<p>Hey everyone! I'm starting to prepare for my APs next year, so I don't get too stressed out. As for AP Literature, I really want to read a handful of books over the summer that will help for the exam. Does anyone have advice as for which books are best?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
1984 by George Orwell
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte</p>
<p>in my lit class, we read books like:
the kite runner by khaled hosseini
their eyes were watching god by zora neale hurston
macbeth by Shakespeare
etc</p>
<p>Thanks you two! Yes-- I’ve read Babylon Revisited already (one of the best, if not the best, short stories in American literature).</p>
<p>Plays like Hamlet, Macbeth, and others by Shakespeare are extremely useful. Also A doll’s house by Henrik Ibsen( I used it this year) and Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky are good reads for AP lit. Although I thought crime and punishment was the hardest thing i’d ever read. But this is AP Lit! :D</p>
<p>Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky</p>
<p>I would also read some poetry- Dickinson, Shakespeare, some modern poets because there are MC and FRQ on poetry.</p>
<p>Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison will cover pretty much any essay questions for the book-based one.</p>
<p>Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Grendel by John Gardener</p>
<p>There are just too many books to list them all…</p>
<p>i sugges reading a book with poems. John Donne FTW</p>