In order to fulfill requirements for this class,
you will select and read independent reading books. Your selections should be made from the
following list of authors, as they are considered appropriate for AP English
Literature and Composition. Please do
not read one of the books listed on my course syllabus, and do not choose a
book you have already read. You may,
however, read authors you have already read.
If you are choosing to read a book that is taught at Arlington as part
of any other course, you must check with me.
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If you select an author from the Drama list, you
must read TWO different plays by the same playwright.
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If you select short stories, as opposed to novels,
you should choose an anthology of stories by the same author.
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Some books on the AP independent reading bookshelf
in room 2425 are not by authors listed here.
However, those books are appropriate for this assignment.
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Assignment details will be given when the reading
is completed.
DRAMA:
Aeschylus, Edward Albee, Aristophanes, Amiri
Baraka, Samuel Beckett, Bertolt Brecht, Anton Chekhov, William Congreve,
Euripides, Goethe, Oliver Goldsmith, A.R. Gurney, Lorraine Hansberry, Lillian
Hellman, David Henry Hwang, Henrik Ibsen, Eugene Ionesco, Ben Jonson, David
Mamet, Christopher Marlowe, Arthur Miller, Moliere, Sean O’Casey, Eugene
O’Neill, Harold Pinter, Luigi Pirandello, Jean-Paul Sartre, William
Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Sam Shepard, Richard Brinsley Sheridan,
Sophocles, Tom Stoppard, Luis Valdez, John Webster, Oscar Wilde, Tennessee
Williams, August Wilson
FICTION (Novel and Short Story)
Chinua Achebe, Kingsley Amis, Rudolfo Anaya,
Sherwood Anderson, Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, James Baldwin, John Barth, Saul
Bellow, Jorge Luis Borges, Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Albert
Camus, Raymond Carver, Willa Cather, Cervantes, Sandra Cisneros, John Cheever,
Anton Chekov, Kate Chopin, Colette, Joseph Conrad, Julio Cortazar, Stephen Crane, James Fenimore Cooper, Lydia
Davis, Anita Desai, Don Delillo, Charles Dickens (not A Christmas Carol), Fyodor Dostoyevsky, George Eliot, Ralph
Ellison, Louis Erdrich, William Faulkner, Henry Fielding, F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Ford Madox Ford, E.M. Forster, John Gardner, Nikolay Gogol, Gunter Grass,
Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Herman Hesse, Zora Neale
Huston, Aldous Huxley, Kazuo Ishiguro, Henry James, Ha Jin, James Joyce, Yasunari
Kawabata, Franz Kafka, William Kennedy, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Maxine Hong
Kingson, Joy Kogawa, Milan Kundera, Margaret Laurence, D.H. Lawrence, Doris
Lessing, Naguib Mahfouz, Bernard
Malamud, N. Scott Momaday, Thomas Mann, Katherine Mansfield, Gabriel Garcia
Marquez, Bobbie Ann Mason, Cormac McCarthy, Carson McCullers, Herman Melville,
Toni Morrison, Bharati Mukherjee, Alice Munro, Vladimir Nabokov, Flannery
O’Connor, Cynthia Ozick, Katherine Anne Porter, Marcel Proust, Aleksandr
Pushkin, Thomas Pynchon, Jean Rhys, Philip Roth, Jean-Paul Sartre, Leslie
Marmon Silko, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Jonathan Swift, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan
Turgenev, Mark Twain, John Updike, Leon Uris, Luis Valenzuela, Alice Walker,
Evelyn Waugh, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, John Edgar Wideman, Oscar Wilde,
Thomas Wolfe, Virginia Woolf, Richard Wright
(Revised
9/2015)
