Chisnell's Master AP Reading List (So Far)
Fiction Writers
Abbott, Flatland
Achebe, Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God
Agee, A Death in the Family
Akutagawa, “In a Grave”
Alcott, Little Women, Little Men
Amis, Lucky Jim
Anaya
Anderson, S. Winesburg, Ohio, “The Egg”
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale, “You Begin,” Wilderness Tips,
Surfacing
Austen, Pride & Prejudice, Sense &
Sensibility, Emma
Baldwin, Another Country, “Sonny’s Blues,” Go Tell It On the
Mountain
Balzac, Pere Goriot
Barth, “Life Story,” Sot-weed Factor
Barthelme
Bellow, Adventures of Augie March, Herzog,
Seize the Day
Bierce, Devil’s Dictionary
Boccacio, Decameron
Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
Borges
Bradbury, Dandelion Wine, Something
Wicked This Way Comes,
“August 2002”
Bronte, A. Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Bronte, C. Jane Eyre, Villette
Bronte, E. Wuthering Heights
Buck, Good Earth
Butler, The Way of All Flesh
Camus, The Stranger, The Plague
Capote, In Cold Blood, Other Voices, Other
Rooms
Carver
Cather, My Antonia, Death Comes for the
Archbishop
Cervantes, Don Quixote
Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
Cheever
Chopin, Awakening, “Story of an Hour”
Cisneros, House on Mango Street
Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey, “The Star,”
“Nine Billion Names of God”
Colette, Gigi, Sido
Collins, Moonstone
Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, Lord
Jim, Nigger of the Narcissus, Secret
Sharer, Victory
Crane, “Experiment in Misery,” “Open
Boat,” “Blue Hotel”
Crane, Red Badge of Courage, “Open Boat”
Danticot, Krick? Krak!
Davies, Fifth Business
Dazai, No Longer Human
Defoe, Moll Flanders
Desai, In Custody
Dickens, Great Expectations, David
Copperfield, Tale of Two Cities,
Bleak House, Hard Times, Oliver Twist
Dinesen, Out of Africa
Doctorow, Ragtime, City of God
Dostoevski, Crime and Punishment, The
Possessed, Notes from the
Underground, Brothers Karamazov,
“Grand Inquisitor”
Doyle
Dreiser, American Tragedy
Eliot, T. S. “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
(essay), Murder in the Cathedral
Eliot, George, Adam Bede, Middlemarch, Mill
on the Floss, Silas Mariner
Ellison, H. “I Have No Mouth and I Must
Scream,” “’Repent, Harlequin!’ Said
the Ticktockman”
Ellison, R. Invisible Man, Juneteenth,
Shadow and Act
Erdrich, Love Medicine, Tracks, Beet Queen
Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Intruder in the
Dust, Sound and the Fury, A Light in
August, “Barn Burning,” “The Bear,”
“Rose for Emily,” Absalom, Absalom
Fielding, Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night
Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Ford, F.M., Good Soldier
Forster, Passage to India, Room With a View
Fowles, French Lieutenant’s Woman,
The Magus
Fuentes, Death of Artemio Cruz, Change of
Skin, “Aura”
Galsworthy, Forsyte Saga
Gardner, Grendel
Golding, The Spire, Lord of the Flies
Gogol, “The Overcoat,” Diary of a Madman
Greene, Power and the Glory, Heart of the Matter
Hardy, Madding Crowd, Return of the
Native, Jude the Obscure, Tess of
the D’Uberbervilles, Mayor of Casterbridge
Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter, “Young
Goodman Brown,” House of Seven Gables
Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
Heller, Catch-22, Something Happened
Hemingway, Sun Also Rises, Farewell to
Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Old
Man and the Sea
Henry, O.
Hersey, A Single Pebble
Hesse, Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, Demian
Hugo, Les Miserables
Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Brave New World
Irving, Legends of the Alhambra, Ciderhouse Rules
Ishiguro, Remains of the Day
Jackson, S.
