101 Great Books
Recommended for College-Bound Readers
It's a good idea to talk to your parents, librarians, teachers, and counselor about your reading list. They can help you choose the best books for you from among your many options.
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Beowulf |
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Achebe, Chinua |
Things Fall Apart |
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Agee, James |
A Death in the Family |
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Austen, Jane |
Pride and Prejudice |
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Baldwin, James |
Go Tell It on the Mountain |
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Beckett, Samuel |
Waiting for Godot |
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Bellow, Saul |
The Adventures of Augie March |
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Brontë, Charlotte |
Jane Eyre |
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Brontë, Emily |
WutheringHeights |
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Camus, Albert |
The Stranger |
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Cather, Willa |
Death Comes for the Archbishop |
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Chaucer, Geoffrey |
The Canterbury Tales |
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Chekhov, Anton |
The Cherry Orchard |
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Chopin, Kate |
The Awakening |
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Conrad, Joseph |
Heart of Darkness |
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Cooper, James Fenimore |
The Last of the Mohicans |
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Crane, Stephen |
The Red Badge of Courage |
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Dante |
Inferno |
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de Cervantes, Miguel |
Don Quixote |
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Defoe, Daniel |
Robinson Crusoe |
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Dickens, Charles |
A Tale of Two Cities |
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor |
Crime and Punishment |
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Douglass, Frederick |
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass |
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Dreiser, Theodore |
An American Tragedy |
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Dumas, Alexandre |
The Three Musketeers |
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Eliot, George |
The Mill on the Floss |
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Ellison, Ralph |
Invisible Man |
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo |
Selected Essays |
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Faulkner, William |
As I Lay Dying |
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Faulkner, William |
The Sound and the Fury |
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Fielding, Henry |
Tom Jones |
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
The Great Gatsby |
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Flaubert, Gustave |
Madame Bovary |
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Ford, Ford Madox |
The Good Soldier |
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von |
Faust |
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Golding, William |
Lord of the Flies |
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Hardy, Thomas |
Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
The Scarlet Letter |
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Heller, Joseph |
Catch 22 |
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Hemingway, Ernest |
A Farewell to Arms |
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Homer |
The Iliad |
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Homer |
The Odyssey |
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Hugo, Victor |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
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Hurston, Zora Neale |
Their Eyes Were Watching God |
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Huxley, Aldous |
Brave New World |
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Ibsen, Henrik |
A Doll's House |
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James, Henry |
The Portrait of a Lady |
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James, Henry |
The Turn of the Screw |
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Joyce, James |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
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Kafka, Franz |
The Metamorphosis |
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Kingston, Maxine Hong |
The Woman Warrior |
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Lee, Harper |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
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Lewis, Sinclair |
Babbitt |
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London, Jack |
The Call of the Wild |
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Mann, Thomas |
The Magic Mountain |
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Marquez, Gabriel García |
One Hundred Years of Solitude |
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Melville, Herman |
Bartleby the Scrivener |
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Melville, Herman |
Moby Dick |
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Miller, Arthur |
The Crucible |
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Morrison, Toni |
Beloved |
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O'Connor, Flannery |
A Good Man is Hard to Find |
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O'Neill, Eugene |
Long Day's Journey into Night |
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Orwell, George |
Animal Farm |
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Pasternak, Boris |
Doctor Zhivago |
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Plath, Sylvia |
The Bell Jar |
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Poe, Edgar Allan |
Selected Tales |
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Proust, Marcel |
Swann's Way |
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Pynchon, Thomas |
The Crying of Lot 49 |
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Remarque, Erich Maria |
All Quiet on the Western Front |
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Rostand, Edmond |
Cyrano de Bergerac |
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Roth, Henry |
Call It Sleep |
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Salinger, J.D. |
The Catcher in the Rye |
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Shakespeare, William |
Hamlet |
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Shakespeare, William |
Macbeth |
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Shakespeare, William |
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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Shakespeare, William |
Romeo and Juliet |
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Shaw, George Bernard |
Pygmalion |
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Shelley, Mary |
Frankenstein |
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Silko, Leslie Marmon |
Ceremony |
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Solzhenitsyn, Alexander |
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
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Sophocles |
Antigone |
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Sophocles |
Oedipus Rex |
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Steinbeck, John |
The Grapes of Wrath |
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Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Treasure Island |
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher |
Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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Swift, Jonathan |
Gulliver's Travels |
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Thackeray, William |
Vanity Fair |
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Thoreau, Henry David |
Walden |
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Tolstoy, Leo |
War and Peace |
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Turgenev, Ivan |
Fathers and Sons |
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Twain, Mark |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
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Voltaire |
Candide |
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Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. |
Slaughterhouse-Five |
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Walker, Alice |
The Color Purple |
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Wharton, Edith |
The House of Mirth |
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Welty, Eudora |
Collected Stories |
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Whitman, Walt |
Leaves of Grass |
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Wilde, Oscar |
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
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Williams, Tennessee |
The Glass Menagerie |
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Woolf, Virginia |
To the Lighthouse |
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Wright, Richard |
Native Son |