AP Eng Lit Essay #3 Question

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Tue, 08 May 2012 16:17:20 +0000

My teacher keeps telling me to have a few novels/plays fresh in my memory, so that I won’t have trouble choosing a work to fit the prompt. I understand that on the prompt, it allows you to choose a work that isn’t listed, so long as it is of merit. I was wondering if it would be appropriate to use David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest as the book to use for the prompt. I recently finished it, and it’s fresh in my mind. My concern is that it’s too recent of a work (1996), and that the readers will not have read it. Any thoughts? Is it an appropriate book to use, or should I just stick to the classics?