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English IV-AP Novel List
This list is compiled from “101 Great Books” recommended for college-bound readers by College Board, the General Bibliography published by McGraw-Hill in 5 Steps to a 5: AP English Literature and the “Top 100 Novels” as selected by the editorial board for the Modern Library and published by Random House.
1. --- Beowulf
2. Achebe Things fall Apart
3. Aeschylus Orestia (trilogy)
4. Agee A Death in the Family
5. Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale
6. Austin Pride and Prejudice
7. Baldwin Go Tell It on the Mountain
8. Beckett Waiting for Godot
9. Bellow The adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King
10. Bronte Jane Eyre
11. Bronte Wuthering Heights
12. Camus The Stranger
13. Cather Death Comes for the Archbishop, My Antonia, One of Ours
14. Chaucer The Canterbury Tales
15. Checkhov The Cherry Orchard
16. Chopin The Awakening
17. Cisneros The House on Mango Street
18. Conrad Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim
19. Cooper The Last of the Mohicans
20. Crane The Red Badge of Courage
21. Dante Inferno
22. de Cervantes Don Quixote
23. Defoe Robinson Crusoe
24. Delillo White Noise
25. Dickens Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities
26. Diamant The Red Tent
27. Dinesen Out of Africa
28. Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment
29. Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
30. Dreiser An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie
31. Dumas the Three Musketeers
32. Eliot Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner
33. Ellison Invisible Man
34. Euripedes Medea
35. Faulkner As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury
36. Fielding Tom Jones
37. Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night
38. Flaubert Madame Bovary
39. Ford The Good Soldier
40. Forster A Passage to India
41. Golding Lord of the Flies
42. Hardy Jude the Obscure, Tess of the d’Urvervilles
43. Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
44. Heller Catch-22
45. Hemingway A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises
46. Homer The Illiad, The Odyssey
47. Hosseini The Kite Runner
48. Hugo The Hunchback of Notre Dame
49. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God
50. Huxley Brave New World
51. Ibsen A Doll’s House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler
52. Ishiguro The Remains of the Day
53. James The American, The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw
54. Joyce Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
55. Kafka Metamorphosis, The Trial
56. Kerouac On the Road
57. Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
58. Kingston The Woman Warrior
59. Lawrence Sons and Lovers
60. Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
61. Lewis Babbitt
62. London The Call of the Wild, White Fang
63. Mann The Magic Mountain
64. Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
65. Melville Bartleby the Scrivener, Billy Budd, Moby Dick
66. Miller The Crucible, The Death of a Salesman
67. Morrison Beloved, Song of Solomon
68. Nabakov Lolita
69. Naipul A Bend in the River
70. O’Brien The Things They Carried
71. O’Connor “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
72. O’Neill Desire Under the Elms, Long Day’s Journey into Night
73. Orwell Animal Farm, 1984
74. Pasternak Doctor Zhivago
75. Patchett Bel Canto
76. Paton Cry, The Beloved Country
77. Pirsing Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
78. Plath The Bell Jar
79. Proust Swann’s Way
80. Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49
81. Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea
82. Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front
83. Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac
84. Roth Call It Sleep
85. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
86. Sartre Nausea, No Exit
87. Setterfield The Thirteenth Tale
88. Shakespeare Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, Twelfth Night
89. Shaw Major Barbara, Man and Superman, Pygmalion
90. Shelley Frankenstein
91. Silko Ceremony
92. Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
93. Sophocles Antigone, Oedipus Rex
94. Steinbeck Cannery Row, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men
95. Stevenson Treasure Island
96. Stoppard Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
97. Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin
98. Styron Sophie’s Choice
99. Swift Gulliver’s Travels
100. Tan The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife
101. Thackeray Vanity Fair
102. Thoreau Walden
103. Tolstoy Anna Karenina, War and Peace
104. Turgenev Fathers and Sons
105. Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
106. Updike Rabbit Run
107. Voltaire Candide
108. Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five
109. Walker The Color Purple
110. Wells The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds
110. Wharton Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth
111. Whitman Leaves of Grass
112. Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray
113. Wilder Our Town
114. Williams The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire
115. Wolfe To the Lighthouse
116. Wright Native Son