Here’s a list of some of the books that were referenced on the most recent (2024) AP Lit exam:
● The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
● The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
● Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
● Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
● The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
● The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
● King Lear – William Shakespeare
● Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng
● Native Son – Richard Wright
● A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry ● The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne ● The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
● A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled
Hosseini
● Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
✻ Here’s a list of some of the books that were referenced on the 2021-2023 AP Lit exams:
● The Awakening – Kate Chopin
● Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
● Ceremony – Leslie Marmon Silko
● Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
● Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
● The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams
● Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
● The House on Mango Street – Sandra
Cisneros
● Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
● The Nickel Boys – Colson Whitehead
● 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) – George Orwell
● Othello – William Shakespeare
● The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver ● Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
● A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee
Williams
● Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale
Hurston
● Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe ● To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
✻ Here’s a list of additional titles (sort of a random assortment) compiled by some AP Lit teachers:
● Born a Crime – Trevor Noah
● Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
● Dear Martin – Nic Stone
● The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
● Just Mercy – Bryan Stevenson
● One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel
Garcia Marquez
● The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
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