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
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A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Antigone by Sophocles
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Beowulf
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Call it Sleep by Henry Roth
Candide by Voltaire
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Inferno by Dante
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Native Son by Richard Wright
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Selected Tales by Edgar Allen Poe
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Iliad by Homer
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
The Odyssey by Homer
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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