College Bound Reading List
This was compiled from several prominent lists. I suspect that some entries are based on the preferences of the original list composer rather than universal agreement (I certainly don’t agree with all entries and would have added others), but this is a beginning for those interested in advanced reading.
Abelove, Joan Go and Come Back
Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart
Ackerman, Diane A Natural History of the Senses
Adams, Douglas A Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Adams, Henry The Education of Henry Adams
Adams, Richard Watership Down
Addison, Joseph Commerce of Everyday Life
Adler, Sabine Lovers in Art
Aeschylus The Oresteia, Eumenides, Lysistrata, Prometheus Bound
Aesop Fables
Agee, James A Death in the Family, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Albee, Edward Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Zoo Story, The Sandbox
Albom, Mitch Tuesdays with Morrie
Alcott, Louisa May Little Women, The Inheritance
Alexander, Caroline The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Alexie, Sherman The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Reservation Blues…
Alighieri, Dante The Inferno, The Divine Comedy
Allende, Isabel House of the Spirits, Daughter of Fortune
Allison, Dorothy Bastard Out of Carolina, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
Alter, Peter Genesis
Alvarez, Julia How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of Butterflies
Ambrose, Stephen E. D-Day, Undaunted Courage, Citizen Soldiers…
Amis, Kingsley Lucky Jim
Amis, Martin Money
Anaya, Rudolfo Bless Me, Ultima, Serafina’s Stories
Anderson, Laurie Halse Speak
Anderson, M. T. Feed
Anderson, Sherwood Winesburg, Ohio
Angelou, Maya I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, And Still I Rise
Anonymous Beowulf
Ansary, Tamim West of Kabul-East of New York
Anzaldua, Gloria Borderlands
Apollo Concrete Candy
Armstrong, Karen The Battle for God
Arnold, Matthew Culture and Anarchy
Arnow, Harriet The Dollmaker
Aronson, Marc Witch Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials
Ashe, Arthur Days of Grace
Attenborough, David The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth
Atwood, Margaret The Handmaid’s Tale, The Blind Assassin, Cat’s Eye, Alias Grace,
Surfacing
Auden, W. H. Poems
Auel, Jean M. Clan of the Cave Bear
Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park
Azimov, Isaac I Robot, Foundation series
Baca, Jimmy Santiago Cry
Bach, Richard Illusions
Bagdasarian, Adam Forgotten Fire
Bahrampour, Tara To See and See Again
Baker, Russell Growing Up
Baldwin, James Go Tell It On the Mountain, The Fire Next Time, Another Country
Ballard, Allen Where I’m Bound
Balzac, Honore de Pere Goriot
Bambara, Toni Cade Gorill, My Love
Banks, Russell Cloudsplitter, Continental Drift, Rule of the Bone
Baraka, Amiri Dutchman
Barker, Pat Regeneration
Barth, John The Sot-Weed Factor
Bates, Karen Grigsby Plain Brown Wrapper
Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot
Beerbohm, Max Zuleika Dobson
Bell, William Forbidden City
Bellamy, Edward Looking Backward: 200-1887
Belloli, Andrea P. Exploring World Art
Bellow, Saul Seize the Day, The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Humboldt’s Gift, Herzog
Benet, Rosemary Johnny Appleseed
Bennett, Arnold The Old Wives’ Tale
Berenbaum, Michael The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the US
Berg, A. Scott Lindbergh
Berger, Thomas Little Big Man
Bernstein Carl & Woodward All the President’s Men
Berry, Wendell Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
Best, Joel Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from Media…
Bird, Isabella A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains
Bishop, Elizabeth The Complete Poems
Bissinger, H. G. Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
Blake, William Songs of Innocence and Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Tiger Tiger
Bloch, Ariel and Chana The Song of Songs
Bolt, Robert A Man for All Seasons
Borges, Jorge Luis Labyrinths
Boswell, James The Life of Samuel Jonson, Boswell’s London Journal
Boulle, Pierre Bridge Over the River Kwai
Bowen, Catherine Drinker Miracle at Philadelphia
Bowen, Elizabeth The Death of the Heart
Bowles, Paul The Sheltering Sky
Boyle, T. C. Tortilla Curtain
Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Illustrated Man
Bradford, Richard Red Sky at Morning
Bradshaw, Gillian The Sand Reckoner
Bradstreet, Anne Works of Anne Bradstreet
Brassai Brassai: Letters to My Parents
Brathwaite, Edward Kamau Roots
Brecht, Bertolt Mother Courage and Her Children
Bronowski, Jacob The Ascent of Man, Science and Human Values
Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights
Brooks, Gwendolyn Selected Poemjs
Brown, David Inventing Modern America: From Microwave to the Mouse
Brown, Dee Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Browning, Robert My Last Duchess
Bryant, William C. Thanatopsis
Bryson, Bill A Short History of Nearly Everything
Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth
Bulosan, Carlos America is in the Heart
Bunyan, John Pilgrim’s Progress
Burgess, Anthony A Clockwork Orange
Burnett, Frances Hodgson The Secret Garden
Burroughs, William S. Naked Lunch
