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Most Frequently Recommended College-Bound Reading

A collection of the most frequently recommended college-bound reading. Classics and contemporary fiction.
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Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart
1
Chinua Achebe
A Death in the Family (James Agee)
A Death in the Family
2
James Agee
Bastard Out of Carolina (Dorothy Allison)
Bastard Out of Carolina
3
Dorothy Allison
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale
4
Margaret Atwood
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
5
Jane Austen
Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
Go Tell It on the Mountain
6
James Baldwin
Seize the Day (Saul Bellow)
Seize the Day
7
Saul Bellow
The Sheltering Sky (Paul Bowles)
The Sheltering Sky
8
Paul Bowles
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Jane Eyre
9
Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
10
Emily Brontë
The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
The Good Earth
11
Pearl S. Buck
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Fahrenheit 451
12
Ray Bradbury
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
13
Albert Camus
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
14
Lewis Carroll
My Antonia (Willa Cather)
My Antonia
15
Willa Cather
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
16
Miguel De Cervantes
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
The Awakening
17
Kate Chopin
The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)
The House on Mango Street
18
Sandra Cisneros
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
19
Joseph Conrad
Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper)
Last of the Mohicans
20
James Fenimore Cooper
The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
The Red Badge of Courage
21
Stephen Crane
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe
22
Daniel Defoe
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
23
Charles Dickens
Ragtime (E.L. Doctorow)
Ragtime
24
E.L. Doctorow
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
25
Fyodor Dostoevsky
An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
26
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
27
Alexandre Dumas
The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot)
The Mill on the Floss
28
George Eliot
Invisible Man
Invisible Man
29
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
30
William Faulkner
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
Tom Jones
31
Henry Fielding
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
32
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
33
Gustave Flaubert
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
A Passage to India
34
E.M. Forster
A Lesson Before Dying (Ernest J. Gaines)
A Lesson Before Dying
35
Ernest J. Gaines
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
36
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
37
Nikolai Gogol
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies
38
William Golding
Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Tess of the D'urbervilles
39
Thomas Hardy
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter
40
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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