College Bound Reading List

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A reading list compiled by the Arrowhead Library System and recommended for prospective college students. The list is divided into American literature, world literature, biography/history, science, drama and poetry.

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    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee

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    Winesburg, Ohio
    by Sherwood Anderson

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    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin

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    Looking Backward 2000-1887
    by Edward Bellamy

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    Seize the Day (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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    Fahrenheit 451 (Ave Fenix)
    by Ray Bradbury

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    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather

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    The Awakening (A Women's Press Classic)
    by Kate Chopin

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    The Ox-Bow Incident (Modern Library MM)
    by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

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    The Chocolate War (Readers Circle)
    by Robert Cormier

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    The Red Badge of Courage
    by Stephan Crane

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    A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel
    by Michael Dorris

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    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

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    As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

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    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
    by Ernest J. Gaines

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    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
    by Joseph Heller

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    A Farewell to Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

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    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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    One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey

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    TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.
    by Harper. Lee

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    Main Street (Modern Library)
    by Sinclair Lewis

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    The Call of the Wild (Scribner Classics)
    by Jack London

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    The Member of the Wedding
    by Carson McCullers

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    Moby Dick (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Herman Melville

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    Sula
    by Toni Morrison

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

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    Learning Tree
    by Gordon Parks

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    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

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  31. 31.
    Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
    by Edgar Allan Poe

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    The Chosen
    by Chaim Potok

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    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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    The Jungle (Modern Library Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair

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    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

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    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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    The Time Machine
    by H.G. Wells

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    Thirteen Stories
    by Eudora Welty

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    Look Homeward, Angel
    by Thomas Wolfe

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    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright

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  44. 44.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

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    The House of the Spirits
    by Isabel Allende

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  46. 46.
    Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  47. 47.
    Pere Goriot (Thrift Edition)
    by Honore de Balzac

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    Labyrinths (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Jorge Luis Borges

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  49. 49.
    Jane Eyre.
    by Charlotte Bronte

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    Wuthering Heights (Courage Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

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823freckles
Chicago

I was in honors and AP classes... — 1 year ago

and I only read 26 of these books.