Updated from an original list by Norma J. Wilkerson.
Works referred to on the AP Literature exams since
1971 (specific years in parentheses)
A
Absalom,
Absalom by William Faulkner (76, 00, 10, 12)
Adam
Bede
by George Eliot (06)
The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (80, 82,
85, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 99, 05, 06, 07, 08,11)
The
Aeneid by Virgil (06)
Agnes
of God by John Pielmeier (00)
The
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (97, 02, 03, 08, 12)
Alias
Grace by Margaret Atwood (00, 04, 08)
All
the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (00, 02, 04, 07,
08, 09, 11)
All
My Sons by Arthur Miller (85, 90)
All
the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (95, 96, 06, 07, 08,
10, 11)
America
is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan (95)
An
American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (81, 82, 95, 03)
American
Pastoral by Philip Roth (09)
The
American by Henry James (05, 07, 10)
Angels
in America by Tony Kushner (09)
Angle
of Repose by Wallace Stegner (10)
Anna
Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (80, 91, 99, 03, 04, 06, 08, 09)
Another
Country by James Baldwin (95, 10, 12)
Antigone
by Sophocles (79, 80, 90, 94, 99, 03, 05, 09, 11)
Anthony
and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (80, 91)
Apprenticeship
of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler (94)
Armies
of the Night by Norman Mailer (76)
As
I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (78, 89, 90, 94,
01, 04, 06, 07, 09)
As
You Like It by William Shakespeare (92 05, 06, 10)
Atonement
by Ian McEwan (07, 11)
Autobiography
of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson (02, 05)
The
Awakening by Kate Chopin (87, 88, 91, 92, 95, 97, 99, 02, 04,
07, 09, 11)
B
Beloved
by Toni Morrison (90, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 10, 11)
A
Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul (03)
Benito
Cereno by Herman Melville (89)
Billy
Budd
by Herman Melville (79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 99, 02, 04, 05, 07, 08)
The
Birthday Party by Harold Pinter (89, 97)
Black
Boy
by Richard Wright (06, 08)
Bleak
House by Charles Dickens (94, 00, 04, 09, 10)
Bless
Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya (94, 96, 97, 99, 04, 05, 06, 08)
The
Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (07, 11)
The
Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (95, 08, 09)
Bone:
A Novel by Fae M. Ng (03)
The
Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan (06, 07, 11)
Brave
New World by Aldous Huxley (89, 05, 09, 10)
Brideshead
Revisted by Evelyn Waugh (12)
Brighton
Rock
by Graham Greene (79)
Broken
for You by Stephanie Kallos (09)
The
Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevski (90, 08)
C
Candida
by George Bernard Shaw (80)
Candide
by
Voltaire (80, 86, 87, 91, 95, 96, 04, 06, 10)
The
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (06)
The
Caretaker by Harold Pinter (85)
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller (82, 85, 87, 89, 94, 01, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08, 11)
The
Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (01, 08, 11)
Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams (00)
Cat’s
Eye
by Margaret Atwood (94, 08, 09)
The
Centaur by John Updike (81)
Ceremony
by Leslie Marmon Silko (94, 96, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 06, 07, 09, 12)
The
Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (71, 77, 06, 07, 09,
10)
The
Chosen by Chaim Potok (08)
Cold
Mountain by Charles Frazier (06, 08)
The
Color Purple by Alice Walker (92, 94, 95, 96, 97,
05, 08, 09, 12)
Coming
Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje (01)
Copenhagen
by
Michael Frayn (09)
The
Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett (10)
Cry,
The Beloved Country by Alan Paton (85, 87, 91, 95, 96, 07,
09)
Crime
and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski (76, 79, 80, 82,
88, 96, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 09, 10, 11)
The
Crossing by Cormac McCarthy (09)
The
Crucible by Arthur Miller (71, 83, 86, 89, 04, 05, 09)
D
Daisy
Miller by Henry James (97, 03, 12)
Dancing
at Lughnasa by Brian Friel (01)
David
Copperfield by Charles Dickens (78, 83, 06)
The
Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy (86)
Death
of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (86, 88, 94, 03, 04,
05, 07, 12)
Delta
Wedding by Eudora Welty (97)
Desire
under the Elms by Eugene O’Neill (81)
Dinner
at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler (97)
The
Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (06)
The
Diviners by Margaret Laurence (95)
Doctor
Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (79, 86, 99, 04, 11)
Doctor
Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (10)
A
Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen (71, 83, 87, 88, 95,
05, 09)
The
Dollmaker by Harriet Arnot (91)
Don
Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (01, 04, 06, 08)
Dreaming
in Cuban by Cristina Garcia (03)
Dubliners
by James Joyce (97)
Dutchman
by
Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones (03, 06)
E
East
of Eden by John Steinbeck (06)
Emma
by Jane Austen (96, 08)
An
Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen (76, 80, 87, 99, 01,
07)
Equus
by Peter Shaffer (92, 99, 00, 01, 08, 09)
