Ap Lit Choice Books

Postcolonial/Multicultural Authors for AP Literature Suggestions for Choice books from AP Open Choice Questions

Michael Ondaajte (Canadian)

*Coming Through the Slaughter (01) The English Patient

Isak Dinesen (Danish)

*Out of Africa (06)

Rudolfo Anaya (Mexican-American)

*Bless Me, Ultima (94, 96, 97, 99, 04, 05, 06, 08)

N. Scott Momaday (Native American)

*House Made of Dawn (96, 06)

Sandra Cisneros (Chicana)

*The House on Mango Street (08)

Cristina Garcia (Cuban-American)

* Dreaming in Cuban (03)

Rohinton Mistry (Indian)

* A Fine Balance (03)

Chang-Rae Lee (Korean-American)

* A Gesture Life (04, 05)

Julia Alvarez (Dominican-American)

*In the Time of Butterflies (05)

Bharati Mukherjee (Indian-American)

*Jasmine (99)

Khaled Hosseini (Afghani-American)

*The Kite Runner (07, 08)

Athol Fugard (South African)

*Master Harold…and the Boys (03, 08)

David Henry Hwang (Asian-American)

*M. Butterfly (95)

Lan Cao (Vietnamese)

*The Monkey Bridge (00, 03)

Salmon Rushdie (British-Indian)

*The Moor’s Last Sigh (07)

Chang-Rae Lee (Korean-American)

*Native Speaker (99, 03, 05, 07, 08)

John Okada (Japanese-American)

* No-No Boy (95)

Jose Antonio Villarreal (Chicano)

* Pocho (02, 08)

Maxine Hong Kingston (Chinese-American)* Woman Warrior (91, 08) Luis Valdez (Chicano) Jen Gish (Chinese)

* Zoot Suit (95) * Typical American (02, 03, 05)

Joy Kogawa

*Obasan (94, 95, 04, 05, 06, 07)

Leslie Silko (Native American)

*Ceremony (94, 96, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 06, 07)

Other Suggestions: Arundhati Roy (Indian)

The God of Small Things

Jamaica Kincaid (Caribbean - Antigua)

Annie John

Edwidge Danticat (Haitian)

Brother, I’m dying

Derek Walcott (West Indian)

The Prodigal

Bessie Head (South African)

When Rain Clouds Gather

Jean Rhys (Dominican)

Wide Sargasso Sea