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Princeton Review's "Recommended Reading for College-Bound Students"

This is a list of 25 books recommended for college-bound students by Princeton Review circa 1997.
1. The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Malcolm X
  
2. Night
by Elie Wiesel
  
3. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Modern Library)
by John Berendt
  
4. Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert A. Heinlein
  
5. Secret History
by Donna Tartt
  
6. Geek Love: A Novel
by Katherine Dunn
  
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
by Ken Kesey
  
8. The Bell Jar (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Sylvia Plath
  
9. Cat's Cradle (Essential.penguin)
by Kurt Vonnegut
  
10. Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
by Joseph Heller
  
11. Beloved (Everyman's Library)
by Toni Morrison
  
12. The Godfather
by Mario Puzo
  
13. The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
  
14. The World According to Garp (Modern Library)
by John Irving
  
15. Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
by George Orwell
  
16. The Chosen (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Chaim Potok
  
17. Bright Lights, Big City
by Jay Mcinerney
  
18. The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
  
19. Time and Again
by Jack Finney
  
20. Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
  
21. The Mists of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  
22. Jitterbug Perfume
by Tom Robbins
  
23. The Hunt for Red October
by Tom Clancy
  
24. The Stand (Modern Classics)
by Stephen King
  
25. Sometimes a Great Notion (Penguin Classics)
by Ken Kesey
  
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Created by MomsMyJob on Jan 06, 2008.