College Board's 101 Books

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Here are 101 books that College Board, that website that runs the lovely SATs, recommend to people who are going to college. Most of these are classics, maybe even all of them, and anyone, even those who graduated from college years ago, or aren’t going to college should try and make a dent into this list.

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    Beowulf (Signet Classics)
    by Anonymous

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    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

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    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee

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    Pride and Prejudice
    by Jane Austen

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    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin

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

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    Jane Eyre (Signet Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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    Wuthering Heights (Signet Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

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    Death Comes for the Archbishop
    by Willa Cather

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    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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    The Cherry Orchard (Methuen Drama)
    by Anton Chekhov

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    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin

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    Heart of Darkness (Green Integer)
    by Joseph Conrad

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    The Last of the Mohicans
    by James Fenimore Cooper

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    The Red Badge of Courage
    by Stephan Crane

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    Inferno (Modern Library Classics)
    by Dante

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    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

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

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    Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
    by Frederick Douglass

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    Dreiser American Tragedy (Library of America)
    by Theodore Dreiser

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    The Three Musketeers (Signet Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

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

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    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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    Emerson: Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)
    by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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    As I Lay Dying
    by William Faulkner

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    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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    Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

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    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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    The Good Soldier (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Ford Madox Ford

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    Faust (Bantam Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Thomas Hardy

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    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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    A Farewell to Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

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    The Iliad (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

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    The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

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    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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    A Doll's House
    by Henrik, Ibsen

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    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

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

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    The Metamorphosis
    by Franz Kafka

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A Missing Book — 1 year ago

One book I firmly believe high school students bound for college should read is Ayn Rand’s Anthem. My freshmen always love the book, and it provokes a lot of discussion and deep thought.