<p>Everybody should have a handful of books that they enjoyed, know front and back and have analyzed pretty deeply, for writing the open-ended 3rd essay topic. So I ask you -- what is in your war chest?</p>
<p>I am ready to defend myself with:</p>
<p>King Lear
Hamlet
Macbeth
Native Son
Catcher in the Rye</p>
<p>Typical? Atypical? I really like Shakespeare.</p>
<p>Candide
The Awakening
Bless Me, Ultima
Beloved
Death of a Salesman</p>
<p>I need to read some sparknotes tonight.... :)</p>
<p>Macbeth
Hamlet
Crime and Punishment
Doll's House
Catch 22
Slaughterhouse Five
Oedipus Rex</p>
<p>Dorian Gray
Frankenstein</p>
<p>Hamlet
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Grapes of Wrath
Gulliver's Travels
The Glass Menagerie
Great Gatsby</p>
<p>The magic school bus.</p>
<p>jp,</p>
<p>so many threads on this...</p>
<p>Hamlet, Street Car, Frankenstein, some others.</p>
<p>Hamlet
Huck Finn
Wuthering Heights
Catcher in the Rye
Invisible Man
Great Gastby</p>
<p>i really need to read sparknotes tonight...</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness
Grapes of Wrath
Great Gatsby
Moby-Dick
Counte of Monte Cristo <-- is this considered "high-merit" literature????
Oedipus Rex
Hamlet
Macbeth</p>
<p>Les Miserables
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Invisible Man
Hamlet (we didnt finish reading it -_-)</p>
<p>but i dont feel too confident -.-</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness
Oedipus
Hamlet
Crime and Punishment
The Plague
Their Eyes were watching God</p>
<p>Things Fall Apart
Lord of the Flies
Ethan Frome
Hamlet
Middle Passage
Ragtime</p>
<p>Aww...</p>
<p>Everyone else has these big name novels - y'know, the tried and true. Some of mine are, too, but my AP English teacher is into some slightly less known/newer stuff.</p>
<p>To Kill a Mockingbird (again)
Medea
Doll's House
Fifth Child
Anna Karenina (though I don't think I remember it well enough to use it)
Waiting for Godot
A Streetcar Named Desire
Song of Solomon
Dr. Faustus</p>
<p>But knowing me, I'll end up using A Separate Peace again, just like I did for the SATs, the English SOLs, and any free-write essay.</p>
<p>I guess I know it and The Great Gatsby enough that I could use both, too, in addition to that mess that was my class reading list.</p>
<p>The Brothers Karamazov
Antigone (reread it today in my Latin class. Hooray for short plays!)
The Importance of Being Earnest
Brave New World
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment</p>
<p>Yeah, I love my Russians. I've decided that if there's any way I can write about The Brothers Karamazov, I will, though it's always Crime and Punishment that gets love from College Board. In all likelihood, though, I'll have to call up something not on my list.</p>
<p>For what it's worth, PrescitedEntity, you're probably better off writing about a book you've written about so often.</p>
<p>Hamlet
Ordinary People
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Longday's Journey into Night
1984
Rabbit Run</p>
<p>Any decent AP teacher should teach at least 8 different noted literary works that could be useful for the test.</p>
<p>i got these:
Heart of Darkness
King Lear
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
Brave New World
Death of a Salesman (my lit paper book)
Now for previous years:
Great Gatsby
Antigone
someothers not worth mentioning</p>
<p>@dr/owned: well my ap lit teacher is FAR from decent -____-</p>
<p>Ragtime
Hamlet
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (:D:D:D)
The Great Gatsby
The Poisonwood Bible</p>
<p>Some others too</p>