James, Turn of the Screw, Daisy Miller,
Portrait of a Lady, “Birthplace,”
“Beast in the Jungle,” The American
Jewett, Country of the Painted Firs
Joyce, Dubliners, “Araby,” “The Dead,” Portrait of
the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, “Hunger Artist,” Metamorphosis, The
Trial, Amerika, Castle
Kawabata, Master of Go, etc.
Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Kingsolver, Poisonwood Bible
Kingston, M.H., Woman Warrior, “No Name
Woman”
Kipling, Gunga Din, Kim, “They,” “Man Who
Would Be King”
Koestler, Darkness at Noon
Kogawa
Laurence
Lawrence, D.H., Sons and Lovers, “Rocking
Horse Winner”
LeGuin, Dispossessed, Left Hand of
Darkness
Lessing, Martha Quest
Lewis, Babbitt, Main Street, Arrowsmith
Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
London, Call of the Wild
Mailer, Naked and the Dead
Malamud, The Natural, The Fixer, The
Pawnbroker
Mann, Doktor Faustus, Magic Mountain,
“Death in Venice,” Buddenbrooks
Mansfield, “Garden Party”
Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
Marquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold,
Love in the Time of Cholera
Mason, Four Feathers
Matheisson, The Snow Leopard
Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Maupassant
McCullers, Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” Moby
Dick, Billy Budd, Typee
Michener, The Source
Miller, H. Tropic of Cancer
Momaday
Monsarrat, Cruel Sea
Morrison, Beloved, Song of Solomon, Tar
Baby, Sula, Bluest Eye, Jazz, Paradise
Mukherjee
Murakami, Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Hard-Boiled Wonderland, Norwegian
Wood
Nabokov, “Signs and Symbols,” Pale Fire
O’Brien, T. Things They Carried
O’Connor, Frank, “Guests of the Nation”
Olson, Yonnondio
Ondaatge, In the Skin of a Lion
Orwell, 1984, Animal Farm
Ozida, Cannibal Galaxy
Paley, Enormous Changes at the Last
Minute, “Conversation With My
Father”
Parker, D.
Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country
Piercey, Woman on the Edge of Time
Porter, K.A., Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Ship of
Fools
Potok, Chosen, My Name is Asher Lev
Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
Rand, Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged,
Anthem
Reed, Mumbo Jumbo
Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight, Wild
Sargasso Sea
Robbe-Grillet
Rolvaag, Giants in the Earth
Rushdie, Shame
Salinger, Franny and Zooey, Catcher in the
Rye, Nine Stories
Saroyan, Human Comedy, Time of Your Life
Sayers, Nine Tailors
Shelley, Frankenstein
Sheridan, School for Scandal
Shute, On the Beach
Silko, Ceremony
Sinclair, Jungle
Singer, “Gimpel the Fool”
Smiley, All-Time True Adventures of Lidie Newton, A Thousand
Acres
Stafford, J.
Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and
Men, Tortilla Flat, Pearl
Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Styron, Sophie’s Choice
Swift, Guliver’s Travels, “A Modest
Proposal” (essay)
Thackeray, Vanity Fair
Thomas, D.
Thurber
Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Death of Ivan Ilych
Trollope, Barchester Towers
Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
Twain, Huck Finn, Pudd'nhead Wilson
Tyler, A. Accident Tourist, Dinner at the
Homesick Restaurant
Unamuno, Mist, “St. Emmanuel, Martyr”
Updike, Rabbit, Run, “A&P”
Uris, Trinity, Exodus
Valenzuela
Voltaire, Candide
Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five, God Bless
You, Mr. Rosewater
Walker, Color Purple
Warren, All the King's Men
Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Handful of Dust
Welty, Thirteen Stories, Optimist’s Daughter
Wharton, Ethan Frome, Age of Innocence
White, E.B.
