Okay, this is basically a list of books that are good to read for AP class and for college.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Scarlett Letter - Nathaniel Hawethorn
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anything by Shakespeare - I'm fond of Hamlet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and Taming of the Shrew
There really are so many more, but brain is overloaded now. Feel free to add on!
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Brave New World by Aldous (sp?) Huxley (good book as well)
Frankenstien by Mary Shelley
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
...and others, I'm sure. I'm still in the class but hey, shouldn't totaly matter, right?
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Anything by Jane Austen is good too.
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Crucible Arthur Miller
A good tip that I got from my AP Lit teacher is not to just simply read the book, but to then go onto Sparknotes and study those as well, this way you can more easily know the analysis of these books if you don't have the innate ability to analyze and read.
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right... Bronte sisters: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights , as previously mentioned anything by Jane Austen , Virgina Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway , Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Othello....(so many plays so little time), Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Anthem , ... The Grapes of Wrath, The Jungle, Vanity Fair(William Thackery), anything Dickens: Tale of Two Cities, etc. Good luck!
most of those books will be required reading for ap english 12
Ha ha, I read most of those in English 11H. This year we're reading:
The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Maxine Hong Kingston)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
and we're reading a few others too.
has anyone read The Man In the Iron Mask. There are absolutely no cliffnotes or spark notes and i need back up with the characters and certain events. I am almost done with the book and my thest is coming up soon. I need to be sure i have the right information regarding each of the characters. Please if anyone has any useful information respond ASAP.
wow...I'm in AP Eng Lang and I've actually read most of these books in class...
Here are a couple more really "deep" and great books:
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
Cry, the Beloved Country by (I really don't remember right now...)
***Some that were already mentioned, and I totally agree with:
Grapes of
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Good works of American and British Literature include:
The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Samuel Clemens
The Iliad and The Odyssey - Homer
Paradise Lost - John Milton
Moby Dick and Billy Budd - Herman Melville
The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen (Something)
The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad
Night - Elie Wiesel
The Martian Chronicles and Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
1984 and Animal Farm - George Orwell
A Brave New World - (Forgot author)
Kindred - Octavia E. Butler
The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
Rabble in Arms - (Forgot)
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Fountainhead and Anthem - Ayn Rand
Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield
In Our Time - Ernest Hemingway
The Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe - Edgar Allen Poe
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Othello, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Julius Cæsar, and King Lear - William Shakespeare
The top list of must reads before college; I admit, I have not heard of some, and read far fewer of them than I should have; but, the ones I did read were mostly decent. Plus, there a repeats on the list and the forum, so we are all on the right track!
http://www.intothebest.com/Books2ReadBeforeCollege.html
Green, E. A. What to Read Before College. Cleveland: The Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1970.
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Out teacher made us read Lord of the Flies in 10th. What a demonic book. Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand is supposed to be good.
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