<p>Don’t limit yourself to literary fiction, really diversify yourself in nonfiction as well. From my experience in taking the exam and doing practice multiple choice/prompts in class, the majority of what is on the test is actually nonfiction, whether memoir, political speeches, excerpts from reference texts, correspondences between people, etc.</p>
<p>So definitely keep reading your classic literature, but throw in some nonfiction or more modern stuff as well. To give you some idea, this is what we’ve read this year in my AP Lang class:
-Tess of the d’Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
-The Road from Coorain (Jill Ker Conway)
-An American Childhood (Annie Dillard)
-The Things They Carried (Tim O’Brien)
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey)
-A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
-The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
-Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare)
-Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
-The Hours (Michael Cunningham)
-In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)</p>
<p>So you can see, diverse stuff. And not all typical classic literature, though all have excellent writing.</p>