AP Literature: Books Of Literary Merit
AP Literature: Books of "Literary Merit"Book (Years)AuthorAbsalom, Absalom (00, 07,12)The Adventures of Augie March (13)The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (82, 85, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96,99, 05, 08, 13)The Age of Innocence (97, 02, 05, 08, 12,14)Agnes of God (00)The AlchemistAlias Grace (00, 04, 06, 08,18)All My Sons (85, 90)All the King's Men (00, 02, 03, 04, 06, 08, 11)All the Light We Cannot See (18)All the Pretty Horses (96, 08, 11, 13)The American (05, 07, 10)An American Tragedy (82, 95, 03)Angle of Repose (10, 11)Anna Karenina (91, 99, 02, 08,16)Another Country (95,10,12)Antigone (90, 94, 99, 03, 11,14,19)Anthony and Cleopatra (91)The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (94)As I Lay Dying (90, 94, 01, 09)As You Like It (05,10,16)Atonement (07, 11, 13,10,16)The Awakening (87, 88, 91, 92, 95, 97, 99, 02, 07,09,14,19)The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (02, 05)The Bear peareMcEwanChopinJohnsonFaulknerBeowulf (18)HeaneyBeloved (90, 99, 01, 03, 07, 09, 11,14,15,16,17,18)MorrisonBenito Cereno (90)MelvilleBilly Budd (81, 82, 83, 85, 99, 02, 05, 08,15)The Birthday Party (95, 97)Black Boy (15)Bless Me, Ultima (96, 97, 05)Bleak House (95, 00, 09)The Blind Assassin (07, 11,16)MelvillePinterWrightAnayaDickinsAtwoodBook (Years)Equus (92, 99, 00, 01, 08)Ethan Frome (85, 03, 05, 07,14)The Eumenides (96)Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (16)The Fall (81)A Farewell to Arms (91, 99, 09)Fathers and Sons (90)The Father (01)Faust (02, 03)Fences (02, 03, 09)Fifth Business (00, 07)The Fixer (07)For Whom the Bell Tolls (03)Frankenstein (89, 00, 03, 08,15, 17,18)A Gathering of Ghosts (00)A Gathering of Old Men (11)A Gesture Life (04, 05, 06,15,19)The Glass Menagerie (90, 94, 97, 99, 02, 08,09,12)Ghosts (00, 04, 06)The God of Small Things (10, 11, 13)Going After Cacciato (01)The Good Soldier (00)The Golden Bowl (09)Go Tell it on the Mountain (88, 90, 05)The Grapes of Wrath (81, 85, 87, 95, 09, 11,12,13)Great Expectations (88, 89, 92, 95, 96, 00, 01, 02, 04, 06,07,12,13,15, 17,18,19)Grendel (17)The Great Gatsby (82, 83, 88, 91, 92, 97, 00, 04, 06,07.16,19)The Goldfinch (18)The God of Small Things (11)Gulliver's Travels (87, 89, 01, 04, 06)The Hairy Ape (89, 09)Hamlet (88, 92, 93, 94, 97, 99, 00,16)The Handmaid's Tale oySwiftO'NeillShakespeareAtwood
The Bluest Eye (95,19)The Bonesetter's Daughter (07, 11,16)Brave New World (89, 05,10, 17,19)Breath, Eyes, Memory (17)Brideshead Revisited (12,19)The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (19)Brown Girl, Brownstones (13)The Burgess Boys (16)The Brothers Karamazov (90, 08)Candide (85, 87, 91, 96, 04, 06,19)The Catcher in the Rye (13,19)Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (00)Catch-22 (82, 85, 87, 89, 94, 01, 05, 08,15,16)Cat's Eye (94, 09,13,15)The Centaur (81)Ceremony (94, 96, 97, 99, 01,12)The Chosen (13)The Cherry Orchard (07, 09)The Cider House Rules (13)Cold Mountain (08)The Color Purple (91, 92, 94, 96, 97, 05, 08,09,12,13,16)Coming Through Slaughter (01)Crime and Punishment (82, 89, 96, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05,06, 09,10, 11,16,18)The Crossing (09)The Crucible (83, 87, 05, 09,14,15,16)Cry, the Beloved Country (85, 87, 91, 95, 96, 07)Daisy Miller (97,12)Dancing at the Lughnasa (01)David Copperfield (83,13)The Dead (97)Death in Venice (18)The Death of Ivan Ilyich (86)Death of a Salesman (86, 88, 94, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07,12,14,19)Delta Wedding (97)Desire Under the Elms (81)Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (97)The Diviners (95)Doctor Faustus (86, 99, 04, oevskyM MillerWeltyWilliamsTylerMoodyMarloweHard Times (87, 90)Heart of Darkness (91, 94, 96, 00, 01, 02, 04,16)06, 09, 10,12,15,18)Hedda Gabler (92, 00, 02, 03)Henry IV (90, 08)Henry V (02)Homecoming (90)Homegoing (18)House Made of Dawn (95)The House of Mirth (07,19)The House of Seven Gables (89)The House on Mango Street (08, 10, 13)The Iliad (18)The Importance of Being Earnest (19)In the Lake of the Woods (00,16)Invisible Man (82, 83, 85, 87, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 01, 04, 05,06, 08 ,09,10, 11,12,13,15,16,19)Jane Eyre (88, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 01, 07,10,13,16,17)Jasmine (99,10,13)J.B. (81, 94)Joe Turner's Come and Gone (00, 04, 06)Joseph Andrews (91)The Joys of Motherhood (13)The Joy Luck Club (97,13)Jude the Obscure (85, 87, 91, 95, 09,10,16)Julius Caesar (82, 97)The Jungle (87)Kindred (18)King Lear (82, 89, 90, 96, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 08, 10,11,12,14,18,19)The Kite Runner (07, 08, 09.15,16)Lady Windermere's Fan (09)The Last of the Mochicans (15)A Lesson Before Dying (99,11)Light in August (81, 82, 83, 85, 99, 03, 11,17)Linden Hills (14)The Little Foxes (85, 90,10)Lolita (19)Long Day's Journey into the Night (90, 03, 07)Lord Jim (82, 86, 00, 03, O'NeillConrad
The Dollmaker (91)A Doll's House (83, 87, 88, 95, 05, 09,16)Don Quixote (92, 01, 04, 06, 08,19)Dracula (17,18)Dr. Zhivago (10)The English Patient (17)Emma (96, 08)An Enemy of the People (87, 99, 01, 07)M. Butterfly (95, 11, 12, 16)Macbeth (83, 99, 03, 09,17)Madame Bovary (85, 05, 09,10,16,18)Mama Day (18)Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (12)Man and Superman (18)Main Street (87)Major Barbara (96, 04, 06)Mansfield Park (91.15)The Mayor of Castorbridge (94, 99, 00, 02,10,17)Medea (82, 92, 95, 01, 03, 11,15)The Member of the Wedding (97)The Merchant of Venice (85, 91, 95, 02, 11,15)The Metamorphosis (89,16,17,18)The Memory Keeper's Daughter (09,14,16)Middlemarch (95, 04, 05, 06, 07,17)Middlesex (16)Midnight’s Children (18)A Midsummer Night's Dream (91,12)The Mill on the Floss (89, 92,19)The Misanthrope (95, 08)Moby Dick (89, 94, 96, 01, 03, 04, 06, 07, 09)Moll Flanders (86, 87, 95)Monkey Bridge (00)The Moor's Last Sigh (07)Mother Courage (85, 87)Mrs. Dalloway (85, 87, 05, 07)Mrs. Warren's Profession (87, 90, 95, 02)Much Ado About Nothing (97,14,16)Murder in the Cathedral (85, 95, 11)My Antonia peareEliotCatherLord of the Flies (85, 92,15)Love Medicine (95)The Loved One (89)The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (85)Lysistrata (87)The Rape of the Lock (81)Red Badge of Courage (15)Remains of the Day (00)The Return of the Native (18)Reservation Blues (08, 09)Romeo and Juliet (90, 92, 97)The Road (10)Robinson Crusoe (10)Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (81, 94, 00, 04, 05,06,10, 11)St. Joan (95)The Scarlet Letter (83, 88, 94, 00, 04, 05, 06,14,15)The Secret Life of Bees (13)Sent for You Yesterday (03)Set This House on Fire (11)A Separate Peace (82, 07,13)The Shipping News (97)Siddhartha (13)Silas Marner (02)Sister Carrie (87, 02, 04, 06,10,15)Sister of My Heart (10)Slaughterhouse Five (91)Snow (15)Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (16)Snow Falling on Cedars (00,10,12)Song of Solomon (81, 88, 96, 00, 13)The Sorrows of Young Werther (13)Sons and Lovers (90)Sophie’s Choice (15)The Sound and the Fury (86, 97, 01, 04, 06, 08, 13,19)The Stone Angel (96)The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (11, 13)The Stranger (82, 86, 11)A Streetcar Named Desire (91, 92, 01, 07, 08, 09,14)Sula (92, 97, 02, 04, 06, kiCamusWilliamsMorrison
