Advanced Placement Literature and Composition/ English 101
Summer Reading Assignment 2020-2021
Welcome to AP Lit/ English 101! I am glad you have chosen to take this class in the upcoming
school year. Whether you are pursuing AP credit or English 101 credit, it is vital that you read! I
will help you with many components of English and writing next year, but only if you are willing
to do the reading.
These are strange times, and I want to keep your brain active and prepared for the upcoming
school year. Our reading time together is limited, and your English success depends on a wide
variety of merited literature. The more you read, the more you understand, the more you will
excel in this course. For these reasons, complete the following assignment by the first day of
school in September, Wednesday, September 9th.
Read one book from Book Titles from Previous AP Literature Exam Questions (attached).
You could also utilize a College 101 Reading list. (If you want a real challenge, read more
than one book. Read two or three!!)
Complete the attached assignment for each book.
Try these for ideas:
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
A Light in August by William Faulkner
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Please avoid texts that you read previously, as well as All the Pretty Horse, The Bluest Eye, The
Kite Runner, The Awakening, Frankenstein, Death of Salesman, and Hamlet.
To find the book in our collection, go to Symbaloo > Destiny Books. Once you have selected
your books, email me or Mrs. Pattin, our librarian. Dpattin@nthurston.k12.wa.us The book will
be then be checked out to you. You will be able to pick it up at RRHS Library Pick-Up from 1-3
Mondays and Tuesdays until the school year ends. Of course, these books are also available at
your local bookstores and at the library if it opens.
There are many resources on the net to guide you in your reading of the selections. Please do not
rely on Spark/Cliff notes or abbreviated versions to replace the actual reading of novels.
Email me with any questions or concerns. Have a great summer! I look forward to meeting each
of you in the fall.
Ms. Farley
afarley@nthurston.k12.wa.us
Major Works Data Sheet 1
Your Name
T itle :
Reminder: Academic integrity is paramount in all your work, including this assignment. Cite sources other than your own.
Author: Date of Publication:
Relevant Biographical Facts about the Genre: What genres might this text be categorized
author (Filter: how are aspects of the author’s biography as? Why?
relevant to the literature?)
• •
• •
• •
• •
Historical Information about the Time Setting: Consider cultural traditions/attitudes as well
Period of this Publication: What was happening as physical places.
during the publication of this text?)
When:
Where:
•
• Time:
•
Location:
1
Standard (RL. 11-12.5) Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and
build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text. Standard (RL.11-12.5) Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to
structure specific parts of a text contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact. Standard (RL. 11-12.10) By the end year, read and comprehend
grade level literature, including stories, dramas, and poems.
RRHS English Department 1
(1) Exposition Plot Summary (4) Falling Action
Setting? (Time/Place) Main characters? What is the outcome of the
climax?
(2) Rising Action (3) Climax (5) Resolution
What is the conflict? What are some of the What happens during the point How does it all work out
events that seem to make things worse? of greatest tension? (Note: this is (or not) at the end?
(Please provide events in chronological order.) always a scene.)
RRHS English Department 2
Overall Structures
Opening Scene: describe the opening scene, Significance on the Text: Explain the
using evidence from the text. significance of the opening scene in connection with
the overall text.
Evidence: Evidence:
Overall description: Overall description:
Closing Scene: describe the closing scene, using Significance on the Text: Explain the
evidence from the text. significance of the closing scene in connection with
the overall text.
Evidence: Evidence:
Overall description: Overall description:
Significance: Explain the significance of the symbols in connection with the
Symbols: list the overall text.
symbols that appear in
the text.
RRHS English Department 3
Characters
Protagonist’s Textual Evidence: What passages or Commentary: How is this
Name: quotes with citations demonstrate this? character complex? How does this
Consider the beginning, middle, end of the character support the overall text?
text. How does this character change
over the course of the text connect
with the overall message of the
text?
How does the •
character ACT
throughout the •
text?
