Classic & Contemporary Literature

Listed by Author

In order to meet the needs of as many readers as possible, the literature listed below represents a wide range of subject matter and difficulty. Not all titles are suitable for every reader. Please refer to the AP English Reading List for selections that have an increased level of difficulty. Go to alphabetical listing by title. A, B Richard Adams (Watership Down) Louisa May Alcott (Little Women Jane Austen (Emma) Lynne Reid Banks (The Indian in the Cupboard) Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles) Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre) Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights) Pearl S. Buck (The Good Earth) Frances Hodgson Burnett (A Little Princess, The Secret Garden) Sheila Every Burnford (The Incredible Journey) C, D Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking Glass) Willa Cather (My Antonia) Sandra Cisneros (The House on Mango Street) James Fenimore Cooper (The Last of the Mohicans) Thomas B. Costain (The Black Rose) Stephen Crane (The Red Badge of Courage) Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe) Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince) Charles Dickens (Great Expectations) Frederick Douglass (My Bondage and My Freedom, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave) Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes) Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers)

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F, G
Walter Farley (The Black Stallion)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)
Ken Follett (The Pillars of the Earth)
Anne Frank/edited by Otto Frank (The Diary of Anne Frank)
Fred Gipson (Old Yeller)
William Golding (Lord of the Flies)

H, I, J
Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter)
Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises)
S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders)
Homer (The Odyssey)
Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)
Washington Irving (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)
Harriet A. Jacobs (Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl)
Brian Jacques (Redwall, the series)
Henry James (The Turn of the Screw)

K, L
M.M. Kaye (The Far Pavilions)
Rudyard Kipling (Captains Courageous, The Jungle Book)
Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Madeleine L'Engle (A Wrinkle in Time)
C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)
Jack London (The Call of the Wild, White Fang)
Lowis Lowry (The Giver)

M, O
Arthur Miller (The Crucible)
Lucy Maud Montgomery (The Anne of Green Gables series)
Toni Morrison (Beloved)
George Orwell (Animal Farm)

R, S
Ayn Rand (Anthem)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling)
J.K. Rowling (The Harry Potter series)
Louis Sachar (Holes)
J.D. Salinger (Catcher in the Rye)Jack Schaefer (Shane)
Sir Walter Scott (Ivanhoe)
William Shakespeare (Macbeth, The Tempest)
George Bernard Shaw (Pygmalion)Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)
Upton Sinclair (The Jungle)
Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
John Steinbeck (The Red Pony)
Robert Louis Stevenson (Kidnapped, Treasure Island)
Bram Stoker (Dracula)
Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels)

T
J.R.R. Tolkien (trilogy: The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit)
Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)
Mark Twain (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)

V, W
Jules Verne (Around the World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
Alice Walker (The Color Purple)
H.G. Wells (The Invisable Man, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds)
Edith Wharton (The Age of Innocence)
Elie Wiesel (Night)
Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
Laura Ingalls Wilder (The Little House series)

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