Lists of Bests: Pre-College Reading http://www.listsofbests.com/list/23723 This list of the 100 works most frequently recommended by colleges and universities is compiled from the pre-college reading lists, freshman syllabi, and core programs. Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:35:55 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 Pride and Prejudice http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1936348 <div id="position">1</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 (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1678501 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1678501"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141185910.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> Seize the Day (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3721 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3721"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437611.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> Jane Eyre. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2335969 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2335969"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/3717519646.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43632855_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Bronte</div> Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11057 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11057"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393978893.01._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">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)</div> Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13949 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13949"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451527747.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lewis Carroll</div> My Antonia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968281 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968281"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1583485090.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willa Cather</div> Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707 <div id="position">9</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> The Awakening (A Women's Press Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972770 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972770"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0704347334.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056468253_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Chopin</div> Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/165785 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/165785"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393926362.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> The Red Badge of Courage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60711 <div id="position">12</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> Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3527 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3527"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439823.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Defoe</div> Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14741 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14741"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486415864.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/559589 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/559589"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451530063.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div> The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59437 <div id="position">16</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: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962378 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962378"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375507914.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44539344_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> The Sound and the Fury http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742 <div id="position">18</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">19</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 (Wordsworth Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337778 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337778"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/185326041X.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">21</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> A Passage to India (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/163250 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/163250"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014144116X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.M. Forster</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1119 <div id="position">23</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> 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">24</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">25</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 (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19150 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19150"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679783385.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathaniel Hawthorne</div> A Farewell to Arms http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2040900 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2040900"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099910101.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> Their Eyes Were Watching God http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1284834 <div id="position">28</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">29</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> The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1808417 <div id="position">30</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">31</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> The Trial http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24686 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24686"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805209999.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> Sons and Lovers (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57797 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57797"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182466.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D.H. Lawrence</div> Babbitt (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/616936 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/616936"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486431673.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sinclair Lewis</div> The Assistant http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2593802 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bernard Malamud</div> Death in Venice http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/97719 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/97719"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060576170.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Mann</div> Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41500 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41500"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/067978327X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herman Melville</div> Sula (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1090929 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1090929"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000F4LMT4.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> A Good Man Is Hard to Find (A Women's Press Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55846 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55846"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0704346966.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Flannery O'Connor</div> Tell Me a Riddle (Women Writers : Texts and Contexts) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/985041 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/985041"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0813521378.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Animal Farm: Centennial Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968557 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968557"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452284244.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Cry, the Beloved Country http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81261 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81261"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099766817.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Paton</div> Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/110044 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/110044"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743467469.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edgar Allan Poe</div> The Catcher in the Rye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7091 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7091"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316769177.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.D. Salinger</div> Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/495601 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/495601"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140436588.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter Scott</div> Frankenstein (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/445360 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/445360"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195149017.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Shelley</div> The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3555 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3555"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142000663.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Gulliver's Travels (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55072 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55072"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192805347.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Swift</div> Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3528 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3528"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439831.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Makepeace Thackeray</div> War & Peace (Konemann Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/84022 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/84022"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/3895086908.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div>