Advanced Placement Literature and Composition/ English 101

Summer Reading Assignment 2020-2021

Welcome to AP Lit/ English 101! I am glad you have chosen to take this class in the upcoming
school year. Whether you are pursuing AP credit or English 101 credit, it is vital that you read! I
will help you with many components of English and writing next year, but only if you are willing
to do the reading.
These are strange times, and I want to keep your brain active and prepared for the upcoming
school year. Our reading time together is limited, and your English success depends on a wide
variety of merited literature. The more you read, the more you understand, the more you will
excel in this course. For these reasons, complete the following assignment by the first day of
school in September, Wednesday, September 9th.
Read one book from Book Titles from Previous AP Literature Exam Questions (attached).
You could also utilize a College 101 Reading list. (If you want a real challenge, read more
than one book. Read two or three!!)
Complete the attached assignment for each book.
Try these for ideas:
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
A Light in August by William Faulkner
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Please avoid texts that you read previously, as well as All the Pretty Horse, The Bluest Eye, The
Kite Runner, The Awakening, Frankenstein, Death of Salesman, and Hamlet.
To find the book in our collection, go to Symbaloo > Destiny Books. Once you have selected
your books, email me or Mrs. Pattin, our librarian. [email protected] The book will
be then be checked out to you. You will be able to pick it up at RRHS Library Pick-Up from 1-3
Mondays and Tuesdays until the school year ends. Of course, these books are also available at
your local bookstores and at the library if it opens.
There are many resources on the net to guide you in your reading of the selections. Please do not
rely on Spark/Cliff notes or abbreviated versions to replace the actual reading of novels.
Email me with any questions or concerns. Have a great summer! I look forward to meeting each
of you in the fall.
Ms. Farley
[email protected]
 Major Works Data Sheet 1

Your Name

T itle :
Reminder: Academic integrity is paramount in all your work, including this assignment. Cite sources other than your own.

Author: Date of Publication:

Relevant Biographical Facts about the Genre: What genres might this text be categorized
author (Filter: how are aspects of the author’s biography as? Why?
relevant to the literature?)
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Historical Information about the Time Setting: Consider cultural traditions/attitudes as well
Period of this Publication: What was happening as physical places.
during the publication of this text?)
When:

Where:
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• Time:

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Location:

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Standard (RL. 11-12.5) Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and
build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text. Standard (RL.11-12.5) Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to
structure specific parts of a text contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact. Standard (RL. 11-12.10) By the end year, read and comprehend
grade level literature, including stories, dramas, and poems.

RRHS English Department 1

(1) Exposition Plot Summary (4) Falling Action
Setting? (Time/Place) Main characters? What is the outcome of the
climax?

(2) Rising Action (3) Climax (5) Resolution

What is the conflict? What are some of the What happens during the point How does it all work out
events that seem to make things worse? of greatest tension? (Note: this is (or not) at the end?
(Please provide events in chronological order.) always a scene.)

RRHS English Department 2

 Overall Structures

Opening Scene: describe the opening scene, Significance on the Text: Explain the
using evidence from the text. significance of the opening scene in connection with
the overall text.
Evidence: Evidence:

Overall description: Overall description:

Closing Scene: describe the closing scene, using Significance on the Text: Explain the
evidence from the text. significance of the closing scene in connection with
the overall text.
Evidence: Evidence:

Overall description: Overall description:

Significance: Explain the significance of the symbols in connection with the

Symbols: list the overall text.
symbols that appear in
the text.

RRHS English Department 3

 Characters
Protagonist’s Textual Evidence: What passages or Commentary: How is this
Name: quotes with citations demonstrate this? character complex? How does this
Consider the beginning, middle, end of the character support the overall text?
text. How does this character change
over the course of the text connect
with the overall message of the
text?
How does the •
character ACT
throughout the •
text?
•

How does the •

character LOOK
throughout the •
text?
•

What does the •

character SAY
throughout the •
text?
•

How does the •

character FEEL
throughout the •
text? About him/herself?
About others? About larger •
issues? throughout the
text?

