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AP English Lit（AP 英文文学）是 AP 考试中最难的考试之一，因为考试中会出现大量的历史及文学小说，学生必须熟悉它们才能做题。这些书通常是学生在一年 AP 英文文学课程中所读到的小说，但学生通常还需要在课外再多读不少书才能涵盖整个考试所出现的小说。
到底历年考试中出现哪些书呢？我们帮大家整理了几个实用的清单！
过去 5 年 AP English Literature 出现过的小说
以下我们整理出过去五年在 AP 考试中出现的小说清单：
2019 年 AP Literature 考试出现的小说清单 (共31本书)
| Title | Author |
| A Gesture Life | Chang-Rae Lee |
| Antigone | Sophocles |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh |
| Candide | Voltaire |
| Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| King Lear | William Shakespeare |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
| My Ántonia | Willa Cather |
| Native Son | Richard Wright |
| Portrait of a Lady | Henry James |
| Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce |
| The Alchemist | Paulo Coehlo |
| The Awakening | Kate Chopin |
| The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison |
| The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Diaz |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret Atwood |
| The House of Mirth | Edith Wharton |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde |
| The Mill on the Floss | George Eliot |
| The Odyssey | Homer |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Tempest | William Shakespeare |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| When the Emperor Was Divine | Julie Otsuka |
2018 年 AP Literature 考试出现的小说清单 (共29本书)
| Title | Author |
| A Passage to India | E. M. Forster |
| A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansberry |
| Alias Grace | Margaret Atwood |
| All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| Beowulf | |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevski |
| Death in Venice | Thomas Mann |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi |
| Kindred | Octavia Butler |
| King Lear | William Shakespeare |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert |
| Mama Day | Willow Springs |
| Man and Superman | George Bernard Shaw |
| Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka |
| Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie |
| Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce |
| The Aeneid | Virgil |
| The Goldfinch | Donna Tartt |
| The Iliad | Homer |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde |
| The Power of One | Bryce Courtenay |
| The Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy |
| The Tempest | William Shakespeare |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe |
| To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf |
2017 年 AP Literature 考试出现的小说清单 (共28本书)
| Title | Author |
| A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| Grendel | John Gardner |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte |
| Light in August | William Faulkner |
| Macbeth | William Shakespeare |
| Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka |
| Middlemarch | George Eliot |
| No Country for Old Men | Cormac McCarthy |
| Oedipus Rex | Sophocles |
| Orlando: A Biography | Virginia Woolf |
| Oryx and Crake | Margaret Atwood |
| The English Patient | Michael Ondaatje |
| The Iliad | Homer |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde |
| The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy |
| The Odyssey | Homer |
| The Playboy of the Western World | John Millington Synge |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zorah Neale Hurston |
| Tom Jones | Henry Fielding |
| Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare |
| Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte |
2016 年 AP Literature 考试出现的小说清单 (共38本书)
| Title | Author |
| A Doll House | Henrik Ibsen |
| A Yellow Raft in Blue Water | Michael Dorris |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
| As You Like It | William Shakespeare |
| Atonement | Ian McEwan |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevski |
| Extremely Loud and Incredibly Clear | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| In the Lake of the Woods | Tim O’Brien |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte |
| Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy |
| M. Butterfly | David Henry Wang |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert |
| Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides |
| Much Ado About Nothing | William Shakespeare |
| Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Oryx and Crake | Margaret Atwood |
| Othello | William Shakespeare |
| Portrait of a Lady | Henry James |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | Lisa See |
| The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood |
| The Bonesetter’s Daughter | Amy Tan |
| The Burgess Boys | Elizabeth Strout |
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
| The Memory Keeper’s Daughter | Kim Edwards |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde |
| The Women of Brewster Place | Gloria Naylor |
| Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare |
| Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Edward Albee |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte |
2015 年 AP Literature 考试出现的小说清单 (共31本书)
| Title | Author |
| A Bend in the River | V. S. Naipaul |
| A Gesture Life | Chang-Rae Lee |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| Billy Budd | Herman Melville |
| Black Boy | Richard Wright |
| Cat’s Eye | Margaret Atwood |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
| Mansfield Park | Jane Austen |
