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. 151.
    Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  2. 152.
    The Winter's Tale (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

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  3. 153.
    Arms and the Man (Shaw Library)
    by George Bernard Shaw

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  4. 154.
    Pygmalion (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by George Bernard Shaw

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  5. 155.
    Saint Joan (Penguin Classics)
    by George Bernard Shaw

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  6. 156.
    Frankenstein (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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  7. 157.
    Cannery Row
    by John Steinbeck

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  8. 158.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics)
    by John Steinbeck

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  9. 159.
    Of Mice and Men
    by Jon Steinbeck

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  10. 160.
    The Pearl (Steinbeck "Essentials")
    by John Steinbeck

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  11. 161.
    Antigone
    by Sophocles

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  12. 162.
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    Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles

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  13. 163.
    Oedipus Rex - Literary Touchstone Edition
    by Sophocles

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  14. 164.
    Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems (Everyman's Poetry Library)
    by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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  15. 165.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  16. 167.
    Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  17. 168.
    War and Peace (Modern Library Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  18. 169.
    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev

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  19. 170.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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  20. 171.
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain Library)
    by Mark Twain

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  21. 173.
    The Prince and the Pauper (Signet Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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  22. 174.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

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  23. 175.
    The Aenid
    by Virgil

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  24. 176.
    Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Voltaire

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  25. 177.
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    Cat's Cradle
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  26. 178.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  27. 179.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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  28. 180.
    Thirteen Stories
    by Eudora Welty

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  29. 181.
    The Age of Innocence (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  30. 182.
    Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  31. 183.
    The House of Mirth (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Edith Wharton

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  32. 184.
    Leaves of Grass
    by Walt Whitman

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  33. 185.
    The Importance of Being Earnest
    by Oscar Wilde

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  34. 186.
    Lady Windermere's Fan (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Oscar Wilde

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  35. 187.
    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

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  36. 188.
    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams

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  37. 189.
    A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Tennessee Williams

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  38. 190.
    A Room of One's Own (Great Ideas S.)
    by Virginia Woolf

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  39. 191.
    To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf

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  40. 192.
    Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by William Wordsworth

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  41. 193.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright

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  42. 194.
    The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
    by William Butler Yeats

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