Recommended Reading Lists

The following contains multiple lists of suggested reading, from most frequently cited on AP Lit.
Exams to favorites compiled by school librarians, English teachers, and even Fulbright Junior Highs
own students. Pick something that sounds interesting to you as this will be your independent
reading book (which is to be read outside of class). This list is always subject to change books may
be added throughout the year.
Most Frequently Cited (on AP Literature
Exams) from 1970-2012:
26 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
20 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
18 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
16 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
16 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
16 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
16 King Lear by William Shakespeare
15 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark
Twain
15 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
14 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James
Joyce
12 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
12 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
12 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale
Hurston
12 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
11 The Awakening by Kate Chopin
11 Billy Budd by Herman Melville
11 Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
11 Light in August by William Faulkner
10 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
10 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
10 The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
10 Native Son by Richard Wright
10 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
9 Antigone by Sophocles
9 Beloved by Toni Morrison
9 Othello by William Shakespeare
9 A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
9 A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
8 All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
8 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
8 Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
8 Candide by Voltaire
8 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
8 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
8 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
8 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
8 A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
8 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom
Stoppard
8 Sula by Toni Morrison
8 Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
7 All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren
7 The Crucible by Arthur Miller
7 Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton

7 Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

7 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
7 The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
7 Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
7 Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
7 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
7 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
7 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
7 The Tempest by William Shakespeare
6 A Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen
6 An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
6 Equus by Peter Shaffer
6 Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
6 Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift
6 Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
6 Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
6 Medea by Euripides
6 The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
6 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
6 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
6 Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot
6 Obasan by Joy Kogawa
6 The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
6 Tess of the DUrbervilles by Thomas Hardy
6 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
6 The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
6 Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
5 Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
5 Bleak House by Charles Dickens
5 The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chkhov
5 Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
5 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
5 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
5 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
5 Macbeth by William Shakespeare
5 Mrs. Warrens Profession by George Bernard Shaw
5 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
5 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
5 Wise Blood by Flannery OConnor

General List of Recommended Reading:

1984 George Orwell
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
The Book Thief Markus Zusak
Animal Farm George Orwell
Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett
The Road Cormac McCarthy
The Help Kathryn Stockett
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Enders Game Orson Scott Card
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
Dune Frank Herbert
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
Night Elie Wiesel
Lord of the Flies William Golding
Les Miserables Victor Hugo
Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
Into the Wild John Krakauer
Alive Piers Paul Read
Dracula Bram Stoker
Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
Anthem Any Rand
The Things They Carried Time OBrien
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
David Copperfield Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
Siddhartha Hemann Hesse
A Separate Peace John Knowles
Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria
Remarque
Ishmael: An Adventure of Mind and Spirit Daniel
Quinn
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck
The Cider House Rules John Irving
The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne
The Art of War Sun Tzu
The Time Machine H.G. Wells
The Yellow Birds Kevin Powers
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
Emma Jane Austen
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell

Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
Mansfield Park Jane Austen
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest Ken Kesey
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes
The Scarlet Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
Native Son Richard Wright
Ivanhoe Walter Scott
Black Boy Richard Wright
Hard Times Charles Dickens
The Man in the Iron Mask Alexandre Dumas
The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells
No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle

Recommended Reading Lists

Recommended Reading List TITLES from
last years students (these are the books they
think YOU need to read!):
1984
Wuthering Heights
The Time Machine
Animal Farm
Enders Game
The Hunger Games
The Harry Potter series
Alex Rider series
Percy Jackson series
A Wrinkle in Time
Fahrenheit 451
Slaughterhouse Five
To Kill a Mockingbird
Maximum Ride
Divergent
Maze Runner
Matched
Selection
Mortal Instruments
Legend
The Book Thief
The Fault in our Stars
Peter and the Starcatchers
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Rings
Chronicles of Narnia
Beatrice and Virgil
The Help
Poison Study
Graceling
The Great Gatsby
Relic Pendergast Series
Alive
Old Yeller
Life of Pi
Infernal Devices
Pride & Prejudice

Wonder
Slated
Found Haddix
Unwind
Starters
Eye of the Mind
Dustlands
Where the Red Fern Grows
39 Clues
Among the Hidden Series
Rangers Apprentice
Eragon
16 Dogs Chosen House of Night
Changeling Order of Darkness
Hasea Chronicles
Countdown
Delirium
Rules
Shatter Me
Red Dragon
Silence of the Lambs
Hannibal
Hannibal Rising
Pirate Latitudes
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Fallen Star
The Princess Bride
Princess Plot
Indian City
Black City
I am Number Four
Witchlanders
The Apothecary
Following Atticus
Stir me Up
Gregor the Overlander
The Pillage Trilogy
The Hobbit
Chronicles of Nick
Hatchet
The Heroes of Olympus