Being a student in AP Lit naturally means you’re doing a lot of reading. I’ve found that it helps to read some generally accepted AP Lit works, even if you don’t have to read them for your class. I found a wonderful list compiled by Ms. Effie here. Let me know if you’ve read any of these, I’ve only read a few!
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Light in August by William Faulkner
Othello by William Shakespeare
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Native Son by Richard Wright
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot
The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chkhov
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
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