What are OTHER •

CHARACTER’S
ATTITUDES about •
this character?
•

RRHS English Department 4

 Characters Continued

Additional Textual Evidence: What passages or Commentary: How is this

Character’s Name: quotes with citations demonstrate this? character complex? How does this
(antagonist, villain, foil) Consider the beginning, middle, end of the character support the overall text?
text. How does this character change
over the course of the text connect
with the overall message of the
text?
How does the •
character ACT
throughout the •
text?
•

How does the •

character LOOK
throughout the •
text?
•

What does the •

character SAY
throughout the •
text?
•

How does the •

character FEEL
throughout the •
text? About him/herself?
About others? About larger •
issues? throughout the
text?

What are OTHER •

CHARACTER’S
ATTITUDES about •
this character?
•

RRHS English Department 5

 Significant Style Notes

Device Definition: What Textual Evidence: What Commentary: What does the
is the definition of passages or quotes with citations author’s use of this device create in the
the device in your demonstrate this device? text? How is this device connected to
own words? the overall purpose of the text? How
does this device support the overall
text?
•

•
Diction

•
Imagery

•
Tone

RRHS English Department 6

 Overall Questions in the Text

Subject: What Thematic Questions: What is Textual Evidence: Possible Themes:

are the overall the overall, overarching question What evidence is there What is the overall
abstract nouns being asked in the text as a from the text to support this message from the
considered in whole? What is the author asking question? Character, plot, author to the reader
the reader to consider? setting, literary aspect? about life?
the text? (This is a
text about . . . Think Provide multiple passages,
of this as a big idea quote with citation as
topic, like evidence
“insincerity” or
“identity.”)

RRHS English Department 7

 Titles from Open Response Questions*
http://mseffie.com/AP/APtitles.html
Updated from an original list by Norma J. Wilkerson.
Works referred to on the AP Literature exams since 1971 (specific years in parentheses)
Please note that only authors were recommended in early years, not specific titles.​.

A
Absalom, Absalom​ by William Faulkner (76, 00, 10, 12)
Adam Bede​ by George Eliot (06)
The Adventures of Augie March​ by Saul Bellow (13)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn​ by Mark Twain (80, 82, 85, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 99, 05, 06, 07, 08, 11,
13)
The Aeneid​ by Virgil (06)
Agnes of God​ by John Pielmeier (00)
The Age of Innocence​ by Edith Wharton (97, 02, 03, 08, 12, 14)
Alias Grace​ by Margaret Atwood (00, 04, 08)
All the King’s Men​ by Robert Penn Warren (00, 02, 04, 07, 08, 09, 11)
All My Sons​ by Arthur Miller (85, 90)
All the Pretty Horses​ by Cormac McCarthy (95, 96, 06, 07, 08, 10, 11, 13)
America is in the Heart​ by Carlos Bulosan (95)
An American Tragedy​ by Theodore Dreiser (81, 82, 95, 03)
American Pastoral​ by Philip Roth (09)
The American b​ y Henry James (05, 07, 10)
Angels in America​ by Tony Kushner (09)
Angle of Repose​ by Wallace Stegner (10)
Anna Karenina​ by Leo Tolstoy (80, 91, 99, 03, 04, 06, 08, 09)
Another Country ​by James Baldwin (95, 10, 12)
Antigone​ by Sophocles (79, 80, 90, 94, 99, 03, 05, 09, 11, 14)
Anthony and Cleopatra​ by William Shakespeare (80, 91)
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz​ by Mordecai Richler (94)
Armies of the Night ​by Norman Mailer (76)
As I Lay Dying​ by William Faulkner (78, 89, 90, 94, 01, 04, 06, 07, 09)
As You Like It​ by William Shakespeare (92 05, 06, 10)
Atonement​ by Ian McEwan (07, 11, 13)
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man​ by James Weldon Johnson (02, 05)
The Awakening​ by Kate Chopin (87, 88, 91, 92, 95, 97, 99, 02, 04, 07, 09, 11, 14)
B
“The Bear” by William Faulkner (94, 06)
Beloved​ by Toni Morrison (90, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 10, 11, 14, 15)
A Bend in the River​ by V. S. Naipaul (03, 15)
Benito Cereno​ by Herman Melville (89)
Billy Budd​ by Herman Melville (79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 99, 02, 04, 05, 07, 08, 15)
The Birthday Party​ by Harold Pinter (89, 97)
Black Boy​ by Richard Wright (06, 08, 13, 15)
Bleak House​ by Charles Dickens (94, 00, 04, 09, 10)
Bless Me, Ultima​ by Rudolfo Anaya (94, 96, 97, 99, 04, 05, 06, 08)
The Blind Assassin​ by Margaret Atwood (07, 11)
The Bluest Eye​ by Toni Morrison (95, 08, 09)
Bone: A Novel​ by Fae M. Ng (03)
The Bonesetter’s Daughter​ by Amy Tan (06, 07, 11)
Brave New World​ by Aldous Huxley (89, 05, 09, 10)
Breath, Eyes, Memory​ by Edwidge Danticat (13)
Brideshead Revisted​ by Evelyn Waugh (12)
Brighton Rock b​ y Graham Greene (79)
Broken for You​ by Stephanie Kallos (09)
The Brothers Karamazov​ by Fyodor Dostoevski (90, 08)
Brown Girl, Brownstones​ by Paule Marshall (13)