•
How does the •
character LOOK
throughout the •
text?
•
What does the •
character SAY
throughout the •
text?
•
How does the •
character FEEL
throughout the •
text? About him/herself?
About others? About larger •
issues? throughout the
text?
What are OTHER •
CHARACTER’S
ATTITUDES about •
this character?
•
RRHS English Department 4
Characters Continued
Additional Textual Evidence: What passages or Commentary: How is this
Character’s Name: quotes with citations demonstrate this? character complex? How does this
(antagonist, villain, foil) Consider the beginning, middle, end of the character support the overall text?
text. How does this character change
over the course of the text connect
with the overall message of the
text?
How does the •
character ACT
throughout the •
text?
•
How does the •
character LOOK
throughout the •
text?
•
What does the •
character SAY
throughout the •
text?
•
How does the •
character FEEL
throughout the •
text? About him/herself?
About others? About larger •
issues? throughout the
text?
What are OTHER •
CHARACTER’S
ATTITUDES about •
this character?
•
RRHS English Department 5
Significant Style Notes
Device Definition: What Textual Evidence: What Commentary: What does the
is the definition of passages or quotes with citations author’s use of this device create in the
the device in your demonstrate this device? text? How is this device connected to
own words? the overall purpose of the text? How
does this device support the overall
text?
•
•
Diction
•
Imagery
•
Tone
RRHS English Department 6
Overall Questions in the Text
Subject: What Thematic Questions: What is Textual Evidence: Possible Themes:
are the overall the overall, overarching question What evidence is there What is the overall
abstract nouns being asked in the text as a from the text to support this message from the
considered in whole? What is the author asking question? Character, plot, author to the reader
the reader to consider? setting, literary aspect? about life?
the text? (This is a
text about . . . Think Provide multiple passages,
of this as a big idea quote with citation as
topic, like evidence
“insincerity” or
“identity.”)
RRHS English Department 7
Titles from Open Response Questions*
http://mseffie.com/AP/APtitles.html
Updated from an original list by Norma J. Wilkerson.
Works referred to on the AP Literature exams since 1971 (specific years in parentheses)
Please note that only authors were recommended in early years, not specific titles..
A
Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner (76, 00, 10, 12)
Adam Bede by George Eliot (06)
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (13)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (80, 82, 85, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 99, 05, 06, 07, 08, 11,
13)
The Aeneid by Virgil (06)
Agnes of God by John Pielmeier (00)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (97, 02, 03, 08, 12, 14)
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (00, 04, 08)
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (00, 02, 04, 07, 08, 09, 11)
All My Sons by Arthur Miller (85, 90)
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (95, 96, 06, 07, 08, 10, 11, 13)
America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan (95)
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (81, 82, 95, 03)
American Pastoral by Philip Roth (09)
The American b y Henry James (05, 07, 10)
Angels in America by Tony Kushner (09)
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (10)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (80, 91, 99, 03, 04, 06, 08, 09)
Another Country by James Baldwin (95, 10, 12)
Antigone by Sophocles (79, 80, 90, 94, 99, 03, 05, 09, 11, 14)
Anthony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (80, 91)
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler (94)
Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer (76)
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (78, 89, 90, 94, 01, 04, 06, 07, 09)
As You Like It by William Shakespeare (92 05, 06, 10)
Atonement by Ian McEwan (07, 11, 13)
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson (02, 05)
The Awakening by Kate Chopin (87, 88, 91, 92, 95, 97, 99, 02, 04, 07, 09, 11, 14)
B
“The Bear” by William Faulkner (94, 06)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (90, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 10, 11, 14, 15)
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul (03, 15)
Benito Cereno by Herman Melville (89)
Billy Budd by Herman Melville (79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 99, 02, 04, 05, 07, 08, 15)
The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter (89, 97)
Black Boy by Richard Wright (06, 08, 13, 15)
Bleak House by Charles Dickens (94, 00, 04, 09, 10)
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya (94, 96, 97, 99, 04, 05, 06, 08)
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (07, 11)
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (95, 08, 09)
Bone: A Novel by Fae M. Ng (03)
The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan (06, 07, 11)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (89, 05, 09, 10)
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat (13)
Brideshead Revisted by Evelyn Waugh (12)
Brighton Rock b y Graham Greene (79)
Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos (09)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevski (90, 08)
Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall (13)
C
Candida by George Bernard Shaw (80)
Candide by Voltaire (80, 86, 87, 91, 95, 96, 04, 06, 10)
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (06)
The Caretaker by Harold Pinter (85)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (82, 85, 87, 89, 94, 01, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08, 11, 15)
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (01, 08, 11, 13)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams (00)
Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood (94, 08, 09, 13, 15)
The Centaur by John Updike (81)
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (94, 96, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 06, 07, 09, 12)
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (71, 77, 06, 07, 09, 10)
The Cider House Rules by John Irving (13)
The Chosen by Chaim Potok (08, 13)
“Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau (76)
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (06, 08)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker (92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 05, 08, 09, 12, 13)
Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje (01)
Copenhagen by Michael Frayn (09)
The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett (10)
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton (85, 87, 91, 95, 96, 07, 09)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski (76, 79, 80, 82, 88, 96, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 09, 10, 11)
“The Crisis” by Thomas Paine (76)
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy (09)
The Crucible by Arthur Miller (71, 83, 86, 89, 04, 05, 09, 14, 15)
D
Daisy Miller by Henry James (97, 03, 12)
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel (01)
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (78, 83, 06, 13)
“The Dead” by James Joyce (97)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy (86)
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (86, 88, 94, 03, 04, 05, 07, 12, 14)
Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty (97)
Desire under the Elms by Eugene O’Neill (81)
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler (97)
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (06)
The Diviners b y Margaret Laurence (95)
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (79, 86, 99, 04, 11)
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (10)
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen (71, 83, 87, 88, 95, 05, 09)
The Dollmaker by Harriet Arnot (91)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (01, 04, 06, 08)
Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia (03)
Dutchman by Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones (03, 06)
E
East of Eden b y John Steinbeck (06)
Emma by Jane Austen (96, 08)
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen (76, 80, 87, 99, 01, 07)
Equus by Peter Shaffer (92, 99, 00, 01, 08, 09)
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (80, 85, 03, 05, 06, 07, 14)
The Eumenides by Aeschylus (in The Orestia) (96)
F
The Fall by Albert Camus (81)
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (99, 04, 09)
The Father by August Strindberg (01)
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (90)
Faust by Johann Goethe (02, 03)
The Federalist by Alexander Hamilton (76)
Fences by August Wilson (02, 03, 05, 09, 10)
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (03)
Fifth Business by Robertson Davis (00, 07)
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (07)
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (03, 06)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (89, 00, 03, 06, 08, 15)
A Free Life: A Novel by Ha Jin (10)
G
A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines (00, 11)
Germinal by Emile Zola (09)
A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee (04, 05, 15)
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen (00, 04)
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (71, 90, 94, 97, 99, 02, 08, 09, 10, 12)
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (10, 11, 13)
Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien (01, 06, 10)
The Golden Bowl by Henry James (09)
The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford (00, 11)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (95, 03, 06, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (79, 80, 88, 89, 92, 95, 96, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08, 10, 12, 13,
15)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (82, 83, 88, 91, 92, 97, 00, 02, 04, 05, 07, 10)
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (83, 88, 90, 05, 09)
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (87, 89, 01, 04, 06, 09)
H
The Hairy Ape by Eugene O’Neill (89, 0994, 97, 99, 00)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare (88, 94, 97, 99, 00)
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (03, 09)
Hard Times by Charles Dickens (87, 90, 09)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (71, 76, 91, 94, 96, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 06, 09, 10, 11, 12, 15)
The Heart of the Matter b y Graham Greene (71)
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen (79, 92, 00, 02, 03, 05)
Henry IV, Parts I and II by William Shakespeare (80, 90, 08)
Henry V by William Shakespeare (02)
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes (08)
The Homecoming by Harold Pinter (78, 90)
Home to Harlem by Claude McKay (10)
A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipul (10)
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (95, 06, 09)
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (04, 07, 10)
The House of Seven Gables b y Nathaniel Hawthorne (89)
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (08, 10, 13)
I
The Iliad by Homer (80)
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (06)
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (10)
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien (00)
In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (05)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (76, 77, 78, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 01, 03, 04, 05, 07,
08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15)
J
