| AP OUTSIDE READING LIST |
| FIRST TERM--NOVEL Select one novel from the approved list below. SECOND TERM--PLAY Select one play from the approved list below. THIRD TERM--NONFICTION: FORMAL & INFORMAL ESSAYS Select two essays by the same author OR two authors addressing the same general topic. Adamic, Louis Addison, Joseph Bacon, Francis Baldwin, James Beauvoir, Simone de Benchley, Robert Benedict, Ruth Broun, Heywood Carson, Rachel Cousins, Norman Dillard, Annie Donne, John DuBois, W.E.B. Emerson, Ralph Waldo Faulkner, William Forster, E.M. Galsworthy, John Hemingway, Ernest Henry, Patrick Hersey, John Huxley, Thomas Irving, Washington Jefferson, Thomas Keller, Helen Kennedy, John. F. King, Martin Luther., Jr. Krutch, Joseph Wood Lamb, Charles McCarthy, Mary Mead, Margaret Packard, Vance Sandburg, Carl Sontag, Susan Steffans, Lincoln Steinbeck, John Stevenson, R.L. Swift, Jonathan Thoreau, Henry David Thurber, James Trilling, Lionel Twain, Mark White, W.A. Wilson, Edmund Woolf, Virginia FOURTH TERM--SHORT STORY Select two short stories by the same author OR two authors addressing the same general topic. Aiken, Conrad. "Impulse" --- "Silent Snow, Secret Snow" Algreen, Nelson. "A Bottle of Milk for Mother" Anderson, Sherwood. "The Egg" Babel, Isaac. "The Story of My Dovecoat" Barthelme, Donald. "Report" Benet, Stephen V. "The Devil and Daniel Webster" Boll, Heinrich. "Christmas Every Day" Bradbury, Ray. "I Sing the Body Electric" --- "A Medicine for Melancholy" Camus, Albert. "The Funeral" Capek, Karel. "Money" Cather, Willa. "Paul's Case" Cheever, John. "The Enormous" --- "Torch Song" Chekov, Anton. "The Bet" --- "The Darling" --- "Gusey" --- "Misery" --- "Father" --- "Ward No. 6" Collier, John. "Witch's Money" Conrad, Joseph. "An Outpost of Progress" Coppard, A. E. "The Third Place" Crane, Stephen. "The Blue Hotel" --- "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" Daly, Maureen. "Sixteen" FIFTH TERM--POETRY Select two poems by the same author OR two authors addressing the same general topic. SIXTH TERM--NOVEL/PLAY TURNED MOVIE Select one of the following pieces of literature, which was made into a movie. |
| DIRECTIONS: After reading your literary selection(s), decide to focus on one aspect of that piece (those pieces). Analyze in written form how the author(s) developed that focal item--the topic, theme, a specific literary element, or a specific literary technique. Then, find two literary critics who support your analysis/intepretation. OUTSIDE READING SPECIFICS: Essays are to be two to three pages in length plus a works cited page. MLA format is required, including heading and header; works cited page does not need to differentiate between primary and secondary sources. Maintain one inch margins and reasonable font style and size (11-12). |