101 Books for The College Bound
(as recommended by the College Board)
(*I have these available in the classroom -- if you have any extra copies at home,I would love donations!)
Beowulf Mann, Thomas The Magic Mountain
*Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart Marquez,
*Gabriel García One Hundred Years of Solitude
*Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice
Melville, Herman Bartleby the Scrivener
Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain
Melville, Herman Moby Dick
Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot
*Miller, Arthur The Crucible
Bellow, Saul The Adventures of Augie March
*Morrison, Toni Beloved
*Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre
O'Connor, Flannery A Good Man is Hard to Find
Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights
O'Neill, Eugene Long Day's Journey into Night
Camus, Albert The Comes for the Archbishop
Pasternak, Boris Doctor Zhivago
Chaucer, Geoffrey The Canterbury Tales
Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar
Chekhov, Anton The Cherry Orchard
Poe, Edgar Allan Selected Tales
*Chopin, Kate The Awakening
Proust, Marcel Swann's Way
*Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness
Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49
*Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans
*Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front
Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage
Rostand, Edmond Cyrano de Bergerac
Dante Inferno
Roth, Henry Call It Sleep
de Cervantes, Miguel Don Quixote
*Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe
*Shakespeare, William Hamlet
Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities
Shakespeare, William Macbeth
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Crime and Punishment
Shakespeare, William A Midsummer Night's Dream
*Douglass, Frederick Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet
Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy
Shaw, George Bernard Pygmalion
Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Eliot, George The Mill on the Floss
Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony
*Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man
*Solzhenitsyn, Alexander One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Emerson, Ralph Waldo Selected Essays
Sophocles Antigone
Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying
Sophocles Oedipus Rex
Faulkner, William The Sound and the Fury
*Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath
Fielding, Henry Tom Jones
Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island
*Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby
*Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin
Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary
Swift, Jonathan Gulliver's Travels
Ford, Ford Madox The Good Soldier
Thackeray, William Vanity Fair
Goethe, JohannWolfgang von Faust
Thoreau, Henry David Walden
Golding, William Lord of the Flies
Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace
Hardy, Thomas Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Turgenev, Ivan Fathers and Sons
Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter
*Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
*Heller, Joseph Catch 22
Voltaire Candide
Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms
*Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five
Homer The Iliad
*Walker, Alice The Color Purple
Homer The Odyssey
*Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth
Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Welty, Eudora Collected Stories
*Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God
*Whitman, Walt Leaves of Grass
*Huxley, Aldous Brave New World
Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray
Ibsen, Henrik A Doll's House
Williams, Tennessee The Glass Menagerie
James, Henry The Portrait of a Lady
Woolf , Virginia To the Lighthouse
James, Henry The Turn of the Screw
Wright, Richard Native Son
*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
*Orwell, George 1984
(*I have these available in the classroom -- if you have any extra copies at home,I would love donations!)
Beowulf Mann, Thomas The Magic Mountain
*Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart Marquez,
*Gabriel García One Hundred Years of Solitude
*Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice
Melville, Herman Bartleby the Scrivener
Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain
Melville, Herman Moby Dick
Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot
*Miller, Arthur The Crucible
Bellow, Saul The Adventures of Augie March
*Morrison, Toni Beloved
*Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre
O'Connor, Flannery A Good Man is Hard to Find
Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights
O'Neill, Eugene Long Day's Journey into Night
Camus, Albert The Comes for the Archbishop
Pasternak, Boris Doctor Zhivago
Chaucer, Geoffrey The Canterbury Tales
Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar
Chekhov, Anton The Cherry Orchard
Poe, Edgar Allan Selected Tales
*Chopin, Kate The Awakening
Proust, Marcel Swann's Way
*Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness
Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49
*Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans
*Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front
Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage
Rostand, Edmond Cyrano de Bergerac
Dante Inferno
Roth, Henry Call It Sleep
de Cervantes, Miguel Don Quixote
*Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe
*Shakespeare, William Hamlet
Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities
Shakespeare, William Macbeth
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Crime and Punishment
Shakespeare, William A Midsummer Night's Dream
*Douglass, Frederick Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet
Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy
Shaw, George Bernard Pygmalion
Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Eliot, George The Mill on the Floss
Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony
*Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man
*Solzhenitsyn, Alexander One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Emerson, Ralph Waldo Selected Essays
Sophocles Antigone
Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying
Sophocles Oedipus Rex
Faulkner, William The Sound and the Fury
*Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath
Fielding, Henry Tom Jones
Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island
*Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby
*Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin
Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary
Swift, Jonathan Gulliver's Travels
Ford, Ford Madox The Good Soldier
Thackeray, William Vanity Fair
Goethe, JohannWolfgang von Faust
Thoreau, Henry David Walden
Golding, William Lord of the Flies
Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace
Hardy, Thomas Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Turgenev, Ivan Fathers and Sons
Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter
*Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
*Heller, Joseph Catch 22
Voltaire Candide
Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms
*Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five
Homer The Iliad
*Walker, Alice The Color Purple
Homer The Odyssey
*Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth
Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Welty, Eudora Collected Stories
*Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God
*Whitman, Walt Leaves of Grass
*Huxley, Aldous Brave New World
Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray
Ibsen, Henrik A Doll's House
Williams, Tennessee The Glass Menagerie
James, Henry The Portrait of a Lady
Woolf , Virginia To the Lighthouse
James, Henry The Turn of the Screw
Wright, Richard Native Son
*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
*Orwell, George 1984