College Board Recommended Reading List For College

1. Anonymous Beowulf

2. Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart

3. Agee, James A Death in the Family

4. Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice

5. Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain

6. Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot

7. Bellow, Saul The Adventures of Augie March

8. Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre

9. Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights

10. Camus, Albert The Stranger

11. Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop

12. Cervantes, Miguel de Don Quixote

13. Chaucer, Geoffrey The Canterbury Tales

14. Chekhov, Anton The Cherry Orchard

15. Chopin, Kate The Awakening

16. Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness

17. Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans

18. Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage

19. Dante Inferno

20. Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe

21. Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities

22. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Crime and Punishment

23. Douglass, Frederick Narrative of the Life

24. Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy

25. Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers

26. Eliot, George The Mill on the Floss

27. Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man

28. Emerson, Ralph Waldo Selected Essays

29. Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying

30. Faulkner, William The Sound and the Fury

31. Fielding, Henry Tom Jones

32. Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby

33. Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary

34. Ford, Madox The Good Soldier

35. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Faust

36. Hardy, Thomas Tess of the d’Urbervilles

37. Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter

38. Heller, Joseph Catch 22

39. Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms

40. Homer The Iliad

41. Homer The Odyssey

42. Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame

43. Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God

44. Huxley, Aldous Brave New World

45. Ibsen, Henrik A Doll’s House

46. James, Henry The Portrait of a Lady

47. James, Henry The Turn of the Screw

48. Joyce, James A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

49. Kafka, Franz The Metamorphosis

50. Kingston, Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior

51. Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird

52. Lewis, Sinclair Babbitt

53. London, Jack The Call of the Wild

54. Mann, Thomas The Magic Mountain

55. Marquez, Gabriel Garcia One Hundred Years of Solitude

56. Melville, Herman Bartleby the Scrivener

57. Melville, Herman Moby Dick

58. Miller, Arthur The Crucible (English 3 textbook)

59. Morrison, Toni Beloved

60. O’Connor, Flannery A Good Man is Hard to Find

61. O’Neill, Eugene Long Day’s Journey into Night

62. Orwell, George 1984

63. Orwell, George Animal Farm

64. Pasternak, Boris Doctor Zhivago

65. Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar

66. Poe, Edgar Allen Selected Tales

67. Proust, Marcel Swann’s Way

68. Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49

69. Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front

70. Rostand, Edmond Cyrano de Bergerac

71. Roth, Henry Call It Sleep

72. Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye

73. Shakespeare, William Hamlet (textbook)

74. Shakespeare, William Julius Caesar (textbook)

75. Shakespeare, William Macbeth (textbook)

76. Shakespeare, William A Midsummer Night’s Dream

77. Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet (textbook)

78. Shaw, George Bernard Pygmalion

79. Shelley, Mary Frankenstein

80. Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony

81. Solzhenitsyn, Alexan One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

82. Sophocles Antigone

83. Sophocles Oedipus Rex

84. Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath

85. Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island

86. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom’s Cabin

87. Swift, Jonathan Gulliver’s Travels

88. Thackeray, William Vanity Fair

89. Thoreau, Henry David Walden

90. Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace

91. Turgenev, Ivan Fathers and Sons

92. Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

93. Voltaire Candide

94. Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five

95. Walker, Alice The Color Purple

96. Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth

97. Welty, Eudora Collected Stories

98. Whitman, Walt Leaves of Grass

99. Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray

100.Williams, Tennessee The Glass Menagerie

101.Woolf, Virginia To the Lighthouse

102.Wright, Richard Native Son

Please note struck through items are not available in the classroom.

FICTION:

Adichie, Chimamanda Purple Hibiscus

Allison, Dorothy Bastard out of Carolina

Andrews, Jesse Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Angelou, Maya I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Anonymous Go Ask Alice

Anonymous Letting Ana Go

Anonymous Lucy in the Sky

Anonymous The Book of David

Anouilh, Jean Becket

Aristotle Poetics

Austen, Jane Emma

Bardugo, Leigh Shadow and Bone

Bardugo, Leigh Siege and Storm

Bardugo, Leigh Ruin and Rising

Bardugo, Leigh Six of Crows

Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451

Bradbury, Ray The Martian Chronicles

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Sonnets from the Portuguese

Bushnell, Candace and Cotugno, Katie Rules for Being a Girl

Buxbaum, Julie Tell Me Three Things

Christie, Agatha Crooked House

Christie, Agatha Murder on the Orient Express

Clark, Mary Higgins Where are the Children?

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Conde, Ally Matched

Conde, Ally Crossed

Conde, Ally Reached

Courtney, Nadine Jolie All American Muslim Girl

De la Cruz, Melissa Love & War

De la Cruz, Melissa Alex & Eliza

De la Cruz, Melissa All for One

Dickens, Charles Great Expectations

Dickinson, Emily Selected Poems

Dockray, Tracy Grimm’s Grimmest

Doherty, Gordon Assassins Creed Odyssey

Donne, John Selected Poems

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries

DuMaurier, Daphne Rebecca

Forrest, Bella The Secret of Spellshadow Manor

Forrest, Bella The Girl Who Dared to Think

Frey, James Endgame: The Calling

Frey, James Sky Key

Frey, James Rules of the Game

Frost, Robert You Come Too

Gardner, John Grendel

Green, John An Abundance of Katherines

Green, John Looking for Alaska

Green, John Paper Towns

Green, John The Fault in Our Stars

Green, John Turtles All the Way Down

Green, John Will Grayson Will Grayson

Gruen, Sara Water For Elephants

Hansberry, Lorraine A Raisin in the Sun

Hinton, S. E. The Outsiders

Hosseini, Khaled A Thousand Splendid Suns

Jackson, Shirley The Lottery and Other Stories

Kazuki, Miya Ascendance of a Bookworm

Kesey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

King, Stephen The Shining

Kirby, Matthew Last Descendants

Kirby, Matthew Last Descendants Tomb of the Khan

Krueger, William Ordinary Grace

Leggett, Glenn 12 Poets

Lewis, C.S. Chronicles of Naria

Lord, Emery When We Collided

Machiavelli The Prince

Marlowe, Christopher Dr. Faustus

Martel, Yann Life of Pi

McManus, Karen M One of Us is Lying

Meyer, Stephanie The Midnight Son

Meyer, Stephanie Twilight Graphic Novel

Meyer, Stephanie Twilight

Meyer, Stephanie New Moon

Meyer, Stephanie Eclipse

Meyer, Stephanie Breaking Dawn

Miller, Arthur Death of a Salesman

Moliere Tartuffe

Morgan, Kass The 100: Homecoming

Morgan, Kass The 100: Rebellion

Mosley, Walter 47

Myers, Walter Dean Monster

Baroness Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel

Oliver, Lauren Before I Fall

Orwell, George Homage to Catalonia

Palahniuk, Chuck Haunted

Peretti, Frank Hangman’s Curse

Peters, Julie Ann Define “Normal”

Poe, Edgar Allan Ten Great Mysteries

Rand, Ayn Anthem

Rand, Ayn The Fountainhead

Roth, Veronica Four

Roth, Veronica Divergent

Roth, Veronica Insurgent

Roth, Veronica Allegiant

Shakespeare, William The Taming of the Shrew

Shakespeare, William Twelfth Night

Shusterman, Neal The Dark Side of Nowhere

Shusterman, Neal Everlost

Shusterman, Neal Everwild

Shusterman, Neal Unwind

Shusterman, Neal Unwholly

Shusterman, Neal Unsouled

Shusterman, Neal Unbound

Sinclair, Upton The Jungle

Solomon, Rachel Lynn Today Tonight Tomorrow

Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men

Stevenson, Robert Louis Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Stoppard, Tom Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Sutcliff, Rosemary The Eagle of the Ninth

Sutcliff, Rosemary The Silver Branch

Thomas, Angie The Hate U Give

Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit

Tolkien, J.R.R. The Fellowship of the Ring

Tolkien, J.R.R. Two Towers

Tolkien, J.R.R. The Return of the King

Wharton, Edith Ethan Frome and Selected Stories

Yoon, Nicola Everything Everything

Yusagi, Aneko Rising of the Shield Hero

Zoboi, Ibi American Street

Classroom Resources

365 Poems of Every Occasion

7 Deadly Sins Sampler

Bloom’s Beowulf

Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fables

Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Chivalry

Butler’s The Knight and Chivalry

Cambridge Companion to Milton

Elizabethan Jacobian Drama

Greek Mythology

Sir Thomas Malory’s Tales of King Arthur

Mersey’s Legendary Tales and Historical Truths of the Most Notorious Warriors

Native American Myths & Legends

Norse Mythology

Restoration London (Liza Picard)

Retold Classic Myths Volume 1

The Shakespeare Book

William Shakespeare Who’s Who in Shakespeare

Theatrical Makeup

NON-FICTION

Arthur, Anthony Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair

Barbeiri, Jay Biker’s Handbook

Biersack, Andy They Don’t Need to Understand

Belzer & Wayne Dead Wrong

Berendt, John Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil

Bessinger, HG Friday Night Lights

Boslough, John Stephen Hawking’s Universe

Cairns, Trevor Medieval Knights

Campbell, Randolph Sam Houston and the American Southwest

Coan, Peter Morton Ellis Island Interviews

Corwin, Miles And Still We Rise

Covey, Sean The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens

Curtin, Jeremiah Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland

David, Rosalie Religion & Magic in Ancient Egypt

Davis, Jenkins & Hurt We Beat The Streets

Dingus, Anne Dictionary of Texas Misinformation

Drosin, Michael Citizen Hughes

Fleischmann, Arthur & Carly Carly’s Voice

Fraser & Navarro Evita

Goldman, Eric F. The Crucial Decade and After

Gonzales, Laurence Deep Survival

Guevara, Ernesto “Che” The Motorcycle Diaries

Jackson, Guida Women Who Ruled

Johansson, Frans The Medici Effect

Krakauer, Jon Into the Wild

Kuhn, William Reading Jackie

Lane, Mark Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK

Leithart, Peter Jane Austen

Lewis, Michael The Blind Side

Lipstadt, Deborah Denial: Holocaust History on Trial

Livesay, Harold Andrew Carnegie

Madigan, Tim I’m Proud of You: Life Lessons from my friend Fred Rogers

Moyle, Franny Constance

Neale, J.E. Queen Elizabeth I

O’Reilly, Bill Killing the Rising Sun

Ricca, Brad Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

Schlosser, Eric Fast Food Nation

Scott, Sir Walter From Bannockburn to Flodden

Shakur, Sanyika Monster

Thomas, Abigail A Three Dog Life

Thomas, Clarence My Grandfather’s Son

Twiss, Miranda The Most Evil Men and Women in History

Tytler, Sarah Tudor Queens and Princesses

Urrea, Luis Alberto The Devil’s Highway

Walls, Jeannette The Glass Castle

Weir, Alison The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Yousafzai, Malala I Am Malala

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