English IV Reading List
The following are titles that English IV may draw from. The list is
subject to change. Those that are noted as AP are such because the
titles have appeared over the last decade or so on AP examinations.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass –
Lewis Carroll
Anthem – Ayn Rand
Beowulf – anonymous
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley (AP)
The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer (AP)
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Elephant Man – Christine Sparks
Emma - Jane Austen
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens (AP)
Grendel – John Gardner
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Hard Times – Charles Dickens
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad (AP)
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (AP)
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert (AP)
Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
(AP)
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens (AP)
Picture of Dorain Gray – Oscar Wilde
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce (AP)
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (AP)
The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy (AP)
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Silas Marner – George Eliot (AP)
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens (AP)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy (AP)
To the Lighthouse –Virginia Woolf – (AP)
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Utopia – Sir Thomas More (AP)
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte (AP)
Dramas:
Murder in the Cathedral – T. S. Eliot (AP)
The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
The Lion in Winter – James Goldman (AP)
A Man for All Seasons – Robert Bolt (AP)
She Stoops to Conquer – Oliver Goldsmith
Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw (AP)
As You Like It – William Shakespeare (AP)
Hamlet – William Shakespeare (AP)
Henry IV, Part I – William Shakespeare (AP)
Henry V – William Shakespeare (AP)
King Lear – William Shakespeare (AP)
Macbeth – William Shakespeare (AP)
The Merchant of Venice – William Shakespeare (AP)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare (AP)
Much Ado about Nothing – William Shakespeare (AP)
Othello – William Shakespeare (AP)
Richard III – Willaim Shakespeare (AP)
The Taming of the Shrew – William Shakespeare (AP)
Twelfth Night – William Shakespeare (AP)
Oedipus Rex - Sophocles (AP)