White, T.H. Once and Future King, Sword in the Stone
Wideman
Wilde, Importance of Being Earnest, Picture of
Dorian Gray
Wilkie, W. Woman in White
Wilson, A. Jitney
Wolfe, Look Homeward Angel
Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, Mrs. Dalloway, “Shakespeare’s
Sister,” To the Lighthouse
Wouk, The Caine Mutiny
Wright, Native Son, Black Boy
Essayists and Philosophers
Addison
Anzaldoc
Aristotle
Arnold, M.
Augustine
Bacon
Baldwin
Beerbohm
Benedict, Patterns of Culture
Boswell
Camus
Carlysle
Cather
Churchill
Colin
Darwin
Descartes
Dewey
Dillard
Douglass, F.
Eliot
Emerson
Freud
Hazlitt
Hegel
Heidegger
Hobbes
Hume
James, W.
Johnson
Kant
Kierkegaard
King, Jr. M.L.
Lamb
Locke
Mailer
Marx
McCarthy, M.
Mencken
Mill
Montaigne
Nietzsche
Orwell
Plato
Rousseau
Russell
Russell
Santayana
Sartre
Schopenhauer
Skinner
Spinoza
Steele
Thomas, D.
Thoreau
Walker, A.
Whitehead
Wittgenstein
Wollstonecraft
Woolf
Dramatists
Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound
Albee, The Zoo, Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?, Tiny Alive
Anouilh, Antigone, The Lark
Baraka, Dutchman, “Preface to a Twenty
Volume Suicide Note” (poem)
Beckett, Waiting for Godot, Endgame
Checkhov, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard,
Three Sisters, “Medved”
Congreve, Way of the World
Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
Euripides, Medea
Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
Hansberry, Raisin in the Sun
Hellman, The Little Foxes
Huang, Madame Butterfly
Ibsen, Peer Gynt, Enemy of the People, Doll’s
House, Ghosts, Wild Duck, Hedda
Gabler, Master Builder
Ionesco, The Rhinoceros
Jonson, Every Man in His Humour, “To Celia”
(poem)
Miller, Death of a Salesman, Crucible
Moliere, Les Precieuses Ridicules, The
Misanthrope, Le Tartuffe
O’Casey, June and the Paycock
O’Neill, Hairy Ape, Desire Under the Elms,
Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes
Electra, Iceman Cometh, Long Day’s
Journey Into Night
Pinter, Dumb Waiter, Birthday Party
Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an
Author
Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
Sartre, No Exit
Schiller, Mary Stuart
Shakespeare, Hamlet, Othello, Tempest, King
Lear, Henry IV, Julius Caesar, MacBeth,
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard II,
Richard III, “Rape of Lucrece”
Shaw, Major Barbara, Arms and the Man,
Man and Superman, Pygmalion, St.
Joan
Shepard, Curse of the Starving Class, Buried
Child
Sheridan, School for Scandal
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Electra
Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are
Dead, Real Thing
Valdez
Wilde, Importance of Being Earnest, Picture
of Dorian Gray (novel)
Williams, T. Glass Menagerie, Streetcar
Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Wilson, Hot l Baltimore, Talley’s Folly
Poets
Ai
Auden
Baraka
Bible (Old and New Testaments)
Bishop
Blake
Bradstreet
Brathwaite
Brooks
Browning
Byron
Cervantes
Chaucer
Coleridge
Collins
Dante
Dickinson
Donne
Eliot
Frost
Ginsberg
H.D.
Hanjo
Heaney
Herbert
Homer
Hongo
Hopkins
Hughes
Jonson
Keats
Kerouac
Koznesensky
Larkin
Lowell
Marvell
Milton
Moore
Nemerov
Petrarch
Plath
Poe
Pope
Reed
Rich
Shakespeare
Shelley
Silko
Spenser
Stevens
Sung
Tennyson
Walcott
Whitman
Wilbur
Williams, W.C.
Wordsworth
Yeats