One more book post!

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I saw the list of 101 great books for college bound students recommended by College Board somewhere in the internet. I'm already in college, and although I read most of these when I was in high school (when I had lots of time to read stuff not related to my course), I thought that it would be fun to check how many of these mostly classics I've read. Bolded means read, and italicized means that it's already somewhere in my shelf, but I haven't thought of starting to read it until now.

1. A Death in the Family by James Agee
2. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
3. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
4. A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
5. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
6. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
7. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
8. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
9. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
10. Animal Farm by George Orwell
11. Antigone by Sophocles
12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
13. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
14. Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
15. Beloved by Toni Morrison
16. Beowulf
17. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
18. Call it Sleep by Henry Roth
19. Candide by Voltaire
20. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
21. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
22. Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
23. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
24. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
25. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
26. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
27. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
28. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
29. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
30. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
31. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
32. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
33. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
34. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
35. Inferno by Dante
36. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
37. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
38. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
39. Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill
40. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
41. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
42. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
43. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
44. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
45. Native Son by Richard Wright
46. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
47. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
48. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
49. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
50. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
51. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
52. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
53. Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
54. Selected Tales by Edgar Allen Poe
55. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
56. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
57. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
58. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
59. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
60. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
61. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
62. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
63. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
64. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
65. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
66. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
67. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
68. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
69. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
70. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
71. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
72. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
73. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
74. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
75. The Iliad by Homer
76. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
77. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
78. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
79. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
80. The Odyssey by Homer
81. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
82. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
83. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
84. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
85. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
86. The Stranger by Albert Camus
87. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
88. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
89. The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
90. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
91. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
92. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
93. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
94. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
95. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
96. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
97. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
98. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
99. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
100. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
101. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Hmm... 14 out of 100. And there are a few in the list I haven't even known until now. The list comforts me somehow, at least I wouldn't be running out of classic books to read anytime soon.