C
Candida​ by George Bernard Shaw (80)
Candide​ by Voltaire (80, 86, 87, 91, 95, 96, 04, 06, 10)
The Canterbury Tales​ by Geoffrey Chaucer (06)
The Caretaker​ by Harold Pinter (85)
Catch-22​ by Joseph Heller (82, 85, 87, 89, 94, 01, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08, 11, 15)
The Catcher in the Rye​ by J. D. Salinger (01, 08, 11, 13)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof​ by Tennessee Williams (00)
Cat’s Eye​ by Margaret Atwood (94, 08, 09, 13, 15)
The Centaur​ by John Updike (81)
Ceremony​ by Leslie Marmon Silko (94, 96, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 06, 07, 09, 12)
The Cherry Orchard​ by Anton Chekhov (71, 77, 06, 07, 09, 10)
The Cider House Rules​ by John Irving (13)
The Chosen​ by Chaim Potok (08, 13)
“Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau (76)
Cold Mountain​ by Charles Frazier (06, 08)
The Color Purple​ by Alice Walker (92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 05, 08, 09, 12, 13)
Coming Through Slaughter​ by Michael Ondaatje (01)
Copenhagen​ by Michael Frayn (09)
The Country of the Pointed Firs​ by Sarah Orne Jewett (10)
Cry, The Beloved Country​ by Alan Paton (85, 87, 91, 95, 96, 07, 09)
Crime and Punishment​ by Fyodor Dostoevski (76, 79, 80, 82, 88, 96, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 09, 10, 11)
“The Crisis” by Thomas Paine (76)
The Crossing​ by Cormac McCarthy (09)
The Crucible ​by Arthur Miller (71, 83, 86, 89, 04, 05, 09, 14, 15)

D
Daisy Miller​ by Henry James (97, 03, 12)
Dancing at Lughnasa​ by Brian Friel (01)
David Copperfield​ by Charles Dickens (78, 83, 06, 13)
“The Dead” by James Joyce (97)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich​ by Leo Tolstoy (86)
Death of a Salesman​ by Arthur Miller (86, 88, 94, 03, 04, 05, 07, 12, 14)
Delta Wedding​ by Eudora Welty (97)
Desire under the Elms​ by Eugene O’Neill (81)
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant​ by Anne Tyler (97)
The Divine Comedy​ by Dante Alighieri (06)
The Diviners b​ y Margaret Laurence (95)
Doctor Faustus​ by Christopher Marlowe (79, 86, 99, 04, 11)
Doctor Zhivago​ by Boris Pasternak (10)
A Doll’s House​ by Henrik Ibsen (71, 83, 87, 88, 95, 05, 09)
The Dollmaker​ by Harriet Arnot (91)
Don Quixote​ by Miguel de Cervantes (01, 04, 06, 08)
Dreaming in Cuban​ by Cristina Garcia (03)
Dutchman​ by Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones (03, 06)

E
East of Eden b​ y John Steinbeck (06)
Emma​ by Jane Austen (96, 08)
An Enemy of the People​ by Henrik Ibsen (76, 80, 87, 99, 01, 07)
Equus​ by Peter Shaffer (92, 99, 00, 01, 08, 09)
Ethan Frome​ by Edith Wharton (80, 85, 03, 05, 06, 07, 14)
The Eumenides​ by Aeschylus (in ​The Orestia)​ (96)

