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College-Bound Fiction

Literature for college-bound students…a list of 42 titles.
1. A Death in the Family
by James Agee
  
2. Bastard Out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison
  
3. In the Time of the Butterflies
by Julia Alvarez
  
4. Bless Me, Ultima
by Rudolfo Anaya
  
5. The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
  
6. Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler
  
7. Ender's Game (The Ender Saga)
by Orson S. Card
  
8. The Awakening and Selected Stories (Penguin Classics)
by Kate Chopin
  
9. The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
  
10. Crime and Punishment (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
11. Invisible Man (Modern Library)
by Ralph Ellison
  
12. The Bride Price
by Buchi Emecheta
  
13. Three Famous Short Novels: Spotted Horses Old Man The Bear
by William Faulkner
  
14. Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
  
15. A Lesson Before Dying (Five Star)
by Ernest J. Gaines
  
16. Grendel
by John Gardner
  
17. Ellen Foster (Virago Modern Classics)
by Kaye Gibbons
  
18. Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
by Joseph Heller
  
19. A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
  
20. Siddhartha: An Indian Tale (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Hermann Hesse
  
21. Brave New World (P.S.)
by Aldous Huxley
  
22. Schindler's List
by Thomas Keneally
  
23. The Beekeeper's Apprentice
by Laurie King
  
24. The Painted Bird
by Jerzy N. Kosinski
  
25. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Pernnial Moderns Classics)
by Harper Lee
  
26. The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
  
27. The Member of the Wedding
by Carson McCullers
  
28. Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
by Robin McKinley
  
29. The Fixer: A Novel
by Bernard Malamud
  
30. Nectar in a Sieve (Signet Classics)
by Kamala Markandaya
  
31. In Country (P.S.)
by Bobbie Ann Mason
  
32. Shizuko's Daughter
by Kyoko Mori
  
33. Beloved (Everyman's Library)
by Toni Morrison
  
34. The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
  
35. Everything That Rises Must Converge
by Flannery O'Connor
  
36. The Chosen
by Chaim Potok
  
37. Grass Dancer
by Susan Power
  
38. The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War (Modern Library)
by Michael Shaara
  
39. The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Modern Classics)
by John Steinbeck
  
40. Picture Bride: A Novel
by Yoshiko Uchida
  
41. Montana 1948
by Larry Watson
  
42. Native Son (Perennial Classics)
by Richard A. Wright
  
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Created by MomsMyJob on Jan 17, 2008.