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Books to Read Before I Go To College (in 2 years)

These are all Classic books that I need to read before I go to college, so I can actually pretend like I know something.
1. Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
2. The Brothers Karamazov (Signet Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
3. Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Voltaire
  
4.
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 Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
  
5. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain
  
6.
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 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
  
7. The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
8. Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
9. The Count of Monte Cristo (Oxford World's Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas
  
10.
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 1984
by George Orwell
  
11. Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
by George Orwell
  
12. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
  
13. Pride and Prejudice (Literature Made Easy)
by Michael Kerrigan
  
14. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
15. On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Jack Kerouac
  
16. Nine Stories
by J.D. Salinger
  
17. Franny and Zooey
by J.D. Salinger
  
18.
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 The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison)
by Toni Morrison
  
19. The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Malcolm X
  
20. The Republic (Penguin Classics)
by Plato
  
21. The Iliad (Penguin Classics)
by Homer
  
22. The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
by Homer
  
23. The Codes of Hammurabi and Moses
by W., W. Davies
  
24. The Rig Veda (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
  
25. The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation (Classics of Ancient China)
by Roger T. Ames
  
26. Tao Te Ching, 25th-Anniversary Edition
by Lao Tsu
  
27. The Marx-Engels Reader  
28. The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
by Bill Watterson
  
29. Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
by Thomas Hobbes
  
30. The Federalist Papers (Penguin Classics)
by Alexander Hamilton
  
31. The Portable Machiavelli
by Niccolo Machiavelli
  
32. Pragmatism and Classical American Philosophy: Essential Readings and Interpretive Essays  
33. Handbook of Epictetus  
34. Enchiridion (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Epictetus
  
35. The Koran (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
  
36. Understanding the Old Testament (5th Edition)
by Bernhard W. Anderson
  
37. The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi (Spiritual Masters. East and West Series)
by William C. Chittick
  
38. Augustine of Hippo: A Biography, Revised Edition with a New Epilogue
by Peter Brown
  
39. Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
  
40. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
by Ayn Rand
  
41. The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics)
by Plato
  
42. The Love Songs of Sappho (Literary Classics)
by Sappho
  
43. North and South (North and South Trilogy Series)
by John Jakes
  
44. Drifters
by James A. Michener
  
45. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
  
46. Basic Writings of Kant (Modern Library Classics)
by Immanuel Kant
  
47. The Social Contract (Penguin Great Ideas)
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  
48. The Selected Political Writings of John Locke (Norton Critical Editions)
by Paul E. Sigmund
  
49. The History of Sexuality: An Introduction
by Michel Foucault
  
50. The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, the Subjection of Women and Utilitarianism (Modern Library Classics)
by John Stuart Mill
  
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Created by supercallie on Jun 05, 2006.