The College Board's "101 Great Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers"

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  1. 1.
    Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

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  2. 2.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

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    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee

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    Pride and Prejudice (Vintage Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  5. 5.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Modern Library)
    by James Baldwin

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    WAITING FOR GODOT-TRAGICOMEDY IN 2 ACTS
    by Samuel Beckett

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    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  8. 8.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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    Wuthering Heights (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

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    The Stranger (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Albert Camus

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    Death Comes for the Archbishop
    by Willa Cather

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  12. 12.
    Don Quixote (P.S.)
    by Miguel de Cervantes

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    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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    The Cherry Orchard (Methuen Drama)
    by Anton Chekhov

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  15. 15.
    The Awakening (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Kate Chopin

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    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph Conrad

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    The Last of the Mohicans (Oxford World's Classics)
    by James Fenimore Cooper

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    The Red Badge of Courage
    by Stephan Crane

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    Inferno (Modern Library Classics)
    by Dante

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    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

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    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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    Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  23. 23.
    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
    by Frederick Douglass

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  24. 24.
    Dreiser American Tragedy (Library of America)
    by Theodore Dreiser

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    The Three Musketeers (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

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    The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

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    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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  28. 28.
    Emerson: Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)
    by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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    As I Lay Dying (Vintage International)
    by William Faulkner

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    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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    Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

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  32. 32.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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    Faust (Bantam Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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    The Scarlet Letter (Enriched Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    Catch 22
    by Joseph Heller

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  38. 39.
    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  39. 40.
    The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Homer

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  40. 41.
    The Odyssey
    by Homer

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    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
    by Victor Hugo

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    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  43. 45.
    A Doll's House - Literary Touchstone Edition
    by Henrik Ibsen

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  44. 46.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Henry James

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  45. 47.
    The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Henry James

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    The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics)
    by Franz Kafka

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    Woman Warrior
    by Maxine Hong Kingston

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Created by ejgarfunkel on Oct 14, 2006.
 

Comments

broken - only 64 books — 17 weeks ago

whoever screwed with this list in the last week, please fix it and make exactly like the source list. there should be 101 books, not 64.


holliday
Florida

Fixed — 26 weeks ago

I just cleaned up this list. Removed a few duplicates and a couple that were not on the real list, and corrected a few that were the right title but wrong book.