AP English IV Reading List

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<p>Hey everyone! I just wanted to know if anybody would like to give his or her opinion of the reading list that I have for AP English this year. I have to read eight of the books and write book analyses on them :/ Are some books better or more interesting than others? Are some easier to read? Please share!</p>

<p>ADVANCED PLACEMENT ENGLISH IV READING LIST</p>

<p>Anaya, Rudolfo... Bless me, Ultima (8)
Beckett, Samuel... Waiting for Godot (8)
Bronte, Charlotte... Jane Eyre (15)
Bronte, Emily... Wuthering Heights (20)
Conrad, Joseph... Heart of Darkness (16)
Dostoevsky, Fydor... Crime and Punishment (16)
Ellison, Ralph... Invisible Man(25)
Faulkner, William... Light in August(11) As I Lay Dying(10)
Forster, E.M. ... A Passage to India (9)
Hardy, Thomas... Jude the Obscure (8)
Heller, Joseph... Catch 22 (12)
Joyce, James... A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (12)
Melville, Herman... Moby Dick (15)
Morrison, Toni... Song of Solomon(9)
Shakespeare... Othello(9)
Silko, Leslie Marmon... Ceremony(11)
Tolstoy, Leo... Anna Karinina (8)
Wright, Richard... Native Son (10)
Voltaire... Candide (8)</p>

<p>By the way, the numbers after the books have to do something with how many times they've appeared on the AP test. I'm not exactly sure though. They're on the reading list that my teacher gave me, so I'm just keeping them there.</p>

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<p>Sucks that you have a limited list of literature. The prospect of picking authors/works based on appearance on the test is somewhat ridiculous. </p>

<p>Don’t know if you took Lang or not, but the whole point of AP English is to gain the love and skills of the language and its works. The skills you learn from the set of books you choose to read is applicable to any passage/essay you’ll read/write on the AP exam. </p>

<p>Trust me, when you write the 3rd essay for the exam you don’t want to be the 500th essay written on Catch 22 or Invisible Man. </p>

<p>I’m much more a fan of rhetorical works/non fiction works but i have a few favorites here. Ask your teacher if she’s willing to expand the list some.</p>

<p>Voltaire… Candide (8)
Dostoevsky, Fydor… Crime and Punishment (16)
Heller, Joseph… Catch 22 (12)
Melville, Herman… Moby Dick (15)</p>

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<p>Thank you for your insight. I don’t consider myself to be a proficient student of English. I’m mostly taking the class because it’s an AP :3 I don’t know if the teacher is willing to expand the list, but I can ask! I do know that most people who take this English class say that it’s harder than their freshman English class in college was, haha. I’ll see…</p>