101 Great Books

Recommended for
College-Bound
Readers
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Author Title
-- Beowulf
Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart
Agee, James A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane Pride and Preudice
Baldwin, James !o Tell "t on the #ountain
Bec$ett, %amuel &aiting for !odot
Bellow, %aul The Ad'entures of Augie #arch
Bront(, Charlotte Jane )yre
Bront(, )mily &uthering *eights
Camus, Albert The %tranger
Cather, &illa Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, !eoffrey The Canterbury Tales
Che$ho', Anton The Cherry +rchard
Chopin, ,ate The Awa$ening
Conrad, Joseph *eart of Dar$ness
Cooper, James Fenimore The -ast of the #ohicans
Crane, %tephen The .ed Badge of Courage
Dante "nferno
De Cer'antes, #iguel Don /ui0ote
Defoe, Daniel .obinson Crusoe
Dic$ens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoye's$y, Fyodor Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederic$ 1arrati'e of the -ife of Frederic$
Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy
Dumas, Ale0andre The Three #us$eteers
)liot, !eorge The #ill on the Floss
)llison, .alph "n'isible #an
)merson, .alph &aldo %elected )ssays
Faul$ner, &illiam As " -ay Dying
Faul$ner, &illiam The %ound and the Fury
Fielding, *enry Tom Jones
Fit2gerald, F3 %cott The !reat !atsby
Flaubert, !usta'e #adame Bo'ary
Ford, Ford #ado0 The !ood %oldier
!oethe, Johann &olfgang 'on Faust
!olding, &illiam -ord of the Flies
*ardy, Thomas Tess of the d45rber'illes
*awthorne, 1athaniel The %carlet -etter
*eller, Joseph Catch 66
*emingway, )rnest A Farewell to Arms
*omer The "liad
*omer The +dyssey
*ugo, 7ictor The *unchbac$ of 1otre Dame
*urston, 8ora 1eale Their )yes &ere &atching !od
*u0ley, Aldous Bra'e 1ew &orld
"bsen, *enri$ A Doll4s *ouse
James, *enry The Portrait of a -ady
James, *enry The Turn of the %crew
Joyce, James A Portrait of the Artist as a 9oung
#an
,af$a, Fran2 The #etamorphosis
,ingston, #a0ine *ong The &oman &arrior
-ee, *arper To ,ill a #oc$ingbird
-ewis, %inclair Babbitt
-ondon, Jac$ The Call of the &ild
#ann, Thomas The #agic #ountain
#ar:ue2, !abriel !arc;a +ne *undred 9ears of %olitude
#el'ille, *erman Bartleby the %cri'ener
#el'ille, *erman #oby Dic$
#iller, Arthur The Crucible
#orrison, Toni Belo'ed
+4Connor, Flannery A !ood #an is *ard to Find
+41eill, )ugene -ong Day4s Journey into 1ight
+rwell, !eorge Animal Farm
Pasterna$, Boris Doctor 8hi'ago
Plath, %yl'ia The Bell Jar
Poe, )dgar Allan %elected Tales
Proust, #arcel %wann4s &ay
Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of -ot <=
.emar:ue, )rich #aria All /uiet on the &estern Front
.ostand, )dmond Cyrano de Bergerac
.oth, *enry Call "t %leep
%alinger, J3D3 The Catcher in the .ye
%ha$espeare, &illiam *amlet
%ha$espeare, &illiam #acbeth
%ha$espeare, &illiam A #idsummer 1ight4s Dream
%ha$espeare, &illiam .omeo and Juliet
%haw, !eorge Bernard Pygmalion
%helley, #ary Fran$enstein
%il$o, -eslie #armon Ceremony
%ol2henitsyn, Ale0ander +ne Day in the -ife of "'an
Deniso'ich
%ophocles Antigone
%ophocles +edipus .e0
%teinbec$, John The !rapes of &rath
%te'enson, .obert -ouis Treasure "sland
%towe, *arriet Beecher 5ncle Tom4s Cabin
%wift, Jonathan !ulli'er4s Tra'els
Thac$eray, &illiam 7anity Fair
Thoreau, *enry Da'id &alden
Tolstoy, -eo &ar and Peace
Turgene', "'an Fathers and %ons
Twain, #ar$ The Ad'entures of *uc$leberry
Finn
7oltaire Candide
7onnegut, ,urt Jr3 %laughterhouse-Fi'e
&al$er, Alice The Color Purple
&harton, )dith The *ouse of #irth
&elty, )udora Collected %tories
&hitman, &alt -ea'es of !rass
&ilde, +scar The Picture of Dorian !ray
&illiams, Tennessee The !lass #enagerie
&oolf, 7irginia To the -ighthouse
&right, .ichard 1ati'e %on