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Most-Often Recommended Authors and Works

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. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation  
2.
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The Bible (KJV)  
3. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Signet Classics)
by Anonymous
 
4. The Orestia
by Aeschylus
 
5. Lysistrata
by Aristophanes
 
6. Poetics (Penguin Classics)
by Aristotle
 
7. Confessions (Pure Gold Classics)
by Saint Augustine of Hippo
 
8. Emma (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
 
9. Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
 
10. Northanger Abbey (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Jane Austen
 
11. Pride and Prejudice (Baker Classics Collection)
by Jane Austen
 
12. Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
 
13. Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Baldwin
 
14.
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Notes of a Native Son
by James Baldwin
 
15. Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
 
16. Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
 
17. Seize the Day (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
 
18. The Portable William Blake (Viking Portable Library)
by William Blake
 
19.
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Mother Courage & Her Children
by Bertolt Brecht
 
20. Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Charlotte Brontë
 
21. Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
by Emily Bronte
 
22. Robert Browning's Poetry, Second Edition (Norton Critical Edition)
by Robert Browning
 
23. The Stranger
by Albert Camus
 
24. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
 
25. Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
 
26. My Antonia
by Willa Cather
 
27. Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
 
28. The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
 
29.
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The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
 
30. Three Sisters: A Play
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
 
31.
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The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
 
32. Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions)
by Joseph Conrad
 
33. Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
 
34. The Secret Sharer
by Joseph Conrad
 
35. The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephan Crane
 
36. The Divine Comedy: Inferno (Enriched Classics)
by Dante
 
37. Origin Of Species
by Charles Darwin
 
38. The Voyage of the Beagle (Adventure Classics)
by Charles Darwin
 
39. Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
 
40. Bleak House (Modern Library Classics)
by Charles Dickens
 
41. A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
 
42. David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
 
43. Great Expectations (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Charles Dickens
 
44. Hard Times (Enriched Classics)
by Charles Dickens
 
45. Martin Chuzzlewit (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
 
46.
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Nicholas Nickleby (Collector's Library)
by Charles Dickens
 
47. The Old Curiosity Shop (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Charles Dickens
 
48. Oliver Twist (Collector's Library)
by Charles Dickens
 
49. A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
 
50. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition
by Emily Dickinson
 
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Created by PrincessOfMayhem on May 11, 2007.