Lists of Bests: Most-Often Recommended Authors and Works http://www.listsofbests.com/list/32997 Based on the book "Reading Lists for the College-Bound Student", these are the authors and works listed as most recommended for pre-college reading. Please note that when a poetry compilation is listed, you don't need to read that exact compilation; any by that particular author will do, but it is best to have one that is "complete" or "definitive," or even "selected." I've actually read very few of these, but I'm working on it! I will be making another list of all the other books listed in "Reading Lists," so keep an eye out for that. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:02:05 GMT en-us 0 50 194 50 0 Beowulf: A New Verse Translation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10942 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10942"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393320979.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Bible (KJV) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2788353 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13959 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13959"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528182.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> The Orestia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307811 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307811"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1419176331.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aeschylus</div> Lysistrata http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2129972 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2129972"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1420926438.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristophanes</div> Poetics (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3311 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3311"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140446362.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> Confessions (Pure Gold Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27255 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27255"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0882709488.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1128997830_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saint Augustine of Hippo</div> Emma (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/495600 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/495600"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439580.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3526 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3526"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439807.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Northanger Abbey (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/299571 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/299571"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1593082649.01-A3EGC00HNW0VRM._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43800399_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Pride and Prejudice (Baker Classics Collection) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2423166 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2423166"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0801012112.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3520 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3520"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439661.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46018830_.jpg" /></a></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">13</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> Notes of a Native Son http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2229791 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> Waiting for Godot http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781205 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781205"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/015GFMFRQTL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Beckett</div> Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2811 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2811"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140189424.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> Seize the Day (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3721 <div id="position">17</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> The Portable William Blake (Viking Portable Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/177529 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/177529"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140150269.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Blake</div> Mother Courage & Her Children http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2783390 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bertolt Brecht</div> Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14751 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14751"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486424499.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Brontë</div> Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11057 <div id="position">21</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> Robert Browning's Poetry, Second Edition (Norton Critical Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/874530 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/874530"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393926001.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45261658_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Browning</div> The Stranger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1187049 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1187049"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394533054.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13949 <div id="position">24</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> Death Comes for the Archbishop http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2065076 <div id="position">25</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> My Antonia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968281 <div id="position">26</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">27</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 Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149 <div id="position">28</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 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2784063 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov</div> Three Sisters: A Play http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24066 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24066"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802132766.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056491830_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov</div> The Awakening http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1145500 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></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">32</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> Lord Jim http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2475150 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2475150"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1551111721.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> The Secret Sharer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528641 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528641"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1406951331.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44269829_.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">35</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> The Divine Comedy: Inferno (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/988936 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/988936"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1416500235.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1115921501_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dante</div> Origin Of Species http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/335331 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/335331"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0785819118.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Darwin</div> The Voyage of the Beagle (Adventure Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1701119 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1701119"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/8854401765.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Darwin</div> Robinson Crusoe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2014025 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2014025"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1587263882.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Defoe</div> Bleak House (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62898 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62898"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375760059.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> A Christmas Carol http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68937 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68937"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580495796.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3227 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3227"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140439447.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V42219544_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Great Expectations (Penguin Popular Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1628390 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1628390"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140620168.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Hard Times (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2783072 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2783072"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01EYKMHPAPL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Martin Chuzzlewit (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3206 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3206"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140436146.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Nicholas Nickleby (Collector's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2098584 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> The Old Curiosity Shop (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/855020 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/855020"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486426793.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Oliver Twist (Collector's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2489097 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2489097"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1904633080.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3517 <div id="position">49</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> The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/159427 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/159427"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674018249.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Dickinson</div>