Book Lists
AP Language and Composition
Suggested American Authors
AP Thesis
B-H
JAMES BALDWIN
Another Country
Giovanni’s Room
Go Tell it on the Mountain
If Beale Street Could Talk
RUSSELL BANKS
Affliction
Cloudsplitter
Continental Drift
Rule of the Bone
The Sweet Hereafter
T.C. BOYLE
Budding Prospects
East is East
Tortilla Curtain
World’s End
TRUMAN CAPOTE
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Grass Harp
In Cold Blood
Other Voices, Other Rooms
WILLA CATHER
Death Comes for the Archbishop
My Antonia
O Pioneers!
The Professor’s House
RAYMOND CHANDLER
The Big Sleep
Farewell, My Lovely
The High Window
The Long Goodbye
JOHN CHEEVER
Bullet Park
The Falconer
Wapshot Chronicle
Wapshot Scandal
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
The Deerslayer
The Last of the Mohicans
The Pathfinder
The Pioneers
The Prairie
E. L. DOCTOROW
Billy Bathgate
The Book of Daniel
City of God
Ragtime
The Waterworks
LOUISE ERDRICH
The Beet Queen
The Bingo Palace
Love Medicine
Tales of Burning Love
Tracks
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Absalom, Absalom!
Light in August
Sanctuary
The Sound and the Fury
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
The Great Gatsby
The Last Tycoon
Tender is the Night
This Side of Paradise
RICHARD FORD
Independence Day
A Piece of My Heart
The Sportswriter
The Ultimate Good Luck
Wildlife
DASHIELL HAMMETT
The Glass Key
The Maltese Falcon
Red Harvest
The Thin Man
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Blithedale Romance
House of the Seven Gables
The Marble Faun
Scarlet Letter
H-M
ROBERT HEINLEIN
Glory Road
Have Space Suit, Will Travel
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
The Puppet Masters
Red Planet
Starship Troopers
Stranger in a Strange Land
Tunnel in the Sky
JOSEPH HELLER
Catch-22
Closing Time
God Knows
Good as Gold
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea
The Sun Also Rises
ZORA NEALE HURSTON
Jonah’s Gourd Vine
Moses, Man of the Mountain
Seraph on the Suwanee
Their Eyes Were Watching God
HENRY JAMES
The Bostonians
The Portrait of a Lady
The Turn of the Screw
Washington Square
JACK KEROUAC
The Dharma Bums
On the Road
The Subterraneans
The Town and the City
KEN KESEY
Demon Box
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Sailor Song
Sometimes a Great Notion
URSULA LEGUIN
The Dispossessed
The Lathe of Heaven
Lavinia
The Left Hand of Darkness
Rocannon’s World
SINCLAIR LEWIS
Arrowsmith
Babbit
Elmer Gantry
Main Street
JACK LONDON
Call of the Wild
The Iron Heel
Scarlet Plague
Sea Wolf
The Valley of the Moon
White Fang
CARSON MCCULLERS
Ballad of the Sad Café
Clock Without Hands
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Square Root of Wonderful
CORMAC MCCARTHY
All the Pretty Horses
Blood Meridian
No Country for Old Men
Outer Dark
The Road
HERMAN MELVILLE
Billy Budd
Moby Dick
Omoo
Pierre
Typee
M-Z
TONI MORRISON
Beloved
The Bluest Eye
Song of Solomon
Sula
WALTER MOSLEY
Black Betty
Devil in a Blue Dress
Fearless Jones
Red Death
GLORIA NAYLOR
Bailey’s Café
Linden Hills
Mama Day
The Men of Brewster Place
The Women of Brewster Place
TIM O’BRIEN
Going After Cacciato
If I Die in a Combat Zone
In the Lake of the Woods
The Things They Carried
TOM ROBBINS
Another Roadside Attraction
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Jitterbug Perfume
Skinny Legs and All
Still Life With Woodpecker
JOHN STEINBECK
East of Eden
Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
Tortilla Flat
MARK TWAIN
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The Prince and the Pauper
The Tragedy of Puddinhead Wilson
JOHN UPDIKE
The Centaur
Rabbit Run
Rabbit Redux
Rabbit is Rich
Rabbit at Rest
KURT VONNEGUT
Breakfast of Champions
Cat’s Cradle
God Bless you Mr. Rosewater
Jailbird
Player Piano
Slaughterhouse 5
ALICE WALKER
The Color Purple
Meridian
Possessing the Secret of Joy
The Temple of My Familiar
Third Life of Grange Copeland
EUDORA WELTY
Delta Wedding
The Optimist’s Daughter
The Ponder Heart
The Robber Bridegroom
EDITH WHARTON
The Age of Innocence
The Custom of the Country
Ethan Frome
The House of Mirth
Summer
RICHARD WRIGHT
Black Boy
Native Son
The Outsider
Savage Holiday
Uncle Tom’s Children
