<p>Do you guys know the required books (or suggested book list) for AP Eng Lit? The teachers in my school "forgot" to tell us, and now we must find a list on our own.
Thanks in advance =]</p>
<p>(You might also do well to read a non-scholarly book on literary analysis. I found this</a> one to be particularly fascinating and enjoyable.)</p>
<p>Yeah its:</p>
<p>*Beloved by Toni Morrison
*Grimms Fairy Tales ("The Frog Prince," "Tom Thumb," "Cinderella," "Rapunzel," "Sleeping Beauty," "Hansel and Gretal," "Little Red Riding Hood," "Rumpelstilskin," "Snow White and Rose Red," and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
*Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton
(Part 1: Chapters 1,3,4)
(Part 2: Chapter 6)
(Part 3: Chapters 17, 18)</p>
<p>I hope this is what you're assignment is, because that is what our teacher gave us.</p>
<p>Not all schools have the same assignment. It depends on what your teacher selects.</p>
<p>My teacher assigned The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy and Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham</p>
<p>Every senior at my school is required to take AP English Lit senior year, and we received a list of books that are frequently referred to on the AP test. The list here --> <a href="http://www.lchigh.net/library/cheekap.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.lchigh.net/library/cheekap.htm</a> looks a lot like the list we got (I can't find my list right now, sorry!). Over the course of four years, we read a lot of the books on the list, but not all.</p>
<p>thanks so much for all the suggestions! my friend and i have decided to do trade-offs by reading every other book, then summarizing to each other. we'll see how well that goes :)</p>
<p>umm, there isnt a specific list, but this is a list of the most popular books to be used on the AP test...</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Much Ado About Nothing/Othello/Macbeth by Shakespeare
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles</p>
<p>My AP book list for the summer is Beowulf, 100 Years of Solitude, As You Like It, the Importance of Being Ernest, and then a literary analysis book. But, I know over the year we read Hamlet. Most of the books previously posted on here we've already read, soo...</p>
<p>Yeah books you should def look into - a lot of universal themes that are excellent to have for the open question in case the need arises:
(most are kinda boring tho)</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne</p>
<p>Some less universal books but still great are:
Catch-22 Joseph Heller - I used this book for this yr's AP lit exam
Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Beloved - Toni Morison
Lake of the Woods - Tim O'Brien
Candide - Voltaire
1984 - George Orwell
Othello - Shakespeare</p>