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327 Works Listed on the AP Literature Exam 1978 – 2011

Achebe, Chinua—Things Fall Apart Conrad, Joseph—Lord Jim Flaubert, Gustave—Madame Bovary Huxley, Aldous—Brave New World
Aeschylus—Eumenides Conrad, Joseph—Victory Ford, Ford Madox—The Good Soldier Hwang, David Henry—M. Butterfly
Aeschylus—Oresteia Crane, Stephen—Red Badge of Courage, Forster, E. M.—Passage to India Ibsen, Henrik—Doll’s House
Albee, Edward—Sandbox The Forster, E. M.—Room With a View Ibsen, Henrik—Enemy of the People
Albee, Edward—Who’s Afraid of Virginia Davies, Robertson—Fifth Business Frayn, Michael—Copenhagen Ibsen, Henrik—Ghosts
Woolf? Defoe, Daniel—Moll Flanders Frazier, Charles—Cold Mountain Ibsen, Henrik—Hedda Gabler
Albee, Edward—Zoo Story Defoe, Daniel—Robinson Crusoe Friel, Brian—Dancing at Lughnasa Ibsen, Henrik—Peer Gynt
Alcott, Louisa Mae—Little Women Desai, Kiran—Inheritance of Loss, The Fugard, Athol—Master Harold" … and the Ibsen, Henrik—Wild Duck
Alexie, Sherman—Reservation Blues Dickens, Charles—Bleak House Boys Ionesco, Eugène—Rhinoceros
Alighieri, Dante—Divine Comedy, The Dickens, Charles—David Copperfield Fuller, Charles—A Soldier’s Play Irving, John—Prayer for Owen Meany, A
Alvarez, Julia—In the Time of the Butterflies Dickens, Charles—Great Expectations Gaines, Ernest—Gathering of Old Men Ishiguro, Kazuo—Never Let Me Go
Anaya, Rudolfo—Bless me, Ultima Dickens, Charles—Hard Times Gaines, Ernest—Lesson Before Dying Ishiguro, Kazuo—Remains of the Day
Aristophanes—Lysistrata Dickens, Charles—Oliver Twist Garcia Marquez, Gabriel—One Hundred James, Henry—American, The
Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson— Dickens, Charles—Our Mutual Friend Years of Solitude James, Henry—Daisy Miller
Dollmaker Dickens, Charles—Tale of Two Cities Garcia, Cristina—Dreaming in Cuban James, Henry—Golden Bowl, The
Atwood, Margaret—Alias Grace Dinesen, Isak—Out of Africa Glaspell, Susan—Trifles James, Henry—Portrait of a Lady
Atwood, Margaret—Blind Assassin, The Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee—Sister of My Goethe—Faust James, Henry—Turn of the Screw
Atwood, Margaret—Cat’s Eye Heart Golding, William—Lord of the Flies James, Henry—Washington Square
Atwood, Margaret—Handmaid’s Tale Doctorow, E. L.—Ragtime Goldsmith, Oliver—Vicar of Wakefield, The Jen, Gish—Typical American
Atwood, Margaret—Surfacing Dos Passos, John—USA Trilogy Greene, Graham—Brighton Rock Jewett, Sarah Orne—Country of the Pointed
Austen, Jane—Emma Dostoevsky, Fyodor—Brothers Karamazov Greene, Graham—Power and the Glory Firs, The
Austen, Jane—Mansfield Park Dostoevsky, Fyodor—Crime and Guterson, David—Other, The Jin, Ha—Free Life: A Novel, A
Austen, Jane—Persuasion Punishment Guterson, David—Snow Falling on Cedars Johnson, Ben—Volpone
Austen, Jane—Pride and Prejudice Dostoevsky, Fyodor—Notes from the Hansberry, Lorraine—Raisin in the Sun Johnson, James Weldon—Autobiography of
Baldwin, James—Another Country Underground Hardy, Thomas—Jude the Obscure an Ex-Colored Man
Baldwin, James—Go Tell it on the Mountain Dreiser, Theodore—American Tragedy Hardy, Thomas—Mayor of Casterbridge Jones, Leroi—Dutchman
Balzac, Honore de—Pere Goriot Dreiser, Theodore—Sister Carrie Hardy, Thomas—Return of the Native, The Joyce, James—Dead (from Dubliners)
Beckett, Samuel—Waiting for Godot Edwards, Kim—Memory Keeper's Daughter, Hardy, Thomas—Tess of the D’Urbervilles Joyce, James—Portrait of the Artist as a
Brecht, Bertolt—Mother Courage The Hawthorne, Nathaniel—House of the Seven Young Man