| Medea | Euripides |
| Night | Elie Weisel |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Ken Kesey |
| Othello | William Shakespeare |
| Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser |
| Sophie’s Choice | William Styron |
| Tess of the D’Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy |
| The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
| The Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore Cooper |
| The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare |
| The Odyssey | Homer |
| The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Edward Albee |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte |
最常在考试中出现的小说清单
过去 5 年最常出现的小说
以下这几本小说在过去五年的考试中出现了至少两次，我们强烈建议学生熟悉这些高频小说：
| Title | Author | Past 5 Yrs |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | 4 |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 4 |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | 3 |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | 3 |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | 3 |
| The Odyssey | Homer | 3 |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | 3 |
| A Gesture Life | Chang-Rae Lee | 2 |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 2 |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | 2 |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevski | 2 |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker | 2 |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | 2 |
| King Lear | William Shakespeare | 2 |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | 2 |
| Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | 2 |
| Oryx and Crake | Margaret Atwood | 2 |
| Othello | William Shakespeare | 2 |
| Portrait of a Lady | Henry James | 2 |
| Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | 2 |
| The Crucible | Arthur Miller | 2 |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 2 |
| The Iliad | Homer | 2 |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde | 2 |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | 2 |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | 2 |
| The Tempest | William Shakespeare | 2 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 2 |
| Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare | 2 |
| Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Edward Albee | 2 |
过去 10 年最常出现的小说
以下这几本小说在过去十年的考试中出现了至少四次，我们强烈建议学生熟悉这些高频小说：
| Title | Author | Past 10 Yrs |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 7 |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | 7 |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | 6 |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | 6 |
| King Lear | William Shakespeare | 6 |
| Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | 5 |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zorah Neale Hurston | 5 |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | 5 |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevski | 4 |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | 4 |
| Oryx and Crake | Margaret Atwood | 4 |
| Othello | William Shakespeare | 4 |
| Portrait of a Lady | Henry James | 4 |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 4 |
| The Odyssey | Homer | 4 |
| The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | 4 |
| The Women of Brewster Place | Gloria Naylor | 4 |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | 4 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 4 |
自 1971 年来最常出现的小说
以下这几本小说自1971年到现在在考试中出现了至少六次，当中 Invisible Man, Wuthering Heights, 跟 Great Expectations 出现了超过 20 次！我们强烈建议学生熟悉这些高频小说：
| Title | Author | Total |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | 29 |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | 23 |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 22 |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | 19 |
| King Lear | William Shakespeare | 19 |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevski | 18 |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | 18 |
| Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | 16 |
| Moby Dick | Herman Melville | 15 |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 15 |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 14 |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 14 |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zorah Neale Hurston | 14 |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | 13 |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | 13 |
| The Awakening | Kate Chopin | 13 |
| Billy Budd | Herman Melville | 12 |
| Light in August | William Faulkner | 12 |
| Othello | William Shakespeare | 12 |
| Native Son | Richard Wright | 11 |
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker | 11 |
| A Passage to India | E. M. Forster | 10 |
| A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansberry | 10 |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams | 10 |
| Antigone | Sophocles | 10 |
| Candide | Voltaire | 10 |
| Ceremony | Leslie Marmon Silko | 10 |
| Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller | 10 |
| Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy | 10 |
| Portrait of a Lady | Henry James | 10 |
| Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison | 10 |
| The Crucible | Arthur Miller | 10 |
| The Glass Menagerie | Tennessee Williams | 10 |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 9 |
| As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner | 9 |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | 9 |
