AP® English Literature and Composition
Books Suggested Recently & Repeatedly*
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| 10 | Wuthering Heights🔧 — Emily Bronte (24b, 24a, 23b, 23a, 23, 22, 21, 17, 16, 15) |
| 9 | Jane Eyre🌟 — Charlotte Bronte (24b, 24a, 23b, 23a, 23, 22, 21, 17, 16) |
| 7 | Frankenstein🌟 — Mary Shelley (24b, 24a, 23b, 23, 18, 17, 15) |
| 7 | Great Expectations🔧 — Charles Dickens (23a, 22, 21, 19, 18, 17, 15) |
| 7 | Invisible Man🔧 — Ralph Ellison (24b, 23b, 23, 22, 19, 16, 15) |
| 7 | A Raisin in the Sun🔧 — Lorraine Hansberry (24b, 24a, 23b, 23, 22, 21, 18) |
| 6 | The Awakening🔧 — Kate Chopin (24b, 23b, 23a, 23, 21, 19) |
| 6 | Beloved🔧 — Toni Morrison (24a, 21, 18, 17, 16, 15) |
| 6 | Kindred🔧 — Octavia Butler (24b, 23b, 23a, 23, 21, 18) |
| 6 | Native Son🔧 — Richard Wright (24b, 23b, 23, 22, 21, 19) |
| 5 | Brave New World🌟 — Aldous Huxley (24b, 23b, 23, 19, 17) |
| 5 | Catch-22🔧 — Joseph Heller (23b, 23, 22, 16, 15) |
| 5 | Fences🔧 — August Wilson (24b, 23b, 23a, 23, 21) |
| 5 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest🔧 — Ken Kesey (24b, 24a, 23b, 23, 15) |
| 5 | The Scarlet Letter🌟 — Nathanial Hawthorne (24b, 23b, 23, 22, 15) |
| 5 | Their Eyes Were Watching God🔧 — Zora Neale Hurston (23b, 23a, 23, 22, 17) |
| 4 | Antigone🔧 — Sophocles (24b, 23b, 23, 19) |
| 4 | Ceremony🔧 — Leslie Marmon Silko (24b, 23b, 23a, 23) |
| 4 | The Color Purple🔧 — Alice Walker (23b, 23a, 23, 16) |
| 4 | The Crucible🌟 — Arthur Miller (23b, 23, 16, 15) |
| 4 | Fahrenheit 451🌟 — Ray Bradbury (23b, 23a, 23, 22) |
| 4 | The Handmaid's Tale🔧 — Margaret Atwood (24b, 23b, 23, 19) |
| 4 | The House of the Spirits🔧 — Isabel Allende (23b, 23a, 23, 22) |
| 4 | King Lear🔧 — William Shakespeare (23b, 23, 19, 18) |
| 4 | The Kite Runner🌟 — Khaled Hosseini (24a, 22, 16, 15) |
| 4 | Never Let Me Go🔧 — Kazuo Ishiguro (23b, 23, 21, 16) |
| 4 | The Nickel Boys🔧 — Colson Whitehead (23b, 23a, 23, 22) |
| 4 | Pride and Prejudice🔧 — Jane Austen (23b, 23, 22, 16) |
| 4 | There There🔧 — Tommy Orange (24b, 23b, 23a, 23) |
| 3 | Atonement🔧 — Ian McEwan (23b, 23, 16) |
| 3 | Death of a Salesman🔧 — Arthur Miller (24b, 21, 19) |
| 3 | Grendel🔧 — John Gardner (23b, 23, 17) |
| 3 | Heart of Darkness🔧 — Joseph Conrad (18, 16, 15) |
| 3 | The Joy Luck Club🔧 — Amy Tan (23b, 23a, 23) |
| 3 | Little Fires Everywhere🔧 — Celeste Ng (24b, 24a, 23a) |
| 3 | Love Medicine🔧 — Louise Erdrich (23b, 23, 22) |
| 3 | Madame Bovary🔧 — Gustave Flaubert (24a, 18, 16) |
| 3 | Metamorphosis🔧 — Franz Kafka (24a, 18, 17) |
| 3 | The Namesake🔧 — Jhumpa Lahiri (24a, 23b, 23) |
| 3 | The Odyssey🔧 — Homer (19, 17, 15) |
| 3 | Othello, the Moor of Venice🔧 — William Shakespeare (22, 16, 15) |
| 3 | Passing🔧 — Nella Larsen (24b, 23a, 21) |
| 3 | The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2🔧 — Henry James (19, 18, 16) |
