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1 Suggested Works for Open-Ended Questions AP English Lit Exam Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart 1991, 1997,2003 Aeschylus: The Oresteia 1990; The Eumenides 1996 Albee, Edward: The Zoo Story 1982, 2001; Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1988, 1994, 2000, 2004 Anaya, Rudolfo: Bless Me, Ultima 1996, 1997, 2005, 2006(B) Aristophanes: Lysistrata 1987 Arnot, Harriet: The Dollmaker 1991 Atwood, Margaret: Alias Grace 2000, 2004; Cat s Eye 1994; The Handmaid s Tale 1992, 2003; Surfacing 2005 Austen, Jane: Emma 1996; Mansfield Park 2003, 2006(B); Persuasion 1990, 2005; Pride and Prejudice--1983, 1988, 1992, 1997 Baldwin, James: Go Tell It on the Mountain 1988, 1990, 2005 Beckett, Samuel: Waiting for Godot 1985, 1986, 1989, 1994, 2001 Blixen, Karen: Out of Africa 2006(B) Brecht, Bertholt: Mother Courage and Her Children 1985, 1987, 2006 Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre 1979, 1980, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000 Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights 1979, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2006(B) Browning, Robert: My Last Duchess 1985 Bulosan, Carlos: America is in the Heart 1995 Camus, Albert: The Stranger 1979, 1982, 1986; The Plague 2002 Cao, Lan: Monkey Bridge 2000, 2003 Brent A. Core copyright 2006 page 1

2 Cather, Willa: My Antonia 2003; O Pioneers! 2006(B) Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de: Don Quiote de la Mancha 1992, 2001, 2004, 2006(B) Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales 2006 Chekhov, Anton: The Cherry Orchard 2006(B) Chopin, Kate: The Awakening 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2002 Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness 1991, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006; Lord Jim 1986, 2000; Victory 1983 Dante, Alighieri: The Divine Comedy 2006 Davies, Robertson: Fifth Business 2000 DeBalzac, Honore: Pere Goriot 2002 Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders 1986, 1987, 1995 Dickens, Charles: Bleak House 1994, 2000; David Copperfield 1983, 2006(B); Great Expectations 1979, 1980, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004; Hard Times 1987, 1990; Our Mutual Friend 1990; A Tale of Two 1982, 1991 Dostoevski, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov 1990; Crime and Punishment 1979, 1980, 1982, 1988, 1996, 2004; Notes from the Underground 1989 Dreiser, Theodore: An American Tragedy 1982, 1995, Sister Carrie 1987, 2002, 2004 Eliot, George: Adam Bede 2006(B); Middlemarch 2004, 2005; The Mill on the Floss 1990, 1992, 1995; Silas Marner 2002 Eliot, T.S.: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 1985, The Wasteland, 1981, Murder in the Cathedral 1980, 1985, 1995 Ellison, Ralph: Invisible Man 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987,1988, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 Erdrich, Louise: Love Medicine 1995 Euripides: Medea 1982, 1992, 1995, 2001 Brent A. Core copyright 2006 page 2

3 Faulkner, William: Absalom, Absalom! 2000; As I Lay Dying, 1989, 1990, 1994, 2001, 2006; The Bear 1994, 2006(B); Light in August 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1995, 1999, 2006; The Sound and the Fury 1986, 1997, 2001, 2004 Fielding, Henry: Joseph Andrews 1991; Tom Jones 1990, 2000, 2006(B) Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby 1982, 1983, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2004 Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary 1980, 1985, 2005, 2006(B) Fleischer, Leonore: Agnes of God 2000 Ford, Ford Maddox: The Good Soldier 2000 Forster, E. M.: A Passage to India 1988, 1991, 1992; Room with a View 2003 Frazier, Charles: Cold Mountain 2006 Friel, Brian: Dancing at Lughnasa 2001 Fugard, Athol: Master Harold and the boys 2003 Gaines, Ernest: A Gathering of Old Men 2000; A Lesson Before Dying 1999 Garcia, Cristina: Dreaming in Cuban 2003 Garcia-Marquet, Gabriel: One Hundred Years of Solitude 1989 Goethe, Johann W.: Faust 2002 Golding, William: Lord of the Flies 1985, 1992 Goldsmith, Oliver: The Vicar of Wakefield 2006(B) Greene, Graham: Brighton Rock 1979; The Power and the Glory 1995 Guterson, David: Snow Falling on Cedars 2000 Hansberry, Loraine: A Raisin in the Sun, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1999 Hardy, Thomas: Jude, the Obscure 1980, 1985, 1987,1991,1995; The Mayor of Cambridge 1994, 1999, 2000, 2002; Tess of the D Urbervilles 1982, 1991, 2006(B) Brent A. Core copyright 2006 page 3