Bronte, Charlotte—Jane Eyre Eliot, George—Adam Bede Gables Kafka, Franz—Metamorphosis
Bronte, Emily—Wuthering Heights Eliot, George—Middlemarch Hawthorne, Nathaniel—Scarlet Letter Kafka, Franz—Trial
Bulosan, Carlos—America is in the Heart Eliot, George—Mill on the Floss Heller, Joseph—Catch-22 Kallos, Stephanie—Broken for You
Camus, Albert—Fall Eliot, George—Silas Marner Hellman, Lillian—Little Foxes Kesey, Ken—One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s
Camus, Albert—Plague, The Eliot, T. S.—Murder in the Cathedral Hellman, Lillian—Watch on the Rhine Nest
Camus, Albert—Stranger Ellison, Ralph—Invisible Man Hemingway, Ernest—Farewell to Arms Kingsolver, Barbara—Poisonwood Bible, The
Cao, Lan—Monkey Bridge Erdrich, Louise—Love Medicine Hemingway, Ernest—For Whom the Bell Kingston, Maxine Hong—Woman Warrior
Cather, Willa—My Antonia Erdrich, Louise—Tracks Tolls Knowles, John—Separate Peace
Cather, Willa—O Pioneers! Euripides—Medea Hemingway, Ernest—Sun Also Rises Kogawa, Joy—Obasan
Cervantes, Miguel—Don Quixote Faulkner, William—Absolam, Absolam Homer—Illiad Kushner, Tony—Angels in America
Chaucer, Geoffrey—Canterbury Tales Faulkner, William—As I Lay Dying Homer—Odyssey Lahiri, Jhumpa—Namesake, The
Chekhov, Anton—Cherry Orchard Faulkner, William—Bear Hosseini, Kahled—A Thousand Splendid Larsen, Nella—Passing
Chopin, Kate—Awakening Faulkner, William—Light in August Suns Laurence, Margaret—Diviners
Cisneros, Sandra—House on Mango Street, Faulkner, William—Sound and the Fury Hosseini, Khaled—Kite Runner, The Laurence, Margaret—Stone Angel
The Fielding, Henry—Joseph Andrews Hughes, Russell—High Wind in Jamaica, A Lawrence, D. H.—Sons and Lovers
Congreve, William—Way of the World Fielding, Henry—Tom Jones Hurston, Zora Neale—Their Eyes Were Lee, Chang-Rae —Gesture Life, A
Conrad, Joseph—Heart of Darkness Fitzgerald, F. Scott—Great Gatsby Watching God Lee, Chang-Rae —Native Speaker

Compiled by M.J. Hall, Spring 2011


Lee, Harper—To Kill a Mockingbird Oates, Joyce Carol—We Were the Shakespeare, William—Midsummer Night’s Twain, Mark—Adventures of Huckleberry
Lewis, Sinclair—Main Street Mulvaneys Dream Finn
MacLean, Norman—River Runs Through It, O'Brien, Tim—Going After Cacciato Shakespeare, William—Much Ado About Tyler, Anne—Dinner at the Homesick
A O'Brien, Tim—In the Lake of the Woods Nothing Restaurant
MacLeish, Archibald—J.B. Obrien, Tim—Things They Carried, The Shakespeare, William—Othello Updike, John—Centaur
Malamud, Bernard—Fixer, The O'Connor, Flannery—Wise Blood Shakespeare, William—Richard III Valdez, Luis—Zoot Suit
Marlowe, Christopher—Doctor Faustus Okada, John—No-No Boy Shakespeare, William—Romeo and Juliet Villareal, Jose Antonio—Pocho
Marshall, Paule—Praisesong for the Widow Ondaatje, Michael—Coming Through Shakespeare, William—Tempest Virgil—Aeneid, The
McCarthy, Cormac—All the Pretty Horses Slaughter Shakespeare, William—Twelfth Night Voltaire—Candide
McCarthy, Cormac—Crossing, The O'Neill, Eugene—Desire Under the Elms Shakespeare, William—Winter’s Tale Vonnegut, Kurt—Slaughterhouse Five
McCarthy, Cormac—No Country for Old O'Neill, Eugene—Hairy Ape Shaw, George Bernard—Major Barbara Walker, Alice—Color Purple
Men O'Neill, Eugene—Long Day’s Journey Into Shaw, George Bernard—Man and Warren, Robert Penn—All the King’s Men
McCarthy, Cormac—Road, The Night Superman Welch, James—Winter in the Blood
McCullers, Carson—Member of the Orwell, George—Nineteen Eighty-Four Shaw, George Bernard—Mrs. Warren’s Welty, Eudora—Delta Wedding
Wedding Pamuk, Orhan—Snow Profession Welty, Eudora—Optimist’s Daughter
