Supplemental Reading List
These are the works that seem to appear most often on the AP List in addition to the books we are reading together. These books can be found in our classroom library.
Books that have asterisks * next to them are in the library but are not recommended as books to write about on the
AP test. (W)= World Authors, (A)= American Authors, (B)= British Authors. Titles in Bold are highly recommended, and if you read these, you will join the Classics
Platinum Club, which will earn you extra credit on Supplemental Essays.
Things Fall Apart- Achebe (W)
The Oresteia-Aeschylus (W)
Early African-American Classics- various
authors
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?- Albee
(A)
The House of the Spirits- Allende (W)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings- Angelou (A)
Lysistrata- Aristophanes (W)
The Handmaid’s Tale- Atwood (Canadian)
Sense and Sensibility- Austen (B)
Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility,Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion,
Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan- The Complete Novels of Jane Austen-Austen (B)
Go Tell It on the Mountain- Baldwin (A)
Pere Goriot- Balzac (W)
Waiting for Godot- Beckett (Irish)
Something Wicked This Way Comes- Bradbury * (A)
Jane Eyre- Bronte (B) If you read this for 11th
grade AP, you may not use this.
A Clockwork Orange- Burgess (B)
The Exile and the Kingdom- Camus
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass- Carroll* (B)
My Antonia- Cather (A)
Don Quixote- Cervantes (W)
Three Sisters- Chekhov (W)
The Cherry Orchard- Chekhov (W)
China’s Son- Chen* (W)
The Awakening- Chopin (A) If you read this for
11th grade AP, you may not use this.
The Sentinel- Clarke* (B)
Lord Jim- Conrad (B)
Heart of Darkness & The Secret Sharer-
Conrad (B)
The Last of the Mohicans- Cooper (A)
The Red Badge of Courage- Crane (A)
Timeline- Crichton* (A)
The Inferno- Dante (W)
Robinson Crusoe- Defoe (B)
Moll Flanders- Defoe (B)
Great Expectations- Dickens (B)
David Copperfield- Dickens (B)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek- Dillard (A)
Ragtime- Doctorow (A)
The Brothers Karamazov- Dostoevsky (W)
Crime and Punishment- Dostoevsky (W)
An American Tragedy- Dreiser (A)
The Count of Monte Cristo- Dumas (W)
Rebecca- DuMaurier* (B)
Crazy Salad- Ephron* (A)
Silas Marner- George Eliot (B)
Middlemarch- George Eliot (B)
Murder in the Cathedral- T. S. Eliot (A)
The Sound and the Fury- Faulkner (A)
As I Lay Dying- Faulkner (A)
White Oleander- Fitch* (A)
Madame Bovary- Flaubert (W)
The Pillars of the Earth- Follett* (B)
A Passage to India- Forster (B)
Cold Mountain- Frazier (A)
A Gathering of Old Men- Gaines (A)
Grendel- Gardner* (B)
Faust- Goethe (W)
Memoirs of a Geisha- Golden* (A)
Lord of the Flies- Golding (B)
I, Claudius- Graves* (B)
84 Charing Cross Road- Hanff* (A)
The Power and the Glory- Greene (B)
A Raisin in the Sun- Hansberry (A)
Far From the Madding Crowd- Hardy (B)
Jude the Obscure- Hardy (B)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles- Hardy (B)
The Return of the Native- Hardy (B)
The Harlem Renaissance- various authors* (A)
The House of the Seven Gables, Hawthorne
(A)
The Blithedale Romance- Hawthorne* (A)
Beowulf- Heaney* (Irish)
For Whom The Bell Tolls- Hemingway (A)
The Sun Also Rises- Hemingway (A)
Siddhartha- Hesse (W)
Catch 22- Heller (A)
Leviathan- Hobbes* (B)
The Iliad- Homer (W)
The Odyssey-Homer (W) If you read this in 9th
grade, you may not use this.
