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AP English Literature Texts

The novels and plays most commonly studied in Advanced Placement English Literature courses across American high schools — the foundation of college-level literary study.

Hamlet William Shakespeare · 1603 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
King Lear William Shakespeare · 1608 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
Othello William Shakespeare · 1603 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
Beloved Toni Morrison · 1987 Editor's Choice See details →
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison · 1952 Essential Read See details →
The Color Purple Alice Walker · 1982 Essential Read See details →
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston · 1937 Essential Read See details →
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 Essential Read See details →
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad · 1899 Essential Read See details →
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe · 1958 Recommended See details →
The Awakening Kate Chopin · 1899 Essential Read See details →
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller · 1949 Essential Read See details →
Twelfth Night William Shakespeare · 1602 Essential Read See details →
The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare · 1600 Essential Read See details →
Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett · 1953 Essential Read See details →
A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry · 1959 Essential Read See details →
1984 George Orwell · 1949 Editor's Choice See details →
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866 Essential Read See details →
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy · 1877 Essential Read See details →
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner · 1929 Recommended See details →
Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy · 1985 Recommended See details →
Song of Solomon Toni Morrison · 1977 Recommended See details →
The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead · 2016 Essential Read See details →
Kindred Octavia Butler · 1979 Essential Read See details →
The Hate U Give Angie Thomas · 2017 Essential Read See details →
The Outsiders S.E. Hinton · 1967 Recommended See details →
Fences August Wilson · 1985 Essential Read See details →
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee · 1962 Essential Read See details →
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon · 2000 Essential Read See details →
My Antonia Willa Cather · 1918 Essential Read See details →
The Giver Lois Lowry · 1993 Recommended See details →
Small Island Andrea Levy · 2004 Essential Read See details →

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