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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  1. 1.
    Pride and Prejudice
    by Jane Austen
  2. 2.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin
  3. 3.
    Seize the Day (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow
  4. 4.
    Jane Eyre.
    by Charlotte Bronte
  5. 5.
    Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Emily Brontë
  6. 6.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)
  8. 8.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather
  9. 9.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  10. 10.
    The Awakening (A Women's Press Classic)
    by Kate Chopin
  11. 11.
    Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad
  12. 12.
    The Red Badge of Courage
    by Stephen Crane
  13. 13.
    Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe
  14. 14.
    Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charles Dickens
  15. 15.
    Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  16. 16.
    The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot
  17. 17.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison
  18. 18.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  19. 19.
    Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry Fielding
  20. 20.
    The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics)
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  21. 21.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert
  22. 22.
    A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
    by E. M. Forster
  23. 23.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  24. 24.
    Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by William Golding
  25. 25.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Thomas Hardy
  26. 26.
    The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  27. 27.
    A Farewell to Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway
  28. 28.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston
  29. 29.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  30. 30.
    The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Henry James
  31. 31.
  32. 32.
    The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
    by Franz Kafka
  33. 33.
    Sons and Lovers (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by D H Lawrence
  34. 34.
    Babbitt (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Sinclair Lewis
  35. 35.
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    The Assistant
    by Bernard Malamud
  36. 36.
    Death in Venice
    by Thomas Mann
  37. 37.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Modern Library Classics)
    by Herman Melville
  38. 38.
    Sula (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Toni Morrison
  39. 39.
    A Good Man is Hard to Find (A Women's Press classic)
    by Flannery O'Connor
  41. 41.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell
  42. 42.
    Cry, the Beloved Country
    by Alan Paton
  43. 43.
    Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
    by Edgar Allan Poe
  44. 44.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger
  45. 45.
    Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Walter Scott
  46. 46.
    Frankenstein (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Mary Shelley
  47. 47.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck
  48. 48.
    Gulliver's Travels (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift
  49. 49.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray
  50. 50.
    War & Peace (Konemann Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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Created by spirit11 on Jan 12, 2007.
 

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flashman324

Untitled — 3 years ago

I’m not quite sure how to take the fact that I’ve got an English degree and I’ve only read 25% of this stuff.

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