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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  1. 1.
    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee
  2. 2.
    Winesburg, Ohio
    by Sherwood Anderson
  3. 3.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin
  4. 4.
    Looking Backward 2000-1887
    by Edward Bellamy
  5. 5.
    Seize the Day (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow
  6. 6.
    Fahrenheit 451 (Ave Fenix)
    by Ray Bradbury
  7. 7.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather
  8. 8.
    The Awakening (A Women's Press Classic)
    by Kate Chopin
  9. 9.
    The Ox-Bow Incident (Modern Library Classics)
    by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
  10. 10.
    The Chocolate War
    by Robert Cormier
  11. 11.
    The Red Badge of Courage
    by Stephen Crane
  12. 12.
    A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel
    by Michael Dorris
  13. 13.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison
  14. 14.
    As I Lay Dying (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner
  15. 15.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  16. 16.
    ?
    The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
    by Ernest J. Gaines
  17. 17.
    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  18. 18.
    Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
    by Joseph Heller
  19. 19.
    A Farewell to Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway
  20. 20.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston
  21. 21.
    One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey
  22. 22.
    ?
    TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.
    by Harper. Lee
  23. 23.
    Main Street (Modern Library)
    by Sinclair Lewis
  24. 24.
    The Call of the Wild (Scribner Classics)
    by Jack London
  25. 25.
    ?
    The Member of the Wedding
    by Carson McCullers
  26. 26.
    Moby Dick (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Herman Melville
  27. 27.
    Sula
    by Toni Morrison
  28. 28.
    A Good Man is Hard to Find (A Women's Press classic)
    by Flannery O'Connor
  29. 29.
    Learning Tree
    by Gordon Parks
  30. 30.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath
  31. 31.
    Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
    by Edgar Allan Poe
  32. 32.
    ?
    The Chosen
    by Chaim Potok
  33. 33.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger
  34. 34.
    The Jungle (Modern Library Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair
  35. 35.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck
  36. 36.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  37. 37.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain
  38. 38.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  39. 39.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker
  40. 40.
    The Time Machine (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells
  41. 41.
    Thirteen Stories
    by Eudora Welty
  42. 42.
    Look Homeward, Angel
    by Thomas Wolfe
  43. 43.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright
  44. 44.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe
  45. 45.
    The House of the Spirits: A Novel
    by Isabel Allende
  46. 46.
    Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  47. 47.
    Pere Goriot (Thrift Edition)
    by Honore de Balzac
  48. 48.
    Labyrinths (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Jorge Luis Borges
  49. 49.
    Jane Eyre.
    by Charlotte Bronte
  50. 50.
    Wuthering Heights (Courage Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

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823freckles

I was in honors and AP classes... — 3 years ago

and I only read 26 of these books.

Jun 06, 10:27AM | 1 comment | Reply to this



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