5 Steps to a 5: AP English Literature - Estelle M. Rankin, Barbara L. Murphy 2019
General bibliography
Appendixes
Recommended Poets
In addition to those referred to throughout this book, the following poets are representative of the poets you will encounter on the exam.
Recommended Authors
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Aeschylus: Oresteia
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility
James Baldwin: Go Tell It on the Mountain
Saul Bellow: The Adventures of Augie March
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Albert Camus: The Stranger
Willa Cather: My Antonia, One of Ours, Death Comes to the Archbishop
Anton Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard
Kate Chopin: The Awakening
Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Sharer
Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage
Don Delillo: White Noise
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities
Isak Dinesen: Out of Africa
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment
Theodore Dreiser: An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie
George Eliot: Silas Marner, Middlemarch
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
Euripides: Medea
William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury
Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
E. M. Forster: A Passage to India
Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Joseph Heller: Catch-22
Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises
Homer: The Iliad, The Odyssey
Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner
Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler
Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day
Henry James: The Turn of the Screw, The American
James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners
Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis, The Trial
Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior
D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Herman Melville: Moby-Dick, Billy Budd
Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman, The Crucible
Toni Morrison: Beloved, Song of Solomon
V. S. Naipaul: A Bend in the River
Tim O’Brien: The Things They Carried
Eugene O’Neill: Desire Under the Elms, Long Day’s Journey into Night
George Orwell: 1984
Alan Paton: Cry, the Beloved Country
Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Paul Sartre: No Exit, Nausea
William Shakespeare: Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Twelfth Night
George Bernard Shaw: Major Barbara, Man and Superman, Pygmalion
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Sophocles: Antigone, Oedipus Rex
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row
Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
Amy Tan: The Kitchen God’s Wife
Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
John Updike: Rabbit Run
Voltaire: Candide
Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five
Alice Walker: The Color Purple
Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth
Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
Thornton Wilder: Our Town
Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
Richard Wright: Native Son