Works listed on AP Literature and Composition open ended questions: 1971—2012
*Works appearing on more than six tests are bolded*
Absalom, Absalom! 1976, 2000, 2007, 2012 Grapes of Wrath, 1981, 1985, 1987, 1995, 2006, 2009, 2011,
2012
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1991, 1992 Great Expectations, 1979, 1980, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1995,
1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2008 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2012
All My Sons, 1985, 1990 Great Gatsby, 1982, 1983, 1988, 1991, 1997, 2000, 2002
All the King’s Men, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2011 2004, 2007
All the Pretty Horses, 1996, 2006, 2008, 2011 Gulliver's Travels, 1987, 1989, 2001, 2004
America is in the Heart, 1995 Hairy Ape, 1989, 2009
American Tragedy, 1982, 1995, 2003 Hamlet, 1988, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000
Anna Karenina, 1980, 1991, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008 Hard Times, 1987, 1990
Another Country, 1995, 2010, 2012 Heart of Darkness, 1971, 1976, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1999,
Antigone, 1979, 1980, 1990, 1990, 1999, 2003, 2011 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2012
Antony and Cleopatra, 1980, 1991 Hedda Gabler, 1979, 1992, 2000, 2002, 2003
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, 1994 Henry IV, 1980, 1990, 2002, 2008
As I Lay Dying, 1978, 1989, 1990, 1994, 2001, 2006 House Made of Dawn, 1995, 2006
As You Like It, 1992, 2005, 2009, 2010 House of Seven Gables, 1989
Awakening, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2002, Iliad, 1980
2007, 2009
Bear, 1994 Invisible Man, 1977, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1988
Beloved, 1990, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011 1989, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2005
Benitio Cereno, 1989 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
Birthday Party, The, 1997 Jane Eyre, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996,
Bleak House, 1994, 2000, 2009 1997, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2010
Bless Me, Ultima, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2006 J.B. 1994
Bluest Eye, 1995 Joseph Andrews, 1991
Billy Budd, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 2002, 2005, 2008 Jude the Obscure, 1971, 1976, 1980, 1985, 1987, 1991, 1995,
Birthday Party, 1989 1996, 2009, 2010
Brave New World, 1989, 2005, 2010 Julius Caesar, 1982, 1997
Brighton Rock, 1979 Jungle, 1987
Brothers Karamazov, 1990, 2008 King Lear, 1977, 1978, 1982, 1989, 1990, 1996, 2001, 2003,
2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012
Candide, 1980, 1986, 1987, 1991, 1996, 2004 Letters from an American Farmer, 1976
Catch-22, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1994, 2001, 2005, 2008 Light in August, 1971, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1995, 1999,
Cat's Eye, 1994, 2009 2003, 2011
Ceremony, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2006, 2012 Little Foxes, 1985, 1990, 2010
Centaur, 1981 Long Day's Journey into Night, 1990, 2003, 2007
Cherry Orchard, 1971, 1977, 2006, 2007, 2009 Lord Jim, 1977, 1978, 1982, 1986, 2000, 2003, 2007
Civil Disobedience, 1976 Lord of the Flies, 1985, 1992
Color Purple, The, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2008,
2009, 2012 Love Medicine, 1995
Crime and Punishment, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1988, 1996, Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, 1985
1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2011
Crucible, 1971, 1983, 1987, 2005, 2009 Lysistrata, 1987
Cry, the Beloved Country, 1985, 1987, 1991, 1995, 1996, 2007 Macbeth, 1983, 1999, 2003, 2009
David Copperfield, 1978, 1983, 2006 Madame Bovary, 1980, 1985, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010