Butler, Octavia Parable of the Talents, Kindred
Butler, Samuel The Way of All Flesh
Byatt, A. S. Possession
Caesar, Julius Gallic Wars
Cain, James M. The Postman Always Rings Twice
Caldwell, Erskine Tobacco Road
Calvino, Italo Invisible Cities, The Baron in the Trees
Campbell, Joseph The Power of Myth
Camus, Albert The Stranger, The Fall, The Plague
Canada, Geoffrey Fist Stick Knife gun
Cao, Lan Monkey Bridge
Capote, Truman In Cold Blood
Card, Orson Scott Ender’s Game, Sarah
Carlyle, Thomas French Revolution: A History
Carroll, Jim Basketball Diaries
Carroll, Lewis Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Carson, Rachel Silent Spring, The Sea Around Us
Carver, Raymond Cathedral
Castellanos, Rosario The Nine Guardians
Castillo, Ana So Far from God
Cather, Willa My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop, O Pioneers
Catullus Poems
Cervantes, Miguel de Don Quixote
Chambers, Aidan Postcards from No Man’s Land
Chandler, Raymond The Big Sleep
Chang, Jung Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Chaucer, Geoffrey The Canterbury Tales
Chbosky, Stephen The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Cheever, John The Wapshot Scandal, Stories of John Cheever, Falconer
Chekov, Anton The Cherry Orchard
Chesteron, G. K. The Innocence o Father Brown
Chevalier, Tracy Girl with a Pearl Earring
Chin, Frank Donald Duk
Chopin, Kate The Awakening
Christie, Agatha The Mousetrap and Other Plays, Mysterious Affair at Styles
Churchill, Winston The Crisis, The Gathering Storm
Chute, Marchette Shakespeare of London
Cisneros, Sandra House on Mango Street, Caramelo
Clancy, Tom The Hunt for Red October
Clark, Walter van Tilburg The Ox-Bow Incident
Clavell, James Shogun
Clift, Eleanor Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment
Coelho, Paulo The Alchemist
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Collins, Wilkie The Moonstone
Colon, Jesus The Way it Was and Other Writings
Colton, Larry Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the …
Congreve, William The Way of the World
Connell, Evan Deus Lo Volt: Chronicle of the Crusades
Conover, Ted Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Victory, The Secret Agent, Nostromo
Conroy, Pat Prince of Tides, The Water is Wide
Conway, Jill Kerr The Road from Coorain
Cooke, Alisair Alistair Cooke’s America
Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans, The Deerslayer
Corio, David The Black Chord
Cormier, Robert The Chocolate War, After the First Death
Corso, Philip The Day After Roswell
Corwin, Miles And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted…
Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage, Maggie: Girl of the Streets
Craven, Margaret I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Crichton, Michael Jurassic Park
Criddle, Jan D. To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family
Crow Dog, Mary Lakota Woman
Crutcher, Chris Whale Talk
Cummings, E. E. Complete Poems 104-1962
Cuomo, Kerry Kennedy Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing…
Curie, Eve Madame Curie
Dai, Sijie Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Dana, Richard Henry Two Years Before the Mast
Dangarembga, Tsitsi Nervous Conditions
Danticat, Edwidge Breath, Eyes, Memory, The Farming of Bones
Darwin, Charles The Origin of Species
Davies, Robertson Fifth Business, The Cunning Man, Cornish Trilogy
Davis, Wade Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of …
de Crevecoeur Letters from an American Farmer
Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders
Delany, Sara and A. Elizabeth Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years
de Lint, Charles Trader, Memory and Dream, Yarrow, Someplace to be Flying…
DeLillo, Don White Noise
Dershowitz, Alan M. Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the Threat, Responding to …
Diamant, Anita The Red Tent
Diamond, Jared Guns, Germs, and Steel
Dick, Philip Man in the High Castle
Dickens, Charles Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, Bleak House, David Copperfield, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend…
Dickey, James Deliverance
Dickinson, Emily The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Didion, Joan Essays, Play It As It Lays
Dillard, Annie Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
DiLampedusa, Giuseppe The Leopard
Dinesen, Isaak Out of Africa
DiPrima, Diane Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years
Doctorow, E. L. Ragtime
Donleavy, J. P. The Giner Man
Donne, John The Complete Poetry of John Donne
Doolittle, H. D. Hilda Helen in Egypt
Dostoevsky, Feodor Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
Dorris, Michael A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Douglass, Frederick Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dove, Rita On the Bus with Rosa Parks
Doyle, Arthur Conan The Hound of the Baskervilles, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Roddy Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Doyle, William An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford Mississippi 1962
Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie
Dry, Richard Leaving
du Beavoir, Simone The Second Sex
DuBois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches
Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, Count of Monte Cristo
Du Maurier, Daphne Rebecca
Dunn, Katherine Geek Love
Durant, Will Story of Philsophy
Durrell, Lawrence The Alexandria Quartet
Ebenstein, Alan Today’s Isms
Eddison, E. R. The Worm Ouroboros
Edmonds, E. G. Trickster Stories
Eggers, Dave A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Ehrenreich, Barbara Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Eliot, George The Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede, Middlemarch, Silas Marner
Eliot, T. S. The Waste Land, Murder in the Cathedral, Notes Toward…
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Elliott, Stephen A Life Without Consequences
Ellis, Joseph J. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man
Emecheta, Buchi Bride Price
Emerson, Ralph Waldo Self Reliance and Other Essays
Enzensberger, Hans The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure
Epstein, Norrie Friendly Shakespeare
Erdrich, Louise The Beet Queen, Tracks, Love Medicine, Antelope Wife
Escandon, Maria Amparo Esperanza’s Box of Saints
Esquivel, Laura Like Water for Chocolate
Euripedes Medea
Fadiman, Ann The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Fagan, Bryan The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
Farrell, James T. The Studs Lonigan Trilogy
Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Bear,
Absalom-Absalom, The Unvanquished, Intruder in the Dust, Go Down
Moses, The Reivers
Faulks, Sebastian Birdsong
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence Endless Life
Feynman, Richard What Do You Care What People Think?
Fielding, Helen Bridget Jones’s Diary
Fielding, Henry Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews
Fitch, Janet White Oleander
Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, Babylon Revisited
Flagg, Fannie Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
Flannery, Sarah In Code: A Mathematical Journey
Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary
Flexnor, Eleanor A Century of Struggle: The Woman’s Rights Movement in the US
Ford, Ford Madox The Good Soldier, Parade’s End
Ford, Richard The Sportswriter
Forster, E. M. A Passage to India, Howard’s End, A Room with a View
Foster, Thomas How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Fowles, John The French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Magus
Fox, Paula Borrowed Finery
Frank, Anne The Diary of a Young Girl
Frank, E. R. Life is Funny
Frank, Frederick What Does It Mean to be Human?
Frank, Mitch Understanding September 11, Answering Questions about the Attacks on America
Frank, Pat Alas, Babylon
Franklin, Benjamin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Frazier, Charles Cold Mountain
French, Ablert Billy
Friedan, Betty The Feminine Mystique
Friel, Brian Dancing at Lughnasa
Frost, Robert The Poetry of Robert Frost
Fuentes, Carlos The Death of Artemio Cruz
Fugard, Athol Master Harold…and the Boys
Gaarder, Jostein Sophie’s World
Gaddis, William The Recognitions
Ghandi Non-violent Resistance
Gaiman, Neil American Gods
Gaines, Ernest The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, A Lesson Before Dying,
A Gathering of Old Men
Galarza, Ernesto Barrio Boy
Galeano, Eduardo Open Veins of Latin America
Galsworthy, John The Forsyte Saga
Garcia, Cristina Dreaming in Cuban
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gardner, John Grendel
Garfunkel, Trudy On Wings of Joy: The Story of Ballet from the 16th Century to Today
Garland, Alex The Beach
Gates Jr., Henry Louis The Bondwoamn’s Narrative by Hannah Crafts
Geras, Adele Troy
Ghosh, Amitav The Glass Palace
Gibran, Kahlil The Prophet
Gibson, William Neuromancer
Ginsberg, Allen Howl and Other Poems
Giovanni, Nikki My House
Glancy, Diane Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea
Glaspell, Susan Trifles
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Faust
Gogol, Nikolai The Overcoat, Dead Souls
Goldberg, Myla Bee Season
Golding, William Lord of the Flies, The Inheritors
Goldman, William The Princess Bride
Goldsmith, Oliver She Stoops to Conquer, The Vicar of Wakefield
Gordimer, Nadine July’s People
Gordon, George (Lord Byron) Lord Byron: Poems
Gordon, Neil The Company You Keep
Gordon, Sheila Waiting for the Rain
Gould, Stephen Jay The Hedgehog, The Fox, and the Magister’s Pox: Mending the…
Gourevitch, Philip We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed…
Grass, Gunter The Tin Drum
Graves, Robert I Claudius
Green, Henry Loving
Greenberg, Jan Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth Century Am. Art
Greenberg, Joanne I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Greene, Graham Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, The Power and the Glory, The Third Man
Grey, Zane Riders of the Purple Sage
Griffin, John Howard Black Like Me
Guest, Judith Ordinary People
Gunther, John Death Be Not Proud
Guterson, David Snow Falling on Cedars, East of the Mountains
Haddon, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Hagedorn, Jessica Dogeaters
Halaby, Laila West of the Jordan
Haley, Alex Roots, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Hamilton, Alexander The Federalist, Federalist Papers
Hamilton, Edith Mythology
