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The College Board’s 101 Books

1. (unknown authors), Beowulf
2. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
3. James Agee, A Death in the Family
4. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
5. James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
6. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
7. Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
8. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
9. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
10. Albert Camus, The Stranger
11. Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
12. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
13. Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
14. Kate Chopin, The Awakening
15. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
16. James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
17. Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
18. Dante, Inferno
19. Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
20. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
21. Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
22. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
23. Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
24. Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy
25. Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
26. George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
27. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
28. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Essays
29. William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
30. William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
31. Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
32. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
33. Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
34. Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
35. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
36. William Golding, Lord of the Flies
37. Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles
38. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
39. Joseph Heller, Catch-22
40. Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
41. Homer, The Iliad
42. Homer, The Odyssey
43. Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
44. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
45. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
46. Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House
47. Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
48. Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
49. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
50. Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
51. Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
52. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
53. Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt
54. Jack London, The Call of the Wild
55. Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
56. Gabriel García Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
57. Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
58. Herman Melville, Moby Dick
59. Arthur Miller, The Crucible
60. Toni Morrison, Beloved
61. Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find
62. Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night
63. George Orwell, Animal Farm
64. Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
65. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
66. Edgar Allan Poe, Selected Tales
67. Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
68. Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
69. Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
70. Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
71. Henry Roth, Call It Sleep
72. J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
73. William Shakespeare, Hamlet
74. William Shakespeare, Macbeth
75. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
76. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
77. George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
78. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
79. Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
80. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
81. Sophocles, Antigone
82. Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
83. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
84. Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
85. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
86. Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
87. William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
88. Henry David Thoreau, Walden
89. Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
90. Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons *
91. Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
92. Voltaire, Candide
93. Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
94. Alice Walker, The Color Purple
95. Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
96. Eudora Welty, Collected Stories
97. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
98. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
99. Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
100. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
101. Richard Wright, Native Son