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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  1. 51.
    The Metamorphosis
    by Franz Kafka

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  2. 52.
    The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
    by Maxine Hong Kingston

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  3. 53.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

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  4. 54.
    Babbitt (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Sinclair Lewis

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  5. 55.
    The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics)
    by Jack London

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  6. 56.
    The Magic Mountain
    by Thomas Mann

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  7. 57.
    Bartleby, the Scrivener (Dodo Press)
    by Herman Melville

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  8. 58.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
    by Herman Melville

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  9. 59.
    The Crucible (Penguin Classics)
    by Arthur Miller

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  10. 60.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  11. 61.
    A Good Man Is Hard to Find (A Women's Press Classic)
    by Flannery O'Connor

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  12. 62.
    Long Day's Journey Into Night
    by Eugene O'Neill

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  13. 63.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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  14. 64.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

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  15. 65.
    Bell Jar (P.S.)
    by Sylvia Plath

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  16. 66.
    Selected Tales (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Edgar Allan Poe

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  17. 67.
    Swann's Way (Modern Library Classics)
    by Marcel Proust

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  18. 68.
    The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  19. 69.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

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  20. 70.
    Cyrano de Bergerac (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Edmond Rostand

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  21. 71.
    Call It Sleep: A Novel
    by Henry Roth

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  22. 72.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  23. 73.
    Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  24. 74.
    Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  25. 75.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  26. 76.
    Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  27. 77.
    Pygmalion (Penguin Classics)
    by George Bernard Shaw

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  28. 78.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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  29. 80.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel
    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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  30. 81.
    Antigone
    by Sophocles

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  31. 82.
    Oedipus Rex - Literary Touchstone Edition
    by Sophocles

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  32. 83.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  33. 84.
    Treasure Island (Unabridged Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  34. 85.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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  35. 86.
    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

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  36. 87.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  37. 88.
    Walden: (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)
    by Henry David Thoreau

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  38. 89.
    War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  39. 90.
    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev

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  40. 91.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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  41. 92.
    Candide (Modern Library)
    by Voltaire

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  42. 93.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  43. 94.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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  44. 95.
    The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
    by Eudora Welty

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  45. 96.
    The House of Mirth (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Edith Wharton

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  46. 97.
    Leaves of Grass (Enriched Classics)
    by Walt Whitman

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  47. 98.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray
    by Oscar Wilde

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  48. 99.
    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams

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  49. 100.
    To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf

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