Select a thematic group from the following list that interests you. Then select six works listed under that theme for your outside reading for the year. If you are wise, you will do most of your reading during the summer. Previous AP students have stated that reading all the novels and writing all the journals over the summer helped tremendously, because the reading load for the class is so heavy. (Don't forget, you=ll be busy preparing college applications and essays, too!) You can review novels and journals right before the book conferences each six weeks. Think of this as your summer reading list.

NOTE: You are REQUIRED to have the FIRST TWO NOVELS read and journals written from your chosen thematic list. You will be tested over the novels and you will participate in individual and group conferences on these books.

Women Writing About Women

• Price and Prejudice
• The Joy Luck Club
• A Room of One's Own
• The House of the Spirits
• Beloved
• Wuthering Heights
• The Color Purple
• The Handmaid's Tale

Assering One's Independence

• The Handmaid's Tale
• Hard Times
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Far From the Madding Crowd
• Return of the Native
• The Bell Jar
• The Color Purple
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Sons and Lovers
• Main Street
• Beloved
• Catch-22
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• A Room of One's Own

Defining Our Values, What is Really Important to Our Lives?

• Pride and Prejudice
• Lord Jim
• The Sound and the Fury
• Madame Bovary
• The Power and the Glory
• Absalom, Absalom!
• The Bell Jar
• Crime and Punishment
• Babbit
• Far from the Madding Crowd
• Jude the Obscure
• Return of the Native
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• All the King's Men
• A Farewell to Arms
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• The House of the Spirits
• The Fixer

Defining Who We Are; The Need to Establish Our Own Identity

• Lord Jim
• Crime and Punishment
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• The Sound and the Fury
• Jude the Obscure
• The Color Purple
• A Farewell to Arms
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Sons and Lovers
• The Power and the Glory
• The Bell Jar
• A Room of One's Own

Going Against the Establishment

• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• The Handmaid's Tale
• Jude the Obscure
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• The Fixer
• The House of the Spirits
• Sometimes a Great Notion
• Absalom, Absalom!
• Catch-22
• Main Street
• The Color Purple

Confronting the Past; How Does It Shape the Present?

• Wuthering Heights
• Lord Jim
• Absalom, Absalom!
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• All the King's Men
• Jude the Obscure
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• The Sound and the Fury
• Beloved
• The House of the Spirits

The Need for Love

• Pride and Prejudice
• Wuthering Heights
• The Heart of the Matter
• Jude the Obscure
• The Color Purple
• The Handmaid's Tale
• Miss Lonelyhearts/The Day of the Locusts
• Hard Times
• Madame Bovary
• Far from the Madding Crowd
• Women in Love
• Beloved
• The House of the Spirits

Outsiders; The Failure to Fit In

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Sometimes a Great Notion
• The Sun Also Rises
• Catch-22
• Hard Times
• Absalom, Absalom!
• Miss Lonelyhearts/The Day of the Locust
• Return of the Native
• Crime and Punishment
• Madame Bovary
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Jude the Obscure
• The Handmaid's Tale

The Price of Courage

• Lord Jim
• Catch-22
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo=s Nest
• The Fixer
• The Color Purple
• A Farewell to Arms
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Sometimes a Great Notion
• The Power and the Glory