| Author | Title | Country | genre | Publication date | AP exam |
| Alan Payton | Cry the Beloved Country | Africa | novel | 1948 | x |
| Albert Camus | The Stranger | French | novel | 1942 | x |
| Aldous Huxley | Brave New World | British | novel | 1932 | x |
| Aldous Huxley | Eyeless in Gaza | British | novel | 1936 | x |
| Amitav Ghosh | Shadowlines | India | novel | 1988 | |
| Amos Tutuola | The Palm-Wine Drinkard | Africa (Nigeria) | novel | 1970 | |
| Anita Desai | Clear Light of Day | India | novel | 2000 | |
| Anita Desai | In Custody | India | novel | 1980 | |
| Anita Desai | Baumgartner's Bombay | India | novel | 1988 | |
| Anthony Trollope | The Warden | British | novel | 1992 | x |
| Archibald McLeish | J.B | British | drama | 1958 | x |
| Arthur Evelyn Waugh | Decline and Fall | British | novel | 1928 | x |
| Arthur Evelyn Waugh | Put out More Flags | British | novel | 1942 | x |
| Athol Fugard | Blood Knot | Africa (South Africa) | drama | 1991 | |
| Ayi Kwei Armah | Why Are We So Blest? | Africa (Ghana) | novel | 1972 | |
| Ayi Kwei Armah | The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born | Africa (Ghana) | novel | 1988 | |
| Barbara Pym | Jane and Prudence | British | novel | 1953 | x |
| Barbara Pym | A Few Leaves of Grass | British | novel | 1980 | x |
| Barbara Pym | Quartet in Autumn | British | novel | 1977 | x |
| Barbara Pym | The Sweet Dove Died | British | novel | 1978 | x |
| Bharati Mukherjee | The Tiger's Daughter | India | novel | 1971 | |
| Buchi Emecheta | The Bride Price | Africa (Nigeria) | novel | 1994 | |
| Buchi Emecheta | Head Above Water | Africa (Nigeria) | novel | 1986 | |
| Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | British | novel | 1859 | x |
| Charles Dickens | The Adventures of Oliver Twist | British | novel | 1939 | x |
| Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | British | novel | 1861 | x |
| Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | British | novel | 1847 | x |
| Chinua Achebe | The Arrow of God | Africa (Nigeria) | novel | 1958 | |
| Chinua Achebe | No Longer at Ease | Africa (Nigeria) | novel | 1960 | |
| Cyprian Ekwensi | Jagua Nana | Africa((Nigeria) | novel | 1961 | |
| E.M. Foster | A Passage to India | British | novel | 1924 | x |
| Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | British | novel | 1847 | x |
| E'skia (Ezikiel) Mphahlele | Down Second Avenue | Africa (South Africa) | novel | 2004 | |
| Eugene O'Neill | The Hairy Ape | British | drama | x | |
| Franz Kafka | The Trial | German | novel | 1925 | x |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamozov | British | novel | 1880 | x |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment | Russian | novel | 1866 | x |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | Notes from the Underground | Russian | novel | x | x |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales | British | novel | 1397 | x |
| George Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion | Irish | drama | 1912 | x |
| George Bernard Shaw | Back to Methuselah | Irish | drama | 1921 | x |
| George Bernard Shaw | Major Barbara | British | drama | 1907 | x |
| George Lamming | Water with Berries | The Caribbean | novel | 1972 | |
| George Lamming | The Emigrants | The Caribbean | novel | 1954 | |
| George Orwell | 1984 | British | novel | 1949 | x |
| Ginu Kamani | Junglee Girl | India | novel | 1997 | |
| Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | French | novel | 1856 | x |
| Harold Pintar | Betrayal | British | novel | 1978 | x |
| Harold Pinter | Ashes to Ashes | British | drama | 1996 | x |
| Harold Pinter | Moonlight | British | drama | 1996 | x |
| Jamaica Kincaid | At the Bottom of the River | The Caribbean | novel | 1983 | |
| Jamaica Kincaid | Annie John | The Caribbean | novel | 1985 | |
| James Joyce | A Portriat of an Artist as a Young Man | Irish | novel | 1916 | x |
| James Joyce | Ulysses | Irish | novel | 1922 | x |
| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | British | novel | 1813 | x |
| Jane Austen | Northhanger Abbey | British | novel | 1798 | x |
| Jane Austen | Emma | British | novel | 1816 | x |
| Jean Rhys | Wide Sargasso Sea | Caribbean | novel | 1966 | x |
| Jonathon Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Irish | novel | 1745 | x |
| Jonathon Swift | A Modest Proposal | Irish | novel | 1729 | x |
| Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness | British | novel | 1902 | x |
| Kushwant Singh | Train to Pakistan | India | novel | 1956 | |
| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | Russian | novel | 1877 | x |
| Mary Shelley | Frankenstein | British | novel | x | x |
| Merle Hodge | Crick-Crack Monkey | The Caribbean | novel | 2001 | |
| Nadine Gordimer | Burger's Daughter | Africa (South Africa) | novel | 1979 | |
| Nadine Gordimer | The Conservationist | Afric a (South Africa) | novel | 1974 | |
| Ngugi wa Thion'go | Petals of Blood | Africa (Kenya) | novel | 1977 | |
| Ngugi wa Thion'go | A Grain of Wheat | Africa (Kenya) | novel | 1993 | |
| Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray | British | novel | 1891 | x |
| Oscar Wilde | Lady Windermere's Fan | British | novel | 1892 | x |
| R. K. Narayan | The English Teacher | India | novel | 1945 | |
| R. K. Narayan | The Financial Expert | India | novel | 1952 | |
| R. K. Narayan | The Dark Room | India | novel | 1938 | |
| Salman Rushdie | Midnight's Children | India | novel | 1981 | |
| Salman Rushdie | Shame | India | novel | 1983 | |
| Salman Rushdie | The Moor's Last Sigh | India | novel | 1995 | |
| Samuel Beckett | Waiting for Godot | British | drama | 1949 | x |
| Samuel Beckett | Endgame | British | drama | 1957 | x |
| Samuel Beckett | Krapp’s Last Tape | British | drama | 1958 | x |
| Thomas Hardy | Tess of the D'Ubervilles | British | novel | 1897 | x |
| Thomas Hardy | The Mayor of Casterbridge | British | novel | 1886 | x |
| Tom Stoppard | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | British | drama | 1964 | x |
| V. S. Naipaul | A House for Mr. Biswas | The Caribbean | novel | 1961 | |
| Vikram Seth | A Suitable Boy | India | novel | 1993 | |
| Virginia Woolf | Mrs. Dalloway | British | novel | 1925 | x |
| Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | German | novel | 1965 | x |
| Voltaire | Candide | French | novel | 1758 | x |
| William Shakespeare | Hamlet | British | drama | 1603 | x |
| William Shakespeare | King Lear | British | drama | 1623 | x |
| William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | British | drama | 1623 | x |
| William Shakespeare | The Tempest | British | drama | 1623 | x |
| William Shakespeare | The Winter's Tale | British | drama | 1594 | x |
| William Shakespeare | As You Like It | British | drama | 1603 | x |
| William Shakespeare | Othello | British | drama | 1603 | |
| Wilson Harris | Palace of the Peacock | The Caribbean | novel | 1960 | |
| Wole Soyinka | Death and the King's Horseman | Africa (Nigeria) | drama | 1975 | |
| Wole Soyinka | Ake: The Years of Childhood | Africa (Nigeria) | novel | 1981 |