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101 Great Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers Produced
by the College board
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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The Crucible by Arthur Miller
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The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Stranger by Albert Camus
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The Odyssey by Homer
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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Unknown
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A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
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Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
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All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
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The Bell Jar: A Novel by Sylvia Plath
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn
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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
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Walden by Henry David Thoreau
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Antigone by Sophocles
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Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
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The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery
O'Connor
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Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick
Douglass
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A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
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The Iliad by Homer
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The Awakening by Kate Chopin
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Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
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The Color Purple by Alice Walker
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Beloved by Toni Morrison
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Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
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Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
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Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
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The Call of the Wild by Jack London
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Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
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Inferno (The Divine Comedy, #1) by Dante Alighieri
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Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
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The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
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The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
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The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
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The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
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Candide by Voltaire
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Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
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Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill
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Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
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The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
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Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
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Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
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The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
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Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
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The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
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A Death in the Family by James Agee
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The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
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The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
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Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
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Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
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The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
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To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
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Faust: First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Native Son by Richard Wright
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft