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Collegeboard's 101 Books for the College-Bound

This is a list of the CollegeBoard's 101 great reads for the College-Bound.
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Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
1
Gustave Flaubert
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
2
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beowulf (Anonymous)
Beowulf
3
Anonymous
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart
4
Chinua Achebe
A Death in the Family (James Agee)
A Death in the Family
5
James Agee
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
6
Jane Austen
Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
Go Tell It on the Mountain
7
James Baldwin
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
Waiting for Godot
8
Samuel Beckett
The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
The Adventures of Augie March
9
Saul Bellow
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Jane Eyre
10
Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
11
Emily Bronte
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
12
Albert Camus
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
Death Comes for the Archbishop
13
Willa Cather
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
14
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Cherry Orchard (Anton Chekhov)
The Cherry Orchard
15
Anton Chekhov
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
The Awakening
16
Kate Chopin
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
17
Joseph Conrad
The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper)
The Last of the Mohicans
18
James Fenimore Cooper
The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
The Red Badge of Courage
19
Stephen Crane
Inferno (Dante)
Inferno
20
Dante
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
21
Miguel De Cervantes
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe
22
Daniel Defoe
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
23
Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
24
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Frederick Douglass)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
25
Frederick Douglass
An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
An American Tragedy
26
Theodore Dreiser
The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
The Three Musketeers
27
Alexandre Dumas
The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot)
The Mill on the Floss
28
George Eliot
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
29
Ralph Ellison
Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
30
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
31
William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
32
William Faulkner
The History of Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
The History of Tom Jones
33
Henry Fielding
The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford)
The Good Soldier
34
Ford Madox Ford
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
35
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies
36
William Golding
Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Tess of the D'urbervilles
37
Thomas Hardy
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter
38
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
39
Joseph Heller
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms
40
Ernest Hemingway
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