June 2009
100 Great Books Recommended for College Bound Readers
| Author | Title |
| Beowulf | |
| Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart |
| Adams, Richard | Watership Down |
| Agee, James | A Death in the Family |
| Alcott, Louisa May | Little Women |
| Anderson, Sherwood | Winesburg, Ohio |
| Angelou, Maya | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| Atwood, Margaret | The Handmaid’s Tale |
| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice |
| Baldwin, James | Go Tell It on the Mountain |
| Beckett, Samuel | Waiting for Godot |
| Bellamy, Edward | Looking Backward |
| Bellow, Saul | The Adventures of Augie March |
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 |
| Brontë, Charlotte | Jane Eyre |
| Brown, Dee | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee |
| Brontë, Emily | Wuthering Heights |
| Buck, Pearl S. | The Good Earth |
| Camus, Albert | The Stranger |
| Capote, Truman | In Cold Blood |
| Cather, Willa | Death Comes for the Archbishop |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey | The Canterbury Tales |
| Chekhov, Anton | The Cherry Orchard |
| Clark, Walter Van Tilburg | The Ox-Bow Incident |
| Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness |
| Cooper, James Fenimore | The Last of the Mohicans |
| Cormier, Robert | The Chocolate War |
| Crane, Stephen | The Red Badge of Courage |
| Dante | Inferno |
| de Cervantes, Miguel | Don Quixote |
| Defoe, Daniel | Robinson Crusoe |
| Dickens, Charles | A Tale of Two Cities |
| Dorris, Michael | A Yellow Raft in Blue Water |
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Crime and Punishment |
| Douglass, Frederick | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass |
| Dreiser, Theodore | An American Tragedy |
| Dumas, Alexandre | The Three Musketeers |
| Eliot, George | The Mill on the Floss |
| Ellison, Ralph | Invisible Man |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | |
| Esquivel, Laura | Like Water for Chocolate |
| Faulkner, William | The Sound and the Fury |
| Fielding, Henry | Tom Jones |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Great Gatsby |
| Flaubert, Gustave | Madame Bovary |
| Forster, E. M. | A Passage to India |
| Gaines, Ernest | The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman |
| García Marquez, Gabriel | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | Faust |
| Golding, William | Lord of the Flies |
| Hardy, Thomas | Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Scarlet Letter |
| Heller, Joseph | Catch-22 |
| Hemingway, Ernest | A Farewell to Arms |
| Hesse, Herman | Siddhartha |
| Homer | The Iliad |
| Hugo, Victor | The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World |
| Ibsen, Henrik | A Doll's House |
| Jackson, Shirley | The Lottery |
| James, Henry | The Turn of the Screw |
| Joyce, James | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| Kafka, Franz | The Metamorphosis |
| Keyes, Daniel | Flowers for Algernon |
| Kesey, Ken | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest |
| Kipling, Rudyard | |
| Knowles, John | A Separate Peace |
| Lawrence, D. H. | Sons and Lovers |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Lewis, Sinclair | Babbitt |
| London, Jack | The Call of the Wild |
| Malamud, Bernard | The Natural |
| Malamud, Bernard | The Fixer |
| Mann, Thomas | Death in Venice |
| McCullers, Carson | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
| McCullers, Carson | Member of the Wedding |
| Melville, Herman | Moby Dick |
| Miller, Arthur | |
| Milton, John | Paradise Lost |
| Mitchell, Margaret | Gone With the Wind |
| Morrison, Toni | Beloved |
| O'Connor, Flannery | A Good Man is Hard to Find |
| O'Neill, Eugene | Long Day's Journey into Night |
| Orczy, Emmuska | The Scarlet Pimpernel |
| Orwell, George | Animal Farm |
| Pasternak, Boris | Doctor Zhivago |
| Paton, Alan | Cry, the Beloved Country |
| Plath, Sylvia | The Bell Jar |
| Plato | The Republic |
| Poe, Edgar Allan | Selected Tales |
| Potok, Chaim | The Chosen |
| Proust, Marcel | Swann's Way |
| Rand, Ayn | The Fountainhead |
| Remarque, Erich Maria | All Quiet on the Western Front |
| Rostand, Edmond | Cyrano de Bergerac |
| Salinger, J.D. | The Catcher in the Rye |
| Scott, Sir Walter | Ivanhoe |
| Shakespeare, William | The Collected Works |
| Shaw, George Bernard | Pygmalion |
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein |
| Sinclair, Upton | The Jungle |
| Smith, Betty | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Solzhenitsyn, Alexander | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
| Sophocles | Oedipus Rex |
| Steinbeck, John | The Grapes of Wrath |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Treasure Island |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Swift, Jonathan | Gulliver's Travels |
| Tan, Amy | The Joy Luck Club |
| Thackeray, William | Vanity Fair |
| Thoreau, Henry David | Walden |
| Tolstoy, Leo | War and Peace |
| Trumbo, Dalton | Johnny Got His Gun |
| Turgenev, Ivan | Fathers and Sons |
| Twain, Mark | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Uris, Leon | Exodus |
| Voltaire | Candide |
| Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. | Slaughterhouse-Five |
| Walker, Alice | The Color Purple |
| Wharton, Edith | Ethan Frome |
| Wells, H. G. | The Invisible Man |
| Welty, Eudora | Collected Stories |
| Whitman, Walt | Leaves of Grass |
| Wiesel, Elie | Night |
| Wilde, Oscar | The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Williams, Tennessee | The Glass Menagerie |
| Wolfe, Thomas | Look Homeward, Angel |
| Woolf, Virginia | To the Lighthouse |
| Wright, Richard | Native Son |
| White, T. H. | The Once and Future King |
| Wilder, Thornton | Our Town |
| Wouk, Herman | The Winds of War |
June 2009