College Board Recommended Reading List for College-Bound Students
Author
1. Anonymous
2. Achebe, Chinua
3. Agee, James
4. Austen, Jane
5. Baldwin, James
6. Beckett, Samuel t
7. Bellow, Saul
8. Bronte, Charlotte
9. Bronte, Emily
10. Camus, Albert
11. Cather, Willa
12. Cervantes, Miguel de
13. Chaucer, Geoffrey
14. Chekhov, Anton
15. Chopin, Kate
16. Conrad, Joseph
17. Cooper, James Fenimore
18. Crane, Stephen
19. Dante
20. Defoe, Daniel
21. Dickens, Charles
22. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
23. Douglass, Frederick
24. Dreiser, Theodore
25. Dumas, Alexandre
26. Eliot, George
27. Ellison, Ralph
28. Emerson, Ralph Waldo
29. Faulkner, William
30. Faulkner, William
31. Fielding, Henry
32. Fitzgerald, F. Scott
33. Flaubert, Gustave
34. Ford, Ford Madox
35. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
36. Hardy, Thomas
37. Hawthorne, Nathaniel
38. Heller, Joseph
39. Hemingway, Ernest
Title Read
Date
Beowulf
Things Fall Apart
A Death in the Family
Pride and Prejudice
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Waiting for Godo
The Adventures of Augie March
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
The Stranger
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Don Quixote
The Canterbury Tales
The Cherry Orchard
The Awakening
Heart of Darkness
The Last of the Mohicans
The Red Badge of Courage
Inferno
Robinson Crusoe
A Tale of Two Cities
Crime and Punishment
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
An American Tragedy
The Three Musketeers
The Mill on the Floss
Invisible Man
Selected Essays
As I Lay Dying
The Sound and the Fury
Tom Jones
The Great Gatsby
Madame Bovary
The Good Soldier
Faust
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
The Scarlet Letter
Catch 22
A Farewell to Arms
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Author Title Read

40. Homer
41. Homer
42. Hugo, Victor
43. Hurston, Zora Neale
44. Huxley, Aldous
45. Ibsen, Henrik
46. James, Henry
47. James, Henry
48. Joyce, James
49. Kafka, Franz
50. Kingston, Maxine Hong
51. Lee, Harper
52. Lewis, Sinclair
53. London, Jack
54. Mann, Thomas
55. Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
56. Melville, Herman
57. Melville, Herman
58. Miller, Arthur
59. Morrison, Toni
60. O’Connor, Flannery
61. O’Neill, Eugene
62. Orwell, George
63. Orwell, George
64. Pasternak, Boris
65. Plath, Sylvia
66. Poe, Edgar Allen
67. Proust, Marcel
68. Pynchon, Thomas
69. Remarque, Erich Maria
70. Rostand, Edmond
71. Roth, Henry
72. Salinger, J.D.
73. Shakespeare, William
74. Shakespeare, William
75. Shakespeare, William
76. Shakespeare, William
77. Shakespeare, William
78. Shaw, George Bernard
Date
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Brave New World
A Doll’s House
The Portrait of a Lady
The Turn of the Screw
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Metamorphosis
The Woman Warrior
To Kill a Mockingbird
Babbitt
The Call of the Wild
The Magic Mountain
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Bartleby the Scrivener
Moby Dick
The Crucible
Beloved
A Good Man is Hard to Find
Long Day’s Journey into Night
1984
Animal Farm
Doctor Zhivago
The Bell Jar
Selected Tales
Swann’s Way
The Crying of Lot 49
All Quiet on the Western Front
Cyrano de Bergerac
Call It Sleep
The Catcher in the Rye
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Romeo and Juliet
Pygmalion
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Author
79. Shelley, Mary
80. Silko, Leslie Marmon
81. Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
82. Sophocles
83. Sophocles
84. Steinbeck, John
85. Stevenson, Robert Louis
86. Stowe, Harriet Beecher
87. Swift, Jonathan
88. Thackeray, William
89. Thoreau, Henry David
90. Tolstoy, Leo
91. Turgenev, Ivan
92. Twain, Mark
93. Voltaire
94. Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.
95. Walker, Alice
96. Wharton, Edith
97. Welty, Eudora
98. Whitman, Walt
99. Wilde, Oscar
100. Williams, Tennessee
101. Woolf, Virginia
102. Wright, Richard
Title Read
Date
Frankenstein
Ceremony
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Antigone
Oedipus Rex
The Grapes of Wrath
Treasure Island
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Gulliver’s Travels
Vanity Fair
Walden
War and Peace
Fathers and Sons
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Candide
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Color Purple
The House of Mirth
Collected Stories
Leaves of Grass
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Glass Menagerie
To the Lighthouse
Native Son