101 Books Every College Bound Student Should Read

Listed created early 2000s

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  1. A Death in the Family
  2. A Doll's House
  3. A Farewell to Arms
  4. A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Flannery O'Connor)
  5. A Midsummer Night's Dream
  6. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  7. A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
  8. All Quiet on the Western Front
  9. An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
  10. Animal Farm
  11. Antigone (Sophocles)
  12. As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
  13. Babbitt
  14. Bartleby, the Scrivener
  15. Beloved 
  16. Beowulf
  17. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
  18. Call It Sleep (Henry Roth)
  19. Candide
  20. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
  21. Ceremony (Leslie Marmon Silko)
  22. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
  23. Cyrano De Bergerac (Edmond Rostand)
  24. Death Comes for the Archbishop
  25. Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
  26. Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
  27. Fathers and Sons
  28. Faust
  29. Frankenstein
  30. Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
  31. Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
  32. Hamlet
  33. Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
  34. Inferno (Dante)
  35. Invisible Man
  36. Jane Eyre
  37. Leaves of Grass
  38. Long Day's Journey Into Night
  39. Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
  40. MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
  41. Madame Bovary
  42. Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
  43. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Frederick Douglass)
  44. Native Son (Richard Wright)
  45. Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
  46. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich
  47. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
  48. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
  49. Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw)
  50. Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
  51. Romeo and Juliet
  52. Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  53. Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut) (Also banned)
  54. Swann's Way
  55. Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
  56. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
  57. The Adventures of Augie March
  58. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
  59. The Awakening
  60. The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
  61. The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
  62. The Canterbury Tales
  63. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
  64. The Cherry Orchard
  65. The Collected Stories
  66. The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
  67. The Crucible
  68. The Crying of Lot 49
  69. The Glass Menagerie
  70. The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford)
  71. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
  72. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
  73. The House of Mirth
  74. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  75. The Iliad (Homer)
  76. The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper)
  77. The Magic Mountain
  78. The Metamorphosis
  79. The Mill on the Floss
  80. The Odyssey
  81. The Picture of Dorian Gray
  82. The Portrait of a Lady
  83. The Red Badge of Courage
  84. The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
  85. The Sound and the Fury
  86. The Stranger (Albert Camus)
  87. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
  88. The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)
  89. The Woman Warrior
  90. Their Eyes Were Watching God
  91. Things Fall Apart
  92. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
  93. To the Lighthouse
  94. Tom Jones
  95. Treasure Island
  96. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
  97. Vanity Fair
  98. Waiting for Godot
  99. Walden (Henry David Thoreau)
  100. War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
  101. Wuthering Heights

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