Death of a Salesman, 1986, 1988, 1994, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007
2012 M. Butterfly, 1995, 2012
Death of Ivan Ilyich, 1986 Main Street, 1987,
Desire Under the Elms, 1981 Major Barbara, 1979, 1996, 2004
Diviners, 1995 Man and Superman, 1981
Doctor Faustus, 1979, 1986, 1999, 2004 Mansfield Park, 1991, 2006
Doll's House, 1971, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1995, 2005, 2009 Mayor of Casterbridge, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2010
Dollmaker, 1991 Medea, 1982, 1992, 1995, 2001, 2003, 2011
Don Quixote, 1992, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008 Merchant of Venice, 1985, 1991, 1995, 2002, 2011
Enemy of the People, 1976, 1980, 1987, 1999, 2001, 2007 Metamorphosis, 1978, 1989
Equus, 1992, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2008, 2009 Middlemarch, 1995, 2004, 2005, 2007
Emma, 1996. 2008 Midsummer Night's Dream, 1991, 2006, 2012
Ethan Frome, 1980, 1985, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 Mill on the Floss, 1990, 1992
Eumenides, 1996 Misanthrope, 1992, 2008
Fall, 1981 Miss Lonelyhearts, 1989
Farewell to Arms, 1991, 1999, 2009
Moby Dick, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1989, 1994,
Faust, 2003, 2003 1996, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009
Fathers and Sons, 1990 Moll Flanders, 1976, 1977, 1986, 1987
Federalist, 1976 Mrs. Dalloway, 1994, 1997, 2005, 2007
Fences, 2002, 2003 The Moor’s Last Sigh, 2007
Frankenstein, 1989, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2008
Glass Menagerie, The 1971, 1990, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2002,
2008, 2009, 2012 Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1987, 1990, 1995, 2002
Go Tell it on the Mountain, 1988, 1990, 2005 Murder in the Cathedral, 1976, 1980, 1985, 2011
My Last Duchess, 1985 Turn of the Screw, 1992, 1994, 2000, 2002, 2004
Native Son, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1995, 2001, 2011, 2012 Twelfth Night, 1985, 1994, 1996
Nineteen Eighty Four, 1987, 1994, 2005, 2009 Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1987
No Exit, 1986, 2012 Victory, 1983
No-No Boy, 1995 Volpone, 1983
Notes from the Underground, 1989 Waiting for Godot, 1977, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1994, 2001
Obasan, 1994, 1995, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010 2009, 2012
Odyssey, 1986, 2010 Warden, 1996
Oedipus Rex, 1977, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2011 Washington Square, 1990
One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1989, 2012 Waste Land, 1981
Optimist's Daughter, 1994 Watch on the Rhine, 1987
Oresteia, 1990 Watch that ends the Night, 1992
Othello, 1979, 1985, 1988, 1992, 1995 Way of the World, 1971
Our Town, 1986, 1997, 2009 Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, 1988, 1994, 2000, 2004, 2007
Pamela, 1986 Wide Sargasso Sea, 1989, 1992
Paradise Lost, 1985, 1986, 2010 Wild Duck, 1978
Passage to India, 1971, 1977, 1978, 1988, 1991, 1992, 2007, 2012 Winter in the Blood, 1995
Persuasion, 1990, 2005, 2007 Winter's Tale, 1986, 1989, 2006
Phedre, 1992, 2003 Wise Blood, 1982, 1989, 1995, 2009
Piano Lesson, 1996, 1999, 2007, 2008, 2012 Woman Warrior, 1991
Portrait of a Lady, 1992, 1996, 2005 Wuthering Heights, 1971, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001
1986, 1988, 1996, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012
Power and the Glory, 1995 Zoo Story, 1982, 2001
Praisesong for the Widow, 1996 Zoot Suit, 1995
Pride and Prejudice, 1983, 1988, 1992, 1997, 2008, 2012 Age of Innocence, 1997, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2012
Pygmalion, 1992, 2008 Daisy Miller, 1997, 2012
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1990 Dead, 1997
Raisin in the Sun, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1999,
2009, 2012 Delta Wedding, 1997
