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101 Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers [http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/boost-your-skills/23628.html]

  • Beowulf
  • Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
  • Agee, James - A Death in the Family
  • Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
  • Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
  • Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
  • Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
  • Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
  • Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights
  • Camus, Albert - The Stranger
  • Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
  • Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
  • Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
  • Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
  • Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
  • Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
  • Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
  • Dante - Inferno
  • de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
  • Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
  • Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
  • Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
  • Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  • Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
  • Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
  • Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss
  • Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
  • Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
  • Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
  • Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
  • Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
  • Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
  • Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
  • Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
  • Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
  • Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
  • Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
  • Homer - The Iliad
  • Homer - The Odyssey
  • Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
  • Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
  • James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
  • James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
  • Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  • Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
  • Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
  • Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
  • London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
  • Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
  • Marquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
  • Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
  • Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
  • Morrison, Toni - Beloved
  • O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
  • O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
  • Orwell, George - Animal Farm
  • Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
  • Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
  • Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
  • Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
  • Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
  • Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
  • Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
  • Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
  • Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
  • Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
  • Shaw, George Bernard Pygmalion
  • Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
  • Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
  • Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  • Sophocles - Antigone
  • Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
  • Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
  • Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
  • Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
  • Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
  • Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
  • Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
  • Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
  • Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Voltaire - Candide
  • Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
  • Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
  • Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
  • Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
  • Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
  • Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
  • Wright, Richard - Native Son
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