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College Board's 101 Books for the College-Bound Reader

This book list, compiled by the College Board, includes classics, contemporary fiction, short stories/essays, plays, and poems your student should read before (or during) college.
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Beowulf (Anonymous)
Beowulf
1
Anonymous
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart
2
Chinua Achebe
A Death in the Family (James Agee)
A Death in the Family
3
James Agee
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
4
Jane Austen
Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
Go Tell It on the Mountain
5
James Baldwin
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
Waiting for Godot
6
Samuel Beckett
The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
The Adventures of Augie March
7
Saul Bellow
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
8
Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
9
Emily Brontë
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
10
Albert Camus
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
Death Comes for the Archbishop
11
Willa Cather
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
12
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Cherry Orchard (Anton Chekhov)
The Cherry Orchard
13
Anton Chekhov
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
The Awakening
14
Kate Chopin
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
15
Joseph Conrad
The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper)
The Last of the Mohicans
16
James Fenimore Cooper
The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
The Red Badge of Courage
17
Stephen Crane
Inferno (Dante)
Inferno
18
Dante
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
19
Miguel De Cervantes
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe
20
Daniel Defoe
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
21
Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
22
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Frederick Douglass)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
23
Frederick Douglass
An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
24
The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
The Three Musketeers
25
Alexandre Dumas
The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot)
The Mill on the Floss
26
George Eliot
Invisible Man
Invisible Man
27
Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
28
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
29
William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
30
William Faulkner
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
Tom Jones
31
Henry Fielding
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
32
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
33
Gustave Flaubert
The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford)
The Good Soldier
34
Ford Madox Ford
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
35
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies
36
William Golding
Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Tess of the D'urbervilles
37
Thomas Hardy
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter
38
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
39
Joseph Heller
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms
40
Ernest Hemingway
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