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (78, 79, 80, 88, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 00, 05, 07, 08, 10, 13)
Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee (99, 10, 13)
J.B. by Archibald MacLeish (81, 94)
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson (00, 04)
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (97, 03, 13)
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding (99)
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (71, 76, 80, 85, 87, 95, 04, 09, 10)
Julius Caesar b y William Shakespeare (82, 97, 05, 07, 09)
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 90, 96, 09)
K
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (08)
King Lear by William Shakespeare (77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 90, 96, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 08, 10, 11, 12, 14)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (07, 08, 09, 15)
L
Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde (09)
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (15)
A Lesson before Dying by Ernest Gaines (99, 11)
Letters from an American Farmer by St. John de Crèvecœur (76), 11)
Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor (14)
Light in August by William Faulkner (71, 79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 95, 99, 03, 06, 11)
The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman (85, 90, 10)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (08)
Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill (90, 03, 07)
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe (10)
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (77, 78, 82, 86, 00, 03, 07)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (85, 08, 15)
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh (89)
Love Medicine b y Louise Erdrich (95)
“Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot (85)
Lysistrata b y Aristophanes (87)
M
Macbeth by William Shakespeare (83, 99, 03, 05, 09)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (80, 85, 04, 05, 06, 09, 10)
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane (12)
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (87, 09)
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw (79, 96, 04, 07, 09, 11)
Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw (81)
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (03, 06, 15)
Master Harold...and the Boys by Athol Fugard (03, 08, 09)
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (94, 99, 00, 02, 07, 10, 11)
M. Butterfly by David Henry Wang (95, 11, 12)
Medea by Euripides (82, 92, 95, 01, 03, 15)
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers (97, 08)
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards (09, 14)
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (85, 91, 95, 02, 03, 11, 15)
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (78, 89)
Middlemarch by George Eliot (95, 04, 05, 07)
Middle Passage by V. S. Naipaul (06)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (06, 12)
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (90, 92, 04)
The Misanthrope by Moliere (08)
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West (89)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 89, 94, 96, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 09)
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (76, 77, 86, 87, 95, 09)
Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao (00, 03)
The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie (07)
Mother Courage and Her Children by Berthold Brecht (85, 87, 06)
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (94, 97, 04, 05, 07, 11)
Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw (87, 90, 95, 02, 09)
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (97, 14)
Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot (76, 80, 85, 95, 07, 11)
“My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning (85)
My Ántonia by Willa Cather (03, 08, 10, 12)
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (03)
N
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (09, 10, 13)
Native Son by Richard Wright (79, 82, 85, 87, 95, 01, 04, 09, 11, 12)
Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee (99, 03, 05, 07, 08)
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (09, 10)
Night by Elie Weisel (15)
1984 by George Orwell (87, 94, 05, 09)
No Exit by John Paul Sartre (86, 12)
Noah’s Compass by Anne Tyler (14)
No-No Boy by John Okada (95)
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevski (89)
O
Obasan by Joy Kogawa (94, 95, 04, 05, 06, 07, 10)
The Octopus by Frank Norris (09)
The Odyssey by Homer (86, 06, 10, 15)
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (77, 85, 88, 00, 03, 04, 11)
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (01)
Old School by Tobia Wolff (08)
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (09, 15)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (05, 10)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (01, 12, 15)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (89, 04, 12)
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (06)
The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty (94)
The Orestia by Aeschylus (90)
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (04)
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (12, 14)
Othello by William Shakespeare (79, 85, 88, 92, 95, 03, 04, 07, 11, 14, 15)
The Other by Thomas Tryon (10)
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (90)
Our Town by Thornton Wilder (86, 97, 09)
Out of Africa by Isaak Dinesen (06)
P
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (01)
Pamela by Samuel Richardson (86)
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster (71, 77, 78, 88, 91, 92, 07, 09, 12)
Paradise Lost by John Milton (85, 86, 10)
Passing by Nella Larsen (11)
Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (06)
