List of AP Novels

The following novels have been used on AP tests. Where possible, the years of the AP test in question have been included. You may only select novels off this list to use for your IRA selections.

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Titles beginning with I - K
I


 * The Iliad by Homer (80)
 * The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (06)
 * The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (10)
 * In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien (00)
 * In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (05)
 * Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (76, 77, 78, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 01, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11)

J


 * Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (78, 79, 80, 88, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 00, 05, 07, 08, 10)
 * Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee (99, 10)
 * J.B. by Archibald MacLeish (81, 94)
 * Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson (00, 04)
 * The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (97, 03)
 * Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding (99)
 * Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (71, 76, 80, 85, 87, 95, 04, 09, 10)
 * Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (82, 97, 05, 07, 09)
 * The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 90, 96, 09)

K


 * Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (08)
 * King Lear by William Shakespeare (77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 90, 96, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 08, 10, 11)
 * The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (07, 08, 09)

Titles beginning with L - M
L


 * Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde (09)
 * A Lesson before Dying by Ernest Gaines (99, 11)
 * Letters from an American Farmer by de Crevecoeur (76), 11)
 * The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman (85, 90, 10)
 * Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (08)
 * Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill (90, 03, 07)
 * Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe (10)
 * Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (77, 78, 82, 86, 00, 03, 07)
 * Lord of the Flies by William Golding (85, 08)
 * The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh (89)
 * Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (95)
 * “Love Song of J. In order to find some time for myself I decided to search for service that could supply me with the prime quality custom essays at prices that would be reasonable enough. The final choice was QualityEssay.Com as they did have an excellent reputation. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot (85)
 * Lysistrata by Aristophanes (87)

M


 * Macbeth by William Shakespeare (83, 99, 03, 05, 09)
 * Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (80, 85, 04, 05, 06, 09, 10)
 * Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (87, 09)
 * Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw (79, 96, 04, 07, 09, 11)
 * Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw (81)
 * Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (03, 06)
 * Master Harold...and the Boys by Athol Fugard (03, 08, 09)
 * The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (94, 99, 00, 02, 07, 10, 11)
 * M. Butterfly by David Henry Wang (95, 11)
 * Medea by Euripides (82, 92, 95, 01, 03)
 * The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers (97, 08)
 * The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards (09)
 * The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (85, 91, 95, 02, 03, 11)
 * Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (78, 89)
 * Middlemarch by George Eliot (95, 04, 05, 07)
 * Middle Passage by V. S. Naipaul (06)
 * A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (06)
 * The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (90, 92, 04)
 * The Misanthrope by Moliere (08)
 * Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West (89)
 * Moby Dick by Herman Melville (76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 89, 94, 96, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 09)
 * Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (76, 77, 86, 87, 95, 09)
 * Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao (00, 03)
 * The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie (07)
 * Mother Courage and Her Children by Berthold Brecht (85, 87, 06)
 * Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (94, 97, 04, 05, 07, 11)
 * Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw (87, 90, 95, 02, 09)
 * Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (97)
 * Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot (76, 80, 85, 95, 07, 11)
 * “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning (85)
 * My Ántonia by Willa Cather (03, 08, 10)
 * My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (03)

Titles beginning with N - P
N


 * The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (09, 10)
 * Native Son by Richard Wright (79, 82, 85, 87, 95, 01, 04, 09, 11)
 * Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee (99, 03, 05, 07, 08)
 * Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (09, 10)
 * 1984 by George Orwell (87, 94, 05, 09)
 * No Exit by John Paul Sartre (86)
 * No-No Boy by John Okada (95)
 * Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevski (89)

O


 * Obasan by Joy Kogawa (94, 95, 04, 05, 06, 07, 10)
 * The Octopus by Frank Norris (09)
 * The Odyssey by Homer (86, 06, 10)
 * Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (77, 85, 88, 00, 03, 04, 11)
 * Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (01)
 * Old School by Tobia Wolff (08)
 * Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (09)
 * One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (05, 10)
 * One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (89, 04)
 * One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (01)
 * O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (06)
 * The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty (94)
 * The Orestia by Aeschylus (90)
 * Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (04)
 * Othello by William Shakespeare (79, 85, 88, 92, 95, 03, 04, 07, 11)
 * The Other by Thomas Tryon (10)
 * Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (90)
 * Our Town by Thornton Wilder (86, 97, 09)
 * Out of Africa by Isaak Dinesen (06)

