101 Great Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers Produced by the College board

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

2

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

3

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

4

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

5

Animal Farm by George Orwell

6

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

9

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

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Hamlet by William Shakespeare

11

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

12

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

3.

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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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Macbeth by William Shakespeare

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The Crucible by Arthur Miller

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The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

3

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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

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The Stranger by Albert Camus

3.

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The Odyssey by Homer

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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Unknown

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A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

25

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

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Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

29

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

30

The Bell Jar: A Novel by Sylvia Plath

31

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

32

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

33

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

34

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

35

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

35

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

3.

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Walden by Henry David Thoreau

38

Antigone by Sophocles

38

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

40

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

41

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

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42

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

43

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

44

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

45

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

46

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

47

A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor

48

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

49

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

50

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

51

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

3.3

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

53

The Iliad by Homer

54

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

55

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

56

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

57

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

58

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

4.

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Beloved by Toni Morrison

60

Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

61

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

62

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

63

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

63

Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

65

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

66

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

67

Inferno (The Divine Comedy, #1) by Dante Alighieri

68

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

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The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

70

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

72

Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

73

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

74

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

75

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

75

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

75

Candide by Voltaire

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Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville

79

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

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Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill

81

Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

82

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

83

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

84

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

85

Call It Sleep by Henry Roth

86

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

86

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

88

The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

89

A Death in the Family by James Agee

90

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

91

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

92

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

93

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

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Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin

95

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

96

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

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To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

98

Faust: First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

99

Native Son by Richard Wright

100

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft