Advanced Placement Literature

  Reading List

The following Books/plays will be read during the 2005-2006 academic year. They are listed in the order to be studied. An * indicates titles available via the WHS Library. Textbook copies of these books may be checked out anytime through the librarian.

*The Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
*Hamlet	Shakespeare, William
*Brave New World	Huxley, Aldous
*Jane Eyre	Bronte, Charlotte
*Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Twain, Mark
*Great Gatsby	Fitzgerald, F. Scott
*Canterbury Tales	Chaucer, Geoffry
Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Taylor, Samuel
The Awakening	Chopin, Kate
*I am One of You Forever	Chappell, Fred

 

An additional three books should be read over the summer from the following list:

*1984	Orwell, George
*Autobiography	Franklin, Benjamin
*Beloved	Morrison, Toni
*Black boy	Wright, Richard
Call it sleep	Roth, Henry
*Catch-22	Heller, Joseph
*Catcher in the Rye	Salinger, J.D.
*Color Purple	Walker, Alice
*Crime and Punishment	Dostoevsky, Fyodor
*Cyrano De Bergerac	Rostand, Edmond
*David Copperfield	Dickens, Charles
*Death of a salesman	Miller, Arthur
*Dracula	Stoker, Bram
*Ethan Frome	Wharton, Edith
*Far from the Madding Crowd	Hardy, Thomas
*Farewell to arms	Hemingway, Ernest
*For whom the bell tolls	Hemingway, Ernest
*Frankenstein	Shelley, Mary
Ghosts	Ibsen, Henrik
*Gulliver's travels	Swift, Jonathan
*Heart of darkness	Conrad, Joseph
*I know why the caged bird sings	Angelou, Maya
*Jungle, The	Sinclair, Upton
Let us now praise famous men	Agee, James
*Light in August	Faulkner, William
*Like water for chocolate	Esquival, Laura
*Lord Jim	Conrad, Joseph
*Lord of the flies	Golding, William
Lucky Jim	Amis, Kingsley
*Moby Dick and/or *Billy Budd	Melville, Herman
*My Antonia	Cather, Willa
*Native son	Wright, Richard
*Night	Wiesel, Eli
*Prayer for Owen Meany	Irving, John
*Pride and Prejudice	Austen, Jane
*Red badge of courage	Crane, Stephen
*Shipping News	Priloux, Anne
*Siddhartha	Hesse, Hermann
*Sister Carrie	Dreiser, Theodore
*Song of Solomon	Morrison, Toni
Streetcar named Desire	Williams, Tennessee
*Sula	Morrison, Toni
*Tale of two cities	Dickens, Charles
*Tess of the D'ubervilles	Hardy, Thomas
*Their eyes were watching God	Hurston, Nora N.
Things fall apart	Achebe, Chinua
Tom Jones	Fielding, Henry
*Uncle Tom's cabin	Stowe, Harriet Beecher
*War and peace	Tolstory, Leo
*Wuthering Heights	Bronte, Emily

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