what's your AP LITERATURE reading list? let's all share (:?

Question

also could you grade my list from 1-10 on the difficulty level? thanks...

Ishmael - David Quinn
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Brave New World
Nineteen Eighty-Four
White Teeth
Zuit Suit
Native Son
Sula
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Crime and Punishment
Pride and Prejudice
Hamlet

and a bunch of poetry o_o

Answer 1

When I had AP LIT last year I read Native Son and Pride & Prejudice from your list PLUS a bunch of poetry too haha. I enjoyed both books, but the poetry got kinda tedious. The books are not difficult to read or understand, but its just long I guess.



Other books we read: Wuthering Heights, Waiting for Godot, Samarai Garden, Red Azalea, The Stranger, House of the Spirits (loved it!), The Assistant, and a few more i forgot haha

Answer 2

I took AP Lit about 11 years ago, here was mine, if my memory serves correctly:



Mythology - Hamilton

Pride & Prejudice

A Mid-Summer Night's Dream

Macbeth

The Ambassadors - James

Babbit - Lewis

The House of Seven Gables - Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne

Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis

The Oddysey - Homer

A Tale of Two Cities

Beowulf

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales



Our main text and anthology was Literature: Structure, Sound & Sense by Perrine & Arp (which had things like Most Dangerous Game and a lot of poetry)

Also had a lot of periodical readings and short stories assigned that I can't remember.

Answer 3

Okay I took AP english (along with honors english for 3 yrs) my senior year and from your list I have read Walden (6), Brave New World (5)-I hated it, 1984 (7)-omg I despised this book with a passion, Crime and Punishment-(7-8)- this was long but good!, Pride and Prejudice- (4)-loved it, Hamlet (8)-really good too.



Heres also some of the others I read:

Scarlet letter, East of Eden, Lord of Flies, F. 451, Of Mice and Men, Streets of Crocodiles, Good Soilder Svjek, Kite Runner, The Joke, This way for the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen (<--MUST READ!), Catcher in the Rye, Street Car named Desire, Jane Eyre, Emma, Great Gatsby (one of the worst books ever), Night, Life of Pi, A Town Called Alice and many more.





I definitely have read my share of good and bad literature lol.





I took a required English class at U of M last year and we read Walden again, Daisy Miller, Seagull Reader:Essays, and Goodbye Columbus (highly recommend this book!) and, of course, a huge overload of poems.



Have fun reading!

Answer 4

When I took AP eng. lit 2 years ago we read (as a class):



Crime and Punishment

Heart of Darkness (best book ever)

Beloved

Our Mutual Friend (painfully boring as the Dickens hehehehe)

Heda Gabbler/A Doll's House (plays)

King Leer

Bunches and bunches of poetry and a few other novels that I forget



We too used "Sound and Sense"

Answer 5

I don't know what all of mine is but I read Slaughterhouse Five, My Antonia, and MacBeth for summer. Right now we're reading Wuthering Heights (incredible). We just finished reading (re-reading for me) Catcher in the Rye (DOUBLE incredible). We'll be reading Frankenstein soon, too.



I'm just gonna say now that Walden is one of my favorite books ever. If you're into philosophy you should enjoy it. Brave New World is incredibly insane. It was weird.