Works on the Lists Following AP Literature Exam

Cheryl DeLacretaz

Dripping Springs High School

Dripping Springs, TX 78620

Works on the lists following AP Literature exam

open-ended essay prompts since 1971

(AP English exams have been given since 1956; until 1980, a single version of the English test was administered each year instead of the two versions—Language and Literature—that have been used since then. These pages include

titles from post-1970 suggested works lists that have followed most open-ended essay prompts.

The prompts for 1970, 1972-75, 1984, 1993, and 1998 did not suggest certain titles.)

Absalom, Absalom - Faulkner (1976, 2000, 2007, 2010B)

Adam Bede - Eliot (2006)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Twain (1980, 1982, 1985, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2005, 2005B,

2006, 2006B, 2007B, 2008, 2008B)

The Age of Innocence - Wharton (1997, 2002, 2003B, 2005, 2008)

Agnes of God - Pielmeier (2000)

Alias Grace - Atwood (2000, 2004, 2008)

All My Sons - Miller (1985, 1990)

All the King’s Men - Warren (2000, 2002, 2004, 2004B, 2007, 2008, 2009B, 2011)

All the Pretty Horses - McCarthy (1996, 2006, 2007B, 2008, 2010B, 2011)

The American – H. James (2005, 2007, 2010

American Pastoral (2009B)

An American Tragedy - Dreiser (1982, 1995, 2003)

Angels in America (2009B)

Angle of Repose (2010)

Anna Karenina - Tolstoy (1980, 1991, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004B, 2006, 2008, 2009B)

Another Country - Baldwin (1995, 2010)

Anthony and Cleopatra - Shakespeare (1980, 1991)

Antigone - Sophocles (1979, 1980, 1990, 1994, 1999, 2003, 2005B, 2006B, 2009B, 2011)

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Richler (1994)

Armies of the Night - Mailer (1976)

As I Lay Dying - Faulkner (1978, 1989, 1990, 1994, 2001, 2004B, 2006, 2007B, 2009)

As You Like It - Shakespeare (2005, 2006, 2010)

Atonement - McEwan (2007, 2010)

The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man - Johnson (2002, 2005)

The Awakening - Chopin (1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2004B, 2007, 2007B, 2009, 2009B)

The Bear - Faulkner (1994, 2006)

Beloved - Morrison (1990, 1999, 2001, 2002B, 2003, 2005B, 2006B, 2007, 2009, 2010B, 2011)

A Bend in the River - Naipaul (2003B)

Benito Cereno - Melville (1989)

Billy Budd - Melville (1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1999, 2002, 2004B, 2005, 2007B, 2008)

The Birthday Party - Pinter (1989, 1997)

Black Boy - Wright (2006, 200B)

Bleak House - Dickens (2000, 2004B, 2009, 2010B)

Bless Me, Ultima - Anaya (1996, 1997, 2004B, 2005, 2006, 2008)

The Blind Assassin - Atwood (2007, 2011)

The Bluest Eye – Morrison (1995, 2008B, 2009B)

The Bonesetter’s Daughter - Tan (2006, 2007, 2011)

Brave New World - Huxley (1989, 2005, 2010)

Brighton Rock - Greene (1979)

Broken for You (2009B)

The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky (1990, 2008)

Candida - Shaw (1980)

Candide - Voltaire (1980, 1985, 1987, 1991, 2004, 2010B)

The Caretaker - Pinter (1985)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Williams (2000, 2002B)

Catch-22 - Heller (1982, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1994, 2001, 2003B, 2004B, 2005, 2007B, 2008)

The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger (2001, 2008B)

Cat’s Eye - Atwood (1994, , 2008B, 2009)
The Centaur - Updike (1981)
Ceremony - Silko (1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003B, 2005B, 2006, 2006B, 2007B, 2009B)

The Cherry Orchard - Chekhov (1971, 1977, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010B)
The Chosen (2008B)

The Color Purple - Walker (1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2008, 2009)

Cold Mountain (2008)

Coming Through Slaughter - Ondaatje (2001)

Copenhagen (2009B)

The Country of Pointed First (2010B)

Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky (1976, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2002B, 2003, 2004, 2004B, 2005B, 2006B, 2009, 2010, 2011)

The Crisis – Paine (1976)

The Crossing (2009)
The Crucible - Miller (1971, 1983, 1987, 2004B, 2005, 2009, 2009B)
Cry, the Beloved Country - Paton (1985, 1987, 1991, 1995, 1996, 2007, 2009B)

Daisy Miller - James (1997, 2003B)

Dancing at Lughnasa - Friel (2001)
David Copperfield - Dickens (1978, 1983, 2006)

The Dead - Joyce (1997)
Death of a Salesman - Miller (1986, 1988, 1994, 2002B, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2007B)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Tolstoy (1986)

Delta Wedding - Welty (1997)
Desire Under the Elms - O’Neill (1979, 1981)
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Tyler (1997)

The Diviners - Laurence (1995)

Dr. Zhivago (2010)

The Dollmaker - Arnow (1981, 1991)
A Doll’s House - Ibsen (1971, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1995, 2002B, 2005, 2009, 2009B)

Don Quixote - Cervantes (1992, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008)
Dr. Faustus - Marlowe (1979, 1986, 1999, 2004)

Dreaming in Cuban – Garcia (2003B)

Dutchman - Knaak (2003B)

East of Eden - Steinbeck (2006)

Emma – Austen (1996, 2008)
An Enemy of the People - Ibsen (1976, 1980, 1987, 1999, 2001, 2007)
Equus - Shaffer (1992, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2008, 2009B)
Ethan Frome - Wharton (1980, 1985, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007)

Equus (2009)

The Fall - Camus (1979, 1981)
A Farewell to Arms - Hemingway (1991, 1999, 2004B, 2009)

The Father - Strindberg (2001)
Fathers and Sons - Turgenev (1990)

Faust - Goethe (2002, 2003)

The Federalist - Hamilton (1976)
Fences - Wilson (2002, 2003, 2005B, 2006B, 2009, 2010B)

Fifth Business - Davies (2000, 2007)

A Fine Balance - Mistry (2003B)

The Fixer - Malamud (2007)

For Whom the Bell Tolls – Hemingway (2003, 2006)

Frankenstein - Shelley (1989, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2008)
A Free Life: A Novel (2010B)

A Gathering of Old Men - Gaines (2000, 2011)

Germinal (2009B)

A Gesture Life - Lee (2004, 2005)
Ghosts - Ibsen (2000, 2002B, 2004, 2004B)
The Glass Menagerie - Williams (1971, 1990, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2008, 2009, 2010B)

The God of Small Things (2010B, 2011)

Going After Cacciato - O’Brien (2001, 2010B)
The Golden Bowl (2009)

The Good Soldier - Ford (2000)
Go Tell It on the Mountain - Baldwin (1988, 1990, 2005, 2009B)
The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck (1981, 1985, 1987, 1995, 2003B, 2006, 2009, 2009B, 2010B, 2011)
Great Expectations - Dickens (1979, 1980, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2002B, 2003B, 2004,

2005B, 2006B, 2007, 2007B, 2008B, 2010B)
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald (1982, 1983, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2002B, 2004, 2004B, 2005B, 2006B,

2007, 2007B, 2010B)
Gulliver’s Travels - Swift (1987, 1989, 2001, 2004, 2009B)
The Hairy Ape - O’Neill (1989, 2009)
Hamlet - Shakespeare (1988, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000)
The Handmaid’s Tale - Atwood (1992, 2003B, 2009B)
Hard Times - Dickens (1987, 1990, 2009B)
Heart of Darkness - Conrad (1971, 1976, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2002B, 2003B, 2004, 2004B, 2009, 2010)

