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Must Reads for College-Bound Students

By Esther Lombardi, About.com

If you're headed to college, here are a few books you should read to start preparing yourself for the reading load ahead! Here's a list.

By Title
  1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

  2. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque

  3. American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser

  4. Animal Farm - George Orwell

  5. Antigone - Sophocles

  6. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner

  7. Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

  8. Beowulf

  9. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

  10. Call of the Wild - Jack London

  11. Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer

  12. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

  13. Cather in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

  14. Color Purple - Alice Walker

  15. Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand

  16. Death in the Family - James Agee

  17. Don Quixote - Cervantes

  18. Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  19. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

  20. Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams

  21. Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin

  22. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

  23. Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

  24. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

  25. Hamelet - William Shakespeare

  26. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

  27. Iliad - Homer

  28. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

  29. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

  30. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman

  31. Lord of the Flies - William Golding

  32. Macbeth - William Shakespeare

  33. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

  34. Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

  35. My Antonia - Willa Cather

  36. Odyssey - Homer

  37. Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

  38. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

  39. Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane

  40. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe

  41. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare

  42. Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

  43. Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

  44. Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

  45. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

  46. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

  47. Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

  48. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

  49. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

  50. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding

  51. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe

  52. Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

  53. Walden - Henry David Thoreau

  54. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

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