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Books to Read Before College

  1. 1.
    Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

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  2. 2.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

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    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee

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    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  5. 5.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin

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  6. 6.
    Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
    by Samuel Beckett

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    Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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    Wuthering Heights (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

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    Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature (New))
    by Patrick McCarthy

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    Death comes for the archbishop: Willa, Cather
    by Willa Cather

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    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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    The Cherry Orchard
    by Anton Checkov

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    The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin
    by Kate Chopin

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  14. 15.
    Heart of Darkness (Hesperus Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

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  15. 16.
    The Last of the Mohicans
    by James Fenimore Cooper

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  16. 17.
    The Red Badge of Courage
    by Stephan Crane

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  17. 18.
    Dante: Inferno
    by Dante Alighieri

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  18. 19.
    Don Quixote (P.S.)
    by Miguel de Cervantes

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  19. 20.
    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

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  20. 21.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  21. 22.
    Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  22. 24.
    An American Tragedy
    by Theodore Dreiser

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  23. 25.
    The Three Musketeers (Modern Library Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

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  24. 26.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

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  25. 27.
    Emerson: Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)
    by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  26. 28.
    As I Lay Dying
    by William Faulkner

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  27. 29.
    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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  28. 30.
    Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

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  29. 31.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  30. 32.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  31. 33.
    The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
    by Ford Madox Ford

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  32. 34.
    Goethe's Faust
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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  33. 35.
    Lord of the Flies (50th Anniversary Edition)
    by William Golding

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  34. 36.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  35. 37.
    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  36. 38.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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  37. 39.
    A Farewell to Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  38. 40.
    The Iliad of Homer (Phoenix Books)
    by Homer

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  39. 41.
    The Odyssey
    by Homer

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  40. 42.
    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Modern Library Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

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  41. 43.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  42. 44.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  43. 45.
    A Doll's House
    by Henrik Ibsen

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  44. 46.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

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  45. 47.
    The Turn of the Screw
    by Henry James

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    Woman Warrior
    by Maxine Hong Kingston

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  48. 51.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

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    Babbitt
    by Sinclair Lewis

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  50. 53.
    The Call of the Wild (Scribner Classics)
    by Jack London

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  51. 54.
    The Magic Mountain
    by Thomas Mann

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  52. 55.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  53. 57.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
    by Herman Melville

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  54. 58.
    The Crucible (Penguin Classics)
    by Arthur Miller

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  55. 59.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  56. 60.
    A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor

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  57. 61.
    Long Day's Journey into Night, Second edition
    by Eugene O'Neill

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  58. 62.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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  59. 63.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

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  60. 64.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

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  61. 66.
    Swann's Way (Modern Library Classics)
    by Marcel Proust

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  62. 67.
    The Crying of Lot 49
    by Thomas Pynchon

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    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

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  64. 69.
    Cyrano de Bergerac (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Edmond Rostand

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  65. 70.
    Call It Sleep: A Novel
    by Henry Roth

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  66. 71.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  67. 72.
    Hamlet: By William Shakespeare
    by Kenneth Branagh

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  68. 73.
    Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  69. 74.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  70. 75.
    Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  71. 76.
    Pygmalion (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by George Bernard Shaw

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  72. 77.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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  73. 78.
    Ceremony (Contemporary American Fiction Series)
    by Leslie Marmon Silko

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  74. 79.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel
    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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  75. 80.
    Oedipus Rex (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Sophocles

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  76. 81.
    Antigone
    by Sophocles

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  77. 82.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  78. 83.
    Treasure Island (Kingfisher Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  79. 84.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

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  81. 86.
    Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  82. 87.
    Walden: (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)
    by Henry David Thoreau

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  83. 88.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  84. 89.
    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev

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  85. 90.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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  86. 91.
    Candide (Modern Library)
    by Voltaire

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  87. 92.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  88. 93.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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  89. 94.
    The House of Mirth (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Edith Wharton

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  90. 95.
    The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
    by Eudora Welty

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  91. 96.
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    Leaves of grass,: The collected poems of Walt Whitman,
    by Walt Whitman

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  92. 98.
    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams

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  93. 99.
    To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf

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  94. 100.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright

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