Advanced Placement Reading List
Most Popular Titles on AP Literature Exams
29x Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
22x Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
21x Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
19x Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
19x King Lear by William Shakespeare
17x Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski
16x Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
16x Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
15x The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
15xMoby Dick by Herman Melville
14x The Awakening by Kate Chopin
14x The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
14x The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
13x Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
13x Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
12x Billy Budd by Herman Melville
12x Beloved by Toni Morrison
11x Antigone by Sophocles
11x Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
11x Light in August by William Faulkner
11x Native Son by Richard Wright
11x Othello by William Shakespeare
10x As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
10x Candide by Voltaire
10x The Color Purple by Alice Walker
10x Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
10x The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
10x Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
10x A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
10x A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
10x A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
9x The Crucible by Arthur Miller
9x Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
9x The Tempest by William Shakespeare
8x All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
8x Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
8x Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
8x The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
8x Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
8x The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
8x Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
8x Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
8x The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
8x The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
8x Sula by Toni Morrison
8x Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
8x Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
8x Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
7x All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
7x Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
7x Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
7x Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
7x The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
7x Medea by Euripides
7x The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
7x Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
7x Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
7x Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
6x Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
6x A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
6x An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
6x Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
6x Equus by Peter Shaffer
7x Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
6x Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
6x Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
6x Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
6x Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
6x Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
6x Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot
6x Obasan by Joy Kogawa
6x Odyssey by Homer
6x The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
6x To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
6x The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
5x Bleak House by Charles Dickens
5x The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
5x The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
5x Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
5x Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
5x Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
5x Hamlet by William Shakespeare
5x Macbeth by William Shakespeare
5x Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw
5x My Antonia by Willa Cather\
5x Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
5x A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
5x Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
5x Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor