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Updated '100 Essential Books You Should Have Read in College'

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01 - 07: Ancient texts
08 - 35: Classics
36 - 45: Contemporary
46 - 53: Non-Western, Minority, and Female Authors
54 - 60: Biography, History, and Social Theory
61 - 72: Philosophy and Religion
73 - 82: Drama and Poetry
83 - 90: Science and Mathematics
91 - 95: Art
96 - 100: Miscellaneous
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Beowulf (Anonymous)
Beowulf
1
Anonymous
The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad
2
Homer
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
3
Homer
Republic (Plato)
Republic
4
Plato
Oresteia (Aeschylus)
Oresteia
5
Aeschylus
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Oedipus Rex
6
Sophocles
Aeneid (Virgil)
Aeneid
7
Virgil
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
8
George Orwell
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
9
Joseph Conrad
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
10
Jonathan Swift
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
11
Voltaire
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
12
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
13
Miguel De Cervantes
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
14
William Faulkner
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
15
Gustave Flaubert
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
16
Joseph Heller
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
17
Mary Shelley
Bartleby, the Scrivener (Herman Melville)
Bartleby, the Scrivener
18
Herman Melville
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises
19
Ernest Hemingway
In the Penal Colony (Franz Kafka)
In the Penal Colony
20
Franz Kafka
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
21
Milan Kundera
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
22
Aldous Huxley
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
23
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
24
Vladimir Nabokov
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
25
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cannery Row (John Steinbeck)
Cannery Row
26
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
27
John Steinbeck
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
28
Charles Dickens
Slaughterhouse 5 (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse 5
29
Kurt Vonnegut
The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper)
The Last of the Mohicans
30
James Fenimore Cooper
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front
31
Erich Maria Remarque
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
32
Nikolai Gogol
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms
33
Ernest Hemingway
The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
The Jungle
34
Upton Sinclair
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings
35
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
The Things They Carried
36
Tim O'Brien
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest
37
David Foster Wallace
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
Watership Down
38
Richard Adams
Dandelion Wine (Ray Bradbury)
Dandelion Wine
39
Ray Bradbury
I Served the King of England (Bohumil Hrabal)
I Served the King of England
40
Bohumil Hrabal
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