Grade 12 Recommended AP Literature Reading
AP Literature Reading List
With Exam Date Notations (specific years in parentheses).
Title, Author, Exam Date Notations
- Great Expectations; Dickens (22, 21, 19, 18, 17, 15, 13, 12)
- Wuthering Heights; Bronte, E. (22, 21, 17, 16, 15, 12)
- Invisible Man; Ellison (22, 19, 16, 15, 13, 12)
- Beloved; Morrison (21, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14)
- Jane Eyre; Bronte, C. (22, 21, 17, 16, 13)
- Portrait of a Lady, The; James (21, 19, 18, 16, 14)
- Native Son; Wright (22, 21, 19, 12)
- Raisin in the Sun, A; Hansberry (22, 21, 14, 12)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God; Hurston (22, 17, 14, 13)
- Othello; Shakespeare (22, 16, 15, 14)
- Women of Brewster Place, The; Naylor (22, 16, 14, 12)
- To Kill a Mockingbird; Lee, H; (21, 19, 15, 13)
- Death of a Salesman; Miller; (21, 19, 14, 12)
- King Lear; Shakespeare; (19, 18. 14, 12)
- Heart of Darkness; Conrad (18, 16, 15, 12)
- Things Fall Apart; Achebe (22, 18, 14)
- Passage to India, A; Forster (22, 18, 12)
- Catch-22; Heller (22, 16, 15)
- Kite Runner, The; Hosseini (22, 16, 15)
- Pride and Prejudice; Austen (22, 16, 12)
- Scarlet Letter, The; Hawthorne (22, 15, 14)
- Awakening, The; Chopin (21, 19, 14)
- Odyssey, The; Homer (19, 17, 15)
- Frankenstein; Shelley. M (18, 17, 15)
- Crucible, The; Miller (16, 15, 14)
- Oryx and Crake; Atwood (16, 14, 12)
- Color Purple, The; Walker (16, 13, 12)
- Tess of the d’Urbervilles; Hardy (15, 14, 12)
- Mill on the Floss, The; Eliot, G (22, 19)
- Purple Hibiscus; Adichie (22, 13)
- Bluest Eye, The; Morrison (21, 19)
- House of Mirth, The; Wharton (21, 19)
- All The Light We Cannot See; Doerr (21, 18)
- Homegoing; Gyasi (21, 18)
- Kindred; Butler (21, 18)
- Never Let Me Go; Ishiguro (21, 16)
- Streetcar Named Desire, A; Williams (21, 14)
- Brown Girl, Brownstones; Marshall (21, 13)
- God of Small Things, The; Roy (21, 13)
- House on Mango Street, The; Cisneros (21, 13)
- Sula; Morrison (21, 12)
- Tempest, The; Shakespeare (19, 18)
- Brave New World; Huxley (19, 17)
- Importance of Being Earnest, The; Wilde (19, 17)
- Great Gatsby, The; Fitzgerald (19, 16)
- Gesture Life, A; Lee, C (19, 15)
- Antigone; Sophocles (19, 14)
- Catcher in the Rye, The; Salinger (19, 13)
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Joyce (19, 13)
- Sound and the Fury, The Faulkner (19, 13)
- Brideshead Revisited Waugh (19, 12)
- My Antonia; Cather (19, 12)
- Sun Also Rises, The Hemingway (19, 12)
- When The Emperor Was Divine Otsuka (19, 22)
- Dracula; Stoker (18, 17)
- Iliad, The; Homer (18, 17)
- Metamorphosis, The; Kafka (18, 17)
- Crime and Punishment; Dostoyevsky (18, 16)
- Madame Bovary; Flaubert (18, 16)
- Picture of Dorian Gray; The Wilde (18, 16)
- Twelfth Night; Shakespeare (17, 16)
- Prayer for Owen Meany, A; Irving (17, 14)
- Waiting for Godot; Beckett (17, 12)
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Albee (16, 15)
- Memory Keeper’s Daughter, The; Edwards (16, 14)
- Much Ado About Nothing; Shakespeare (16, 14)
- Atonement; McEwan (16, 13)
- M. Butterfly; Hwang (16, 12)
- Black Boy; Wright (15, 13)
- Cat’s Eye; Atwood (15, 13)
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest; Kesey (15, 12)
- Age of Innocence, The; Wharton (14, 12)
- Poisonwood Bible, The; Kingsolver (14, 12)
- Grapes of Wrath, The; Steinbeck (13, 12)
- Brighton Rock; Greene (22)
- Disposessed, The; LeGuin (22)
- Dominicana; Cruz (22)
- Dragon Can’t Dance, The; Lovelace (22)
- East of Eden; Steinbeck (22)
- Fahrenheit 451; Bradbury (22)
- Hope Leslie; Sedgwick (22)
- House of the Spirits, The; Allende (22)
- Hummingbird’s Daughter, The; Urrea (22)
- If Beale Street Could Talk; Baldwin (22)
- Inheritance of Loss, The; Desai (22)
- Love Medicine; Erdrich (22)
- Nickel Boys, The; Whitehead (22)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four; Orwell (22)
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous; Vuong (22)
- On Such A Full Sea; Lee, C (22)
- Parable of the Sower; Butler (22)
- Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The; Spark (22)
