Reading List for Advanced Placement Language and Composition



Reading List for Advanced Placement Language and Composition

English 11, A.P.

McNamara/Een

The books on the list are by respected American writers of fiction and nonfiction. The works have either appeared on the English Advanced Placement Test with some frequency over the past few years or they are thematically related to the units in our anthology - The Language of Literature. The list does not contain books that are required reading for our class this year.

Atwood, Margaret - The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye

Baldwin, James - Go Tell it on the Mountain

Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451

Brown, Dee - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the

American West

Cather, Willa - My Antonia, Death Comes to the Archbishop

Chopin, Kate - The Awakening

Crane, Stephen - Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, The Red Badge of Courage

Dillard, Annie - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Dorris, Michael - A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie

Elliot, T.S. - Murder in the Cathedral

Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man

Faulkner, William - Light in August, The Sound and the Fury, The Unvanquished,

Intruder in the Dust

Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Tender is the Night

Franklin, Benjamin - The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Frazier, Charles - Cold Mountain

Gaines, Ernest - A Lesson Before Dying, The Autobiography of Miss Jane

Pittman

Hamilton, Jane - A Map of the World

Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The House of Seven Gables

Heller, Joseph - Catch - 22

Hemingway, Ernest - The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom

the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms

James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady, Washington Square, Daisy Miller

Johnson, Charles - Middle Passage

Kesey, Ken - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Kingsolver, Barbara - The Bean Trees, Pigs in Heaven

Least Heat-Moon, William - Blue Highways

Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird

Malcolm X. - The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Mason, Bobby Ann - In Country

McCarthy, Cormac - All the Pretty Horses

McCullers, Carson - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Melville, Herman - Billy Budd, Moby Dick

Momaday, Scott - House Made of Dawn, The Way to Rainy Mountain

Morrison, Toni - The Bluest Eyes, Song of Solomon, Beloved

Muir, John - My First Summer in the Sierra

O'Brien, Tim - The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction

Proulx, E. Annie - The Shipping News

Rivera, Tomas - ...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him

Rodriguez, Richard - Hunger of Memory: the Education of Richard Rodriguez: an

Autobiography

Salinger, J. D. - The Catcher in the Rye

Shields, Carol - The Stone Diaries

Silko, Leslie, Marmon - Ceremony

Spark, Muriel - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath

Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin

Tan, Amy - The Joy Luck Club

Terkel, Studs - American Dreams, Lost and Found

Thoreau, Henry David - Walden

Twain, Mark - Life on the Mississippi, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's

Court

Tyler, Anne - Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Updike, John - Centaur

Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse Five

Walker, Alice - The Color Purple

Welch, James - Fools Crow

Wharton, Edith - Ethan Frome

Wills, Gary - Lincoln at Gettsysburg

Wright, Richard - Native Son

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