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College Bound Reading List

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. A Death in the Family
by James Agee
  
2. Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
  
3. Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Baldwin
  
4. Looking Backward 2000-1887
by Edward Bellamy
  
5. Seize the Day (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
6. Fahrenheit 451 (Ave Fenix)
by Ray Bradbury
  
7. My Antonia
by Willa Cather
  
8. The Awakening (A Women's Press Classic)
by Kate Chopin
  
9. The Ox-Bow Incident (Modern Library MM)
by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
  
10. The Chocolate War (Readers Circle)
by Robert Cormier
  
11. The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephan Crane
  
12. A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel
by Michael Dorris
  
13. Invisible Man: A Novel
by Ralph Ellison
  
14. As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
by William Faulkner
  
15. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
16.
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 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
by Ernest J. Gaines
  
17. The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
18. Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
by Joseph Heller
  
19.
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 A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
  
20. Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
  
21.
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 One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
  
22.
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 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.
by Harper. Lee
  
23. Main Street (Modern Library)
by Sinclair Lewis
  
24. The Call of the Wild (Scribner Classics)
by Jack London
  
25.
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 The Member of the Wedding
by Carson McCullers
  
26. Moby Dick (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Herman Melville
  
27. Sula
by Toni Morrison
  
28. A Good Man Is Hard to Find (A Women's Press Classic)
by Flannery O'Connor
  
29. Learning Tree
by Gordon Parks
  
30. The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
  
31. Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
  
32. The Chosen
by Chaim Potok
  
33. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
  
34. The Jungle (Modern Library Classics)
by Upton Sinclair
  
35. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
  
36. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  
37. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
by Mark Twain
  
38. Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
  
39. The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
  
40. The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
  
41. Thirteen Stories
by Eudora Welty
  
42. Look Homeward, Angel
by Thomas Wolfe
  
43. Native Son (Perennial Classics)
by Richard A. Wright
  
45.
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 Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
  
46. The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
  
47. Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
48. Pere Goriot (Thrift Edition)
by Honore de Balzac
  
49. Labyrinths (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Jorge Luis Borges
  
50. Jane Eyre.
by Charlotte Bronte
  
51. Wuthering Heights (Courage Classics)
by Emily Bronte
  
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Created by UnluckyStar19 on Jan 12, 2007.