College Board Recommended Top 101 Books for the College Bound


Folks are passing this list around the blogsphere and highlighting the books they have read from the College Board list. Many of the books were read in high school and college but oddly enough my favorite five were read in my most active reading days...after college. My favorite books from this list are Beloved, The Color Purple, To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre.

Beowulf ( a children’s retelling)
Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Agee, James - A Death in
the Family
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice(half-way)
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It
on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul -
The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte - Jane
Eyre (half-way)
Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert - The
Stranger
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer,
Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales (parts)
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 (Calvert’s version :o)
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
Goethe, Johann
Wolfgang von – Faust (in English)
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
Marquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of
Solitude
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 (Aw common, I read Tom Sawyer out loud to the kids!)
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

I would like to read, from this list,
The House of Mirth
Vanity Fair
Doctor Zhivago
Crime and Punishment

What book should I read next? What would you read?

Encourage One Another.
Donna