McEwan, Ian—Atonement Pasternak, Boris—Doctor Zhivago Shaw, George Bernard—Pygmalion West, Nathanael—Miss Lonelyhearts
McKay, Claude—Home to Harlem Paton, Alan—Cry, the Beloved Country Shaw, George Bernard—Saint Joan Wharton, Edith—Age of Innocence
McLennan, Hugh—Watch That Ends the Petry, Ann—Street, The Shelley, Mary—Frankenstein Wharton, Edith—Ethan Frome
Night Pielmeier, John—Agnes of God Silko, Leslie Marmon—Ceremony Wharton, Edith—House of Mirth
Melville, Herman—Benito Cereno Pinter, Harold—Birthday Party Sinclair, Upton—Jungle Wideman, John Edgar—Sent for You
Melville, Herman—Billy Budd Pinter, Harold—Caretaker Smiley, Jane—Thousand Acres, A Yesterday
Melville, Herman—Moby Dick Pinter, Harold—Homecoming Solzhenitsyn, Alexander—One Day in the Wilde, Oscar—Importance of Being Earnest
Melville, Herman—Redburn Potok, Chaim—Chosen, The Life of Ivan Denisovich Wilde, Oscar—Lady Windermere's Fan
Miller, Arthur—All My Sons Potok, Chaim—My Name Is Asher Lev Sophocles—Antigone Wilde, Oscar—Picture of Dorian Gray
Miller, Arthur—Crucible Proulx, Annie—Shipping News Sophocles—Oedipus Rex Wilder, Thornton—Our Town
Miller, Arthur—Death of a Salesman Racine, Jean—Phedre Spark, Muriel—Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Williams, Tennessee—Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Milton, John—Paradise Lost Rhys, Jean—Wide Sargasso Sea Stegner, Wallace—Angle of Repose Williams, Tennessee—Glass Menagerie
Mistry, Rohinton—Fine Balance Richardson, Samuel—Pamela Steinbeck, John—East of Eden Williams, Tennessee—Streetcar Named
Mitchell, W.O.—Who Has Seen the Wind Richler, Mordecai—Apprenticeship of Steinbeck, John—Grapes of Wrath Desire
Moliere—Misanthrope Duddy Kravitz Steinbeck, John—Of Mice and Men Wilson, August—Fences
Moliere—Tartuffe Roth, Phillip—American Pastoral Sterne, Laurence—Tristram Shandy Wilson, August—Joe Turner’s Come and
Momaday, N. Scott—House Made of Dawn Roy, Arundhati—God of Small Things, The Stoppard, Tom—Rosenkrantz & Gone
Morrison, Toni—Beloved Rushdie, Salmon—Moor's Last Sigh, The Guildenstern Are Dead Wilson, August—Piano Lesson
Morrison, Toni—Bluest Eye Salinger, J.D.—Catcher in the Rye Stowe, Harriet Beecher—Uncle Tom’s Cabin Wolfe, Thomas—Look Homeward, Angel
Morrison, Toni—Song of Solomon Sapphire—Push Strindberg, August—Father Wolff, Tobias—Old School
Morrison, Toni—Sula Sartre, Jean-Paul—No Exit Styron, William—Set This House on Fire Woolf, Virginia—Mrs. Dalloway
Mukherjee, Bharati—Jasmine Shaffer, Peter—Equus Styron, William—Sophie's Choice Woolf, Virginia—Orlando
Murakami, Haruki —Kafka on the Shore Shakespeare, William—Antony and Swift, Jonathan—Gulliver’s Travels Woolf, Virginia—Room of One's Own
Nabokov, Vladimir —Pale Fire Cleopatra Synge, J.M.—Playboy of the Western World Woolf, Virginia—To the Lighthouse
Nabokov, Vladimir—Pnin Shakespeare, William—As You Like It Tan, Amy—Bonesetter's Daughter, The Wright, Richard—Black Boy
Naipaul, V.S.—Bend in the River Shakespeare, William—Hamlet Tann, Amy—Joy Luck Club Wright, Richard—Native Son
Naipaul, V.S.—House for Mr. Biswas, A Shakespeare, William—Henry IV Thoreau, Henry David—Civil Disobedience Wroblewski, David—The Story of Edgar
Naipaul, V.S.—Middle Passage Shakespeare, William—Julius Caesar Tolstoy, Leo—Anna Karenina Sawtelle
Naylor, Gloria—Women of Brewster Place, Shakespeare, William—King Lear Trollope, Anthony—Warden Zola, Emile—Germinal
The Shakespeare, William—Macbeth Trollope, Anthony—Way We Live Now, The
Ng, Fae M.—Bone Shakespeare, William—Merchant of Venice Turgenev, Ivan—Fathers and Sons
Norris, Frank—Octopus, The

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