| The Tempest | William Shakespeare | 9 |
| Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett | 9 |
| A Doll House | Henrik Ibsen | 8 |
| All the Pretty Horses | Cormac McCarthy | 8 |
| Bless Me, Ultima | Rudolfo Anaya | 8 |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | 8 |
| Oedipus Rex | Sophocles | 8 |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 8 |
| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard | 8 |
| Sula | Toni Morrison | 8 |
| Tess of the D’Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy | 8 |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 8 |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair | 8 |
| The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy | 8 |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | 8 |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | 8 |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | 8 |
| Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Edward Albee | 8 |
| All the King’s Men | Robert Penn Warren | 7 |
| Cry, The Beloved Country | Alan Paton | 7 |
| Ethan Frome | Edith Wharton | 7 |
| Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad | 7 |
| Obasan | Joy Kogawa | 7 |
| The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | 7 |
| An Enemy of the People | Henrik Ibsen | 6 |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 6 |
| Equus | Peter Shaffer | 6 |
| Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift | 6 |
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare | 6 |
| Hedda Gabler | Henrik Ibsen | 6 |
| Macbeth | William Shakespeare | 6 |
| Major Barbara | George Bernard Shaw | 6 |
| Medea | Euripides | 6 |
| Moll Flanders | Daniel Defoe | 6 |
| Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | 6 |
| Murder in the Cathedral | T. S. Eliot | 6 |
| Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser | 6 |
| The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton | 6 |
| The Cherry Orchard | Anton Chekhov | 6 |
| The Hairy Ape | Eugene O’Neill | 6 |
| The Odyssey | Homer | 6 |
| The Piano Lesson | August Wilson | 6 |
| The Turn of the Screw | Henry James | 6 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 6 |
| Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare | 6 |
AP Lit 考试最常出现的作者
相信学生不难猜到，在 AP Literature 考试中最常出现的作者是莎士比亚，William Shakespeare。从 1971 至今，在 AP 文学考试中一共出现过 17 本 Shakespeare 的书！我们整理出最频繁出现的作者及他们的作品清单：
1. William Shakespeare (共 17 本)
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Anthony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Parts I and II
- Henry V
- Julius Caesar
- King Lear
- Macbeth
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Tempest
- Twelfth Night
- Winter’s Tale
2. Charles Dickens (共 7 本)
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Bleak House
- David Copperfield
- Great Expectations
- Hard Times
- Oliver Twist
- Our Mutual Friend
3. Henrik Ibsen (共 6 本)
- A Doll House
- An Enemy of the People
- Ghosts
- Hedda Gabler
- Peer Gynt
- The Wild Duck
4. Henry James (共 6 本)
- Daisy Miller
- Portrait of a Lady
- The American
- The Golden Bowl
- The Turn of the Screw
- Washington Square
5. Margaret Atwood (共 6 本)
- Alias Grace
- Cat’s Eye
- Oryx and Crake
- Surfacing
- The Blind Assassin
- The Handmaid’s Tale
6. George Bernard Shaw (共 5 本)
- Major Barbara
- Man and Superman
- Mrs. Warren’s Profession
- Pygmalion
- Saint Joan
7. William Faulkner (共 5 本)
- Absalom, Absalom
- As I Lay Dying
- Light in August
- The Bear
- The Sound and the Fury
8. Cormac McCarthy (共 4 本)
- All the Pretty Horses
- No Country for Old Men
- The Crossing
- The Road
9. George Elliot (共 4 本)
- Adam Bede
- Middlemarch
- Silas Marner
- The Mill on the Floss
10. Herman Melville (共 4 本)
- Benito Cereno
- Billy Budd
- Moby Dick
- Redburn
11. John Steinbeck (共 4 本)
- East of Eden
- Emma
- Of Mice and Men
- The Grapes of Wrath
12. Thomas Hardy (共 4 本)
- Jude the Obscure
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles
- The Mayor of Casterbridge
- The Return of the Native
13. Tony Morrison (共 4 本)
- Beloved
- Song of Solomon
- Sula
- The Bluest Eye
14. Virginia Wolfe (共 4 本)
- A Room of One’s Own
- Mrs. Dalloway
- Orlando: A Biography
- To the Lighthouse
自1971年来所有的 AP Lit 小说数据
我们整理了这个 Google 表單，里面标注自1971年来所有在 AP Literature 中出现的小说：
学生可以自行在表单中排序看你想要的资讯，包含：
- 排序 Title A-Z，看有哪些书出现在历年考题中
- 排序 Total Z-A，看历年考题中最常出现的书有哪些
- 排序 Past 10 或 Past 5 Z-A，看过去 5-10 年的考题中最常出现的书有哪些
- 排序任何一个年份 Z-A，看该年的考题中出现了哪些书
有了这些数据，然后呢？这些清单可以怎样帮我？
1. 透过清单知道过去几年考了哪些书，多熟悉那几本书
从这个历年书籍总整理可以看出一个趋势，就是相同的书常常会出现下一年的 AP 考试又出现，所以在 2015-2019 年的书，你尤其要熟悉。
2. 透过清单知道有哪些书最常出现，多熟悉那几本书
从这个历年书籍总整理也可以看出有几本书跟几位作者常常会出现在 AP 考试中。 Invisible Man, Wuthering Heights, 跟 Great Expectations，以及 William ShakeSpeare, Charles Dickens, Henrik Ibsen, Henry James, 和 Margaret Atwood 的小说，你一定要熟悉。
3. 如果这些高频清单中出现了你不会的书，快利用考试前的有限时间赶快读它们。
AP 文学涵盖的书籍非常广，如果这些清单中出现了不少你不熟悉的书也是正常的。在考试前，希望你有时间能读这些书并作笔记，如果没空读整本书也可以读 Spark Notes里面的大意跟解析，让你不至于对这些书完全不了解。
4. 考前做官方或第三方的 AP 文学模考，了解这些小说会用什么形式出现在考试中。
如果你是Ivy-Way 的AP Literature 学生，你可以从老师手中拿到历年考题，如果你不是，你也可以跟你学校的AP Literature 老师询问有没有历年考题可以让你练习，从中你就可以知道考试的出题方式，以及你是否有办法回答关于这些小说的题目。
5. 如果你还是觉得考试很难，要尽早寻求帮助！
希望你不是在考试前一两个礼拜你才发现这个考试的难度超过你能负荷的！透过平时的练习，如果你发现AP Literature 有点困难了，你要尽早寻求帮助，这个帮助可以来自你学校的AP Literature 老师额外的课后辅导，可以透过你跟同学组study group 一起练习，如果你要有系统地准备考试，你也可以透过Ivy-Way 的AP Literature 老师的线上辅导，让你有足够时间准备，战胜这个考试。如果你需要我们带领你一起准备，你只要在我们的网站上填一份报名表就可以了！
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