F
The Fall​ by Albert Camus (81)
A Farewell to Arms​ by Ernest Hemingway (99, 04, 09)
The Father​ by August Strindberg (01)
Fathers and Sons​ by Ivan Turgenev (90)
Faust​ by Johann Goethe (02, 03)
The Federalist​ by Alexander Hamilton (76)
Fences​ by August Wilson (02, 03, 05, 09, 10)
A Fine Balance​ by Rohinton Mistry (03)
Fifth Business​ by Robertson Davis (00, 07)
The Fixer​ by Bernard Malamud (07)
For Whom the Bell Tolls​ by Ernest Hemingway (03, 06)
Frankenstein​ by Mary Shelley (89, 00, 03, 06, 08, 15)
A Free Life: A Novel​ by Ha Jin (10)

G
A Gathering of Old Men​ by Ernest Gaines (00, 11)
Germinal​ by Emile Zola (09)
A Gesture Life ​by Chang-Rae Lee (04, 05, 15)
Ghosts​ by Henrik Ibsen (00, 04)
The Glass Menagerie​ by Tennessee Williams (71, 90, 94, 97, 99, 02, 08, 09, 10, 12)
The God of Small Things​ by Arundhati Roy (10, 11, 13)
Going After Cacciato​ by Tim O’Brien (01, 06, 10)
The Golden Bowl​ by Henry James (09)
The Good Soldier​ by Ford Maddox Ford (00, 11)
The Grapes of Wrath​ by John Steinbeck (95, 03, 06, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13)
Great Expectations ​by Charles Dickens (79, 80, 88, 89, 92, 95, 96, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08, 10, 12, 13,
15)
The Great Gatsby​ by F. Scott Fitzgerald (82, 83, 88, 91, 92, 97, 00, 02, 04, 05, 07, 10)
Go Tell It on the Mountain​ by James Baldwin (83, 88, 90, 05, 09)
Gulliver’s Travels​ by Jonathan Swift (87, 89, 01, 04, 06, 09)

H
The Hairy Ape​ by Eugene O’Neill (89, 0994, 97, 99, 00)
Hamlet​ by William Shakespeare (88, 94, 97, 99, 00)
The Handmaid’s Tale​ by Margaret Atwood (03, 09)
Hard Times​ by Charles Dickens (87, 90, 09)
Heart of Darkness​ by Joseph Conrad (71, 76, 91, 94, 96, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 06, 09, 10, 11, 12, 15)
The Heart of the Matter b​ y Graham Greene (71)
Hedda Gabler ​by Henrik Ibsen (79, 92, 00, 02, 03, 05)
Henry IV, Parts I and II​ by William Shakespeare (80, 90, 08)
Henry V​ by William Shakespeare (02)
A High Wind in Jamaica​ by Richard Hughes (08)
The Homecoming​ by Harold Pinter (78, 90)
Home to Harlem​ by Claude McKay (10)
A House for Mr. Biswas​ by V. S. Naipul (10)
House Made of Dawn​ by N. Scott Momaday (95, 06, 09)
The House of Mirth​ by Edith Wharton (04, 07, 10)
The House of Seven Gables b​ y Nathaniel Hawthorne (89)
The House on Mango Street​ by Sandra Cisneros (08, 10, 13)

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, 12, 13, 15)

J
Jane Eyre​ by Charlotte Bronte (78, 79, 80, 88, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 00, 05, 07, 08, 10, 13)
Jasmine​ by Bharati Mukherjee (99, 10, 13)
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, 13)
Joseph Andrews​ by Henry Fielding (99)
Jude the Obscure​ by Thomas Hardy (71, 76, 80, 85, 87, 95, 04, 09, 10)
Julius Caesar b​ y 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, 12, 14)
The Kite Runner​ by Khaled Hosseini (07, 08, 09, 15)

L
Lady Windermere’s Fan​ by Oscar Wilde (09)
The Last of the Mohicans​ by James Fenimore Cooper (15)
A Lesson before Dying​ by Ernest Gaines (99, 11)
Letters from an American Farmer​ by St. John de Crèvecœur (76), 11)
Linden Hills​ by Gloria Naylor (14)
Light in August​ by William Faulkner (71, 79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 95, 99, 03, 06, 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, Ange​l 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, 15)
The Loved One​ by Evelyn Waugh (89)
Love Medicine b​ y Louise Erdrich (95)
“Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot (85)
Lysistrata b​ y Aristophanes (87)