Hamilton, Jane A Map of the World, The Book of Ruth
Hamilton, Laurell K. Guilty Pleasures
Hammett, Dashiell The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest
Hamper, Ben Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line
Hansberry, Lorraine A Raisin in the Sun
Hanse, Drew D. The Dream: Martin Luther King Jur. and the Speech that Inspired a…
Hardy, Thomas Tess of the D’Urbervilles, The Return of the Native, Jude the
Obscure, Mayor of Casterbridge…
Harjo, Joy How We Became Human
Harper, Henn Give Me My Father’s Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo
Hart, Elva Trevino The Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child
Hart, H. L. A. The Concept of Law
Hatch, John Mississippi Swamp
Hawking, Stephen A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, The Universe in a Nutshell
Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables
Hayden, Torey L. Ghost Girl, Somebody Else’s Kids
Hays, David My Old Man and the Sea: A Father and Son Sail Around Cape Horn
Hazlitt, William Table-Talk: Essays on Men and Manners
Heame, Vicki Adam’s Task: Calling Animals by Name
Heaney, Seamus The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes, Opened Ground
Heat-Moon, Williams Least Blue Highways, Columbus in the Americas
Hedges, Chris War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
Heilbroner, Robert Worldly Philosophers
Heinlein, Robert Strangers in a Strange Land, The Door into Summer, Puppet Masters
Hellenga, Robert The Sixteen Pleasures
Heller, Joseph Catch-22
Hellman, Lillian The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine, The Children’s Hour, Pentimento
Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises,
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Islands in the Stream
Henry, O. Stories
Herbert, Frank Dune
Herbert, George The Complete English Poems
Herriott, James All Creatures Great and Small
Hersey, John Hiroshima, A Single Pebble
Hesse, Hermann Siddhartha, Demian, Steppenwolf
Hillengrand, Laura Seabicuit
Hilton, James Good-bye Mr. Chips, Lost Horizon
Himes, Chester Yesterday Will Make You Cry
Hoffer, Eric True Believer
Holdstock, Robert Mythago Wood
Holliday, Laurel Children of Israel, Children of Palestine: Our Own True Stories
Holthe, Tess Uriza When Elephants Dance
Homer The Iliad, The Odyssey
Hongo, Garrett Yellow Light: Poems
Hornby, Nick High Fidelity
Horvitz, Leswlie A. Eureka! Scientific Breakthroughs that Changed the World
Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Howe, Peter Shooting Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer
Hoyt, Erich & Ted Schultz Insect Lives
Hudson, W. H. Green Mansions
Hughes, Richard A High Wind in Jamaica
Hughes, Langston Selected Poems, Short Stories, The Ways of White Folks
Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables
Hulme, Keri The bone People
Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God, Dust Tracks on a Road, Mules and Men
Huxley, Aldous Brave New World, Point Counter Point
Hwang, David Henry M. Butterfly
Ibsen, Henrik A Doll’s House, An Enemy of the People, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, Wild
Duck, Peer Gynt
Irving, John A Prayer for Owen Meany, The World According to Garp
Isherwood, Christopher The Berlin Stories
Ishiguro, Kazuo The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go
Jackson, Phil Sacred Hoops
Jackson, Shirley The Haunting of Hill House, The Lottery
Jacobs, Harriet Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
James, Henry The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, Daisy Miller, The American, Washington Square, The Aspern Papers, Wings of the Dove,
The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl
Jen, Gish Typical American
Jewett, Sarah Orne Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
Jin, Ha Waiting
Johnson, Charles Middle Passage
Johnson, James Weldon Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Jones, James From Here to Eternity
Jones, LeRoi Blues People
Jonson, Ben Volpone
Joravsky, Ben Hoop Dreams
Joyce, James A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Dubliners, The Dead, Finegan’s Wake
Kafka, Franz The Trial, The Metamorphosis, The Castle, The Caretaker
Kaplow, Robert Me and Orson Welles
Karlsen, Carol The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
Karr, Mary The Liar’s Club: A Memoir
Katz, Jonathan Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho
Katzenberger, Elaine First World, Ha Ha Ha: The Zaptista Challenge
Kaufman, Bel Up the Down Staircase
Kawabata, Yasunari Snow Country
Kay, Guy Gavriel Tigana
Kaysen, Susanna Girl, Interrupted
Kazantzakis, Nikos The Last Temptation of Christ
Keats, John Complete Poems
Keegan, John The Face of Battle
Keller, Helen The Story of My Life
Kendall, Martha E. Failure Is Impossible: The History of America Women’s Rights
Keneally, Thomas Schindler’s List
Kennedy, John F. Profiles in Courage
Kennedy, Robert Thirteen Days
Kennedy, William Ironweed
Kerouac, Jack On the Road
Kesey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion
Keyes, Daniel Flowers for Algernon
Khue, Le Minh The Starts, The Earth, The River
Kidd, Sue Monk The Secret Life of Bees
King, Martin Luther Jr. A Testament of Hope
King, Ross Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Archit.
