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Independent literature reference

Literature Library

Browse complete, independently researched study guides. AP and IB markers record curriculum relevance; unfinished research never appears as a public guide.

311 completed study guides
WorkAuthorFormPublishedReferences
My ÁntoniaWilla CatherNovel1918
AP FRQ 3
Native SonRichard WrightNovel1940; later unexpurgated edition restores Wright's text
AP FRQ 3
Native SpeakerChang-rae LeeNovel1995
AP FRQ 3
Never Let Me GoKazuo IshiguroNovel2005
AP FRQ 3
Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge OrwellDystopian novel1949
AP FRQ 3
No Country for Old MenCormac McCarthyNovel2005
AP FRQ 3
No ExitJean-Paul SartreOne-act playFirst performed 1944; first French edition 1945
AP FRQ 3
Noah’s CompassAnne TylerNovel2009
AP FRQ 3
Notes from the UndergroundFyodor DostoevskyNovella1864
AP FRQ 3
ObasanJoy KogawaNovel1981
AP FRQ 3
Ode on a Grecian UrnJohn KeatsPoem1820
Oedipus RexSophoclesTragedyc. 429 BCE
AP FRQ 3IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selectionAdditional classroom reference
Of Mice and MenJohn SteinbeckNovella1937
AP FRQ 3
Oliver TwistCharles DickensNovel1837–1839; book 1838
AP FRQ 3
One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichAleksandr SolzhenitsynNovella1962
AP FRQ 3
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestKen KeseyNovel1962
AP FRQ 3
One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García MárquezNovel1967
AP FRQ 3
OresteiaAeschylusTragic trilogy458 BCE
AP FRQ 3
Oryx and CrakeMargaret AtwoodNovel2003
AP FRQ 3
OthelloWilliam ShakespeareTragedyc. 1603–1604; first printed 1622
AP FRQ 3IB PRL recommended author
Our Mutual FriendCharles DickensNovel1864–1865
AP FRQ 3
Our TownThornton WilderPlay1938
AP FRQ 3
OzymandiasPercy Bysshe ShelleyPoem1818
IB PRL recommended author
Paradise LostJohn MiltonEpic poem1667; revised 1674
AP FRQ 3Additional classroom reference
Père GoriotHonoré de BalzacNovel1834–1835
AP FRQ 3IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection
PersuasionJane AustenNovel1817
AP FRQ 3
PhèdreJean RacinePlay1677
AP FRQ 3Additional classroom reference
PninVladimir NabokovNovel1957
AP FRQ 3
PochoJosé Antonio VillarrealNovel1959
AP FRQ 3
Pride and PrejudiceJane AustenNovel1813
AP FRQ 3
Purple HibiscusChimamanda Ngozi AdichieNovel2003
AP FRQ 3
PygmalionGeorge Bernard ShawPlay1913
AP FRQ 3Additional classroom reference
RagtimeE. L. DoctorowNovel1975
AP FRQ 3
Red Badge of CourageStephen CraneNovel1895
AP FRQ 3
Robinson CrusoeDaniel DefoeNovel1719
AP FRQ 3
Romeo and JulietWilliam ShakespearePlayc. 1595; first quarto 1597
AP FRQ 3IB PRL recommended author
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are DeadTom StoppardPlay1966
AP FRQ 3
Sent for You YesterdayJohn Edgar WidemanNovel1983
AP FRQ 3
Set This House on FireWilliam StyronNovel1960
AP FRQ 3
SiddharthaHermann HesseNovel1922
AP FRQ 3
Silas MarnerGeorge EliotNovel1861
AP FRQ 3
Sister CarrieTheodore DreiserNovel1900
AP FRQ 3
Sister of My HeartChitra Banerjee DivakaruniNovel1999
AP FRQ 3
Slaughterhouse FiveKurt VonnegutNovel1969
AP FRQ 3
SnowOrhan PamukNovel2002
AP FRQ 3IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection
Snow Falling on CedarsDavid GutersonNovel1994
AP FRQ 3
Snow Flower and the Secret FanLisa SeeHistorical novel2005
AP FRQ 3
Song of SolomonToni MorrisonNovel1977
AP FRQ 3
Sons and LoversD. H. LawrenceNovel1913
AP FRQ 3
Sophie’s ChoiceWilliam StyronNovel1979
AP FRQ 3

AP markers show works named in historical Question 3 prompts; they are not a required AP reading list. IB markers identify recommended authors, while the titles here are independent reading suggestions rather than works prescribed by the IB.