M
Macbeth​ by William Shakespeare (83, 99, 03, 05, 09)
Madame Bovary​ by Gustave Flaubert (80, 85, 04, 05, 06, 09, 10)
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets​ by Stephen Crane (12)
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, 15)
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, 12)
Medea​ by Euripides (82, 92, 95, 01, 03, 15)
The Member of the Wedding​ by Carson McCullers (97, 08)
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter​ by Kim Edwards (09, 14)
The Merchant of Venice​ by William Shakespeare (85, 91, 95, 02, 03, 11, 15)
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, 12)
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, 14)
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, 12)
My Name is Asher Lev​ by Chaim Potok (03)

N
The Namesake​ by Jhumpa Lahiri (09, 10, 13)
Native Son ​by Richard Wright (79, 82, 85, 87, 95, 01, 04, 09, 11, 12)
Native Speaker​ by Chang-Rae Lee (99, 03, 05, 07, 08)
Never Let Me Go​ by Kazuo Ishiguro (09, 10)
Night​ by Elie Weisel (15)
1984​ by George Orwell (87, 94, 05, 09)
No Exit​ by John Paul Sartre (86, 12)
Noah’s Compass​ by Anne Tyler (14)
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, 15)
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, 15)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich​ by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (05, 10)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest​ by Ken Kesey (01, 12, 15)
One Hundred Years of Solitude​ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (89, 04, 12)
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)
Oryx and Crake​ by Margaret Atwood (12, 14)
Othello​ by William Shakespeare (79, 85, 88, 92, 95, 03, 04, 07, 11, 14, 15)
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, 12)
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, 12)
The Picture of Dorian Gray​ by Oscar Wilde (02)
The Plague​ by Albert Camus (02, 09, 12)
Pnin​ by Vladimir Nabokov (97)
Pocho​ by Jose Antonio Villarreal (02, 08)
The Poisonwood Bible​ by Barbara Kingsolver (10, 11, 12, 14)
Portrait of a Lady​ by Henry James ( 88, 92, 96, 03, 05, 07, 11, 14)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man​ by James Joyce (76, 77, 80, 86, 88, 96, 99, 04, 05, 08, 09, 10, 11, 13)
The Power and the Glory​ by Graham Greene (95)
Praisesong for the Widow​ by Paule Marshall (96)
A Prayer for Owen Meany b​ y John Irving (09, 14)
Pride and Prejudice​ by Jane Austen (83, 88, 92, 97, 08, 11, 12)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie​ by Muriel Spark (90, 08)
Purple Hibiscus​ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (13)
Push​ by Sapphire (07)
Pygmalion​ by George Bernard Shaw (03, 05, 08)

R
Ragtime​ by E. L. Doctorow (03, 07)
A Raisin in the Sun​ by Lorraine Hansberry (87, 90, 94, 96, 99, 07, 09, 12, 14)
The Rape of the Lock​ by Alexander Pope (81)
The Red Badge of Courage​ by Stephen Crane (08, 15)
Redburn​ by Herman Melville (87)
The Remains of the Day b​ y 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 b​ y Edward Albee (71)
The Scarlet Letter​ by Nathaniel Hawthorne (71, 77, 78, 83, 88, 91, 99, 02, 04, 05, 06, 11, 14, 15)
The Secret Life of Bees​ by Sue Monk Kidd (13)
Sent for You Yesterday​ by John Edgar Wideman (03)
A Separate Peace​ by John Knowles (82, 07, 13)
Set This House on Fire ​by William Styron (11)
The Shipping News​ by E. Annie Proulx (97)
Siddhartha​ by Herman Hesse (13)
Silas Marner​ by George Eliot (02)
Sister Carrie​ by Theodore Dreiser (87, 02, 04, 09, 10, 15)
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, 12)
A Soldier’s Play b​ y Charles Fuller (11)
Song of Solomon​ by Toni Morrison (81, 88, 96, 00, 04, 05, 06, 07, 10, 13)
Sons and Lovers​ by D. H. Lawrence (77, 90)
Sophie’s Choice​ by William Styron (09, 15)
The Sorrows of Young Werther​ by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (13)
The Sound and the Fury​ by William Faulkner (77, 86, 97, 01, 07, 08, 13)
The Stone Angel​ by Margaret Laurence (96, 04)
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle b​ y David Wroblewski (11, 13)
The Stranger​ by Albert Camus (79, 82, 86, 04)
A Streetcar Named Desire​ by Tennessee Williams (91, 92, 01, 04, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 14)
The Street​ by Ann Petry (07)
Sula​ by Toni Morrison (92, 97, 02, 04, 07, 08, 10, 12)
Surfacing b​ y Margaret Atwood (05)
The Sun Also Rises​ by Ernest Hemingway (85, 91, 95, 96, 04, 05, 12)

