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311 completed study guides
| Work | Author | Form | Published | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| My Ántonia | Willa Cather | Novel | 1918 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Native Son | Richard Wright | Novel | 1940; later unexpurgated edition restores Wright's text | AP FRQ 3 |
| Native Speaker | Chang-rae Lee | Novel | 1995 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | Novel | 2005 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | Dystopian novel | 1949 | AP FRQ 3 |
| No Country for Old Men | Cormac McCarthy | Novel | 2005 | AP FRQ 3 |
| No Exit | Jean-Paul Sartre | One-act play | First performed 1944; first French edition 1945 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Noah’s Compass | Anne Tyler | Novel | 2009 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Notes from the Underground | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Novella | 1864 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Obasan | Joy Kogawa | Novel | 1981 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Ode on a Grecian Urn | John Keats | Poem | 1820 | |
| Oedipus Rex | Sophocles | Tragedy | c. 429 BCE | AP FRQ 3IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selectionAdditional classroom reference |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | Novella | 1937 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | Novel | 1837–1839; book 1838 | AP FRQ 3 |
| One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Novella | 1962 | AP FRQ 3 |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Ken Kesey | Novel | 1962 | AP FRQ 3 |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | Novel | 1967 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Oresteia | Aeschylus | Tragic trilogy | 458 BCE | AP FRQ 3 |
| Oryx and Crake | Margaret Atwood | Novel | 2003 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Othello | William Shakespeare | Tragedy | c. 1603–1604; first printed 1622 | AP FRQ 3IB PRL recommended author |
| Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | Novel | 1864–1865 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Our Town | Thornton Wilder | Play | 1938 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Ozymandias | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Poem | 1818 | IB PRL recommended author |
| Paradise Lost | John Milton | Epic poem | 1667; revised 1674 | AP FRQ 3Additional classroom reference |
| Père Goriot | Honoré de Balzac | Novel | 1834–1835 | AP FRQ 3IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Persuasion | Jane Austen | Novel | 1817 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Phèdre | Jean Racine | Play | 1677 | AP FRQ 3Additional classroom reference |
| Pnin | Vladimir Nabokov | Novel | 1957 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Pocho | José Antonio Villarreal | Novel | 1959 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | Novel | 1813 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Purple Hibiscus | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Novel | 2003 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Pygmalion | George Bernard Shaw | Play | 1913 | AP FRQ 3Additional classroom reference |
| Ragtime | E. L. Doctorow | Novel | 1975 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane | Novel | 1895 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | Novel | 1719 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | Play | c. 1595; first quarto 1597 | AP FRQ 3IB PRL recommended author |
| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead | Tom Stoppard | Play | 1966 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Sent for You Yesterday | John Edgar Wideman | Novel | 1983 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Set This House on Fire | William Styron | Novel | 1960 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | Novel | 1922 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Silas Marner | George Eliot | Novel | 1861 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser | Novel | 1900 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Sister of My Heart | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | Novel | 1999 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Slaughterhouse Five | Kurt Vonnegut | Novel | 1969 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Snow | Orhan Pamuk | Novel | 2002 | AP FRQ 3IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Snow Falling on Cedars | David Guterson | Novel | 1994 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | Lisa See | Historical novel | 2005 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison | Novel | 1977 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Sons and Lovers | D. H. Lawrence | Novel | 1913 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Sophie’s Choice | William Styron | Novel | 1979 | AP FRQ 3 |