4 Hawthorne, Nathaniel: House of Seven Gables 1989; The Scarlet Letter 1983, 1988, 1991, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006(B) Heller, Joseph: Catch , 1985, 1987, 1989, 1994, 2001, 2003, 2005 Hellman, Lillian: The Little Foxes 1985, 1990; Watch on the Rhine 1987 Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms 1991, 1999; For Whom the Bell Tolls 2006(B); The Sun Also Rises 1985, 1991, 1995, 2004, 2005 Homer: The Illiad 1980, 1998; The Odyssey 1986, 2006 Hurston, Zora: Their Eyes Were Watching God 1988, 1990, 1991, 1996, 2004, 2005, 2006(B) Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World 1989, 2005 Hwang, David: M. Butterfly 1995 Ibsen, Henrik: A Doll s House 1983, 1987, 1988, 1995, 2005; An Enemy of the People 1980, 1987, 1999, 2001; Ghosts 2000, 2004; Hedda Gabler 1979, 1992, 2000, 2002; Peer Gynt 2006 Ishiguro, Kazou: Remains of the Day 2003 James, Henry: The American 2005; Daisy Miller 1997, 2003; The Portrait of a Lady 1988, 1992, 1996, 2003, 2005; The Turn of the Screw 1992, 1994, 2000, 2002, 2004; Washington Square 1990 Jen, Gish: Typical American 2002, 2003, 2005 Johnson, James Weldon: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man 2002, 2005 Jones, LeRoi: Dutchman 2003, 2006 Jonson, Ben: Volpone 1981 Joyce, James: The Dead 1997; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1980, 1981, 1986, 1988, 1996, 1999, 2004, 2005 Kafka, Franz: Metamorphosis 1989; The Trial 1988, 2000 Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest 2001 Kingston, Maxine Hong: Woman Warrior 1991 Brent A. Core copyright 2006 page 4

5 Knowles, John: A Separate Peace 1982 Kogawa, Joy: Obasan 1994, 1995, 2004, 2005, 2006 Laurence, Margaret: The Diviners 1995; The Stone Angel 1996 Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers 1990; The Optimist s Daughter 1994 Lee, Chang-rae: A Gesture Life 2004; Native Speaker 1999, 2003, 2005 Lewis, Sinclair: Main Street 1987 MacLeish, Archibald: J.B. 1981, 1994 MacCarthy, Cormac: All the Pretty Horses 1996, 2006 MacLennan, Hugh: The Watch That Ends the Night 1992 Marlowe, Christopher: Doctor Faustus 1979, 1986, 1999, 2004 Marshall, Paule: Praisesong for the Widow 1996 McCullers, Carson: The Member of the Wedding 1997 Melville, Herman: Benito Cereno 1989; Billy Bud 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1999, 2000, 2005; Moby Dick 1979, 1980, 1989, 1994, 1996, 2001, 2004, 2006; Redburn 1987 Miller, Arthur: All My Sons 1985, 1990, The Crucible 1983, 1987, 2005; Death of a Salesman 1986, 1988, 1994, 2004, 2005 Milton, John: Paradise Lost 1985, 1986 Mistry, Rohinton: A Fine Balance 2003 Moliere: Tartuffe 1987; Misanthrope 1992 Momaday, N. Scott: House Made of Dawn 1995, 2006(B) Morrison, Tony: Beloved 1990, 1999, 2001; The Bluest Eye 1995; Song of Solomon 1981, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2006; Sula 1992, 1997, 2002, 2004 Mukherjee, Bharati: Jasmine 1999 Nabakov, Vladimir: Pale Fire 2001; Pnin 1997 Brent A. Core copyright 2006 page 5