Père Goriot by Honore de Balzac (02)
Persuasion by Jane Austen (90, 05, 07)
Phaedre by Jean Racine (92, 03)
The Piano Lesson by August Wilson (96, 99, 07, 08, 10, 12)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (02)
The Plague by Albert Camus (02, 09, 12)
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (97)
Pocho by Jose Antonio Villarreal (02, 08)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (10, 11, 12, 14)
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James ( 88, 92, 96, 03, 05, 07, 11, 14)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (76, 77, 80, 86, 88, 96, 99, 04, 05, 08, 09, 10, 11, 13)
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (95)
Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall (96)
A Prayer for Owen Meany b y John Irving (09, 14)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (83, 88, 92, 97, 08, 11, 12)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (90, 08)
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (13)
Push by Sapphire (07)
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (03, 05, 08)
R
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (03, 07)
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (87, 90, 94, 96, 99, 07, 09, 12, 14)
The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope (81)
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (08, 15)
Redburn by Herman Melville (87)
The Remains of the Day b y Kazuo Ishiguro (00, 03, 11)
Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie (08, 09)
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (07)
Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco (09)
Richard III by William Shakespeare (79)
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean (08)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (10)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (10)
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (76)
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster (03)
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (90, 92, 97, 08)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (81, 94, 00, 04, 05, 06, 10, 11)
S
Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw (95)
The Sandbox b y Edward Albee (71)
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (71, 77, 78, 83, 88, 91, 99, 02, 04, 05, 06, 11, 14, 15)
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (13)
Sent for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman (03)
A Separate Peace by John Knowles (82, 07, 13)
Set This House on Fire by William Styron (11)
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (97)
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (13)
Silas Marner by George Eliot (02)
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (87, 02, 04, 09, 10, 15)
Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (10)
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (91, 04)
Snow by Orhan Pamuk (09)
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (00, 10, 12)
A Soldier’s Play b y Charles Fuller (11)
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (81, 88, 96, 00, 04, 05, 06, 07, 10, 13)
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence (77, 90)
Sophie’s Choice by William Styron (09, 15)
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (13)
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (77, 86, 97, 01, 07, 08, 13)
The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence (96, 04)
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle b y David Wroblewski (11, 13)
The Stranger by Albert Camus (79, 82, 86, 04)
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (91, 92, 01, 04, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 14)
The Street by Ann Petry (07)
Sula by Toni Morrison (92, 97, 02, 04, 07, 08, 10, 12)
Surfacing b y Margaret Atwood (05)
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (85, 91, 95, 96, 04, 05, 12)
T
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (82, 91, 04, 08, 14)
Tartuffe by Moliere (87)
The Tempest by William Shakespeare (71, 78, 96, 03, 05, 07, 10)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (82, 91, 03, 06, 07, 12, 14, 15)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston (88, 90, 91, 96, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 10, 11, 13, 14)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (91, 97, 03, 09, 10, 11, 14)
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (04, 09)
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (06, 14)
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (11, 13)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (08, 09, 11, 13, 15)
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (77, 86, 88, 08)
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (90, 00, 06, 08)
Tracks by Louise Erdrich (05)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (13)
The Trial by Franz Kafka (88, 89, 00, 11)
Trifles by Susan Glaspell (00)
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (86)
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (92, 94, 00, 02, 04, 08)
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (85, 94, 96, 11)
Typical American by Gish Jen (02, 03, 05)
U
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (87, 09)
U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos (09)
V
The Vicar of Wakefield b y Oliver Goldsmith (06)
Victory by Joseph Conrad (83)
Volpone by Ben Jonson (83)
W
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (77, 85, 86, 89, 94, 01, 09, 12)
The Warden by Anthony Trollope (96)
Washington Square by Henry James (90)
The Wasteland by T. S. Eliot (81)
Watch on the Rhine b y Lillian Hellman (87)
The Way of the World by William Congreve (71)
The Way We Live Now b y Anthony Trollope (06)
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates (07)
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (12)
