drskip's "The College Bound Student's Recommended Reading List"

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Books/Literary Works that are useful to be familiar with before taking the AP English Composition and Literature exams. Also these books are important to have read before entering college. Well, books that are generally good to read period, whether you’re a high school student preparing to take the AP tests or not.

P.S. As of today (June 7, 2006), I got a hold of the actual list I had in high school, so within the next few days, the list will have more books!

  1. 1.
    The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  2. 2.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
    by James Fenimore Cooper

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  3. 3.
    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  4. 4.
    The House of the Seven Gables (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  6. 6.
    The Red Badge of Courage (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Stephen Crane

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  7. 7.
    The Jungle (Modern Library Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair

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  8. 8.
    Main Street (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Sinclair Lewis

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  9. 9.
    The Great Gatsby (Scribner Classics)
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  10. 10.
    As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

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  11. 11.
    Old Man And The Sea (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  12. 12.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

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  13. 13.
    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee

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  14. 14.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

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  15. 16.
    Watership Down: A Novel
    by Richard Adams

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  16. 17.
    The Martian Chronicles
    by Ray Bradbury

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  17. 18.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson

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  18. 19.
    The Power of Myth
    by Joseph Campbell

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  19. 20.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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  20. 21.
    Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  21. 23.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

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  22. 24.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  23. 25.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  24. 26.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics)
    by John Steinbeck

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  25. 27.
    The Age of Innocence (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Edith Wharton

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  26. 28.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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  27. 29.
    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

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  28. 30.
    A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Tennessee Williams

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  29. 31.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright

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  30. 32.
    A Raisin in the Sun (Modern Library)
    by Lorraine Hansberry

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  31. 33.
    The Crucible (Penguin Classics)
    by Arthur Miller

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  32. 34.
    Death of a Salesman (Viking Critical Library)
    by Arthur Miller

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  33. 36.
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    SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser

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  34. 37.
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    AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
    by Theodore Dreiser

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  35. 39.
    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles

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  36. 40.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
    by Herman Melville

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  37. 41.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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  38. 42.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

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  39. 43.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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  40. 44.
    Walden
    by Henry David Thoreau

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  41. 45.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

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  42. 46.
    Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  43. 47.
    Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel
    by Thornton Wilder

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Created by drskip on Jun 07, 2006.
 

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