King, Stephen The Stand
Kingston, Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Kincaid, Jamaica Annie John
Kingsolver, Barbara Bean Trees: A Novel, Pigs in Heaven, Poisonwood Bible, Animal Dreams
Kingston, Maxine Hong Woman Warrior
Kipling, Rudyard Kim, The Light that Failed
Knowles, John A Separate Peace
Koestler, Arthur Darkness at Noon
Kogawa, Joy Obasan
Kosinski, Jerzy N. Being There, The Painted Bird
Kotlowitz, Alex There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing up in…
Kovic, Ron Born on the Fourth of July
Kozol, Jonathan Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools
Krakauer, John Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Krauss, Lawrence Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth and Beyond
Krich, John El Beisbol: Travels Through the Pan American Pastime
Kundera, Milan The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Kureishi, Hanif Gabriel’s Gift
Ladd, Florence Sara’s Psalms
Lahiri, Jhumpa Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake
Lamb, Charles Charles Lamb: Selected Writings
Lamb, Wally I Know This Much is True, She’s Come Undone
Lambrecht, Bill Dinner at the New Gene Cafe
Lamott, Anne Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Lang, Ji Li Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
Lanier, Shannon Jefferson’s Children: The Story of One American Family
Lara, Adair Hold Me Close, Let Me Go: A Mother, a Daughter, and…
Larkin, Philip Collected Poems
Larson, Edward J. Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing…
Latifa My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban
Laurence, Margaret The Diviners, Stone Angel
Lawrence, D. H. Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love
Lawrence, Jerome Inherit the Wind
Lawrence, Lee The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Laye, Camara Dark Child
LeCarre, John The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Lederer & Burdick The Ugly American
Lee, Chang-Rae The Native Speaker, A Gesture Life
Lee, Gus China Boy
Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird
LeGuin, Ursula Lef Hand of Darkness
Leopold, Aldo A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There
Leroux, Gaston The Phantom of the Opera
Lessing, Doris The Golden Notebook
Levine, Robert A Geography of Time
Lewis, C. S. The Screwtape Letters
Lewis, Sinclair Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith
Li Po and Tu Fu Li Po and Tu Fu
Lightfoot, Sara Lawrence Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer
Lindburgh, Anne Morrow A Gift from the Sea
Livingstone, Lili Cockerville American Indian Ballerinas
Livio, Mario The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi the World’s Most Astonishing Numb.
Llewellyn, Richard How Green Was My Valley
London, Jack Call of the Wild, Klondike Tales
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth The Poetical Works of Longfellow
Lopez, Barry Arctic Dreams
Lord, Bette Bao Spring Moon
Lovecraft, H. P. At the Mountains of Madness
Lowell, Robert Life Studies, For the Union Dead
Lowry, Malcolm Under the Volcano
Machiavelli, Niccolo The Prince
MacLean, Alistair Ice Station Zebra
Maclean, Norman A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Young Men and Fire
MacLeish, Archibald J. B.