T
A Tale of Two Cities​ by Charles Dickens (82, 91, 04, 08, 14)
Tartuffe​ 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, 12, 14, 15)
Their Eyes Were Watching God​ by Zorah Neale Hurston (88, 90, 91, 96, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 10, 11, 13, 14)
Things Fall Apart​ by Chinua Achebe (91, 97, 03, 09, 10, 11, 14)
The Things They Carried​ by Tim O’Brien (04, 09)
A Thousand Acres​ by Jane Smiley (06, 14)
A Thousand Splendid Suns ​by Khaled Hosseini (11, 13)
To Kill a Mockingbird​ by Harper Lee (08, 09, 11, 13, 15)
To the Lighthouse​ by Virginia Woolf (77, 86, 88, 08)
Tom Jones​ by Henry Fielding (90, 00, 06, 08)
Tracks​ by Louise Erdrich (05)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn​ by Betty Smith (13)
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 b​ y Oliver Goldsmith (06)
Victory​ by Joseph Conrad (83)
Volpone​ by Ben Jonson (83)

W
Waiting for Godot​ by Samuel Beckett (77, 85, 86, 89, 94, 01, 09, 12)
The Warden​ by Anthony Trollope (96)
Washington Square​ by Henry James (90)
The Wasteland​ by T. S. Eliot (81)
Watch on the Rhine b​ y Lillian Hellman (87)
 The Way of the World ​by William Congreve (71)
The Way We Live Now b​ y Anthony Trollope (06)
We Were the Mulvaneys​ by Joyce Carol Oates (07)
When the Emperor Was Divine​ by Julie Otsuka (12)
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, 15)
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, 13)
The Women of Brewster Place​ by Gloria Naylor (09, 10, 12, 14)
Wuthering Heights​ by Emily Bronte (71,77, 78, 79, 83, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 96, 97, 99, 01, 06, 07, 08, 10,
12, 15)

