<p>Their Eyes Were Watching God, Crime and Punishment, The Bell Jar, Poetry of Adrienne Rich, Plath's Poetry, My Name is Asher Lev, Chronicles of a Death Foretold, The Scarlett Letter</p>
<p>A Farewell to Arms!!</p>
<p>My AP teacher was horrible. I didn't like most of the stuff he made us read, and we couldn't use most of it on the exam because it was recent. IE. Grendel, Beckett, PARADISE LOST ***, soem random story about the plague, a lot of Shakespeare that was horrible, and then he did some POEMS but not analyzing, just reading them to us (ancient mariner, excerpts from Morte d'Arthur)...</p>
<p>The only book I liked was BRAVE NEW WORLD and we read 1984 for summer reading and Once and Future King for summer reading, too.</p>
<p>Junior year it was just as bad - all of the books were about death and misery (Angela's Ashes, Day in the Life.., All Quiet..., Night..........) but I did like Siddhartha, a lot, I was glad it somehow made its way into the list.</p>
<p>My HS's English dept is horrible. On facebook there is a group, "Initiative to purge UDHS of the English Dept" its that bad.</p>
<p>BTW for my essays I used my all time favorite author Flaubert - we had to write a huge term paper on an author in 11th grade so I guess that was what helped me the most!</p>
<p>AP Lang--well, we only read two books, but I enjoyed Fast Food Nation.</p>
<p>AP Lit -- Waiting for Godot, Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Stranger, and Catch-22 (though that was independently chosen for the final research paper)</p>
<p>Memoirs of a Geisha!!!!</p>
<p>Macbeth, The Kite Runner, A Tale of Two Cities, Jane Eyre, The Poisonwood Bible, Pride and Prejudice</p>