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Most Frequently Cited Prose Titles on the AP Exam 1970-2011
24 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 19 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 16 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski 16 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 15 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 15 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 15 Moby Dick by Herman Melville 14 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 13 King Lear by William Shakespeare 12 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 12 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 12 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 12 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 11 The Awakening by Kate Chopin 11 Billy Budd by Herman Melville 11 Light in August by William Faulkner 11 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston 10 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 10 Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko 9 Antigone by Sophocles 9 Beloved by Toni Morrison 9 The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams 9 Native Son by Richard Wright 9 Othello by William Shakespeare 9 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison 9 A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams 8 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 8 Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya 8 Candide by Voltaire 8 The Color Purple by Alice Walker 8 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 8 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 8 A Passage to India by E. M. Forster 8 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard 7 All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren 7 All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy 7 The Crucible by Arthur Miller 7 Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton 7 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 7 Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 7 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 7 The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 7 Oedipus Rex by Sophocles 7 Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 7 A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry 7 Sula by Toni Morrison 7 The Tempest by William Shakespeare 7 Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 6 A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen 6 An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen 6 Equus by Peter Shaffer 6 Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 6 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift 6 Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen 6 Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw 6 Medea by Euripides 6 The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare 6 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe 6 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 6 Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot 6 Obasan by Joy Kogawa 6 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 6 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 6 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 6 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 6 The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 6 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee 5 Bleak House by Charles Dickens 5 The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chkhov 5 Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe 5 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 5 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin 5 Hamlet by William Shakespeare 5 Macbeth by William Shakespeare 5 Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw 5 The Piano Lesson by August Wilson 5 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser 5 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 5 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 5 Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor |
Shakespeare - All Plays Total = 74
2 Anthony and Cleopatra 4 As You Like It 5 Hamlet 3 Henry IV, Parts I and II 1 Henry V 4 Julius Caesar 14 King Lear 5 Macbeth 6 Merchant of Venice 1 A Midsummer Night's Dream 1 Much Ado About Nothing 9Othello 1 Richard III 4 Romeo and Juliet 7 The Tempest 4 Twelfth Night 4 Winter's Tale Classical Greek & Roman Literature = 29 1 The Aeneid by Virgil 9 Antigone by Sophocles 1 The Eumenides by Aeschylus 1 The Iliad by Homer 1 Lysistrata by Aristophanes 6 Medea by Euripides 3 The Odyssey by Homer 6 Oedipus Rex by Sophocles 1 The Orestia by Aeschylus |
