Lists of Bests: College Board's 101 Books http://www.listsofbests.com/list/18668 Here are 101 books that College Board, that website that runs the lovely SATs, recommend to people who are going to college. Most of these are classics, maybe even all of them, and anyone, even those who graduated from college years ago, or aren't going to college should try and make a dent into this list. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:21:23 GMT en-us 0 50 101 50 0 Things Fall Apart http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002919 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chinua Achebe</div> A Death in the Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9020 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9020"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375701230.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Agee</div> Beowulf (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13941 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13941"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451527402.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> Pride and Prejudice http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1936348 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Go Tell It on the Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741066 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741066"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385334575.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113633744_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24042 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24042"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802130348.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122574751_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Beckett</div> The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962230 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962230"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039571.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> Jane Eyre (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13922 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13922"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451526554.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138677474_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Brontë</div> Wuthering Heights (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43232 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43232"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529251.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Bronte</div> The Stranger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2171088 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)</div> Death Comes for the Archbishop http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2065076 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2065076"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1844083721.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willa Cather</div> The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140424385.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geoffrey Chaucer</div> The Cherry Orchard (Methuen Drama) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1008373 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1008373"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0413774031.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anton Chekhov</div> The Awakening http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1137912 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Chopin</div> Heart of Darkness (Green Integer) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968948 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968948"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1892295490.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> The Last of the Mohicans http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962314 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962314"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1404315608.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056514367_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Fenimore Cooper</div> The Red Badge of Courage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60711 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60711"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580495869.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephan Crane</div> Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437239.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra</div> Inferno (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1160522 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1160522"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812970063.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dante</div> Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9355 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9355"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375757325.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Defoe</div> A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3517 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3517"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439602.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315016 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315016"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143058142.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div> Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56857 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56857"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580495761.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frederick Douglass</div> Dreiser American Tragedy (Library of America) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/581471 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/581471"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1931082316.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodore Dreiser</div> The Three Musketeers (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189469 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189469"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451530039.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexandre Dumas père</div> The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59437 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59437"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439629.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div> Invisible Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679732764.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464902_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> Emerson: Selected Essays (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/908363 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/908363"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140390138.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Waldo Emerson</div> As I Lay Dying http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/938150 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/938150"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000EEAU1G.01-AM0TBPF72AOXR._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43396484_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> The Sound and the Fury http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679732241.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/249323 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/249323"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812966074.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Fielding</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743273567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/988252 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/988252"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192840398.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gustave Flaubert</div> The Good Soldier (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1079305 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1079305"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486419215.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056449012_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ford Madox Ford</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1119 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1119"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060740450.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> Faust (Bantam Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15603 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15603"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553213482.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V42372268_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe</div> Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1467065 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1467065"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283331.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Golding</div> Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46334 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46334"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486415899.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hardy</div> The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/513922 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/513922"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437263.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathaniel Hawthorne</div> Catch-22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189075 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189075"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BJV3E2.01-A19L3IEUO4I4SR._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> A Farewell to Arms http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/264571 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/264571"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743564375.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> The Iliad (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3325 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3325"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140447946.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/834000 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/834000"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039954.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32786 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32786"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1593080476.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Victor Hugo</div> Their Eyes Were Watching God http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1284834 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1284834"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061120065.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zora Neale Hurston</div> Brave New World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060929871.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> A Doll's House http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2330537 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2330537"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1599869497.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V40764279_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henrik, Ibsen</div> The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3518 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3518"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439637.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1808417 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1808417"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140620613.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3716 <div id="position">51</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3716"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437344.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div>