Ethan
Frome by Edith Wharton (80, 85, 03, 05, 06, 07)
The
Eumenides by Aeschylus (in The Orestia) (96)
F
The
Fall
by Albert Camus (81)
A
Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (99, 04, 09)
The
Father by August Strindberg (01)
Fathers
and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (90)
Faust
by Johann Goethe (02, 03)
Fences
by August Wilson (02, 03, 05, 09, 10)
A
Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (03)
Fifth
Business by Robertson Davis (00, 07)
The
Fixer by Bernard Malamud (07)
For
Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (03, 06)
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley (89, 00, 03, 06, 08)
A
Free Life: A Novel by Ha Jin (10)
G
A
Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines (00, 11)
Germinal
by
Emile Zola (09)
A
Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee (04, 05)
Ghosts
by Henrik Ibsen (00, 04)
The
Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (71, 90, 94, 97,
99, 02, 08, 09, 10, 12)
The
God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (10, 11)
Going
After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien (01, 06, 10)
The
Golden Bowl by Henry James (09)
The
Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford (00, 11)
The
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (95, 03, 06, 09, 10,
11, 12)
Great
Expectations by Charles Dickens (79, 80, 88, 89, 92,
95, 96, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08, 10, 12)
The
Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (82, 83, 88, 91,
92, 97, 00, 02, 04, 05, 07, 10)
Go
Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (83, 88, 90, 05,
09)
Gulliver’s
Travels by Jonathan Swift (87, 89, 01, 04, 06, 09)
H
The
Hairy Ape by Eugene O’Neill (89, 0994, 97, 99, 00)
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare (88, 94, 97, 99, 00)
The
Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (03, 09)
Hard
Times by Charles Dickens (87, 90, 09)
Heart
of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (71, 76, 91, 94, 96,
99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 06, 09, 10, 11, 12)
The
Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene (71)
Hedda
Gabler by Henrik Ibsen (79, 92, 00, 02, 03, 05)
Henry
IV, Parts I and II by William Shakespeare (80, 90, 08)
Henry
V
by William Shakespeare (02)
A
High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes (08)
The
Homecoming by Harold Pinter (78, 90)
Home
to Harlem by Claude McKay (10)
A
House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipul (10)
House
Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (95, 06, 09)
The
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (04, 07, 10)
The
House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (89)
The
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (08, 10)
I
The
Iliad by Homer (80)
The
Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (06)
The
Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (10)
In
the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien (00)
In
the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (05)
Invisible
Man
by Ralph Ellison (76, 77, 78, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97,
01, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12)
J
Jane
Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte (78, 79, 80, 88, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 00, 05, 07, 08,
10)
Jasmine
by
Bharati Mukherjee (99, 10)
J.B.
by Archibald MacLeish (81, 94)
Joe
Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson (00, 04)
The
Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (97, 03)
Joseph
Andrews by Henry Fielding (99)
Jude
the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (71, 76, 80, 85, 87,
95, 04, 09, 10)
Julius
Caesar by William Shakespeare (82, 97, 05, 07, 09)
The
Jungle by Upton Sinclair (77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 90, 96, 09)
K
Kafka
on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (08)
King
Lear
by William Shakespeare (77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 90, 96, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 08, 10,
11, 12)
The
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (07, 08, 09)
L
Lady
Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde (09)
A
Lesson before Dying by Ernest Gaines (99, 11)
Letters
from an American Farmer by de Crevecoeur (76), 11)
The
Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman (85, 90, 10)
Little
Women by Louisa May Alcott (08)
Long
Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill (90, 03, 07)
Look
Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe (10)
Lord
Jim
by Joseph Conrad (77, 78, 82, 86, 00, 03, 07)
Lord
of the Flies by William Golding (85, 08)
The
Loved One by Evelyn Waugh (89)
Love
Medicine by Louise Erdrich (95)
Lysistrata
by Aristophanes (87)
M
Macbeth
by
William Shakespeare (83, 99, 03, 05, 09)
Madame
Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (80, 85, 04, 05, 06, 09, 10)
Maggie:
A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane (12)
Main
Street by Sinclair Lewis (87, 09)
Major
Barbara by George Bernard Shaw (79, 96, 04, 07, 09, 11)
Man
and Superman by George Bernard Shaw (81)
Mansfield
Park
by Jane Austen (03, 06)
Master
Harold...and the Boys by Athol Fugard (03, 08, 09)
The
Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (94, 99, 00, 02, 07,
10, 11)
M.
