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Books to Read Before College

  1. 2.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

  2. 3.
    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee

  3. 4.
    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  4. 5.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin

  5. 6.
    Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
    by Samuel Beckett

  6. 8.
    Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  7. 9.
    Wuthering Heights (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Emily Brontë

  8. 10.
    Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature (New))
    by Patrick McCarthy

  9. 11.
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    Death comes for the archbishop: Willa, Cather
    by Willa Cather

  10. 12.
    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

  11. 13.
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    The Cherry Orchard
    by Anton Checkov

  12. 14.
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    The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin
    by Kate Chopin

  13. 15.
    Heart of Darkness (Hesperus Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

  14. 16.
    The Last of the Mohicans
    by James Fenimore Cooper

  15. 17.
    The Red Badge of Courage
    by Stephen Crane

  16. 18.
    Inferno (v. 1)
    by Dante Alighieri

  17. 19.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes

  18. 20.
    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  19. 21.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  20. 22.
    Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  21. 24.
    An American Tragedy
    by Theodore Dreiser

  22. 25.
    The Three Musketeers (Modern Library Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas pere

  23. 26.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

  24. 27.
    Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)
    by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  25. 28.
    As I Lay Dying
    by William Faulkner

  26. 29.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  27. 30.
    Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

  28. 31.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  29. 32.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  30. 33.
    The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
    by Ford Madox Ford

  31. 34.
    Goethe's Faust
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  32. 35.
    Lord of the Flies (50th Anniversary Edition)
    by William Golding

  33. 36.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

  34. 37.
    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  35. 38.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  36. 39.
    A Farewell to Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

  37. 40.
    The Iliad of Homer
    by Homer

  38. 41.
    The Odyssey
    by Robert Fagles

  39. 42.
    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Modern Library Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

  40. 43.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

  41. 44.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  42. 45.
    A Doll's House
    by Henrik Ibsen

  43. 46.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

  44. 47.
    The Turn of the Screw
    by Henry James

  45. 48.

  46. 50.
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    Woman Warrior
    by Maxine Hong Kingston

  47. 51.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

  48. 52.
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    Babbitt
    by Sinclair Lewis

  49. 53.
    The Call of the Wild (Scribner Classics)
    by Jack London

  50. 54.
    The Magic Mountain
    by Thomas Mann

  51. 55.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  52. 57.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
    by Herman Melville

  53. 58.
    The Crucible
    by Arthur Miller

  54. 59.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

  55. 60.
    A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor

  56. 61.
    Long Day's Journey into Night
    by Eugene O'Neill

  57. 62.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

  58. 63.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

  59. 64.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

  60. 66.
    Swann's Way (Modern Library Classics)
    by Marcel Proust

  61. 67.
    The Crying of Lot 49
    by Thomas Pynchon

  62. 68.
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    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

  63. 69.
    Cyrano de Bergerac (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Edmond Rostand

  64. 70.
    Call It Sleep: A Novel
    by Henry Roth

  65. 71.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  66. 72.
    Hamlet: Screenplay, Introduction and Film Diary
    by Kenneth Branagh

  67. 73.
    Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  68. 74.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  69. 75.
    Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  70. 76.
    Pygmalion (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by George Bernard Shaw

  71. 77.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

  72. 78.
    Ceremony (Contemporary American Fiction Series)
    by Leslie Marmon Silko

  73. 79.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel
    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  74. 80.
    Oedipus Rex (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Sophocles

  75. 81.
    Antigone
    by Sophocles

  76. 82.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

  77. 83.
    Treasure Island (Kingfisher Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

  78. 84.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  79. 85.
    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

  80. 86.
    Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

  81. 87.
    Walden: (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)
    by Henry David Thoreau

  82. 88.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy

  83. 89.
    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev

  84. 90.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

  85. 91.
    Candide (Modern Library)
    by Voltaire

  86. 92.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  87. 93.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

  88. 94.
    The House of Mirth (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Edith Wharton

  89. 95.
    The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
    by Eudora Welty

  90. 96.
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    Leaves of grass,: The collected poems of Walt Whitman,
    by Walt Whitman

  91. 98.
    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams

  92. 99.
    To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf

  93. 100.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright

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