AP English 4 Reading List

							                                           AP English 4 Reading List
                                                    09-10


The Inferno (Dante Alighieri)
Beowulf (Translation by Seamus Heaney)
Lord of the Flies (William Golding) -- summer
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
1984 (George Orwell)
One Victorian novel for summer reading (See below.)
One additional Shakespeare play (Title to be determined by students later)
Two additional works for outside reading (Titles to be determined by students later)

19th Century [Victorian] Novels for Summer Reading
Choose one from this list:

Emma – Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
The Time Machine AND War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells (Student must read both novels.)
*The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
*Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
*Dracula – Bram Stoker
Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
*Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
   A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

        Students who are reading this for Academic Decathlon are permitted to count it for summer reading as well.