<p>I am taking AP lit next year. After taking Lang and Comp I realized I didnt like the way assignments had been placed. There were too many little gaps of nothing and then a huge overwhelming reading assignment( I cannot read The Grapes of Wrath in three days!!!).</p>
<p>Long post short. Those of you who have taken AP Lit plz post a list of books that you have read in the class.</p>
<p>Thank You =D</p>
<p>It varies from school to school...however, Lit & Comp is generally easier workload-wise than Lang & Comp (or so I hear...my school only offers Lit & Comp, so I can't speak from personal experience :) )</p>
<p>Required reading:
Inferno
Paradise Lost
Storyteller
Siddhartha
Black Boy
Wuthering Heights
Things Fall Apart
Crime and Punishment
Brave New World
1984
Utopia
The Mayor of Casterbridge</p>
<p>Optional Reading:
Emma
The Old Man and the Sea
Black Elk Speaks
The Iliad
The Martian Chronicles
Paradise Regained
Pride and Prejudice
Cry the Beloved Country
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Fahrenheit 451
Heart of Darkness</p>
<p>For the record, none of us did the optional reading, but I'm fairly certain I got either a 4 or a 5.</p>
<p>Nice. Ty that helps alot and being that I'm reading Brave New World and 1984 for pleasure I guess Im ahead. The Illiad? Eeew. No wonder u didnt do the optional reading =D</p>
<p>yeah, it's basically just literature.. from anywhere to anything.. from Crime and Punishment to A Tale of Two Cities to Metamorphosis. it's everything - and it is fun.</p>
<p>Paradise Lost was bad enough lol
At least the Iliad has...er...crude appeal</p>
<p>But our teacher paced us pretty well...3 weeks for each book (except for Crime & Punishment, where we got 5)</p>
<p>In all, though, these reading assignments can't get you more than ~20% of the points on the exam. That means you can get a 5 without ever doing it</p>
<p>It's still recommended that you do a lot of reading, though...makes the multiple choice easier</p>
<p>Oh yeah, there is a lot of poetry as well..and it's really helpful for the AP test.</p>
<p>I did really poorly on the last poem...something about blue artichokes lol...</p>
<p>HAHA, yeah, surprisingly I understood that last poem. The first passage was the hardest for me.. but I think I got the right idea..hopefully.....</p>
<p>Which one was that? The lawyer guy thing? I found that one much easier than the artichoke lady...</p>
<p>how does the AP Lit test differ from the AP lang and comp test?</p>
<p>no grammar, no vocab...just 4-5 excerpts that you need to answer MC questions for, 2 excerpts for FR, and 1 essay question that you have to answer based on a book from a list</p>
<p>So they expect u to have actually read the book?</p>
<p>umm...yeah :/</p>
<p>The list is really big, though, and you only write based on your knowledge of one of them. If you read the 12 books that I listed under required reading, <em>one</em> of them is bound to show up.</p>
<p>Here's my List</p>
<p>Required
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Thing Fall Apart
The Things They Carried
Fences
Long Days Journey
Moll Flanders
Catch 22
The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Natural
Joy Luck Club
Antigone
Hamlet
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Slaughterhouse V
The Importance of Being Earnest
Candide</p>
<p>Optional
The Great Gatsby
On The Road
A Streetcar Named Desire
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest</p>