The College Board's "101 Great Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers"

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This list is in alphabetical order by author’s name.

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  1. 2.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

  2. 3.
    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee

  3. 4.
    Pride and Prejudice (Vintage Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  4. 5.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Modern Library)
    by James Baldwin

  5. 6.
    WAITING FOR GODOT-TRAGICOMEDY IN 2 ACTS
    by Samuel Beckett

  6. 7.
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  7. 8.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  8. 9.
    Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Emily Brontë

  9. 10.
    The Stranger (Everyman's Library)
    by Albert Camus

  10. 11.
    Death Comes for the Archbishop (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Willa Cather

  11. 12.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes

  12. 13.
    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

  13. 14.
    The Cherry Orchard (Methuen Drama)
    by Anton Chekhov

  14. 15.
    The Awakening (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Kate Chopin

  15. 16.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph Conrad

  16. 17.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Oxford World's Classics)
    by James Fenimore Cooper

  17. 18.
    The Red Badge of Courage
    by Stephen Crane

  18. 19.
    Inferno (Modern Library Classics)
    by Dante

  19. 20.
    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  20. 21.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  21. 22.
    Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  22. 23.
    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
    by Frederick Douglass

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  24. 25.
    The Three Musketeers (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas pÃ..re

  25. 26.
    The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

  26. 27.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

  27. 28.
    Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)
    by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  28. 29.
    As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  29. 30.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  30. 31.
    Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

  31. 32.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  32. 33.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  33. 34.
    The Good Soldier (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
    by Ford Madox Ford

  34. 35.
    Faust (Bantam Classics) (Part I) (English and German Edition)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  35. 36.
    Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by William Golding

  36. 37.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

  37. 38.
    The Scarlet Letter (Enriched Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  38. 39.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  39. 40.
    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

  40. 41.
    The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Homer

  41. 42.
    The Odyssey
    by Robert Fagles

  42. 44.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

  43. 45.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  44. 46.
    A Doll's House - Literary Touchstone Edition
    by Henrik Ibsen

  45. 47.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Henry James

  46. 48.
    The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Henry James

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  48. 50.
    The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics)
    by Franz Kafka

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Created by ejgarfunkel on Oct 14, 2006.
 

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broken - only 64 books — 3 years ago

whoever screwed with this list in the last week, please fix it and make exactly like the source list. there should be 101 books, not 64.


Fixed — 3 years ago

I just cleaned up this list. Removed a few duplicates and a couple that were not on the real list, and corrected a few that were the right title but wrong book.




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