The Heart of the Matter - Greene (1971)
Hedda Gabler - Ibsen (1979, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005B, 2006B)
Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 - Shakespeare (1980, 1990, 2008)

Henry V - Shakespeare (2002)
A High Wind in Jamaica (2008B)

Home to Harlem (2010B)

The Homecoming - Pinter (1978, 1990)

A House for Mr. Biwas (2010B)
House Made of Dawn - Momaday (1995, 2006, 2009B)

The House of Mirth - Wharton (2004B, 2007, 2010B)
The House of the Seven Gables - Hawthorne (1989)

The House on Mango Street (2008B, 1010B)
The Iliad - Homer (1980)

The Importance of Being Earnest - Wilde (2002B)

The Inheritance of Loss (2010B)
In the Lake of the Woods - O’Brien (2000)

In the Time of Butterflies – Alvarez (2005B, 2006B)
Invisible Man - Ellison (1976, 1977, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001,

2003B, 2004, 2005, 2007B, 2008, 2009, 2009B, 2010, 2010B, 2011)
J. B. - MacLeish (1981, 1994)
Jane Eyre - Bronte (1978, 1979, 1980, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002B, 2005B, 2006B, 2007,

2007B, 2008B, 2010, 2010B)
Jasmine - Mukherjee (1999)
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone - Wilson (2000, 2004)
Joseph Andrews - Fielding (1991)
The Joy Luck Club - Tan (1997, 2003B)
Jude the Obscure - Hardy (1971, 1976, 1980, 1985, 1987, 1991, 1995, 2004B, 2009, 2009B, 2010)
Julius Caesar - Shakespeare (1982, 1997, 2005B, 2006B, 2007B, 2009B)
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair (1987, 2009B)
Katka on the Shore (2008B)

King Lear - Shakespeare (1977, 1978, 1982, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1996, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2004B, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011)

The Kite Runner – Hosseini (2007, 2008, 2009)
Lady Windemere’s Fan (2009)

A Lesson Before Dying - Gaines (1999, 2011)

Letters from an American Farmer - de Crevecoeur (1976)
Light in August - Faulkner (1971, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1995, 1999, 2002B, 2003, 2011)
The Little Foxes - Hellman (1985, 1990, 2010, 2010B)
Little Women (2008B)

Long Day’s Journey Into Night - O’Neill (1990, 2003, 2007)

Look Homeward, Angel (2010B)
Lord Jim - Conrad (1977, 1978, 1982, 1986, 2000, 2003, 2007)
Lord of the Flies - Golding (1985, 1992, 2008B)

Love Medicine - Erdrich (1995)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Eliot (1985)
The Loved One - Waugh (1989)
Lysistrata - Aristophanes (1987)
Macbeth - Shakespeare (1983, 1999, 2002B, 2003, 2005B, 2006B, 2009)
Madame Bovary - Flaubert (1980, 1985, 2004B, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010)
Main Street - Lewis (1987, 2009B)
Major Barbara - Shaw (1979, 1996, 2004, 2007B, 2009B)
Man and Superman - Shaw (1981)
Mansfield Park - Austen (1991, 2003B, 2006)

“Master Harold” . . . and the boys - Fugard (2003B, 2008B, 2009B)
Mayor of Casterbridge - Hardy (1994, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2002B, 2007B2010)
Medea - Euripides (1982, 1992, 1995, 2001, 2003, 2011)

The Member of the Wedding - McCullers (1997, 2008B)
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter (2009)

The Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare (1985, 1991, 1995, 2002, 2003B, 2011)
Metamorphosis - Kafka (1978, 1989)

Middlemarch - Eliot (2004, 2005, 2007)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Shakespeare (1991, 2006)
The Mill on the Floss - Eliot (1990, 1992, 2004B)
The Misanthrope (2008)

Miss Lonelyhearts - West (1989)
Moby Dick - Melville (1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1989, 1994, 1996, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2004B, 2005B, 2006B,

2007, 2009)
Moll Flanders - Defoe (1976, 1977, 1986, 1987, 1995, 2009B)
Monkey Bridge - Cao (2000, 2003B)

The Moor’s Last Sigh - Rushdie (2007)
Mother Courage and Her Children - Brecht (1985, 1987)

Mrs. Dalloway – Woolf (1994, 1997, 2004B, 2005, 2007)

Mrs. Warren’s Profession - Shaw (1987, 1990, 1995, 2002, 2009B)

Much Ado About Nothing – Shakespeare (1997)
Murder in the Cathedral - Eliot (1976, 1980, 1985, 1990, 2007B, 2011)

My Antonia - Cather (2003B, 2008B, 2010)
My Last Duchess - Browning (1985)

My Name is Asher Lev - Potok (2003B)

The Namesake – (2009, 2010B)
Native Son - Wright (1979, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2004B, 2009B, 2011)
Native Speaker - Lee (1999, 2003B, 2005B, 2006B, 2007, 2008B)

Never Let Me Go (2009B, 2010B
1984 - Orwell (1987, 1994, 2005, 2009, 2009B)

No Country for Old Men (2011)
No Exit - Sartre (1986)

Obasan - Kogawa (1994, 1995, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010)

The Octopus (2009B)
The Odyssey - Homer (1986,2010)
Oedipus Rex - Sophocles (1977, 1985, 1988, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2011)

Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck (2001)

Oh Pioneers! - Cather (2006)

Old School (2008B)

Oliver Twist (2009B)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Solzhenitsyn (2005, 2010)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Kesey (2001)
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Garcia-Marquez (1989, 2004B)

The Optimist’s Daughter - Welty (1994)
The Oresteia - Aeschylus (1990)

Orlando - Woolf (2004)
Othello - Shakespeare (1979, 1985, 1988, 1992, 1995, 2003B, 2004B, 2007B)
The Other (2010)Our Mutual Friend - Dickens (1990)

Our Mutual Friend – Dickens (1990)
Our Town - Wilder (1986, 1997, 2009)

Out of Africa - Dinesen (2006)

Pale Fire - Nabokov (2001)
Pamela - Richardson (1986)
Paradise Lost - Milton (1985, 1986, 2010)
Passage to India - Forster (1971, 1977, 1978, 1988, 1991, 1992, 2007, 2009B)

Pere Goriot - Balzac (2002)
Persuasion - Austen (1990, 2005, 2007)

Phedre - Racine (1992, 2003)
The Piano Lesson - Wilson (1996, 1999, 2002B, 2007, 2008, 2010B)

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde (2002)

The Plague - Camus (2002, 2009)

The Playboy of the Western World - Synge (2002B)

Pnin - Nabokov (1997)
Pocho - Villareal (2002, 2008B)

The Poisonwood Bible (2010, 2010B, 2011)

The Portrait of a Lady - James (1988, 1992, 1996, 2003B, 2005, 2007B)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce (1976, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1986, 1988, 1996, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2005B,

2006B, 2008B, 2009, 2010, 2010B)

The Power and the Glory - Greene (1995)

Praisesong for the Widow - Marshall (1996)

A Prayer for Owen Meany (2009)
Pride and Prejudice - Austen (1983, 1988, 1992, 1997, 2008)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Sparks (1990, 2008B)

Push - Sapphire (2007B)

Pygmalion - Shaw (1992, 2003B, 2005B, 2006B, 2008)

Ragtime - Doctorow (2003, 2007)
A Raisin in the Sun - Hansberry (1987, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2007B, 2009, 2009B)
The Rape of the Lock - Pope (1979, 1981)
The Red Badge of Courage (2008B)

Redburn - Melville (1987)
The Remains of the Day - Ishiguro (2000, 2003B)

Reservation Blues (2008, 2009, 2009B)

The Return of the Native - Hardy (2007B)

Rhinoceros (2009B)

Richard II – Shakespeare (1979)
Richard III - Shakespeare (1987)

A River Runs Through It (2008B)