Most-Often Recommended Authors and Works

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Based on the book "Reading Lists for the College-Bound Student", these are the authors and works listed as most recommended for pre-college reading.

Please note that when a poetry compilation is listed, you don’t need to read that exact compilation; any by that particular author will do, but it is best to have one that is "complete" or "definitive," or even "selected."

I’ve actually read very few of these, but I’m working on it!

I will be making another list of all the other books listed in "Reading Lists," so keep an eye out for that.

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  1. 51.
    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  2. 52.
    Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  3. 53.
    Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

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  4. 54.
    The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

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  5. 55.
    T.S. Eliot: Selected Poems (Library of Classic Poets)
    by T.S. Eliot

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  6. 56.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

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  7. 57.
    Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  8. 58.
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    The Bacchae by Euripides

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  9. 59.
    Medea
    by Euripides

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  10. 60.
    Absalom, Absalom!
    by William Faulkner

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  11. 61.
    As I Lay Dying
    by William Faulkner

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  12. 62.
    El Oso / The Bear
    by William Faulkner

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  13. 63.
    The Hamlet
    by William Faulkner

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  14. 64.
    Light In August (Picador Classics)
    by William Faulkner

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  15. 65.
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    The Reivers
    by William Faulkner

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  16. 66.
    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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  17. 67.
    Joseph Andrews (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henry Fielding

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  18. 68.
    Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

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  19. 69.
    The Beautiful and Damned (Enriched Classics)
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  20. 70.
    The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics)
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  21. 71.
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  22. 72.
    The Last Tycoon (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald

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  23. 73.
    Tender Is the Night (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald

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  24. 74.
    This Side of Paradise
    by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

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  25. 75.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  26. 76.
    Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by E. M. Forster

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  27. 77.
    A Passage to India
    by E.M. Forster

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  28. 78.
    A Room With a View
    by E. M. Forster

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  29. 79.
    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
    by Benjamin Franklin

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  30. 80.
    Civilization and Its Discontents
    by Sigmund Freud

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  31. 82.
    The Poetry of Robert Frost
    by Robert Frost

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  32. 83.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  33. 84.
    Faust: Part One (Oxford World's Classic)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  34. 85.
    Lord of the Flies (50th Anniversary Edition)
    by William Golding

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  35. 86.
    Mythology
    by Edith Hamilton

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  36. 87.
    The Return of the Native (Modern Library Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  37. 88.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  38. 89.
    The House of the Seven Gables (Norton Critical Edition)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  39. 90.
    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  40. 91.
    Twice-told Tales
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  41. 92.
    A Farewell to Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  42. 93.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  43. 94.
    The Killers and Other Short Stories. (Lernmaterialien)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  44. 95.
    The Old Man and the Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  45. 96.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  46. 97.
    The Iliad
    by Homer

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  47. 98.
    The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

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  48. 99.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  49. 100.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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