Most-Often Recommended Authors and WorksBased 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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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation | ||
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The Bible (KJV) | ||
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Signet Classics)
by Anonymous
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The Orestia
by Aeschylus
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Lysistrata
by Aristophanes
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Poetics (Penguin Classics)
by Aristotle
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Confessions (Pure Gold Classics)
by Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Emma (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
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Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
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Northanger Abbey (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Jane Austen
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Pride and Prejudice (Baker Classics Collection)
by Jane Austen
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Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
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Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Baldwin
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Notes of a Native Son
by James Baldwin
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Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
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Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
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Seize the Day (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
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The Portable William Blake (Viking Portable Library)
by William Blake
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Mother Courage & Her Children
by Bertolt Brecht
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Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Charlotte Brontë
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Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
by Emily Bronte
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Robert Browning's Poetry, Second Edition (Norton Critical Edition)
by Robert Browning
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
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My Antonia
by Willa Cather
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Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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Three Sisters: A Play
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
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Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions)
by Joseph Conrad
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Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
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The Secret Sharer
by Joseph Conrad
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The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephan Crane
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno (Enriched Classics)
by Dante
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Origin Of Species
by Charles Darwin
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The Voyage of the Beagle (Adventure Classics)
by Charles Darwin
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Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
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Bleak House (Modern Library Classics)
by Charles Dickens
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A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
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David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
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Great Expectations (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Charles Dickens
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Hard Times (Enriched Classics)
by Charles Dickens
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Martin Chuzzlewit (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
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Nicholas Nickleby (Collector's Library)
by Charles Dickens
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The Old Curiosity Shop (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Charles Dickens
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Oliver Twist (Collector's Library)
by Charles Dickens
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A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
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The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition
by Emily Dickinson
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