2025-26 Reading List

“For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sorts of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.” ~Toni Morrison

Introductory Text

1. How to Read Literature Like a Professor—Thomas C. Foster textbook 2003

Core Texts

2. They Say / I Say (4th High School Edition)—Graff and Birkenstein textbook

3. No Exit—Jean Paul Sartre play 1944

4. The Awakening—Kate Chopin novel 1899

5. Antigone—Euripides drama 441 BCE 

6. Beloved—Toni Morrison novel 1987

7. A Midsummer Night's Dream—William Shakespeare drama 1600

Additional independent reading will be chosen from this list of texts referenced on previous AP Literature exams.