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)