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 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 Read Date College Board Recommended Reading List for College-Bound Students Author 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 Title 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 Read Date College Board Recommended Reading List for College-Bound Students 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 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 Read Date