6 Naipaul, V. S.: A Bend in the River 2003; Middle Passage 2006 Ng, Fae Myenne: Bone 2003 O Brien, Tim: Going After Cacciato 2001, 2006; In the Lake of the Woods 2000; The Things They Carried 2004 O Connor, Flannery: Wise Blood 1982, 1989, 1995 O Neill, Eugene: Desire Under the Elms 1981; Long Day s Journey into Night 1990 Okada, John: Nu-Nu Boy 1995 Ondaatie, Michael: Coming Through the Slaughter 2001 Orwell, George: Nineteen Eighty-Four 1987, 1994, 2005 Paton, Alan: Cry, the Beloved Country 1985, 1987, 1991, 1995, 1996 Pinter, Harold: The Birthday Party 1989, 1997; The Caretaker 1985; The Homecoming 1990 Pope, Alexander: The Rape of the Lock 1981 Potok, Chaim: My Name is Asher Lev 2003 Proulx, Annie: The Shipping News 1997 Racine: Phedre 1992 Rhys, Jean: Wide Sargasso Sea 1989, 1992 Richardson, Samuel: Pamela 1986 Richler, Mordecai: Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz 1994 Salinger, Jerome David: The Catcher in the Rye 2001 Sartre, Jean-Paul: No Exit 1986.\ Shatter, Peter: Equus 1992, 1999, 2000, 2001 Shakespeare, William: Anthony and Cleopatra 1980, 1991, As You Like It 1992, 2005, 2006(B); Hamlet 1988, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000; Henry IV. Parts 1 & , 1990; Henry V 2002; Julius Caesar 1982, 1997; King Lear 1982, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1996, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006(B); Brent A. Core copyright 2006 page 6

7 Macbeth 1983, 1999; The Merchant of Venice 1985, 1991, 1995, 2002, 2003; A Midsummer Night s Dream 2006(B); Much Ado About Nothing 1997; Othello 1979, 1985, 1988, 1992, 1995, 2003, Richard III 1979; Romeo and Juliet 1990, 1992, 1997; The Tempest 1979, 2003; Twelfth Night 1985, 1994, 1996, The Winter s Tale 1986, 1989, 2006(B) Shaw, Bernard: Candida 1980; Major Barbara 1979, 1996, 2004; Man and Superman 1981; Mrs. Warren s Profession 1987, 1990, 1995, 2002; Pygmalion 1992, 2003; Saint Joan 1995 Shelly, Mary: Frankenstein 1989, 2000, 2006(B) Silko, Leslie: Ceremony 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2006(B) Sinclair, Upton: The Jungle 1987 Smiley, Jane: A Thousand Acres 2006(B) Solzhenitsyn, Alexander: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 2005 Sophocles: Antigone 1979, 1980, 1990, 1994, 1999; Oedipus Rex 1985, 1988, 2000, 2004 Spark, Muriel: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1990 Steinbeck, John: East of Eden 2006(B); The Grapes of Wrath 1981, 1985, 1987, 1995, 2003, 2006(B); Of Mice and Men 2001 Sterne, Laurence: Tristam Shandy 1986 Stoppard, Tom: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 1981, 1994, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006 Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom s Cabin 1987 Strindberg, August: The Father 2001 Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver s Travels 1987, 1989, 2001, 2006 Tan, Amy: The Bonesetter s Daughter 2006(B); Joy Luck Club 1997, 2003 Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina 1980, 1981, 1999, 2002, 2006(B); The Death of Ivan Ilych 1986 Trollope, Anthony: The Warden 1996; The Way We Live Now 2006(B) Brent A. Core copyright 2006 page 7

8 Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1980, 1982, 1985, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2005, 2006 Updike, John: The Cantaur 1981 Valdez, Luis: Zoot Suit 1995 Villarreal, Antonio: Pocho 2002 Virgil: The Aeneid 2006 Voltaire: Candide 1986, 1987, 1991, 1996, 2004, 2006 Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse Five 1991 Walker, Alice: The Color Purple 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2005 Warren, Robert Penn: All the King s Men 2000, 2002, 2004 Waugh, Evelyn: The Loved One 1989 Welch, James: Winter in the Blood 1995 Welty, Eudora: Delta Wedding 1997 West, Nathaniel: Miss Lonelyhearts 1989 Wharton, Edith: Ethan Frome 1980, 1985, 2005, 2006; Age of Innocence 1997, 2002, 2003, 2005 Wilde, Oscar: The Importance of Being Earnest 2006 Wilder, Thornton: Our Town 1986, 1997 Williams, Tennesee: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 2000; The Glass Menagerie 1990, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2002; A Streetcar Named Desire 1991, 1992, 2001 Wilson, August: Fences 2002; Joe Turner s Come and Gone 2000, 2004; The Piano Lesson 1996, 1999; Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse 1986, 1988; Mrs. Dalloway 1994, 1997, 2005; Orlando 2004 Wright, Richard: Black Boy 2006(B); Native Son 1979, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1995, 2001 Brent A. Core copyright 2006 page 8

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