Butterfly by David Henry Wang (95, 11, 12)
Medea
by Euripides (82, 92, 95, 01, 03)
The
Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers (97, 08)
The
Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards (09)
The
Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (85, 91, 95, 02,
03, 11)
Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka (78, 89)
Middlemarch
by
George Eliot (95, 04, 05, 07)
Middle
Passage by V. S. Naipaul (06)
A
Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (06, 12)
The
Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (90, 92, 04)
The
Misanthrope by Moliere (08)
Miss
Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West (89)
Moby
Dick
by Herman Melville (76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 89, 94, 96, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 09)
Moll
Flanders by Daniel Defoe (76, 77, 86, 87, 95, 09)
Monkey
Bridge by Lan Cao (00, 03)
The
Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie (07)
Mother
Courage and Her Children by Berthold Brecht (85, 87, 06)
Mrs.
Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (94, 97, 04, 05, 07, 11)
Mrs.
Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw (87, 90, 95, 02,
09)
Much
Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (97)
Murder
in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot (76, 80, 85, 95, 07, 11)
My
Ántonia by Willa Cather (03, 08, 10, 12)
My
Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (03)
N
The
Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (09, 10)
Native
Son
by Richard Wright (79, 82, 85, 87, 95, 01, 04, 09, 11, 12)
Native
Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee (99, 03, 05, 07, 08)
Never
Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (09, 10)
1984
by George Orwell (87, 94, 05, 09)
No
Exit
by John Paul Sartre (86, 12)
No-No
Boy
by John Okada (95)
Notes
from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevski (89)
O
Obasan
by
Joy Kogawa (94, 95, 04, 05, 06, 07, 10)
The
Octopus by Frank Norris (09)
The
Odyssey by Homer (86, 06, 10)
Oedipus
Rex
by Sophocles (77, 85, 88, 00, 03, 04, 11)
Of
Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (01)
Old
School by Tobia Wolff (08)
Oliver
Twist by Charles Dickens (09)
One
Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
(05, 10)
One
Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (01, 12)
One
Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (89, 04,
12)
O
Pioneers! by Willa Cather (06)
The
Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty (94)
The
Orestia by Aeschylus (90)
Orlando:
A Biography by Virginia Woolf (04)
Oryx
and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Othello
by William Shakespeare (79, 85, 88, 92, 95, 03, 04, 07, 11)
The
Other by Thomas Tryon (10)
Our
Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (90)
Our
Town
by Thornton Wilder (86, 97, 09)
Out
of Africa by Isaak Dinesen (06)
P
Pale
Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov (01)
Pamela
by Samuel Richardson (86)
A
Passage to India by E. M. Forster (71, 77, 78, 88, 91,
92, 07, 09, 12)
Paradise
Lost
by John Milton (85, 86, 10)
Passing
by Nella Larsen (11)
Peer
Gynt
by Henrik Ibsen (06)
Père
Goriot by Honore de Balzac (02)
Persuasion
by Jane Austen (90, 05, 07)
Phaedre
by Jean Racine (92, 03)
The
Piano Lesson by August Wilson (96, 99, 07, 08, 10,
12)
The
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (02)
The
Plague by Albert Camus (02, 09, 12)
Pnin
by
Vladimir Nabokov (97)
Pocho
by Jose Antonio Villarreal (02, 08)
The
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (10, 11, 12)
Portrait
of a Lady by Henry James ( 88, 92, 96, 03, 05, 07, 11)
Portrait
of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (76,
77, 80, 86, 88, 96, 99, 04, 05, 08, 09, 10, 11)
The
Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (95)
Praisesong
for the Widow by Paule Marshall (96)
A
Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (09)
Pride
and Prejudice by Jane Austen (83, 88, 92, 97, 08, 11,
12)
The
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (90, 08)
Push
by Sapphire (07)
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw (03, 05, 08)
R
Ragtime
by E. L. Doctorow (03, 07)
A
Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (87, 90, 94, 96,
99, 07, 09, 12)
The
Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope (81)
The
Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (08)
Redburn
by Herman Melville (87)
The
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (00, 03, 11)
Reservation
Blues by Sherman Alexie (08, 09)
The
Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (07)
Rhinoceros
by Eugene Ionesco (09)
Richard
III
by William Shakespeare (79)
A
River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean (08)
The
Road
by Cormac McCarthy (10)
Robinson
Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (10)
A
Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (76)
A
Room with a View by E. M. Forster (03)
Romeo
and Juliet by William Shakespeare (90, 92, 97, 08)
Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (81, 94, 00, 04,
05, 06, 10, 11)
S
Saint
Joan
by George Bernard Shaw (95)
The
Sandbox by Edward Albee (71)
The
Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (71, 77, 78, 83,
88, 91, 99, 02, 04, 05, 06, 11)
Sent
for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman (03)
A
Separate Peace by John Knowles (82, 07)
Set
This House on Fire by William Styron (11)
The
Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (97)
Silas
Marner by George Eliot (02)
Sister
Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (87, 02, 04, 09, 10)
Sister
of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (10)
Slaughterhouse
Five
by Kurt Vonnegut (91, 04)
Snow
by Orhan Pamuk (09)
Snow
Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (00, 10, 12)
A
Soldier’s Play by Charles Fuller (11)
Song
of Solomon by Toni Morrison (81, 88, 96, 00, 04, 05, 06, 07,
10)
Sons
and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence (77, 90)
Sophie’s
Choice by William Styron (09)
The
Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (77, 86, 97, 01,
07, 08)
The
Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence (96, 04)
The
Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (11)
The
Stranger by Albert Camus (79, 82, 86, 04)
A
Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (91, 92, 01,
04, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11)
The
Street by Ann Petry (07)
Sula
by Toni Morrison (92, 97, 02, 04, 07, 08, 10, 12)
Surfacing
by
Margaret Atwood (05)
The
Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (85, 91, 95, 96,
04, 05, 12)
T
A
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (82, 91, 04, 08)
Tarftuffe
by
Moliere (87)
The
Tempest by William Shakespeare (71, 78, 96, 03, 05, 07, 10)
Tess
of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (82, 91, 03, 06, 07,
12)
Their
Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston (88, 90,
91, 96, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 10, 11)
Things
Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (91, 97, 03, 09, 10, 11)
The
Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (04, 09)
A
Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (06)
A
Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (11)
To
Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (08, 09, 11)
To
the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (77, 86, 88, 08)
Tom
Jones by Henry Fielding (90, 00, 06, 08)
Tracks
by Louise Erdrich (05)
The
Trial by Franz Kafka (88, 89, 00, 11)
Trifles
by Susan Glaspell (00)
Tristram
Shandy by Laurence Sterne (86)
The
Turn of the Screw by Henry James (92, 94, 00, 02, 04, 08)
Twelfth
Night by William Shakespeare (85, 94, 96, 11)
Typical
American by Gish Jen (02, 03, 05)
U
Uncle
Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (87, 09)
U.S.A.
(trilogy) by John Dos Passos (09)
V
The
Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (06)
Victory
by Joseph Conrad (83)
Volpone
by Ben Jonson (83)
W
Waiting
for Godot by Samuel Beckett (77, 85, 86, 89, 94, 01, 09, 12)
The
Warden by Anthony Trollope (96)
Washington
Square by Henry James (90)
The
Wasteland by T. S. Eliot (81)
Watch
on the Rhine by Lillian Hellman (87)
The
Way of the World by William Congreve (71)
The
Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (06)
We
Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates (07)
When
the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (12)
Who
Has Seen the Wind by W. O. Mitchell (11)
Who’s
Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (88, 94, 00, 04,
07, 11)
Wide
Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (89, 92, 05, 07, 08)
The
Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen (78)
Winter
in the Blood by James Welch (95)
Winter’s
Tale
by William Shakespeare (82, 89, 95, 06)
Wise
Blood by Flannery O’Connor (82, 89, 95, 09, 10)
Woman
Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (91, 08)
The
Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor (09, 10, 12)
Wuthering
Heights by Emily Bronte (71,77, 78, 79, 83, 86, 88, 89, 90,
91, 92, 96, 97, 99, 01, 06, 07, 08, 10, 12)
Z
The
Zoo Story by Edward Albee (82, 01)
Zoot
Suit
by Luis Valdez (95)
In addition, most other books by the authors listed here should be fair game as well (books, not short stories).
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