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Pre-College Reading

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.
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 Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
  
2. Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Baldwin
  
3. Seize the Day (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
4. Jane Eyre.
by Charlotte Bronte
  
5. Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
by Emily Bronte
  
6.
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 The Stranger
by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)
  
7. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
  
8. My Antonia
by Willa Cather
  
9. Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  
10. The Awakening (A Women's Press Classic)
by Kate Chopin
  
11. Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions)
by Joseph Conrad
  
12. The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephan Crane
  
13. Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics)
by Daniel Defoe
  
14. Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Charles Dickens
  
15. Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
16. The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
by George Eliot
  
17. Invisible Man: A Novel
by Ralph Ellison
  
18. The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
  
19. Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics)
by Henry Fielding
  
20. The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
21. Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
  
22. A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
by E.M. Forster
  
23. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
24. Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by William Golding
  
25. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Thomas Hardy
  
26. The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
27. A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
  
28. Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
  
29. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
  
30. The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Henry James
  
31. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)
by James Joyce
  
32. The Trial
by Franz Kafka
  
33. Sons and Lovers (Penguin Modern Classics)
by D.H. Lawrence
  
34. Babbitt (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Sinclair Lewis
  
35.
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 The Assistant
by Bernard Malamud
  
36. Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann
  
37. Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Modern Library Classics)
by Herman Melville
  
38. Sula (Oprah's Book Club)
by Toni Morrison
  
39. A Good Man Is Hard to Find (A Women's Press Classic)
by Flannery O'Connor
  
40. Tell Me a Riddle (Women Writers : Texts and Contexts)  
41. Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
by George Orwell
  
42. Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
  
43. Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
  
44. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
  
45. Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics)
by Walter Scott
  
46. Frankenstein (Oxford World's Classics)
by Mary Shelley
  
47. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
  
48. Gulliver's Travels (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jonathan Swift
  
49. Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
by William Makepeace Thackeray
  
50. War & Peace (Konemann Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
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Created by spirit11 on Jan 12, 2007.