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