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AP English Lit（AP 英文文學）是 AP 考試中最難的考試之一，因為考試中會出現大量的歷史及文學小說，學生必須熟悉它們才能做題。這些書通常是學生在一年 AP 英文文學課程中所讀到的小說，但學生通常還需要在課外再多讀不少書才能涵蓋整個考試所出現的小說。
到底歷年考試中出現哪些書呢？我們幫大家整理了幾個實用的清單！
過去 5 年 AP English Literature 出現過的小說
以下我們整理出過去五年在 AP 考試中出現的小說清單：
2019 年 AP Literature 考試出現的小說清單 (共31本書)
| 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 考試出現的小說清單 (共29本書)
| 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 考試出現的小說清單 (共28本書)
| 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 考試出現的小說清單 (共38本書)
| 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 考試出現的小說清單 (共31本書)
| 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 |
最常在考試中出現的小說清單
過去 5 年最常出現的小說
以下這幾本小說在過去五年的考試中出現了至少兩次，我們強烈建議學生熟悉這些高頻小說：
| 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 |
過去 10 年最常出現的小說
以下這幾本小說在過去十年的考試中出現了至少四次，我們強烈建議學生熟悉這些高頻小說：
| 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 年來最常出現的小說
以下這幾本小說自1971年到現在在考試中出現了至少六次，當中 Invisible Man, Wuthering Heights, 跟 Great Expectations 出現了超過 20 次！我們強烈建議學生熟悉這些高頻小說：
| 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 考試最常出現的作者
相信學生不難猜到，在 AP Literature 考試中最常出現的作者是莎士比亞，William Shakespeare。從 1971 至今，在 AP 文學考試中一共出現過 17 本 Shakespeare 的書！我們整理出最頻繁出現的作者及他們的作品清單：
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年來所有的 AP Lit 小說數據
我們整理了這個 Google 表單，裡面標註自1971年來所有在 AP Literature 中出現的小說：
學生可以自行在表單中排序看你想要的資訊，包含：
- 排序 Title A-Z，看有哪些書出現在歷年考題中
- 排序 Total Z-A，看歷年考題中最常出現的書有哪些
- 排序 Past 10 或 Past 5 Z-A，看過去 5-10 年的考題中最常出現的書有哪些
- 排序任何一個年份 Z-A，看該年的考題中出現了哪些書
有了這些數據，然後呢？這些清單可以怎樣幫我？
1. 透過清單知道過去幾年考了哪些書，多熟悉那幾本書
從這個歷年書籍總整理可以看出一個趨勢，就是相同的書常常會出現下一年的 AP 考試又出現，所以在 2015-2019 年的書，你尤其要熟悉。
2. 透過清單知道有哪些書最常出現，多熟悉那幾本書
從這個歷年書籍總整理也可以看出有幾本書跟幾位作者常常會出現在 AP 考試中。Invisible Man, Wuthering Heights, 跟 Great Expectations，以及 William ShakeSpeare, Charles Dickens, Henrik Ibsen, Henry James, 和 Margaret Atwood 的小說，你一定要熟悉。
3. 如果這些高頻清單中出現了你不會的書，快利用考試前的有限時間趕快讀它們。
AP 文學涵蓋的書籍非常廣，如果這些清單中出現了不少你不熟悉的書也是正常的。在考試前，希望你有時間能讀這些書並作筆記，如果沒空讀整本書也可以讀 Spark Notes 裡面的大意跟解析，讓你不至於對這些書完全不了解。
4. 考前做官方或第三方的 AP 文學模考，了解這些小說會用什麼形式出現在考試中。
如果你是 Ivy-Way 的 AP Literature 學生，你可以從老師手中拿到歷年考題，如果你不是，你也可以跟你學校的 AP Literature 老師詢問有沒有歷年考題可以讓你練習，從中你就可以知道考試的出題方式，以及你是否有辦法回答關於這些小說的題目。
5. 如果你還是覺得考試很難，要儘早尋求幫助！
希望你不是在考試前一兩個禮拜你才發現這個考試的難度超過你能負荷的！透過平時的練習，如果你發現 AP Literature 有點困難了，你要儘早尋求幫助，這個幫助可以來自你學校的 AP Literature 老師額外的課後輔導，可以透過你跟同學組 study group 一起練習，如果你要有系統地準備考試，你也可以透過 Ivy-Way 的 AP Literature 老師的線上輔導，讓你有足夠時間準備，戰勝這個考試。如果你需要我們帶領你一起準備，你只要在我們的網站上填一份報名表就可以了！
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