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The books below have been frequently featured in the free response section of the AP Lit Test
The books below have been frequently featured in the free response section of the AP Lit Test
Most Commonly Used Novels
Most Commonly Used Novels
Book Title (Number of Time title has appeared in Free Response Portion of AP Test)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn TWA by Mark Twain (15x)
The Awakening CHO by Kate Chopin (15x)
Beloved MOR by Toni Morrison (15x)
Billy Budd MEL by Herman Melville (12x)
Candide 843 VOL by Voltaire (10x)
Catch-22 HEL by Joseph Heller (14x)
Ceremony SIL by Leslie Marmon Silko (11x)
The Color Purple WAL by Alice Walker (11x)
Crime and Punishment DOS by Fyodor Dostoevsky (18x)
The Glass Menagerie 812 WIL by Tennessee Williams (10x)
Great Expectations DIC by Charles Dickens (23x)
The Great Gatsby FIT by F. Scott Fitzgerald (14x)
Heart of Darkness CON by Joseph Conrad (19x)
Invisible Man WEL by Ralph Ellison (29x)
Jane Eyre BRO by Charlotte Bronte (19x)
Jude the Obscure HAR by Thomas Hardy (10x)
A Light in August by William Faulkner (12x)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (15x)
Native Son by Richard Wright (12x)
A Passage to India by EM Forester (10x)
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (12x)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (15x)
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (14x)
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (10x)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zrah Neale Hurston (14x)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (24x)
Most Commonly Used Plays
Most Commonly Used Plays
Antigone by Sophocles (11x)
The Crucible by Arthur Miller (10x)
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (10x)
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (10x)
King Lear by William Shakespeare (19x)
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (8x)
Othello by William Shakespeare (12x)
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (11x)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (8x)
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (12x)
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (9x)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (8x)
Shortest Novels
Shortest Novels
1984 by George Orwell (180 p.)
Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville (219 p.)
Candide by Voltaire (115 p.)
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (212 p.)
Ethan Frome (150 p.)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (180 p.)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (110 p.)
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean (217 p.)
The Stranger by Albert Camus (117 p.)
Sula by Toni Morrison (174 p.)
Written in last 30 years
Written in last 30 years
Atonement by Ian McEwan
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Goldfinch by Donna Tart
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
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