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College Bound Reading List
Listed below are 101 Great Books recommended for College-Bound Students by the College Board (creators of the S.A.T.).
| Author |
Title |
| -- |
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 (unavailable) |
| 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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