P


 * Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (01)
 * Pamela by Samuel Richardson (86)
 * A Passage to India by E. M. Forster (71, 77, 78, 88, 91, 92, 07, 09)
 * Paradise Lost by John Milton (85, 86, 10)
 * Passing by Nella Larsen (11)
 * Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (06)
 * Père Goriot by Honore de Balzac (02)
 * Persuasion by Jane Austen (90, 05, 07)
 * Phaedre by Jean Racine (92, 03)
 * The Piano Lesson by August Wilson (96, 99, 07, 08, 10)
 * The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (02)
 * The Plague by Albert Camus (02, 09)
 * Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (97)
 * Pocho by Jose Antonio Villarreal (02, 08)
 * The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (10, 11)
 * Portrait of a Lady by Henry James ( 88, 92, 96, 03, 05, 07, 11)
 * Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (76, 77, 80, 86, 88, 96, 99, 04, 05, 08, 09, 10, 11)
 * The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (95)
 * Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall (96)
 * A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (09)
 * Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (83, 88, 92, 97, 08, 11)
 * The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (90, 08)
 * Push by Sapphire (07)
 * Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (03, 05, 08)

Titles beginning with R - S
R


 * Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (03, 07)
 * A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (87, 90, 94, 96, 99, 07, 09)
 * The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope (81)
 * The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (08)
 * Redburn by Herman Melville (87)
 * The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (00, 03, 11)
 * Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie (08, 09)
 * The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (07)
 * Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco (09)
 * Richard III by William Shakespeare (79)
 * A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean (08)
 * The Road by Cormac McCarthy (10)
 * Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (10)
 * A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (76)
 * A Room with a View by E. M. Forster (03)
 * Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (90, 92, 97, 08)
 * Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (81, 94, 00, 04, 05, 06, 10, 11)

S


 * Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw (95)
 * The Sandbox by Edward Albee (71)
 * The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (71, 77, 78, 83, 88, 91, 99, 02, 04, 05, 06, 11)
 * Sent for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman (03)
 * A Separate Peace by John Knowles (82, 07)
 * Set This House on Fire by William Styron (11)
 * The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (97)
 * Silas Marner by George Eliot (02)
 * Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (87, 02, 04, 09, 10)
 * Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (10)
 * Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (91, 04)
 * Snow by Orhan Pamuk (09)
 * Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (00, 10)
 * A Soldier’s Play by Charles Fuller (11)
 * Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (81, 88, 96, 00, 04, 05, 06, 07, 10)
 * Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence (77, 90)
 * Sophie’s Choice by William Styron (09)
 * The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (77, 86, 97, 01, 07, 08)
 * The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence (96, 04)
 * The Story of Edgar sawtelle by David Wroblewski (11)
 * The Stranger by Albert Camus (79, 82, 86, 04)
 * A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (91, 92, 01, 04, 07, 08, 09, 1, 110)
 * The Street by Ann Petry (07)
 * Sula by Toni Morrison (92, 97, 02, 04, 07, 08, 10)
 * Surfacing by Margaret Atwood (05)
 * The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (85, 91, 95, 96, 04, 05)

Titles beginning with T - V
T


 * A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (82, 91, 04, 08)
 * Tarftuffe by Moliere (87)
 * The Tempest by William Shakespeare (71, 78, 96, 03, 05, 07, 10)
 * Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (82, 91, 03, 06, 07)
 * Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston (88, 90, 91, 96, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 10, 11)
 * Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (91, 97, 03, 09, 10, 11)
 * The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (04, 09)
 * A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (06)
 * A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (11)
 * To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (08, 09, 11)
 * To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (77, 86, 88, 08)
 * Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (90, 00, 06, 08)
 * Tracks by Louise Erdrich (05)
 * The Trial by Franz Kafka (88, 89, 00, 11)
 * Trifles by Susan Glaspell (00)
 * Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (86)
 * The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (92, 94, 00, 02, 04, 08)
 * Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (85, 94, 96, 11)
 * Typical American by Gish Jen (02, 03, 05)

U


 * Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (87, 09)
 * U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos (09)

V


 * The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (06)
 * Victory by Joseph Conrad (83)
 * Volpone by Ben Jonson (83)

Titles beginning with W - Z
W
 * Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (77, 85, 86, 89, 94, 01, 09)
 * The Warden by Anthony Trollope (96)
 * Washington Square by Henry James (90)
 * The Wasteland by T. S. Eliot (81)
 * Watch on the Rhine by Lillian Hellman (87)
 * The Way of the World by William Congreve (71)
 * The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (06)
 * We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates (07)
 * Who Has Seen the Wind by W. O. Mitchell (11)
 * Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (88, 94, 00, 04, 07, 11)
 * Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (89, 92, 05, 07, 08)
 * The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen (78)
 * Winter in the Blood by James Welch (95)
 * Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare (82, 89, 95, 06)
 * Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor (82, 89, 95, 09, 10)
 * Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (91, 08)
 * The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor (09, 10)
 * Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (71,77, 78, 79, 83, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 96, 97, 99, 01, 06, 07, 08, 10)

Z
 * The Zoo Story by Edward Albee (82, 01)
 * Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez (95)