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101 Great Books for College-Bound Readers

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

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1. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation  
2. Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
  
3.
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 A Death in the Family
by James Agee
  
4. Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
5. Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Baldwin
  
6. Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
  
7. The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
8. Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
9. Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
by Emily Bronte
  
10. Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature)
by Patrick McCarthy
  
11. Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
  
12. The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
  
13. Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard (Plays in Production)
by James N. Loehlin
  
14. The Awakening (A Women's Press Classic)
by Kate Chopin
  
15. Heart of Darkness (Green Integer)
by Joseph Conrad
  
16. The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
  
17. The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephan Crane
  
18. Dante's Inferno
by Marcus Sanders
  
19. Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
  
20. Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
  
21. A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
  
22. Crime and Punishment
by F.M. Dostoevsky
  
23. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass
  
24.
?
 An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser
  
25. The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas père
  
26. The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
by George Eliot
  
27. Invisible Man: A Novel
by Ralph Ellison
  
28. Emerson: Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
29. As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
  
30. The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
  
31. Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics)
by Henry Fielding
  
32. The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
33. Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
  
34. The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
  
35. Faust (Bantam Classics)
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  
36. Lord of the Flies  
37. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
  
38. The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
39. Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
  
40. A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemmingway
  
41. The Iliad of Homer (Phoenix Books)
by Homer
  
42. The Odyssey by Homer
by Homer
  
43. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics)
by Victor Hugo
  
45. Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
  
46. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
  
47. A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
  
48. The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
  
49. The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
  
50. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
by James Joyce
  
51. The Metamorphosis (Norton Critical Editions)
by Franz Kafka
  
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