what's a good AP level book?

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<p>I'm in 10th grade but my teacher wants us to read AP level novels. I recently checked out "For Whom the Bells Toll" by ernest hemingway. is this book any good? or are there better options out there.
Thanks for any advice =]</p>

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<p>Stay away from Hemingway. Seriously, far away.</p>

<p>I liked Frankenstein by Shelley.</p>

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<p>I dunno, but if you havent read the Great Gatsby, you should</p>

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<p>The Outsider. but you may end up reading it anyways for AP Lit or Lang xD</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/learning/AP%20Syllabi/AP%20Lit&Comp.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/learning/AP%20Syllabi/AP%20Lit&Comp.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>You could look here - it’s a sample syllabus for Northwestern CTD’s AP Lit course.</p>

<p>You can also see sample syllabi at the College Board website:
[AP</a> Central - Welcome to AP Central](<a href=“Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board”>Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board)</p>

<p>and you can look at the AP course description for a list of representative authors:</p>

<p><a href=“Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board”>Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board;

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<p>Siddhartha by Herman Hesse is great. Hemingway’s short stories are also very good, especially “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”, which I find oddly peaceful.</p>

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<ol>
<li>I dunno if this is AP level, but it comes in handy for the SAT essays. Serioulsy almost every prompt can be related to 1984.</li>
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<p>anything written before 1800 on those “classic book lists”</p>

<p>also, Scarlet Letter, Pride and Prejudice, etc, etc</p>

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<p>It might also help to go through whatever past AP Lit exams they have up on College Board. One of the free response essays is always about a book you get to choose given a certain prompt. The prompts are always accompanied by a list of suggested books. It might help to gather a list of such books and see which ones show up the most often. (And, obviously, if they’re on the list, then they’re “AP level.”)</p>

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<p>Dante’s Inferno (or the entire Divine Comedy if you want), The Outsiders (really fun to read, it’s all about gangs and Greasers), and The Great Gatsby (I didn’t get into it until halfway through, but still a must read).</p>

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<p>Read as many of Shakespeare’s plays as you can. Hamlet and Macbeth are especially useful for AP classes IMO.</p>

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<p>My AP Lang class did Gatsby and Scarlet Letter, so I guess I’m seconding the above posts. We’ll also do Grapes of Wrath… after the AP test. Some of the AP Lit seniors at my school have done projects on Candide and Tess of the D’Urbervilles, both of which are way better than SL, in my opinion.</p>