Ap english Language and Composition Independent Reading List Quarter 1 Book Check: Friday, September 11
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- ERA 1: COLONIAL TO MID-19TH CENTURY
- ERA 2: CIVIL WAR 19TH CENTURY RACE RELATIONS
- ERA 3: LATER 19TH CENTURY
- ERA 4: EARLY 20TH CENTURY
- ERA 5: WW II Later 20TH CENTURY
- ERA 6: CONTEMPORARY, POST MODERN
AP English Language and Composition Independent Reading List Quarter 1 Book Check: Friday, September 11 Quarter 1 Book Report: Friday, October 16 Quarter 2 Book Check: Friday, October 30 Quarter 2 Book Report due: Friday, December 11 Book Report: Typed in MLA essay format with one paragraph for each number.
ERA 1: COLONIAL TO MID-19TH CENTURY (Colonial, Revolutionary, Romantics) Cooper, James Fenimore – The Last of the Mohicans Franklin, Benjamin – Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The House of Seven Gables, The Scarlet Letter Melville, Herman – Moby Dick, Billy Budd Mitchner, James – Chesapeake Centennial, Hawaii Thoreau, Henry D. – Walden ERA 2: CIVIL WAR & 19TH CENTURY RACE RELATIONS Brown, Dee – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Crane, Stephen – The Red Badge of Courage Frazier, Charles – Cold Mountain Haley, Alex – Roots Morrison, Toni – Beloved Shaara, Michael – The Killer Angels Stowe, Harriet Beecher – Uncle Tom’s Cabin Welch, James – Fools Crow ERA 3: LATER 19TH CENTURY (Post-Civil War, Westward Movement, Industrial Age) Cather, Willa – O Pioneers!, My Antonia Clark, Walter van Tilburg – The Oxbow Incident Dreiser, Theodore – Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy James, Henry – Portrait of a Lady, Washington Square, The Ambassadors Twain, Mark – A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Wharton, Edith – The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence ERA 4: EARLY 20TH CENTURY (Early Modernism, 1900 to WWII) Baldwin, James – Go Tell It on the Mountain Doctorow, E.L. – Ragtime Faulkner, William – The Sound and the Fury; Absalom, Absalom; Light in August Hemingway, Ernest – The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms Lewis, Sinclair – Babbitt, Arrowsmith Morrison, Toni – Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Jazz, Song of Solomon Norris, Frank – McTeague, The Octopus Potok, Chaim – The Chosen, My Name is Asher Lev Sinclair, Upton – The Jungle Smith, Betty – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Stegner, Wallace -- The Big Rock Candy Mountain, Joe Hill, Angle of Repose Steinbeck, John –East of Eden, Cannery Row Walker, Alice – The Color Purple
Dillard, Annie – An American Childhood Gaines, Ernest -- A Lesson Before Dying Guterson, David -- Snow Falling on Cedars Haley, Alex -- Autobiography of Malcom X Heller, Joseph – Catch 22 Keillor, Garrison – Lake Woebegon Days Kesey, Ken –One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Kogawa, Joy -- Obasan O’Brien, Tim – The Things They Carried Plath, Sylvia -- The Bell Jar Puzo, Mario – The Godfather Silko, Leslie Marmon – Ceremony Villasenor, Victor – Rain of Gold Warren, Robert Penn – All the King’s Men Wolf, Tom – The Right Stuff (nonfiction) Wouk, Herman – Winds of War Wright, Richard – Native Son ERA 6: CONTEMPORARY, POST MODERN Boyle, TC -- Tortilla Curtain Conroy, Pat – Lords of Discipline Conway, Jill – The Road from Coorain Jen, Gish – Typical American Proulx, Annie – Shipping News Quindlen, Anna -- Blessings Reichl, Ruth – Tender at the Bone Smiley, Jane – A Thousand Acres Wolff, Tobias – This Boy’s Life Download 19.83 Kb. Share with your friends:
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