MacLennan, Hugh The Watch that Ends the Night
Mah, Adeline Chinese Cinderlla
Mailer, Norman The Executioner’s Song, The Naked and the Dead, Armies of the Night,
The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing
Malamud, Bernard The Fixer, The Natural, The Magic Barrel, The Assistant
Malcom X The Autobiography of Malcom X
Malory, Sir Thomas Tales of King Arthur
Mann, Thomas Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks
Maraire, J. Nozipo Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter
Markandala, Kamala Nectar in a Sieve
Markham, Beryl West with the Night
Marlowe, Christopher Doctor Faustus
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia One Hundred Years of Solitude
Marrin, Albert Terror of the Spanish Main—Sir Henry Morgan and His Buccaneers
Marshall, Paule Brown Girl, Brownstones, Praisesong for the Widow
Martel, Yann Life of Pi
Martinez, Manuel Luis Drift: A Novel
Martinez, Ruben Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
Marvel, Andrew To His Coy Mistriss and other poems
Mason, Bobbie Ann In Country
Massie, Robert Nicholas and Alexandra
Masters, Edgar Lee Spoon River Anthology
Mathabane, Mark Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age…
Maugham, Somerset Of Human Bondage
Maybury-Lewis, David Millenium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World
McBride, James The Color of Water
McCall, Nathan Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
McCarthy, Cormac All the Pretty Horses, Blood Meridian
McCarthy, Mary Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
McCourt, Frank Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
McCullers, Carson A Member of the Wedding, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
McCullough, David John Adams
McEwan, Ian Atonement
McGreevey, Tom & J. Yeck Our Movie Heritage
McKinley, Robin Beauty
McPhee, John The Control of Nature
McPherson, James Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Mead, Margaret Coming of Age in Samoa
Melville, Herman Moby Dick, Barleby the Scrivener, Typee, Benito Cereno, Billy Budd,
Redburn
Mencken, H. L. Treatise on the Gods
Miller, Arthur Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, All My Sons, A View from the Bridge
Miller, Henry Tropic of Cancer
Mill, John Stuart On Liberty and Other Essays
Mills, Kay This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
Milton, John Paradise Lost
Mishima, Yukio Sound of Waves
Mistry, Rohinton A Fine Balance
Mitchell, Margaret Gone with the Wind
Moliere Tartuffe, The Misanthrope
Momaday, N. Scott House Made of Dawn
Monroe, Mary God Don’t Like Ugly
Monsarrat, Nicholas The Cruel Sea
Moody, Ann Coming of Age in Mississippi
Moore, Alan Watchmen
Moore, Marianne The Poems of Marianne Moore
Morrison, Toni Sula, Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon
Mosley, Walter Workin’ on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Dead Hands of History
Moyers, Bill The Power of Myth
Myers, Walter Dean Monster
Mukerjee, Bharati Jasmine, Desirable Daughters, Tree Bride
Murakami, Haruki Kafka on the Shore
Murdoch, Iris Under the Net
Murray, Albert Train Whistle Guitar
Nabokov, Vladimir Pale Fire, Pnin, Lolita, Pale Fire
Nafisi, Azar Reading Lolita in Tehran
Naipul, V. S. A Bend in the River, Middle Passage, A House for Mr. Biswas
Nash, Madeline El Nino: Unlocking the Secrets of the Master Weather Maker
Naylor, Gloria Bailey’s Café, The Women of Brewster Place, Mama Day, Linden …
Nazer, Mende Slave
Neruda, Pablo Selected Poems
Ng, Fae M. Bone: A Novel
Nichols, John Treadwell Milagro Beanfield War
Ninh, Bao The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam
Nolen, Stephanie Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in Space
Nordhoff, Charles Mutiny on the Bounty
Norris, Frank The Octopus
Norris, Pamela Eve: A Biography
Nye, Naomi Shihab 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
Oates, Joyce Carol We Were the Mulvaneys, A Garden of Earthly Delights
O’Brien, Flann At Swim-Two-Birds
O’Brien, Patrick Master and Commander
O’Brien, Tim Going After Cacciato, The Things They Carried, In the Lake of the Woods
O’Connor, Flannery A Good Man is Hard to Find, Wise Blood, Everything that Rises Must Converge
O’Connor, Patricia Woe is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English
Oe, Kenazburo Nip the Buds-Shoot the Kids
O’Hara, John Appointment in Samarra
Okada, John No No Boy
Oliver, Mary New and Selected Poems
Ondaatje, Michael The English Patient, Coming Through Slaughter
O’Neill, Eugene Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Emperor Jones, Mourning Becomes
Electra, The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh
Orwell, George Animal Farm, 1984, Homage to Catalonia, A Collection of Essays
Otto, Whitney How to Make an American Quilt
Ovid Metamorphses
Ozick, Cynthia Heir to the Glimmering World
Paine, Thomas The Crisis
Panuk, Orhan My Name is Red
Parks, Gordon The Learning Tree
Passos, John Dos USA (trilogy)
Pasternak, Boris Doctor Zhivago
Patchett, Ann Bel Canto
Paton, Alan Cry, the Beloved Country
Paul, Jim Catapult
Paz, Octavio Labyrinth of Solitude
Pears, Iain An Instance of the Fingerpost
Peck, Richard A Long Way from Chicago, A Year Down Yonder
Peck, Robert A Day No Pigs Would Die
Pepys, Samuel Diary of Samuel Pepys
