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. 101.
    A Doll's House
    by Henrik Ibsen

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  2. 102.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

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  3. 103.
    The Turn of the Screw
    by Henry James

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  4. 104.
    Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics)
    by James Joyce

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  6. 106.
    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

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  7. 107.
    The Metamorphosis
    by Franz Kafka

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  8. 108.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

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  9. 110.
    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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  10. 111.
    Women in Love (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by D. H. Lawrence

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  11. 112.
    Babbitt (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Sinclair Lewis

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  12. 113.
    Main Street (Modern Library)
    by Sinclair Lewis

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  13. 114.
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  14. 115.
    The Assistant
    by Bernard Malamud

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  15. 116.
    Death in Venice
    by Thomas Mann

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  16. 117.
    Doctor Faustus
    by Christopher Marlowe

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  17. 118.
    The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Classics)
    by Karl Marx

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  18. 119.
    Moby Dick (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Herman Melville

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  19. 120.
    Death of a Salesman (Viking Critical Library)
    by Arthur Miller

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  20. 121.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

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  21. 122.
    The Misanthrope and Tartuffe
    by Moliere

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  22. 123.
    The Essays: A Selection (Penguin Classics)
    by Michel de Montaigne

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  23. 124.
    Beloved (Everyman's Library)
    by Toni Morrison

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  24. 125.
    Sula
    by Toni Morrison

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  25. 126.
    A Good Man Is Hard to Find (A Women's Press Classic)
    by Flannery O'Connor

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  26. 127.
    Desire Under the Elms
    by Eugene O'Neill

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  27. 128.
    The Emperor Jones (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Eugene O'Neill

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  28. 129.
    The Hairy Ape
    by Eugene O\'Neill

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  29. 130.
    Tell Me a Riddle
    by Tillie Olsen

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  30. 131.
    1984
    by George Orwell

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  31. 132.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

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  32. 133.
    Cry, the Beloved Country
    by Alan Paton

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  33. 134.
    Plato: Apology
    by Plato

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  34. 135.
    Plato: Republic
    by Plato

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  35. 136.
    Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems
    by Edgar Allan Poe

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  36. 137.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  37. 138.
    The Heart of Midlothian
    by Sir Walter Scott

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  38. 139.
    Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Walter Scott

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  39. 140.
    As You Like It (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  40. 141.
    Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  41. 142.
    Henry V (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  42. 143.
    Julius Caesar (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  43. 144.
    King Lear (New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

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  44. 145.
    Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  45. 146.
    Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  46. 147.
    Richard II (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  47. 148.
    Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  48. 149.
    Shakespeare's Sonnets (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  49. 150.
    The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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Created by PrincessOfMayhem on May 11, 2007.
 

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