The Best of Simple- Hughes* (A)
Les Miserables- Hugo (W)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame- Hugo (W)
Their Eyes Were Watching God- Hurston (A)
Four Great Plays ( including: Doll’s House, Enemy of the People) Ibsen (W)
Remains of the Day- Ishiguro (W)
Washington Square- James (A)
The Turn of the Screw- James (A )
The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man- Johnson
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man-
Joyce (Irish)
Ulysses- Joyce (Irish)
The Trial- Kafka (W)
On the Road- Kerouac* (A)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest- Kesey
(A)
The Poisonwood Bible- Kingsolver (W)
The Woman Warrior- Kingston (A)
Obasan- Kogawa (Canadian)
Interpreter of Maladies- Lahiri (W)
The Namesake- Lahiri (W)
Women in Love- Lawrence (B)
Sons and Lovers- Lawrence (B)
Main Street- Lewis (A)
The Sea Wolf- London* ( A)
The Giver-Lowry* (A)
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister- Maguire* (A)
Wicked- Maguire* (A)
Mirror Mirror- Maguire* (A )
The Executioner’s Song- Mailer (A)
Doctor Faustus- Marlowe (B)
One Hundred Years of Solitude- Marquez (W)
Kaffir Boy- Mathabane* (W)
All the Pretty Horses- McCarthy (A)
Moby Dick- Melville (A)
Billy Budd- Melville (A)
The Source- Michener* (A)
After the Fall- Miller (A)
All My Sons- Miller (found in Great Plays
of the 1940’s) (A)
Utopia- Thomas More* (B)
Beloved- Morrison (A)
Song of Solomon- Morrison (A)
The Bluest Eye- Morrison (A)
Wintering- Moses* (A)
Jasmine- Mukherjee* (W)
Dreams of My Father-Obama* (A)
Long Day’s Journey Into Night- O’Neill
(A)
The Iceman Cometh- O’Neill (A)
Animal Farm- Orwell* (B)
Down and Out in London and Paris- Orwell (B)
Look Back in Anger- Osborne (B)
How To Make an American Quilt- Otto* (A)
Cry The Beloved Country- Paton (W)
Six Characters in Search of an Author- Pirandello
(W)
The Bell Jar- Plath (A)
The Republic- Plato* (W)
The Chosen- Potok (A)
The Fountainhead- Rand* (A)
All Quiet on the Western Front- Remarque
(W)
The King Must Die- Renault* (B)
The Mask of Apollo- Renault* (B)
The Last of the Wine- Renault* (B)
The Catcher in the Rye- Salinger (A) If you read
this in 11th grade, you may not use this.
Ivanhoe- Scott (B)
Equus- Shaffer (B)
Richard III- Shakespeare (B)
Much Ado About Nothing- Shakespeare (B)
Twelfth Night- Shakespeare (B)
The Taming of the Shrew- Shakespeare (B)
Love’s Labors Lost- Shakespeare (B)
Measure for Measure- Shakespeare (B)
Henry IV- Shakespeare (B)
Candida- Shaw (B)
Frankenstein- Shelley (B)
The Jungle- Sinclair (A)
Six Modern American Plays- various authors (A)
The Complete Plays- Sophocles (W)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie- Spark (B)
The Grapes of Wrath- Steinbeck (A) If you
read this in 11th grade, you may not use this.
East of Eden- Steinbeck (A)
Treasure Island- Stevenson* (B)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead- Stoppard
(B)
The Joy Luck Club- Tan (A)
The Bonesetter’s Daughter- Tan (A)
The Hobbit- Tolkien* (B)
Anna Karenina- Tolstoy (W)
Gertrude and Claudius- Updike* (A)
Burr- Vidal (A)
Hocus Pocus- Vonnegut* (A)
Slaughterhouse Five- Vonnegut* (A)
Breakfast of Champions- Vonnegut* (A)
Cat’s Cradle- Vonnegut* (A)
Player Piano- Vonnegut* (A)
The Color Purple- Walker (A)
All the King’s Men- Warren (A)
The Time Machine- Wells* (B)
The War of the Worlds- Wells* (B)
The Robber Bridegroom- Welty (A)
Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust- West
The Plays of Oscar Wilde- Wilde (Irish)
The Picture of Dorian Gray- Wilde* (Irish)
Our Town- Wilder (A) If you read this in 11th
grade, you may not use this.
Mrs. Dalloway- Woolf (B)
Early Works- Wright (A)
Black Boy- Wright (A)
You also may read any of the following, but you will have to find them yourself:
Ethan Frome-Edith Wharton
Fences- August Wilson
King Lear- Shakespeare
Phedre-
Jean Racine
The Age of Innocence- Henry James
The Merchant of Venice- Shakespeare
Mrs. Warren’s Profession- G.B. Shaw
The Plague-
Franz Kafka
Sister Carrie- Theodore Dreiser
Typical American- Gish Jen
Another Country- James Baldwin
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz- Mordecai
Richler
Benito Cereno- Herman Melville
Bless me, Ultima- Rodolfo Anaya
Bleak House- Charles Dickens
The Mill on the Floss- George Eliot
The Misanthrope- Moliere
Monkey Bridge- Lan Cao
No-No Boy- John Okada
Notes From the Underground- Dostoevsky
The Optimist’s Daughter- Eudora Welty
Cats Eye- Margaret Atwood
Dancing at Lughnasa- Brian Friel
The Diviners- Margaret Laurence
The Fifth Business- Robertson Davies
Our Mutual Friend- Marcus Stone
Pale Fire- Vladimir Nabokov
The Power and the Glory- Graham Greene
Praisesong for the Widow- Paule Marshall
Redburn- Herman Melville
House Made of Dawn- N. Scott Momaday
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone- August Wilson
Snow Falling on Cedar- David Guterson
The Stone Angel- Margaret Laurence
Tristam Shandy- Laurence Sterne
Love Medicine- Louise Erdrich
Winter in the Blood- James Welch
