There is no recommended or required reading list for the AP English Literature and Composition course. The following authors are provided simply to suggest the range and quality of reading expected in the course . Teachers may select authors from the names below or may choose others of comparable quality and complexity .
Suggested Authors (Fiction)
Chinua Achebe
Sherman Alexie Isabel Allende Rudolfo Anaya Margaret Atwood Jane Austen James Baldwin Saul Bellow Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Raymond Carver Willa Cather John Cheever Kate Chopin Sandra Cisneros Joseph Conrad Edwidge Danticat Daniel Defoe Anita Desai Charles Dickens Fyodor Dostoevsky |
George Eliot
Ralph Ellison Louise Erdrich William Faulkner Henry Fielding; F . Scott Fitzgerald E . M . Forster Thomas Hardy Nathaniel Hawthorne Ernest Hemingway Zora Neale Hurston; Kazuo Ishiguro Henry James Ha Jin Edward P . Jones James Joyce Maxine Hong Kingston Joy Kogawa Jhumpa Lahiri Margaret Laurence D . H . Lawrence Chang-rae Lee |
Bernard Malamud
Gabriel García Márquez Cormac McCarthy Ian McEwan Herman Melville Toni Morrison Bharati Mukherjee Vladimir Nabokov Flannery O’Connor Orhan Pamuk Katherine Anne Porter Marilynne Robinson Jonathan Swift Mark Twain John Updike Alice Walker Evelyn Waugh Eudora Welty Edith Wharton John Edgar Wideman Virginia Woolf Richard Wright |
Suggested Authors (Drama)
Aeschylus
Edward Albee Amiri Baraka Samuel Beckett Anton Chekhov Caryl Churchill William Congreve Athol Fugard Lorraine Hansberry Lillian Hellman |
David Henry
Hwang Henrik Ibsen Ben Jonson David Mamet Arthur Miller Molière Marsha Norman Sean O’Casey Eugene O’Neill Suzan-Lori Parks Harold Pinter |
Luigi Pirandello
William Shakespeare George Bernard Shaw Sam Shepard Sophocles Tom Stoppard Luis Valdez Oscar Wilde Tennessee Williams August Wilson |