Who Has Seen the Wind by W. O. Mitchell (11)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (88, 94, 00, 04, 07, 11, 15)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (89, 92, 05, 07, 08)
The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen (78)
Winter in the Blood by James Welch (95)
Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare (82, 89, 95, 06)
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor (82, 89, 95, 09, 10)
Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (91, 08, 13)
The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor (09, 10, 12, 14)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (71,77, 78, 79, 83, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 96, 97, 99, 01, 06, 07, 08, 10,
12, 15)
Z
The Zoo Story by Edward Albee (82, 01)
Zoot Suit b y Luis Valdez (95)
Most Frequently Cited 1970-2015
27 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
21 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
19 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
17 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
17 King Lear by William Shakespeare
16 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski
16 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
15 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
15 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
14 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
14 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
13 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston
13 The Awakening by Kate Chopin
13 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
12 Billy Budd by Herman Melville
12 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
11 Beloved by Toni Morrison
11 Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
11 Light in August by William Faulkner
11 Othello by William Shakespeare
10 Antigone by Sophocles
10 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
10 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
10 The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
10 Native Son by Richard Wright
10 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
10 A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
9 The Crucible by Arthur Miller
9 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
9 A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
9 A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
8 All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
8 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
8 Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
8 Candide by Voltaire
8 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
8 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
8 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
8 Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
8 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
8 Sula by Toni Morrison
8 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
8 Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
7 All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
7 Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
7 Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
7 Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
7 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
7 The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
7 Medea by Euripides
7 The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
7 Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
7 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
7 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
7 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
7 The Tempest by William Shakespeare
7 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
7 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
6 Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
6 A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
6 An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
6 Equus by Peter Shaffer
6 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
6 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
6 Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
6 Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
6 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
6 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
6 Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot
6 Obasan by Joy Kogawa
6 The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
6 The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
5 Bleak House by Charles Dickens
5 The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chkhov
5 Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
5 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
5 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
5 Macbeth by William Shakespeare
5 Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw
5 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
5 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
5 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
5 Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
Shakespeare - All Plays Total = 82 Classical Greek & Roman Literature = 32
2 Anthony and Cleopatra 1 The Aeneid by Virgil
4 As You Like It 10 Antigone by Sophocles
5 Hamlet 1 The Eumenides by Aeschylus
3 Henry IV, Parts I and II 1 The Iliad by Homer
1 Henry V 1 Lysistrata b y Aristophanes
4 Julius Caesar 7 Medea by Euripides
17 King Lear 4 The Odyssey by Homer
5 Macbeth 6 Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
7 Merchant of Venice 1 The Orestia by Aeschylus
2 A Midsummer Night's Dream
2 Much Ado About Nothing
10 Othello
1 Richard III
4 Romeo and Juliet
7 The Tempest
4 Twelfth Night
4 Winter’s Tale
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*Includes both Form A and Form B
No specific works were mentioned on some of the earliest exams and others listed authors, not
titles.
