Albert Camus,  The Stranger
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
Euripides, Medea
William Faulkner, A Light in August
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Toni Morrison, Beloved

If a student is not thoroughly familiar with the following books before entering the Advanced Placement Literature and Composition class, he/she is advised to review them prior to September:

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Great Expectations or David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
Passage to India, E.M. Forster
Tess of the D'Urbervilles or Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
Not Without Laughter, Langston Hughes
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

And these plays by Shakespeare:

As You Like It or Twelfth Night
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
The Tempest