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The following are the books they recommend someone read in AP English. I'm not taking it, but I'm going to read the books so I will be well read for college. They go as follows...
A Death in the Family- James Agee
Little Women- Louisa May Alcott
Handmaid's Tale- Margaret Atwood
Emma - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
Go Tell It on the Mountain- James Baldwin
Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
Mists of Avalon- Marion Zimmer Bradley
Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
Good Earth- Pearl S. Buck
The Pilgrim's Progress- John Bunyan
Alice in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass- Lewis Carroll
Don Quixote- Miguel Cervantes
The Awakening- Kate Chopin
Curtain- Agatha Christie
Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim- Joseph Conrad
Lords of Discipline- Pat Conroy
The Last of the Mohicans- James Fenimore Cooper
The Red Badge of Courage- Stephen Crane
The Great Train Robbery- Michael Crichton
Crusoe- Daniel Robinson Defoe
David Cooperfield- Charles Dickens
Great Expectations- Charles Dickens
Hard Times- Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment- F. Dostoyevsky
An American Tragedy- Theodore Dreiser
Adam Bede- George Eliot
Silas Marner- George Eliot
Invisible Man- Ralph Ellison
As I Lay Dying- William Faulkner
Light in August- William Faulkner
The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night- F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Passage to India- E.M. Forster
Lesson Before Dying- Ernest Gaines
Anne Frank Remembered- Miep Gies
Lord of the Flies- William Golding
Oldest Living Confederate Widow- Allan Gurganu
A Raisin in the Sun- Lorraine Hansberry
Far From the Madding Crowd- Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure- Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge- Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native- Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of Seven Gables- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter- Joseph Heller
Catch-22- Ernest Hemingway
Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises- Ernest Hemingway
Dune- Frank Herbert
A Farewell to Arms- Hermann Siddhartha Hesse
October Sky- Homer Hickam
The Iliad- Homer
The Odyssey- Homer
The Hunchback of Notre Dame- Victor Hugo
Les Miserables- Victor Hugo
Their Eyes Were Watching God- Zora Neale Hurston
Brave New World- Aldous Huxly
A Doll's House- Henrik Ibsen
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest- Ken Kesey
Poisonwood Bible- Barbara Kingsolver
All But My Life- Gerta Weissman Klein
A Separate Peace- John Knowles
To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
Arrowsmith- Sinclair Lewis
Babbit- Sinclair Lewis
Main Street- Sinclair Lewis
The Fixer- Bernard Malamud
Le Morte d'Arthur- Sir Thomas Malory
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter- Carson McCullers
Moby Dick- Herman Melville
The Crucible- Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman- Arthur Miller
Gone with the Wind- Margaret Mitchell
Beloved- Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon- Toni Morrison
Things They Carried- Tim O'Brien
Scarlet Pimpernel- Emmuska Orczy
1984- George Orwell
Doctor Zhivago- Pasternak
Cry, the Beloved Country- Alan Paton
The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath
The Chosen- Chaim Potok
All Quiet on the Western Front- Erich Remarque
Giants in the Earth- O.E. Rolvaag
The Little Prince- Antoine De Exupery
The Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger
The Human Comedy- William Saroyan
Ivanhoe- Sir Walter Scott
Saint Joan- George Bernard Shaw
Frankenstein- Mary Shelley
The Jungle- Upton Sinclair
One Day in hte Life of Ivan Denis- Alexander Solzhenitsvn
Stargirl- Jerry Spinelli
The Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck
Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson
Uncle Tom's Cabin- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Gulliver's Travels- Jonathan Swift
The Joy Luck Club- Amy Tan
Vanity Fair- William M. Thackeray
Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin- Mark Twain
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea- Jules Verne
Slaughterhouse Five- Kurt Vonnegut
Walden- Henry David Thoreau
The Color Purple- Alice Walker
All the King's Men- Robert Penn Warren
The Time Machine- H.G. Wells
Age of Innocence- Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome- Edith Wharton
The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
The Bridge of San Luis- Thornton Wilder
Our Town- Thornton Wilder
The Glass Menagerie- Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire- Tennessee Williams
This Boy's Life: A Memoir- Tobias Wolff
Black Boy- Richard Wright
Native Son- Richard Wright
I bolded the ones I've read, and it's not many. If you guys have any other books you recommend I read before college let me know. I have a year to read most of this stuff.