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

​Most Frequently Cited 1970-2015

27 ​Invisible Man​ by Ralph Ellison

21 ​Wuthering Heights​ by Emily Bronte
19 ​Great Expectations ​by Charles Dickens
17 ​Heart of Darkness​ by Joseph Conrad
17 ​King Lear​ by William Shakespeare
16 ​Crime and Punishment​ by Fyodor Dostoevski
16 ​Jane Eyre​ by Charlotte Bronte
15 ​The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn​ by Mark Twain
15 ​Moby Dick​ by Herman Melville
14 ​Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man​ by James Joyce
14 ​The Scarlet Letter​ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
13 ​Their Eyes Were Watching God​ by Zorah Neale Hurston
13 ​The Awakening​ by Kate Chopin
13 ​Catch-22​ by Joseph Heller
12 ​Billy Budd​ by Herman Melville
12 ​The Great Gatsby​ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
11 ​Beloved​ by Toni Morrison
11 ​Ceremony​ by Leslie Marmon Silko
11 ​Light in August​ by William Faulkner
11 ​Othello​ by William Shakespeare
10 ​Antigone​ by Sophocles
10 ​As I Lay Dying​ by William Faulkner
10​ The Color Purple​ by Alice Walker
10 ​The Glass Menagerie​ by Tennessee Williams
10​ Native Son ​by Richard Wright
10​ Song of Solomon​ by Toni Morrison
10 ​A Streetcar Named Desire​ by Tennessee Williams
9 ​The Crucible ​by Arthur Miller
9 ​Death of a Salesman​ by Arthur Miller
9 ​A Passage to India​ by E. M. Forster
9 ​A Raisin in the Sun​ by Lorraine Hansberry
8​ All the Pretty Horses​ by Cormac McCarthy
8 ​Anna Karenina​ by Leo Tolstoy
8​ Bless Me, Ultima​ by Rudolfo Anaya
8 ​Candide​ by Voltaire
8​ The Grapes of Wrath​ by John Steinbeck
8​ Jude the Obscure​ by Thomas Hardy
8 ​The Jungle​ by Upton Sinclair
8 ​Portrait of a Lady​ by Henry James
8 ​Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead​ by Tom Stoppard
8 ​Sula​ by Toni Morrison
8​ Tess of the D’Urbervilles​ by Thomas Hardy
8 ​Waiting for Godot​ by Samuel Beckett
7 ​All the King’s Men​ by Robert Penn Warren
7 ​Cry, The Beloved Country​ by Alan Paton
7 Ethan Frome​ by Edith Wharton
7 ​Lord Jim​ by Joseph Conrad
7 ​Madame Bovary​ by Gustave Flaubert
7 ​The Mayor of Casterbridge​ by Thomas Hardy
7 ​Medea​ by Euripides
7 ​The Merchant of Venice​ by William Shakespeare
7 ​Oedipus Rex​ by Sophocles
7 ​Pride and Prejudice​ by Jane Austen
7 ​The Sound and the Fury​ by William Faulkner
7 ​The Sun Also Rises​ by Ernest Hemingway
7 ​The Tempest ​by William Shakespeare
7 ​Things Fall Apart​ by Chinua Achebe
7 ​Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?​ by Edward Albee
6 ​Age of Innocence​ by Edith Wharton
6 ​A Doll’s House​ by Henrik Ibsen
6 ​An Enemy of the People​ by Henrik Ibsen
6​ Equus​ by Peter Shaffer
6 ​Frankenstein​ by Mary Shelley
6​ ​Gulliver’s Travels​ by Jonathan Swift
6 ​Hedda Gabler ​by Henrik Ibsen
6 ​Major Barbara​ by George Bernard Shaw
6 ​Moll Flanders​ by Daniel Defoe
6 ​Mrs. Dalloway​ by Virginia Woolf
6 ​Murder in the Cathedral​ by T. S. Eliot
6 ​Obasan​ by Joy Kogawa
6 ​The Piano Lesson​ by August Wilson
6 ​The Turn of the Screw​ by Henry James
5 ​Bleak House​ by Charles Dickens
5 ​The Cherry Orchard​ by Anton Chkhov
5 ​Doctor Faustus​ by Christopher Marlowe
5 ​Go Tell It on the Mountain​ by James Baldwin
5​ Hamlet​ by William Shakespeare
5 ​Macbeth​ by William Shakespeare
5 ​Mrs. Warren’s Profession​ by George Bernard Shaw
5 ​Sister Carrie​ by Theodore Dreiser
5 ​A Tale of Two Cities​ by Charles Dickens
5 ​To Kill a Mockingbird​ by Harper Lee
5 ​Wide Sargasso Sea​ by Jean Rhys
5 ​Wise Blood​ by Flannery O’Connor

Shakespeare - All Plays Total = 82 Classical Greek & Roman Literature = 32

2 ​Anthony and Cleopatra 1​ The Aeneid​ by Virgil

4 ​As You Like It 10 ​Antigone​ by Sophocles
5 ​Hamlet 1 ​The Eumenides​ by Aeschylus
3 ​Henry IV, Parts I and II 1 ​The Iliad​ by Homer
1 ​Henry V 1 ​Lysistrata b​ y Aristophanes
 4 ​Julius Caesar 7​ Medea​ by Euripides
17 ​King Lear 4 ​The Odyssey​ by Homer
5 ​Macbeth 6 ​Oedipus Rex​ by Sophocles
7 Merchant of Venice 1 ​The Orestia​ by Aeschylus
2​ A Midsummer Night's Dream
2 ​Much Ado About Nothing
10​ Othello
1 ​Richard III
4 ​Romeo and Juliet
7 The Tempest
4​ Twelfth Night
4 ​Winter’s Tale

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*Includes both Form A and Form B
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titles.