Saturday, July 16, 2016

101 Books Recommended for College Bound Students

So, I found the link to this list on Book Riot.  It's a list of 101 Books for College Bound Students.  You can find the list here: http://www.uhlibrary.net/pdf/college_board_recommended_books.pdf.  As near as I can tell, this list comes from the Hollywood Senior High School Library in Los Angeles, CA.

I've read 51 of these books... So, half?  There are several books on here that have been on my list for quite some time, but I haven't gotten to them yet.  I need to read at least one of these books this year.  (I've put an x next to the books I've read.)

How many of these books have you read?

Literature

Beowulf                                                     x
Things Fall Apart                 (Achebe)    
A Death in the Family          (Agee)
Pride and Prejudice               (Austen)     x
Go Tell it on the Mountain    (Baldwin)
Waiting for Godot                  (Becket)
The Adventures of Augie March (Bellow)
Jane Eyre                               (Bronte)
Wuthering Heights                (Bronte)
The Stranger                          (Camus)
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Cather)
The Canterbury Tales            (Chaucer)       x
The Cherry Orchard             (Chekhov)
The Awakening                     (Chopin)
Heart of Darkness                 (Conrad)
The Last of the Mohicans      (Cooper)
The Red Badge of Courage    (Crane)         x
Inferno                                    (Dante)
Don Quixote                          (Cervantes)    x
Robinson Curusoe                 (DeFoe)          x
A Tale of Two Cities             (Dickens)        x
Crime and Punishment          (Dumas)         x
The Mill on the Floss            (Eliot)
Invisible Man                        (Ellison)
Selected Essays                    (Emerson)
As I Lay Dying                    (Faulkner)
The Great Gatsby                 (Fitzgerald)      x
Madam Bovary                     (Flaubert)        x
The Good Soldier                (Ford)
Faust                                    (Goethe)
Lord of the Flies                 (Golding)
Tess of the d'Ubervilles      (Hardy)              x
The Scarlet Letter              (Hawthorne)       x
Catch 22                              (Heller)
A Farewell to Arms             (Hemingway)   x
The Iliad                              (Homer)            x
The Odyssey                         (Homer)           x
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Hugo)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston)
Brave New World                    (Huxley)      x
A Doll's House                         (Ibsen)
The Portrait of a Lady              (James)
The Turn of the Screw             (James)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce)
The Metamorphosis                 (Kafka)           x
The Call of the Wild                (London)         x
The Magic Mountain               (Mann)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez)
Bartleby the Scrivener            (Melville)
Moby Dick                              (Melville)         x
The Crucible                            (Miller)            x
Beloved                                    (Morrison)       x
A Good Man is Hard to Find   (O'Connor)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (O'Neill)
Animal Farm                            (Orwell)           x
Doctor Zhivago                        (Pasternack)
The Bell Jar                              (Plath)
Selected Tales                            (Poe)               x
Swann's Way                             (Proust)
The Crying of Lot 49                (Pynchon)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque)      x
Cyrano de Bergerac                   (Rostand)
Call it Sleep                               (Roth)
The Catcher in the Rye              (Salinger)          x
Hamlet                                       (Shakespeare)    x
Macbeth                                     (Shakespeare)    x
A Midsummer Night's Dream    (Shakespeare)   x
Romeo and Juliet                       (Shakespeare)    x
Pygmalion                                 (Shaw)
Frankenstein                             (Shelley)              x
Ceremony                                 (Silko)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn)     x
Antigone                                  (Sophocles)           x
Oedipus Rex                            (Sophocles)
The Grapes of Wrath               (Steinbeck)            x
Treasure Island                        (Stevenson)           x
Uncle Tom's Cabinet               (Stowe)                  x
Gulliver's Travels                    (Swift)                    x
Vanity Fair                               (Thackeray)           x
Walden                                     (Thoreau)              x
War and Peace                         (Tolstoy)                x
Fathers and Sons                     (Turgenev)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)       x
Candide                                   (Voltaire)
Slaughterhouse Five               (Vonnegut)             x
The Color Purple                    (Walker)                x
The House of Mirth                (Wharton)
Collected Stories                    (Welty)
Leaves of Grass                      (Whitman)                x
The Picture of Dorian Gray    (Wilde)
The Glass Menagerie              (Williams)                x
To the Lighthouse                  (Woolf)
Native Son                             (Wright)

Classic and Historic Texts

The Arabian Nights                                                       x
Profiles in Courage                      (Kennedy)                 x
The bible                                                                       x
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Education of Henry Adams  (Adams)
Le Morte D'Arthur                       (Malory)
Aesops Fables                                                                x
The Prince                                    (Machiavelli)
Andersen's Fairy Tales                                                   x
The Communist Manifesto           (Marx)
Nicomachean Ethics                     (Aristotle)
Common Sense                             (Paine)                      x
The Souls of Black Folk               (DuBois)
The Republic                                (Plato)
Autobiography                              (Benjamin Franklin)
Democracy in America                 (Tocqueville)
Mythology                                     (Hamilton)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (X, Malcolm with Alex Haley)     x
The Federalist Papers                    (Hamilton)

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