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
  2. 2.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
    by James Fenimore Cooper
  3. 3.
    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  4. 4.
    The House of the Seven Gables (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  5. 5.
  6. 6.
    The Red Badge of Courage (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Stephen Crane
  7. 7.
    The Jungle (Modern Library Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair
  8. 8.
    Main Street (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Sinclair Lewis
  9. 9.
    The Great Gatsby (Scribner Classics)
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  10. 10.
    As I Lay Dying (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner
  11. 11.
    Old Man And The Sea (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway
  12. 12.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison
  13. 13.
    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee
  14. 14.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury
  16. 16.
    Watership Down: A Novel
    by Richard Adams
  17. 17.
    The Martian Chronicles
    by Ray Bradbury
  18. 18.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson
  19. 19.
    The Power of Myth
    by Joseph Campbell
  20. 20.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller
  21. 21.
    The Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway
  23. 23.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee
  24. 24.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison
  25. 25.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger
  26. 26.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Steinbeck
  27. 27.
    The Age of Innocence (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Edith Wharton
  28. 28.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker
  29. 29.
    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder
  30. 30.
    A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Tennessee Williams
  31. 31.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright
  32. 32.
    A Raisin in the Sun (Modern Library)
    by Lorraine Hansberry
  33. 33.
    The Crucible
    by Arthur Miller
  34. 34.
    Death of a Salesman (Viking Critical Library)
    by Arthur Miller
  35. 35.
  36. 36.
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    SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser

  37. 37.
    ?
    AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
    by Theodore Dreiser
  39. 39.
    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles
  40. 40.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Herman Melville
  41. 41.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell
  42. 42.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath
  43. 43.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  44. 44.
    Walden : An Annotated Edition
    by Henry David Thoreau
  45. 45.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren
  46. 46.
    Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics)
    by Edith Wharton
  47. 47.
    The 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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