Send to Printer

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

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

(found at: http://www.collegeboard.com/parents/plan/hs-steps/21276.html)

Pages: Pages: 1 3
1. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classics)
by Oscar Wilde
  
2. Antigone
by Sophocles
  
3. Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
4. Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
5. All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
  
6. The Crucible (Penguin Classics)
by Arthur Miller
  
7. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Pernnial Moderns Classics)
by Harper Lee
  
8. Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
by Emily Bronte
  
9. Pride and Prejudice (Vintage Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
10. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
11. The Stranger (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Albert Camus
  
12. Don Quixote (P.S.)
by Miguel de Cervantes
  
13. Inferno (Modern Library Classics)
by Dante
  
14. A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
15. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
16. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas Hardy
  
17. The Scarlet Letter (Enriched Classics)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
18. The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Homer
  
19. The Odyssey
by Homer
  
20. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
  
21. A Doll's House - Literary Touchstone Edition
by Henrik Ibsen
  
22. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass
  
23. Catch 22
by Joseph Heller
  
24. The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics)
by John Steinbeck
  
25. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
by Mark Twain
  
26. The Awakening (Norton Critical Editions)
by Kate Chopin
  
27.
?
 WAITING FOR GODOT-TRAGICOMEDY IN 2 ACTS
by Samuel Beckett
  
28. Faust (Bantam Classics)
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  
29. The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephan Crane
  
30. Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
by Daniel Defoe
  
31. Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
32. Dreiser American Tragedy (Library of America)
by Theodore Dreiser
  
33. The Three Musketeers (Wordsworth Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas père
  
34. The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
by George Eliot
  
35. Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
  
36. Emerson: Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
37. As I Lay Dying (Vintage International)
by William Faulkner
  
38. The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
  
39. Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics)
by Henry Fielding
  
40. Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
  
41. Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
  
42. Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by William Golding
  
43. The Cherry Orchard (Methuen Drama)
by Anton Chekhov
  
44. A Farewell To Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
  
45. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics)
by Victor Hugo
  
47. Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
  
48. The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Henry James
  
49. The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Henry James
  
50. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)
by James Joyce
  
51. The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics)
by Franz Kafka
  
This is a community list. You can contribute, edit, or help maintain it by adding it to your lists.
Created by ejgarfunkel on Oct 14, 2006.