Rape of the Lock, 1981 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, 1997
Redburn, 1987 Joy Luck Club, 1997
Richard III, 1979 Member of the Wedding, 1997
Romeo and Juliet, 1990, 1992, 1997 Much Ado About Nothing, 1997
Room of One's Own, 1976 Pnin, 1997
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, 1981, 1994, 2000, Shipping News, 1997
2004, 2005, 2010, 2011 Surfacing, 2005
Saint Joan, 1995
Sandbox, 1971 Jasmine, 1999, 2010
Scarlet Letter, 1971, 1977, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1991, 1999, 2002 A Lesson Before Dying, 1999, 2011
2004, 2005, 2006 Sister of My Heart, 2010
Separate Peace, A, 1982, 2007 Native Speaker, 1999, 2007
Sister Carrie, 1987, 2002, 2004, 2010 The Trial, 1989, 2000, 2011
Slaughterhouse Five, 1991 Tristram Shandy, 1986
Song of Solomon, 1981, 1988, 1996, 2000 Tom Jones, 1990, 2000, 2006, 2008
Sons and Lovers, 1977, 1990 Agnes God, 2000
Sound and the Fury, 1986, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2008 Alias Grace, 2000, 2004, 2008
Stranger, 1979, 1982, 1986, 2011 A Gesture Life, 2004, 2005
Streetcar Named Desire, 1991, 1992, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2009 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 2000
Stone Angel, 1996 Fifth Business, 2000, 2007
Sula, 1992, 1997, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2012 A Gathering of Old Men, 2000, 2011
Sun Also Rises, 1985, 1991, 1995, 2004, 2005, 2012 Ghosts, 2000, 2004
Tale of Two Cities, 1982, 1991, 2008 The Good Soldier, 2000
Tartuffe, 1987 In the Lake of the Woods, 2000
Tempest, 1971, 1978, 1996, 2007, 2010 Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, 2000, 2004
Tess of D'Urbervilles, 1982, 1991, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2012 Monkey Bridge, 2000
Their Eyes were Watching God, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1996, 2004 The Remains of the Day, 2000
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Snow Falling on Cedars, 2000, 2010, 2012
Things Fall Apart, 1991, 1997, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2011 Trifles, 2000
To the Lighthouse, 1977, 1986, 1988 Orlando, 2004
Things they Carried, The, 2004
Catcher in the Rye, The, 2001 American, The, 2005, 2007, 2010
Coming Through Slaughter, 2001 The Vicar of Wakefield, 2006
Dancing at Lughnasa The Way We Live Now, 2006
Father, The, 2001 East of Eden, 2006
Going After Cacciato, 2001 O Pioneers, 2006
Of Mice and Men, 2001 Out of Africa, 2006
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 2005, 2010 Atonement, 2007, 2011
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 2001, 2012 The Fixer, 2007
Pale Fire, 2001 The Kite Runner, 2007, 2008, 2009
Pere Goriot, 2002 Obasan, 2007
Picture of Dorian Gray, The, 2002 Cold Mountain, 2008
Plague, The, 2002, 2009, 2012 Reservation Blues, 2008, 2009
Silas Marner, 2002 The Crossing, 2009
Typical American, 2002, 2005 Fences, 2009
For Whom the Bell Tolls, 2003, 2006 The Golden Bowl, 2009
Ragtime, 2003, 2007 Lady Windermere’s Fan, 2009
Sent for You Yesterday, 2003 The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, 2009
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, 2005 The Namesake, 2009
A Thousand Acres, 2006, 2011 A Prayer for Owen Meany, 2009
Adam Bede, 2006 Snow, 2009
Black Boy, 2006 The Women of Brewster Place, 2009, 2010, 2012
The Bonesetter's Daughter, 2006, 2007, 2011 Robinson Crusoe, 2010
The Blind Assassin, 2007, 2011 The Road, 2010
The House of Mirth, 2007 The Poisonwood Bible, 2010, 2011, 2012
The Other, 2010 My Antonia, 2010, 2012
Angle of Repose, 2010 Doctor Zhivago, 2010
The God of Small Things, 2011 No Country for Old Men, 2011
Set This House on Fire, 2011 To Kill a Mockingbird, 2011
A Thousand Splendid Suns, 2011 The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, 2011
Brideshead Revisited, 2012 Maggie: a Girl of the Streets, 2012
Oryx and Crake, 2012
When the Emperor Was Divine, 2012