- Robinson Crusoe; Defoe (22)
- Sweat; Hurson (22)
- Vanity Fair; Thackeray (22)
- White Tiger, The; Adiga (22)
- A House for Mr. Biswas; Naipaul (21)
- All Over Creation; Ozeki (21)
- Elmet; Mosley (21)
- Fences; Wilson (21)
- Haunting of Hill House; Jackson (21)
- House of Seven Gables; Hawthorne (21)
- Housekeeping; Robinson (21)
- Howards End; Forster (21)
- Mrs. Dalloway; Woolf (21)
- Nervous Conditions; Dangarembga (21)
- Northanger Abbey; Austen (21)
- Passing; Larsen (21)
- Professor’s House, The; Cather (21)
- Remains of the Day, The; Ishiguro (21)
- Round House, The; Erdrich (21)
- Saturday; McEwan (21)
- Secret Garden, The; Burnett (21)
- Sense and Sensibility; Austen (21)
- Sing, Unburied, Sing; Ward (21)
- Turn of the Screw, The; James (21)
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Stowe (21)
- Where the Crawdads Sing; Owens (21)
- White Teeth; Smith (21)
- Wide Sargasso Seal Rhys (21)
- Alchemist, The; Coelho (19)
- Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The; Diaz (19)
- Candide; Voltaire (19)
- Don Quixote; Cervantes (19)
- Handmaid’s Tale, The; Atwood (19)
- Lolita; Nabokov (19)
- Aeneid, The; Virgil (18)
- Alias Grace; Atwood (18)
- Beowulf; Unknown (18)
- Death in Venice; Mann (18)
- Goldfinch, The; Tartt (18)
- Mama Day; Naylor (18)
- Man and Superman; Shaw (18)
- Midnight’s Children; Rushdie (18)
- Power of One, The; Courtenay (18)
- Return of the Native; Hardy (18)
- To the Lighthouse; Woolf (18)
- English Patient, The; Ondaatje (17)
- Grendel; Gardner (17)
- Light in August; Faulkner (17)
- Macbeth; Shakespeare (17)
- Mayor of Casterbridge, The; Hardy (17)
- Middlemarch; Eliot, G (17)
- No Country for Old Men; McCarthy (17)
- Oedipus Rex; Sophocles (17)
- Orlando; Woolf (17)
- Playboy of the Western World, The; Synge (17)
- Tom Jones; Fielding (17)
- Anna Karenina; Tolstoy (16)
- As You Like It; Shakespeare (16)
- Blind Assassin, The; Atwood (16)
- Burgess Boys, The; Strout (16)
- Doll House, A; Ibsen (16)
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; Foer (16)
- Hamlet; Shakespeare (16)
- In the Lake of the Woods; O’Brien (16)
- Jude the Obscure; Hardy (16)
- Middlesex; Eugenides (16)
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan; See (16)
- Yellow Raft in Blue Water, A; Dorris (16)
- Bend in the River, A; Naipaul (15)
- Billy Budd; Melville (15)
- Last of the Mohicans; Cooper (15)
- Lord of the Flies; Golding (15)
- Mansfield Park; Austen (15)
- Medea; Euripides (15)
- Merchant of Venice, The; Shakespeare (15)
- Night; Wiesel (15)
- Oliver Twist; Dickens (15)
- Red Badge of Courage, The; Crane (15)
- Sister Carrie; Dreiser (15)
- Sophie’s Choice; Styron (15)
- Ethan Frome; Wharton (14)
- Linden Hills; Naylor (14)
- Noah’s Compass; Tyler (14)
- Tale of Two Cities; Dickens (14)
- Thousand Acres, A; Smiley (14)
- Adventures of Augie March, The; Bellow (13)
- Adventures of Huckeberry Finn; Twain (13)
- All the Pretty Horses; McCarthy (13)
- Breath, Eyes, Memory; Danticat (13)
- Chosen, The; Potok (13)
- Cider House Rules, The; Irving (13)
- David Copperfield; Dickens (13)
- Jasmine; Mukherjee (13)
- Joy Luck Club, The; Tan (13)
- Joys of Motherhood, The; Emecheta (13)
- Namesake, The; Lahiri (13)
- Secret Life of Bees, The; Kidd (13)
- Separate Peace, A; Knowles (13)
- Siddhartha; Hesse (13)
- Song of Solomon; Morrison (13)
- Sorrows of Young Werther; Goethe (13)
- Story of Edgar Sawtelle, The; Wroblewski (13)
- Thousand Splended Suns, A; Hosseini (13)
- Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A; Smith (13)
- Woman Warrior; Kingston (13)
- Absalom, Absalom!; Faulkner (12)
- Another Country; Baldwin (12)
- Ceremony; Silko (12)
- Daisy Miller; James (12)
- Glass Menagerie, The; Williams (12)
- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets; Crane (12)
- Midsummer Night’s Dream, A; Shakespeare (12)
- No Exit; Sartre (12)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude; Garcia Marquez (12)
- Piano Lesson, The; Wilson (12)
- Plague, The; Camus (12)
- Snow Falling on Cedars; Guterson (12)