| 3 | Sula🔧 — Toni Morrison (23b, 23, 21) |
| 3 | The Tempest🔧 — William Shakespeare (24b, 19, 18) |
| 3 | To Kill a Mockingbird🌟 — Harper Lee (21, 19, 15) |
| 3 | Washington Black🔧 — Esi Edugyan (23b, 23a, 23) |
| 2 | All the Light We Cannot See🔧 — Anthony Doerr (21, 18) |
| 2 | Anna Karenina🔧 — Leo Tolstoy (24a, 16) |
| 2 | Arcadia🔧 — Tom Stoppard (23b, 23) |
| 2 | The Bluest Eye🔧 — Toni Morrison (22, 19) |
| 2 | Crime and Punishment🔧 — Fyodor Dostoyevsky (18, 16) |
| 2 | Don Quixote🔧 — Miguel de Cervantes (24b, 19) |
| 2 | Dracula🌟 — Bram Stoker (18, 17) |
| 2 | A Gesture Life🔧 — Chang-rae Lee (19, 15) |
| 2 | The Glass Menagerie🔧 — Tennessee Williams (23b, 23) |
| 2 | The Goldfinch🔧 — Donna Tartt (24b, 18) |
| 2 | The Great Gatsby🌟 — F. Scott Fitzgerald (19, 16) |
| 2 | Half of a Yellow Sun🔧 — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (23b, 23) |
| 2 | Homegoing🔧 — Yaa Gyasi (21, 18) |
| 2 | A House for Mr. Biswas🔧 — V. S. Naipaul (23a, 21) |
| 2 | House Made of Dawn🔧 — N. Scott Momaday (23b, 23) |
| 2 | The House of Mirth🔧 — Edith Wharton (21, 19) |
| 2 | Howards End🔧 — E. M. Forster (24b, 21) |
| 2 | The Hummingbird's Daughter🔧 — Luis Alberto Urrea (23a, 22) |
| 2 | If Beale Street Could Talk🔧 — James Baldwin (24b, 22) |
| 2 | The Iliad🔧 — Homer (18, 17) |
| 2 | The Importance of Being Earnest🔧 — Oscar Wilde (19, 17) |
| 2 | In the Time of the Butterflies🔧 — Julia Alvarez (23b, 23) |
| 2 | Let the Great World Spin🔧 — Colum McCann (23b, 23) |
| 2 | Macbeth🔧 — William Shakespeare (24b, 17) |
| 2 | The Mayor of Casterbridge🔧 — Thomas Hardy (23a, 17) |
| 2 | Middlesex🔧 — Jeffrey Eugenides (23a, 16) |
| 2 | The Mill on the Floss🔧 — George Eliot (22, 19) |
| 2 | The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez🔧 — John Rechy (24a, 23a) |
| 2 | Moll Flanders🔧 — Daniel Defoe (23b, 23) |
| 2 | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous🔧 — Ocean Vuong (24b, 22) |
| 2 | Orlando: A Biography🔧 — Virginia Woolf (23a, 17) |
| 2 | Oryx and Crake🔧 — Margaret Atwood (17, 16) |
| 2 | Paradise Lost🔧 — John Milton (23b, 23) |
| 2 | A Passage to India🔧 — E. M. Forster (22, 18) |
| 2 | The Picture of Dorian Gray🔧 — Oscar Wilde (18, 16) |
| 2 | Professor's House, The🔧 — Willa Cather (24a, 21) |
| 2 | Sophie's Choice🔧 — William Styron (23a, 15) |
| 2 | Southernmost🔧 — Silas House (23b, 23) |
| 2 | Sweat🔧 — Zora Neale Hurston (24b, 22) |
| 2 | Tess of the d'Urbervilles🔧 — Thomas Hardy (24a, 15) |
| 2 | Things Fall Apart🌟 — Chinua Achebe (22, 18) |
| 2 | To the Lighthouse🔧 — Virginia Woolf (24b, 18) |
| 2 | Twelfth Night🔧 — William Shakespeare (17, 16) |
| 2 | Vanity Fair🔧 — William Makepeace Thackeray (23a, 22) |
| 2 | When the Emperor Was Divine🔧 — Julie Otsuka (24b, 19) |
| 2 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?🔧 — Edward Albee (16, 15) |
| 2 | The Women of Brewster Place🔧 — Gloria Naylor (22, 16) |