Pre-College Reading

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This list of the 100 works most frequently recommended by colleges and universities is compiled from the pre-college reading lists, freshman syllabi, and core programs.

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

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    Seize the Day (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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    Jane Eyre.
    by Charlotte Bronte

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    Wuthering Heights (Courage Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

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    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)

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    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather

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    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

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  10. 10.
    Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad

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    The Red Badge of Courage
    by Stephan Crane

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    Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

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    Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charles Dickens

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    Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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    The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

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    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

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    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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    Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

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    The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics)
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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    A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
    by E.M. Forster

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    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Thomas Hardy

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    The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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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    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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    The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Henry James

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    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

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    Sons and Lovers (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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    Babbitt (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Sinclair Lewis

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    The Assistant
    by Bernard Malamud

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    Death in Venice
    by Thomas Mann

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    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Modern Library Classics)
    by Herman Melville

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    Sula (Oprah's Book Club)
    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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    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

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    Cry, the Beloved Country
    by Alan Paton

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  40. 42.
    Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
    by Edgar Allan Poe

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    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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    Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Walter Scott

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    Frankenstein (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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    Gulliver's Travels (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

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  46. 48.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

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    War & Peace (Konemann Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev

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