Classic & Contemporary Literature

Listed by Title

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 author.


A, B
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Anne of Green Gables (the series) by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Black Rose by Thomas B. Costain
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

C, D
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Diary of Anne Frank edited by Otto Frank
Dracula by Bram Stoker


E, F, G
Emma by Jane Austen
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

H, I, J
Harry Potter (the series) by J.K. Rowling
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Holes by Louis Sachar
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Every Burnford
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
The Invisable Man by H.G. Wells
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

K, L
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Lord of the Rings (the trilogy) by J.R.R. Tolkien

M, N
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
My Antonia by Willa Cather
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass
Night by Elie Wiesel

O, P
The Odyssey by Homer
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

R, S
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
Redwall (the series) by Brian Jacques
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Shane by Jack Schaefer
Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

T, W, Y
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down by Richard Adams
White Fang by Jack London
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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