Percy, Walker Love in the Ruins, The Moviegoer
Petronius Satyricon
Petry, Ann The Street
Pham, Andrex X. Catfish and Mandala
Pielmeier, John Agnes of God
Pinter, Harold The Homecoming, The Birthday Party
Pipher, Mary Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, The Middle of
Everywhere: The World’s Refugees Come to Our Town
Pirandello, Luigi Six Characters in Search of an Author
Pirsig, Robert Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar
Plato The Republic
Poe, Edgar Allan Great Tales and Poems
Pollan, Michael The Botany of Desire
Pope, Alexander The Rape of the Lock
Porter, Katherine Anne Ship of Fools
Porter, Roy Madness: A Brief History
Postman, Neil Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of …
Potok, Chaim The Chosen, My Name is Asher Lev
Powell, Anthony A Dance to the Music of Time (series)
Preston, Richard The Demon in the Freezer
Proulx, Annie The Shipping News
Proust, Marcel Swann’s Way
Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s Rainbow, V
Quinn, Daniel Ishmael
Racine, Jean Paedre
Rand, Ayn The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, Anthem, We the Living
Rawlings, M. K. The Yearling
Read, Piers Paul Alive
Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front
Reynolds, Sheri A Gracious Plenty
Rhys, Jean Wide Sargasso Sea, Voyage in the Dark
Rice, Ben Pobby and Dingan
Rich, Adrienne The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004
Richardson, Samuel Pamela
Richler, Mordecai Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Richter, Conrad Sea of Grass
Rigden, John S. Hydrogen: The Essential Element
Roach, Mary Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Robinson, Marilynne Housekeeping
Rochlin, Michael Jacob Away Game
Rogasky, Barbara Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust
Rogosin, Donn Invisible Men: Life in Baseball’s Negro Leagues
Robert, Cokie Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised our Nation
Robinson, Edwin A. Richard Cory
Rodriguez, Luis Always Running
Rolvaag, O. E. Giants in the Earth
Roosevelt, Eleanor My Day
Rostand, Edmond Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry Call It Sleep
Roth, Phillip Portnoy’s Complaint, Goodbye Columbus, American Pastoral
Rulfo, Juan The Burning Plain
Rushdie, Salman The Moor’s Last Sigh, Midnight’s Children
Russo, Richard Empire Falls
Sacks, Oliver Seeing Voices, Awakenings
Sagan, Carl Contact, Cosmos
Said, Kurban Ali and Nino: A Love Story
Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey
Salzman, Mark True Notebooks
Sandburg, Carl Complete Poems, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years…, Paul Bunyan
Sandler, Martin W. Photography: An Illustrated History
Sandoz, Mari Cheyenne Autumn
Santiago, Esmeralda When I Was Puerto Rican
Sapphire Push
Saroyan, William The Human Comedy
Sartre, Jean Paul No Exit
Satrapi, Marjane Perselpolis
Sayers, Dorothy The Nine Tailors
Schaefer, Jack Shane
Schlosser, Eric Fast Food Nation
Schumacher, E. F. Small is Beautiful
Scott, Sir Walter Ivanhoe
Sebold, Alice Lucky
Selvadurai, Shyam Cinnamon Gardens
Senna, Danzy Caucasia
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Shaffer, Peter Equus
Shakur, Tupac A Rose that Grew from Concrete
Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer
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King Lear, Merchant of Venice, Much Ado about Nothing, Othello,
Richard III, Henry IV parts I and II, Henry V, The Tempest
Shaw, Bernard Man and Superman, Saint Joan, Pygmalion, Candida, Major Barbara,
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Poetry and Prose
Shelly, Mary W. Frankenstein
Sheridan, Richard B. The School for Scandal
Shields, Carol The Stone Diaries
Shute, Nevil On the Beach, A Town Like Alice, Trustee from the Toolroom
Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony, Storyteller
Simon, Rachel Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey
Sinclair, Upton The Jungle
Singer, Isaac Bashevis Stories
Smiley, Jane A Thousand Acres
Smith, Anna Deveare Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights and Other Identities
Smith, Betty Joy in the Morning, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Smith, Huston Why Religion Matters, Illustrated World Religions
Smith, Lee Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History
Smith, Zadie White Teeth
Sobel, Dava Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved…
Song, Cathy Picture Bride
Sophocles Oedipus Rex, Antigone
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Spark, Muriel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Spiegelman, Art Maus
Stark, Peter Last Breath: Cautionary Tales from the Limits of Human Endurance
Starkey, David Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
Stead, Christina The Man Who Loved Children
Steele, Richard Commerce of Everyday Life: Selections from the Tattler and…
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Stegner, Wallace Angel of Repose
Stein, Joseph Fiddler on the Roof
Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, Cannery Row
Steinberg, Jacques The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College
Stendahl The Red and the Black
Stephenson, Neal Snow Crash
Sterne, Laurence Tristam Shandy
Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
