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

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. The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
 
2. The Last of the Mohicans (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by James Fenimore Cooper
 
3. The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
 
4. The House of the Seven Gables (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
 
5. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Modern Library Classics)
by Mark Twain
 
6. The Red Badge of Courage (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Stephen Crane
 
7. The Jungle (Modern Library Classics)
by Upton Sinclair
 
8. Main Street (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Sinclair Lewis
 
9. The Great Gatsby (Scribner Classics)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
10. As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
by William Faulkner
 
11. Old Man And The Sea (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
 
12. Invisible Man: A Novel
by Ralph Ellison
 
13. A Death in the Family
by James Agee
 
14. Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
 
15. Penguin Readers Level 6: "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (Penguin Readers)
by Maya Angelou
 
16. Watership Down: A Novel
by Richard Adams
 
17. The Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury
 
18. Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
 
19. The Power of Myth
by Joseph Campbell
 
20. Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
 
21. Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
 
22. The Story of My Life: The Restored Classic, Complete and Unabridged, Centennial Edition
by Helen Keller
 
23. To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
 
24. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
 
25. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
 
26. The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics)
by John Steinbeck
 
27. The Age of Innocence (Norton Critical Editions)
by Edith Wharton
 
28. The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
 
29. Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
by Thornton Wilder
 
30. A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)
by Tennessee Williams
 
31. Native Son (Perennial Classics)
by Richard A. Wright
 
32. A Raisin in the Sun (Modern Library)
by Lorraine Hansberry
 
33. The Crucible (Penguin Classics)
by Arthur Miller
 
34. Death of a Salesman (Viking Critical Library)
by Arthur Miller
 
35. David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)
by Jennifer Anne Haytock
 
36.
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SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser  
37.
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AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
by Theodore Dreiser
 
38. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: (Great Books edition) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Ken Kesey
 
39. A Separate Peace
by John Knowles
 
40. Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
by Herman Melville
 
41. Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
 
42. The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
 
43. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Oxford World's Classics)
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
 
44. Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
 
45. All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
 
46. Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics)
by Edith Wharton
 
47. Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel
by Thornton Wilder
 
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Created by drskip on Jun 07, 2006.