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. 51.
    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev

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  2. 52.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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  3. 53.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

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  4. 54.
    Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Voltaire

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  5. 55.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  6. 56.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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  7. 57.
    Thirteen Stories
    by Eudora Welty

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  8. 58.
    The Age of Innocence (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  9. 59.
    To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf

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  10. 60.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright

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  11. 61.
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    Orestia / Death in Venice
    by Thomas Aeschylus / Mann

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  12. 62.
    Lysistrata (Hackett Classics Series)
    by Aristophanes

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  13. 63.
    Waiting for Godot (Acting Edition)
    by Samuel Beckett

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  14. 64.
    Mother Courage and Her Children: Adapted By David Hare
    by Bertolt Brecht

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  15. 65.
    The Cherry Orchard (Methuen Drama)
    by Anton Chekhov

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  16. 66.
    Medea
    by Euripides

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  17. 67.
    Faust: Part One (Oxford World's Classic)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  18. 68.
    A Doll's House
    by Henrik Ibsen

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  19. 69.
    Doctor Faustus and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Christopher Marlowe

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  20. 70.
    Death of a Salesman
    by Arthur Miller

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  21. 71.
    The Misanthrope and Other Plays (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Jean-Baptiste Moliere

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  22. 72.
    Desire Under the Elms
    by Eugene O'Neill

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  23. 73.
    Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

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  24. 74.
    Pygmalion (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by George Bernard Shaw

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  25. 75.
    Oedipus Rex - Literary Touchstone Edition
    by Sophocles

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  26. 76.
    The Importance of Being Earnest
    by Oscar Wilde

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  27. 77.
    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

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  28. 78.
    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams

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  29. 80.
    Beowulf (Signet Classics)
    by Anonymous

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  30. 81.
    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics)
    by J.A. Burrow

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  31. 82.
    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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  32. 83.
    Inferno (Modern Library Classics)
    by Dante

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  33. 84.
    The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

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  34. 85.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

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  35. 86.
    The Aeneid
    by Virgil

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  36. 87.
    Leaves of Grass (Enriched Classics)
    by Walt Whitman

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  37. 88.
    Poetics (Penguin Classics)
    by Aristotle

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  38. 90.
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    The Bible NKJ Version
    by God

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  39. 91.
    Origin Of Species
    by Charles Darwin

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  40. 93.
    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
    by Benjamin Franklin

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  41. 94.
    Civilization and Its Discontents
    by Sigmund Freud

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  42. 95.
    Mythology
    by Edith Hamilton

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  43. 96.
    The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

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  44. 98.
    Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics)
    by Michel de Montaigne

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  45. 99.
    The Republic (Penguin Classics)
    by Plato

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  46. 100.
    Walden: (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)
    by Henry David Thoreau

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