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| Work | Author | Form | Published | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | Novel | 1818; revised 1831 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Gargantua and Pantagruel | François Rabelais | Five-book comic novel cycle | 1532–1564 | Additional classroom reference |
| Ghosts | Henrik Ibsen | Three-act play | 1881 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Gilgamesh | Anonymous | Mesopotamian epic poem preserved on clay tablets | Second to first millennia BCE | Additional classroom reference |
| Gitanjali | Rabindranath Tagore (Thakur) | Lyric poetry collection; English self-translations in prose-poem form | 1910 Bengali collection; 1912 English Song Offerings | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Go Tell it on the Mountain | James Baldwin | Novel | 1953 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Going After Cacciato | Tim O'Brien | War novel | 1978 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | Bildungsroman | Serialized 1860–1861; book edition 1861 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift | Prose satire and fictional travel narrative | 1726 | AP FRQ 3Additional classroom reference |
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare | Tragedy | First quarto 1603; major early texts 1604/05 and 1623 | AP FRQ 3IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Hard Times | Charles Dickens | Industrial social novel | 1854 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | Frame novella | Serialized 1899; book form 1902 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Henry V | William Shakespeare | History play | 1600 | AP FRQ 3IB PRL recommended author |
| Homecoming | Harold Pinter | Two-act drama | 1965 | AP FRQ 3 |
| House Made of Dawn | N. Scott Momaday | Novel | 1968 | AP FRQ 3 |
| In the Lake of the Woods | Tim O'Brien | Novel | 1994 | AP FRQ 3 |
| J.B. | Archibald MacLeish | Verse drama based on the Book of Job | 1958 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | Bildungsroman and Gothic novel | 1847 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Jasmine | Bharati Mukherjee | Novel | 1989 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Joe Turner’s Come and Gone | August Wilson | Two-act play | 1988 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Joseph Andrews | Henry Fielding | Comic novel | 1742 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy | Novel | 1895 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare | Political tragedy | Around 1599 | AP FRQ 3IB PRL recommended authorAdditional classroom reference |
| King Lear | William Shakespeare | Tragedy | Around 1605–1606 | AP FRQ 3IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Lady Windermere’s Fan | Oscar Wilde | Four-act comedy | 1892 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Light in August | William Faulkner | Novel | 1932 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Linden Hills | Gloria Naylor | Novel | 1985 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Long Day’s Journey into the Night | Eugene O'Neill | Four-act play | 1956 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad | Novel first serialized in 1899–1900 | 1900 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | Novel | 1954 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Love Medicine | Louise Erdrich | Novel-in-stories | 1984; revised editions differ | AP FRQ 3 |
| Lysistrata | Aristophanes | Ancient Greek comedy | 411 BCE | AP FRQ 3IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| M. Butterfly | David Henry Hwang | Play | 1988 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Macbeth | William Shakespeare | Tragedy | Around 1606 | AP FRQ 3IB PRL recommended author |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | Novel | 1856–1857 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Maggie: A Girl of the Streets | Stephen Crane | Novella | 1893 | AP FRQ 3Additional classroom reference |
| Main Street | Sinclair Lewis | Satirical social novel | 1920 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Major Barbara | George Bernard Shaw | Play | First performed 1905; published 1907 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Mansfield Park | Jane Austen | Novel | 1814 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Medea | Euripides | Tragedy | First performed 431 BCE | AP FRQ 3Additional classroom reference |
| Middlemarch | George Eliot | Novel | Issued in parts 1871–1872; book edition 1872 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | Novel | 2002 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Moby Dick | Herman Melville | Novel | 1851 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Moll Flanders | Daniel Defoe | Novel | 1722 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Monkey Bridge | Lan Cao | Novel | 1997 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Mother Courage and Her Children | Bertolt Brecht | Play | 1939 | AP FRQ 3IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | Novel | 1925 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Mrs. Warren’s Profession | George Bernard Shaw | Play | 1898 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Much Ado About Nothing | William Shakespeare | Comedy | 1600 | AP FRQ 3IB PRL recommended author |
| Murder in the Cathedral | T. S. Eliot | Verse drama | 1935 | AP FRQ 3 |

