Chose Book and Reading Partner by Monday - Fall Semester

By Monday, I want you to have chosen the book you will reading in partnership with a classmate this semester. Start looking at the titles on the list. I suggest you visit amazon.com  then click on books to read  the comments people who have read the book have written.  Visit a library, take home a bunch of books, peruse through them, then decide the one you want to read. This can also be done in an air conditioned bookstore; just gather together several of the titles sit down and look through them.  You may wish to do one or all of these these things together with the classmate you have chosen to be your partner. Just be sure you have selected the book and the partner you will be reading the book with by Monday. Okay?

Here are the authors the Educational Testing Service has listed as “acceptable” authors whose books you may write about on the A.P. English Literature and Composition Test. This list changes from year to year, it is not inviolable.

Fiction
Chinua Achebe; Kingsley Amis; Rudolfo Anaya; Margaret Atwood; Jane Austen; James Baldwin; Saul Bellow; Charlotte Brontë; Emily Brontë; Raymond Carver; Willa Cather; Sandra Cisneros; John Cheever; Kate Chopin; Colette; Joseph Conrad; Stephen Crane; Anita Desai; Charles Dickens; George Eliot; Ralph Ellison; Louise Erdrich; William Faulkner; Henry Fielding; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ford Madox Ford; E. M. Forster; Thomas Hardy; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Ernest Hemingway; Zora Neale Hurston; Kazuo Ishiguro; Henry James; James Joyce; Maxine Hong Kingston; Joy Kogawa; Margaret Laurence; D. H. Lawrence; Bernard Malamud; Katherine Mansfield; Gabriel García Márquez; Bobbie Ann Mason; Carson McCullers; Herman Melville; Toni Morrison; Bharati Mukherjee; Vladimir Nabokov; Flannery O'Connor; Cynthia Ozick; Katherine Anne Porter; Jean Rhys; Jonathan Swift; Leo Tolstoy; Mark Twain; John Updike; Luisa Valenzuela; Alice Walker; Evelyn Waugh; Eudora Welty; Edith Wharton; John Edgar Wideman; Virginia Woolf; Richard Wright