The Namesake (09, 13)Native Son (82, 83, 85, 87, 95, 01, 11,12,19)Native Speaker (99, 07)Never Let Me Go (09, 10)Nineteen Eighty-Four (87, 94, 05, 09)Noah’s Compass (14)No Country for Old Men (17)No Exit (86,12)Notes from the Underground (89)Obasan (94, 95, 04, 05, 06, 07,10)The Odyssey (86,10,15,17,19)Oedipus Rex (82, 00, 03, 04, 06, 11,17)Of Mice and Men (01)Oliver Twist (09, 15)One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (01,12,15)One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (05,10)One Hundred Years in Solitude (89,12)The Optimist's Daughter (94)Orlando (04, 06,17)Oresteia (90)Oryx and Crake (14,16,17)Othello (85, 88, 92, 95,14,15,16)The Other (10)Our Mutual Friend (90)Our Town (86, 97, 09)Paradise Lost (85, 86,10)A Passage to India (88, 91, 92, 07,12,18)Pere Goriot (02)Persuasion (90, 05, 07)Phedre (92, 03)The Piano Lesson (96, 99, 07, 08,12)The Picture of Dorian Gray (02,16,18)The Plague (02, 09,12)The Playboy of the Western WorldPnin (97)Pocho (02)The Poisonwood Bible (10, 11,12,14)A Portriat of the Artist as a Young Man (81, 86, 88, 96, 99, 04,05, 06 ,09,10, gsolverJoyceThe Sun Also Rises (85, 91, 95, 04, 05, 06,12,19)Surfacing (05)A Tale of Two Cities (82, 91, 08,14)Tartuffe (87)The Tempest (18,19)Tess of the D'Urbevilles (82, 91, 03, 07,12,14,15)Their Eyes Were Watching God (88, 90, 91, 96, 04, 05, 06,07, 08, 13,14,17)The Things They Carried (04, 06)Things Fall Apart (91, 97, 03, 09,10, 11,14,18)To Kill a Mockingbird (08, 09, 11, 13, 15,19)To the Lighthouse (86, 88)A Thousand Acres (11,14)A Thousand Splended Suns (11, 13)To the Lighthouse (18)Tom Jones (90, 00, 08,17)A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (13)The Trial (89, 00, 11)Trifles (00)Tristam Shandy (86)The Turn of the Screw (92, 94, 00, 02, 04, 06)Twelfth Night (85, 94, 9,16,17)Typical American (05)Uncle Tom's Cabin (87)Victory (83)Volpone (83)Waiting for Godot (85, 86, 89, 94, 01, 09,12,17)The Warden (96)Washington Square (90)The Wasteland (81)Watch on the Rhine (87)The Watch that Ends the Night (92)When the Emperor Was Divine (12,19)Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (88, 94, 00, 04, 06, 07,15,16)Woman Warrior (15)Wide Sargasso Sea (89, 92)Winter in the Blood (82, 89, 95)A Winter's Tale (86, 89)Wise Blood (82, 89, 95, r
Purple Hibiscus (13)The Portrait of a Lady (92, 96, 05,14,18,19)AdichieJamesThe Power of One (18)CourtenayThe Power and the Glory (95)A Prayer for Owen Meany (14,17)Pride and Prejudice (83, 88, 92, 97, 08,12,16)Pygmalion (92, 08)Ragtime (03, 07)A Raisin in the Sun (87, 90, 91, 94, 96, 99, yThe Women of Brewster Place (09,10,12,14,16)Woman Warrior (01)Wuthering Heights (82, 83, 86, 89, 90, 91, 92, 96, 97, 99, 01,07, 08,12,15,16,17)A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (16)The Zoo Story (01)Note: Each of the afore listed titles have been mentioned aspossible references for use on the AP Literature OpenQuestion. The years they are references are italicized.NaylorKingstonBronteDorrisAlbee
The Dollmaker (91) Arnow Lord of the Flies (85, 92,15) Golding A Doll's House (83, 87, 88, 95, 05, 09,16) Ibsen Love Medicine (95) Erdrich Don Quixote (92, 01, 04, 06, 08,19) Cervantes The Loved One (89) Waugh Dracula (17,18) Stoker The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (85) Eliot Dr. Zhivago (10) Pasternal Lysistrata (87) Aristophanes The English Patient (17) Ondaatje The Rape of the Lock (81) Pope
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