myraven11

@Maverick95 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston are awesome! I read them in the 9th and 10th grades!

Coconutso

One book that I always, always suggest for anyone inquiring of what book should be read for AP Lit is The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. As of recent, it has become a novel that has been continuously present on Q. #3 as a suggestion. It covers nearly every topic you can think of. It's a rather difficult novel, and rather lengthy, but if you can preserver through it and actually analyze it, you should do exceptionally well on FRQ 3. That is, if you can write well. Nonetheless, PWB is a wonderful book and a fabulous read wether for the AP exam or not.

bunnywins

My teacher last year, in the one useful thing he did all year, gave me a list of all the books that have appeared on the Free Response section over the years. The three that have appeared the most are Invisible Man, Wuthering Heights, and Great Expectations. (I can send you the whole list if you'd like.)
Princeton Review also recommends Shakespeare's plays, as they tend to encompass any of the prompts the test throws at you.

But then again, I didn't read any of those and still got a 5 on the exam, so take the statistics with a grain of salt. I only prepared to write about the books I actually genuinely liked (Death of a Salesman, Long Day's Journey into Night, The Metamorphosis, Pride and Prejudice) so I could write a genuine, passionate essay. Don't get too caught up in numbers or hearsay - as long as you have prepared a few books that you genuinely love that encompass a variety of themes, you will be A-OK.

mangonut

My class has to read 3 books this summer: Animal Farm, The Handmaid's Tale, and Frankenstein. Some books from first semester that I might look over are Of Mice and Men, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Hamlet, King Lear.

^ agree with above posts, the How to Read is really nice!