Basically, my high school makes AP Lit and DE Lit the same class, and my class falls much more heavily on the DE side, so I’m having to do a lot of self-studying for this AP test. I’ve already read quite a few books that I feel will be helpful (I’ll list them) but I want suggestions of which of the other list of books I should read before May.
Read: The Scarlet Letter, Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Grapes of Wrath, Fahrenheit 451, Notes From Underground, Beowulf, Anthem, The Jungle, Trifles, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, The Adventures of Huck Finn (I hate this one, though), Ethan Frome, Of Mice and Men
To read (ones that I own): Jane Eyre, Moby-Dick, Wuthering Heights, Heart of Darkness, The Count of Monte Cristo, Robinson Crusoe, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dante’s Inferno, The Beautiful and Damned, Pride and Prejudice, The Phantom of the Opera, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1984, The Catcher in the Rye, The Invisible Man, As I Lay Dying, The Old Man and the Sea, Lord of the Flies
Also, would these contemporary works be useful?
Read: The Road, The Color Purple, A Clockwork Orange, Killing Lincoln, The Lovely Bones, The Lilies of the Field
To Read: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men
I read mostly Genre Fiction in my free time so my classics list is a little more limited. Thoughts?
I’ve heard The Invisible Man is a great read too, but I haven’t read that one yet.