William Shakespeare (79)
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean (08)
The
Road by Cormac McCarthy (10)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (10)
A Room of One's Own by Virginia
Woolf (76)
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster (03)
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (90, 92, 97,
08)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (81, 94, 00, 04, 05, 06, 10)
S
Saint Joan by George Bernard
Shaw (95)
The Sandbox by Edward Albee (1971)
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (71, 77, 78, 83,
88, 91, 99, 02, 04, 05, 06)
Sent for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman (03)
A Separate Peace by John
Knowles (82, 07)
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (97)
Silas Marner by George Eliot (02)
Sister
Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (87, 02, 04, 09, 10)
Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (10)
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (91, 04)
Snow by Orhan Pamuk (09)
Snow
Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (00, 10)
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (81, 88, 96, 00, 04, 05, 06, 07,
10)
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence (77, 90)
Sophie's Choice by William
Styron (09)
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (77, 86, 97, 01, 07, 08)
The Stone Angel by Margaret
Laurence (96, 04)
The Stranger by Albert Camus (79, 82, 86, 04)
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee
Williams (91, 92, 01, 04, 07, 08, 09, 10)
The Street by Ann Petry (07)
Sula by Toni Morrison (92, 97,
02, 04, 07, 08, 10)
Surfacing by Margaret Atwood (05)
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (85, 91,
95, 96, 04, 05)
T
A Tale of Two
Cities by Charles Dickens (82, 91, 04, 08)
Tarftuffe by Moliere (87)
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
(71,78, 96, 03, 05, 07, 10)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (82, 91, 03, 06, 07)
Their Eyes Were
Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston (88, 90, 91, 96, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 10)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
(91, 97, 03, 09, 10)
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (04, 09)
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (06)
To
Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (08, 09)
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (77, 86, 88, 08)
Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding (90, 00, 06, 08)
Tracks by Louise Erdrich (05)
The Trial by Franz Kafka (88, 89, 00)
Trifles
by Susan Glaspell (00)
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (86)
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (92,
94, 00, 02, 04, 08)
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (85, 94, 96)
Typical American by Gish Jen (02,
03, 05)
U
Uncle Tom's
Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (87, 09)
U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos (09)
V
The Vicar of
Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (06)
Victory by Joseph Conrad (83)
Volpone by Ben Jonson (83)
W
Waiting for
Godot by Samuel Beckett (77, 85, 86, 89, 94, 01, 09)
The Warden by Anthony Trollope (96)
Washington Square
by Henry James (90)
The Wasteland by T. S. Eliot (81)
Watch on the Rhine by Lillian Hellman (87)
The
Way of the World by William Congreve (71)
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (06)
We Were the Mulvaneys
by Joyce Carol Oates (07)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (88, 94, 00, 04, 07)
Wide Sargasso
Sea by Jean Rhys (89, 92, 05, 07, 08)
The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen (78)
Winter in the Blood by James
Welch (95)
Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare (82, 89, 95, 06)
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor (82,
89, 95, 09, 10)
Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (91, 08)
The Women of Brewster
Place by Gloria Naylor (09, 10)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (71,77, 78, 79, 83, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92,
96, 97, 99, 01, 06, 07, 08, 10)
Z
The Zoo Story by Edward Albee
(82, 01)
Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez (95) |
