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College Board's 101 Books

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.

(found at: http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/boost-your-skills/23628.html)

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 Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
  
2. A Death in the Family
by James Agee
  
3. Beowulf (Signet Classics)
by Anonymous
  
4.
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 Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
  
5. Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
  
6. Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
  
7. The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
8. Jane Eyre (Signet Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
9. Wuthering Heights (Signet Classics)
by Emily Bronte
  
10.
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 The Stranger
by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)
  
11. Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
  
12. The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
  
13. The Cherry Orchard (Methuen Drama)
by Anton Chekhov
  
14.
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 The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
  
15. Heart of Darkness (Green Integer)
by Joseph Conrad
  
16. The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
  
17. The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephan Crane
  
18. Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  
19. Inferno (Modern Library Classics)
by Dante
  
20. Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
by Daniel Defoe
  
21. A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
22. Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
23. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass
  
24. Dreiser American Tragedy (Library of America)
by Theodore Dreiser
  
25. The Three Musketeers (Signet Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas père
  
26. The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
by George Eliot
  
27. Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
  
28. Emerson: Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
29. As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
  
30. The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
  
31. Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics)
by Henry Fielding
  
32. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
33. Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
  
34. The Good Soldier (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Ford Madox Ford
  
35. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
36. Faust (Bantam Classics)
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  
37. Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by William Golding
  
38. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Thomas Hardy
  
39. The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
40. Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
  
41. A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
  
42. The Iliad (Penguin Classics)
by Homer
  
43. The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
by Homer
  
44. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics)
by Victor Hugo
  
46. Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
  
47. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
  
48. A Doll's House
by Henrik, Ibsen
  
49. The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
by Henry James
  
50. The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Henry James
  
51. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)
by James Joyce
  
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Created by ABCDEFG on Nov 19, 2006.