From the list below please choose three titles for summer reading, each by a different author. Please note this list is only valid for students taking AP English in the fall. Copies of these works should be available from any good bookstore, a library, or your own home. You are expected to read books you have not read before. If you have not read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and/or The Scarlet Letter, you are expected to, as these texts often featured on the AP exam.

Absalom, Absalom
Agnes of God
All the King's Men
The Age of Innocence
Anna Karenina
Antigone
The Awakening
Beloved
Billy Budd
The Birthday Party
Bleak House
Ceremony
The Color Purple
Crime and Punishment
Daisy Miller
The Dead
Delta Wedding
An Enemy of the People
A Farewell to Arms
A Gathering of Old Men
Going After Cacciato
The Good Soldier
Great Expectations
Gulliver's Travels
Hamlet
Heart of Darkness
In the Lake of the Woods
Jane Eyre
Jasmine
The Joy Luck Club
A Lesson Before Dying
Light in August
Lord Jim
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Member of the Wedding
Mrs. Dalloway
Native Son
Native Speaker
Our Town
Pale Fire