AP English Literature and Composition

Requirements

Students will need to obtain the following texts from either a library or a bookseller:

Disillusionment:

• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Struggle: Students choose one of the following:

• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
• Native Son by Richard Wright

Journey:

• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Love and Hate:

• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontё

Family:

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

More Than One Way:

• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• Discovery: Students choose one of the following:
• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood 
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
• Post Office by Charles Bukowski
• The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Still Alice by Lisa Genova
• Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
• Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami
• The Spanish Prisoner by David Mamet
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Binti: The Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
• Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
• Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
• The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown