Did you know that the MRC can be a huge help in preparing for AP Exams? It's true! First of all, we (along with Central Library) have all sorts of AP test prep guides containing tips and practice tests for a variety of AP Exams. But we also have a not-so-secret collection of books that could prove invaluable for those of you planning on taking the AP English Literature & Composition Exam in years to come...
Below is a list of books most frequently mentioned in the English Literature & Composition Exam's open response questions between 1970-2011, all of which are available in MRC:
- Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison (24 times)
- Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte (19 times)
- Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky (16 times)
- Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens (16 times)
- Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad (15 times)
- Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte (15 times)
- Moby Dick, by Herman Melville (15 times)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (14 times)
- King Lear, by William Shakespeare (13 times)
- Catch-22, by Joseph Heller (12 times)
- The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (12 times)
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce (12 times)
- The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (12 times)
Of course, some of those books have been mentioned less frequently as years go on. Click on the 'Read More' link (bottom right of this blog entry) to see a list of the books most often cited between 2002-2011 (titles that don't appear on the above list are starred).