Kidnapped
Stoker, Bram Dracula
Stone, Irving Lust for Life, Love is Eternal, Men to Move My Mountains, Clarence Darrow for the Defense
Stone, Robert Dog Soldiers
Stoppard, Tom Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arcadia
Storm, Hyemeyohsts Seven Arrows
Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Straight, Susan Highwire Moon
Strindberg, August The Father
Stuart, Jesse The Thread that Runs So True
Styron, William Sophie’s Choice, The Confessions of Nat Turner
Susskind, Ron A Hohpe in the Unseen
Swift, Jonathan Gulliver’s Travels
Swofford, Anthony Jarhead
Sykes, Bryan The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science that Reveals our Genetic…
Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club, The Bonesetter’s Daughter
Tarkington, Booth The Magnificent Ambersons
Tayer, Jeffrey Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness
Tennyson, Alfred Lord Idylls of the King, In Memoriam
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Thackeray, William Vanity Fair
Thomas, Dylan Poems of Dylan Thomas
Thomas, Lewis A General Theory of Love, Lives of a Cell
Thoreau, Henry David Walden, Civil Disobedience
Thurber, James Essays
Tobin, James Great Projects: The Epic Story of the Building of American…
Tocqueville, Alexis de Democracy in America
Toer, Pramoedya Ananta This Earth of Mankind
Tolstoy, Leo Anna Karenina, War and Peace, The Death of Ivan Illych
Tolkien, J. R. R. The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Toomer, Jean Cane
Trollope, Anthony Barchester Towers, The Warden, The Way We Live Now
Truman, Margaret Women of Courage
Trumbo, Dalton Johnny Got His Gun
Tuchman, Barbara A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, March of Folly, The Guns of August
Turgenev, Ivan Fathers and Sons
Turner, Nancy E. These Is My Words
Turner, Sugar Sugar’s Life in the Hood: The Story of a Former Welfare Mother
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Tyler, Anne Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Searching for Caleb, The Accidental
Tourist
Tyree, Omar A Do right Man
Undset, Sigrid Kristin Lavrandsdatter
Ung, Loung First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Updike, John Rabbit Run, Centaur, Gertrude and Claudius, Pigeon Feathers
Uris, Leon QB VII, Exodus
Valdez, Luis The Zoot Suit
Valenzuela, Luisa Clara
Verdelle, A. J. The Good Negress
Vidal, Gore Lincoln: A Novel
Villarreal, Jose Antonio Pocho
Virgil The Aeneid
Voltaire Candide
Von Drehle, David Triangle: The Fire that Changed America
Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan
Vreeland, Susan The Passion of Artemisia
Walcott, Derek Collected Poems: 1948-1984
Walker, Alice The Color Purple, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, Meridian,
Temple of my Familiar
Walker, Margaret Jubilee
Wallace, David Foster Infinite Jest
Wallace, Lew Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Warren, Robert Penn All the King’s Men
Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery
Watson, Larry White Crosses
Watson, Peter The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century
Waugh, Evelyn Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust, The Loved One, Scoop
Weatherford, Jack Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World
Weisel, Elie Night
Welch, James Winter in the Blood, Fools Crow
Wells, H. G. The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau
Wells, Rebecca The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Welty, Eudora Thirteen Stories, The Optimist’s Daughter, One Writer’s Beginnings, Delta Wedding
West, Jessamyn The Friendly Persuasion
West, Nathanael Miss Lonelyhearts, Day of the Locust
Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome
Wheelen, Charles Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
White, T. H. The Once and Future King, The Sword in the Stone
Whitman, Walt Leaves of Grass
Wideman, John Edgar Brothers and Keepers, Sent for You Yesterday
Wiesenthal, Simon The Sunflower
Wilbur, Richard Collected Poems: 1943-2004
Wilder, Thornton The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Our Town
Williams, Juan Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1945-65
Wilde, Oscar The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Williams, John A. The Man Who Cried I Am, Captain Blackman
Williams, Tennessee A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,
Desire Under the Elms
Williams, William Carlos Poems
Wilson, August The Piano Lesson, Fences, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Wilson, Edward O. Diversity of Life
Winchester, Simon The Professor and the Madman, Krakatoa
Windling, Terri The Good Wife
Wodehouse, P. G. The Inimitable Jeeves
Wolfe, Thomas Look Homeward Angel, You Can’t Go Home Again
Wolfe, Tom The Right Stuff
Wolff, Milton Another Hill
Wolff, Tobias In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War, This Boy’s Life, Old
School
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Woods, Donald Biko
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Yates, Richard Revolutionary Road
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Yolen, Jane Favorite Folktales from Around the World, Briar Rose
Yoshikawa, Eiji Murashi
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