101 Great Books for College-Bound Readers

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101 Great Books

Recommended for College-Bound Readers by The College Board (Collegeboard.com)

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  1. 2.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

  2. 3.
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    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee

  3. 4.
    Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  4. 5.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin

  5. 6.
    Waiting for Godot
    by Samuel Beckett

  6. 7.
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  7. 8.
    Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  8. 9.
    Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Emily Brontë

  9. 10.
    Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature)
    by Patrick McCarthy

  10. 11.
    Death Comes for the Archbishop (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Willa Cather

  11. 12.
    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

  12. 13.
    Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard (Plays in Production)
    by James N. Loehlin

  13. 14.
    The Awakening (A Women's Press Classic)
    by Kate Chopin

  14. 15.
    Heart of Darkness (Green Integer)
    by Joseph Conrad

  15. 16.
    The Last of the Mohicans
    by James Fenimore Cooper

  16. 17.
    The Red Badge of Courage
    by Stephen Crane

  17. 18.
    Dante's Inferno
    by Marcus Sanders

  18. 19.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel de Cervantes

  19. 20.
    Robinson Crusoe
    by Daniel Defoe

  20. 21.
    A Tale of Two Cities
    by Charles Dickens

  21. 22.
    Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  22. 23.
    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
    by Frederick Douglass

  23. 24.
    An American Tragedy
    by Theodore Dreiser

  24. 25.
    The Three Musketeers
    by Alexandre Dumas père

  25. 26.
    The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

  26. 27.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

  27. 28.
    Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)
    by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  28. 29.
    As I Lay Dying
    by William Faulkner

  29. 30.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  30. 31.
    Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

  31. 32.
    The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics)
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  32. 33.
    Madame Bovary
    by Gustave Flaubert

  33. 34.
    The Good Soldier
    by Ford Madox Ford

  34. 35.
    Faust (Bantam Classics) (Part I) (English and German Edition)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  35. 36.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

  36. 37.
    Tess of the d'Urbervilles
    by Thomas Hardy

  37. 38.
    The Scarlet Letter
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  38. 39.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  39. 40.
    A Farewell to Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

  40. 41.
    The Iliad of Homer
    by Homer

  41. 42.
    The Odyssey
    by Homer

  42. 44.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

  43. 45.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  44. 46.
    A Doll's House
    by Henrik Ibsen

  45. 47.
    The Portrait of a Lady
    by Henry James

  46. 48.
    The Turn of the Screw
    by Henry James

  47. 49.
    A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
    by James Joyce

  48. 50.
    The Metamorphosis (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Franz Kafka

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The Metamorphosis — 4 years ago

The graphic novel of “The Metamorphosis” done by Peter Kuper instead of the actual book by Franz Kafka was on this list; however, have no fear! It had been corrected.




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