101 Great Books

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Recommended for College-Bound Readers

There are a number of ways you and your child can share the great books and enrich both of your reading experiences. Try picking a book to read together and discuss your opinions as you both read. Or choose a text like The Odyssey that lends itself to being read aloud, and take turns reading with your child. Listen to an audio recording of one of the classics while you're on a family trip. A great reader can bring these books to life for listeners of all ages and backgrounds.

Be sure to look at the list of Poetry and Cultural and Historical Texts, as well.

Author	Title
--	*Beowulf*
Achebe, Chinua	*Things Fall Apart*
Agee, James	*A Death in the Family*
Austin, Jane	*Pride and Prejudice*
Baldwin, James	*Go Tell It on the Mountain*
Beckett, Samuel	*Waiting for Godot*
Bellow, Saul	*The Adventures of Augie March*
Bronte, Charlotte	*Jane Eyre*
Bronte, Emily	*Wuthering Heights*
Camus, Albert	*The Stranger*
Cather, Willa	*Death Comes for the Archbishop*
Cervantes, Miguel de	*Don Quixote*
Chaucer, Geoffrey	*The Canterbury Tales*
Chekhov, Anton	*The Cherry Orchard*
Chopin, Kate	*The Awakening*
Conrad, Joseph	*Heart of Darkness*
Cooper, James Fenimore	*The Last of the Mohicans*
Crane, Stephen	*The Red Badge of Courage*
Dante	*Inferno*
Defoe, Daniel	*Robinson Crusoe*
Dickens, Charles	*A Tale of Two Cities*
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	*Selected Essays*
Faulkner, William	*As I Lay Dying*
Faulkner, William	*The Sound and the Fury*
Fielding, Henry	*Tom Jones*
Fitzgerald, F. Scott	*The Great Gatsby*
Flaubert, Gustave	*Madame Bovary*
Ford, Ford Madox	*The Good Soldier*
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*
Homer	*The Iliad*
Homer	*The Odyssey*
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*
James, Henry	*The Portrait of a Lady*
James, Henry	*The Turn of the Screw*
Joyce, James	*A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man*
Kafka, Franz	*The Metamorphosis*
Kingston, Maxine Hong	*The Woman Warrior*
Lee, Harper	*To Kill a Mockingbird*
Lewis, Sinclair	*Babbitt*
London, Jack	*The Call of the Wild*
Mann, Thomas	*The Magic Mountain*
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia	*One Hundred Years of Solitude*
Melville, Herman	*Bartleby the Scrivener*
Melville, Herman	*Moby Dick*
Miller, Arthur	*The Crucible*
Morrison, Toni	*Beloved*
O'Connor, Flannery	*A Good Man is Hard to Find*
O'Neill, Eugene	*Long Day's Journey into Night*
Orwell, George	*Animal Farm*
Pasternak, Boris	*Doctor Zhivago*
Plath, Sylvia	*The Bell Jar*
Poe, Edgar Allen	*Selected Tales*
Proust, Marcel	*Swann's Way*
Pynchon, Thomas	*The Crying of Lot 49*
Remarque, Erich Maria	*All Quiet on the Western Front*
Rostand, Edmond	*Cyrano de Bergerac*
Roth, Henry	*Call It Sleep*
Salinger, J.D.	*The Catcher in the Rye*
Shakespeare, William	*Hamlet*
Shakespeare, William	*Macbeth*
Shakespeare, William	*A Midsummer Night's Dream*
Shakespeare, William	*Romeo and Juliet*
Shaw, George Bernard	*Pygmalion*
Shelley, Mary	*Frankenstein*
Silko, Leslie Marmon	*Ceremony*
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander	*One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich*
Sophocles	*Antigone*
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*
Thackeray, William	*Vanity Fair*
Thoreau, Henry David	*Walden*
Tolstoy, Leo	*War and Peace*
Turgenev, Ivan	*Fathers and Sons*
Twain, Mark	*The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*
Voltaire	*Candide*
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.	*Slaughterhouse-Five*
Walker, Alice	*The Color Purple*
Wharton, Edith	*The House of Mirth*
Welty, Eudora	*Collected Stories*
Whitman, Walt	*Leaves of Grass*
Wilde, Oscar	*The Picture of Dorian Gray*
Williams, Tennessee	*The Glass Menagerie*
Woolf, Virginia	*To the Lighthouse*
Wright, Richard	*Native Son*