MAJOR WORKS
FROM AP LIT EXAM
1981-1997
| AUTHOR | TITLE | AUTHOR | TITLE |
| Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart | Joyce, James | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| Anaya, Rudolfo | Bless Me, Ultima | Kafka, Franz | The Metamorphosis |
| Arnow, Harriette | The Dollmaker | Kafka, Franz | The Trial |
| Atwood, Margaret | Cat's Eye | Kingston, Maxine Hong | The Woman Warrior |
| Atwood, Margaret | The Handmaid's Tale | Knowles, John | A Separate Peace |
| Austen, Jane | Emma | Kogawa, Joy | Obasan |
| Austen, Jane | Mansfield Park | Lawrence, D. H. | Sons and Lovers |
| Austen, Jane | Persuasion | Lewis, Sinclair | Main Street |
| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice | MacLennan, Hugh | Watch That Ends the Night |
| Baldwin, James | Another Country | McCarthy, Cormac | All the Pretty Horses |
| Baldwin, James | Go Tell It On the Mountain | McCullers, Carson | Member of the Wedding |
| Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre | Melville, Herman | Benito Cereno |
| Bronte, Emily | Wuthering Heights | Melville, Herman | Billy Budd |
| Bulosan, Carlos | America Is in the Heart | Melville, Herman | Moby Dick |
| Camus, Albert | The Stranger | Milton, John | Paradise Lost |
| Camus, Albert | The Fall | Momaday, N. Scott | House That Dawn Made |
| Cervantes, Miguel | Don Quixote | Morrison, Toni | Beloved |
| Chopin, Kate | The Awakening | Morrison, Toni | The Bluest Eye |
| Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness | Morrison, Toni | Song of Solomon |
| Conrad, Joseph | Lord Jim | Morrison, Toni | Sula |
| Conrad, Joseph | Victory | Nabokov, Vladimir | Pnin |
| Defoe, Daniel | Moll Flanders | O'Connell, Carol | The Stone Angel |
| Dickens, Charles | Bleak House | O'Connor, Flannery | Wise Blood |
| Dickens, Charles | David Copperfield | Okada, John | No No Boy |
| Dickens, Charles | Great Expectations | Orwell, George | Nineteen Eighty-Four |
| Dickens, Charles | Hard Times | Paton, Alan | Cry, the Beloved Country |
| Dickens, Charles | Our Mutual Friend | Paule, Marshall | Praisesong for the Widow |
| Dickens, Charles | A Tale of Two Cities | Proulx, Annie | The Shipping News |
| Dostoevsky, Feodor | The Brothers Karamazov | Racine, Jean | Phedre |
| Dostoevsky, Feodor | Crime and Punishment | Rhys, Jean | Wide Sargasso Sea |
| Dreiser, Theodore | An American Tragedy | Richardson, Samuel | Pamela |
| Dreiser, Theodore | Sister Carrie | Richler, Mordecai | Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz |
| Eliot, George | Middlemarch | Roth, Arthur | The Caretaker |
| Eliot, George | Mill on the Floss | Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein |
| Ellison, Ralph | Invisible Man | Sinclair, Upton | The Jungle |
| Erdrich, Louise | Love Medicine | Spark, Muriel | Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| Faulkner, William | As I Lay Dying | Steinbeck, John | The Grapes of Wrath |
| Faulkner, William | The Bear | Sterne, Laurence | Tristram Shandy |
| Faulkner, William | Light in August | Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Faulkner, William | The Sound and the Fury | Swift, Jonathan | Gulliver's Travels |
| Fielding, Henry | Joseph Andrews | Pope, Alexander | The Rape of the Lock |
| Fielding, Henry | Tom Jones | Tan, Amy | The Joy Luck Club |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Great Gatsby | Tolstoy, Leo | Anna Karenina |
| Flaubert, Gustave | Madame Bovary | Tolstoy, Leo | The Death of Ivan Ilych |
| Forster, E.M. | Passage to India | Trollope, Anthony | The Warden |
| Garcia, Marquez | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Turgenev, Ivan | Fathers and Sons |
| Golding, William | Lord of the Flies | Twain, Mark | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Hardy, Thomas | Jude the Obscure | Twain, Mark | St. Joan |
| Hardy, Thomas | Mayor of Casterbridge | Tyler, Anne | Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant |
| Hardy, Thomas | Tess of the D'Ubervilles | Updike, John | The Centaur |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The House of the Seven Gables | Voltaire | Candide |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Scarlett Letter | Vonnegut, Kurt | Slaughterhouse Five |
| Heller, Joseph | Catch-22 | Walker, Alice | The Color Purple |
| Hellman, Lillian | The Little Foxes | Waugh, Evelyn | The Loved One |
| Hemingway, Ernest | A Farewell to Arms | Welch, James | Winter in the Blood |
| Hemingway, Ernest | The Sun Also Rises | Welty, Eudora | Delta Wedding |
| Homer | The Odyssey | Welty, Eudora | Optimist's Daughter |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their Eyes Were Watching God | West, Nathaniel | Miss Lonelyhearts |
| Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World | Wharton, Edith | The Age of Innocence |
| James, Henry | Daisy Miller | Wharton, Edith | Ethan Frome |
| James, Henry | Portrait of a Lady | Wilbur, Richard | Ceremony |
| James, Henry | Turn of the Screw | Woolf, Virginia | Mrs. Dalloway |
| Jonson, Ben | Volpone | Woolf, Virginia | To the Lighthouse |
| Wright, Richard | Native Son |
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