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