Must Reads for AP English Lit?

Test Preparation
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<p>I found this thread (<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=33698%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=33698&lt;/a&gt;), but it didn't have very many books. What books are must reads for the AP English Lit exam in May?</p>

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<p>well, in my class we're reading catch-22, gulliver's travels, hamlet, rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, pygmalion, moby dick, one hundred years of solitude, watt, (another book i don't remember), and a variety of poems such as "the love song of j alfred prufrock", "the flea", "to his coy mistress", "retired"...the list of poems probably numbers around 50.</p>

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<p>If you can handle Crime and Punishment on the exam well, you'll do fine.</p>

<p>We've read:</p>

<p>-The Assassination and Persecution of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the Inmates of the Asylum Charendon Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
-Merchant of Venice
-Brave New World
-1984
-Frankenstein
-The Orestian Trilogy
-Oedipus Rex
-Antigone
Sonnets by Edmund Spenser, Sir Sidney Philip, Shakespeare, several African American poets, and a few more here and there</p>

<p>Those are some of the titles we've read. We're reading Crime and Punishment right now.</p>

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<p>I'm really surprised to see people reading books in AP that I read in my regular classes. Our schools humanities program is really strong. Can't say as much for the math/sciences.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the suggestions! Keep the suggestions coming, please...</p>

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<p>the only ones we read were crime and punishment, their eyes were watching god, the merchant of venice...and that was fine for the exam</p>

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<p>How about a decent prep book for the objective portion of the test? I can't seem to not suck on those practice tests for some reason. It's trippy, 'cause I 5'ed Comp more or less no prep and I never missed over 14 objective q's. Idk.</p>

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<p>pollie's getting readdicted to CC. lol</p>

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<p>I suggest Princeton Review. I like it a whole lot better than Kaplan and Barrons. Another good one is Five Steps to a Five on the AP English Literature Exam. Your teacher might also have suggestions.</p>

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<p>Thus far we've read Crime and Punishment, Sophie's World (philosophy background), Hamlet, The Tempest, Brave New World, The Invisible Man, Wuthering Heights, Oedipus Rex and a lot of philosophy. He said his plan is 7 books. He forgot to define "books".</p>

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<p>yeah this site is addicting!! im so obsessed with getting into a good college even though my stats arent great.....i need to stop coming on here</p>

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<p>Here's what my class has read so far:
Crime and Punishment
The Oedipus trilogy/Antigone
Portrait of the Artist
Waiting for Godot
Much, much poetry</p>

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<p>You guys read a lot of books...</p>

<p>Our curriculum for the whole year is:</p>

<p>The Once and Future King
A Tale of Two Cities
Tess of the d'Urbervilles</p>

<p>From past history, it works ok, with anywhere from 0-5 5's (in a class of about 25) per year.</p>

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<p>My class were reading...</p>

<p>Posinwood Bible
Northanger Abbey
Othello
Heart of Darkness
House of Spirits
And a lot of Poetry</p>