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 (class set)

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(class set)

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 (class set)

63. Orwell, George Animal Farm(class set)

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 (class set)

77. Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet (textbook)

78. Shaw, George Bernard Pygmalion

79. Shelley, Mary Frankenstein(class set)

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:

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

Aristotle Poetics

Bardugo, Leigh Shadow and Bone

Bardugo, Leigh Siege and Storm

Bardugo, Leigh Ruin and Rising

Bardugo, Leigh Six of Crows

Bardugo, Leigh Crooked Kingdom

Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451

Bradbury, Ray The Martian Chronicles

Clark, Mary Higgins Where are the Children?

Conde, Ally Matched

Conde, Ally Crossed

Conde, Ally Reached

De la Cruz, Melissa Love & War

De la Cruz, Melissa Alex & Eliza

De la Cruz, Melissa All for One

Dockray, Tracy Grimm’s Grimmest

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

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

Hansberry, Lorraine A Raisin in the Sun

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

Lord, Emery When We Collided

Machiavelli The Prince

Martel, Yann Life of Pi

Myers, Walter Dean Monster

Peters, Julie Ann Define “Normal”

Rand, Ayn Anthem (class set)

Roth, Veronica Four

Roth, Veronica Divergent

Roth, Veronica Insurgent

Roth, Veronica Allegiant

Shusterman, Neal The Dark Side of Nowhere

Shusterman, Neal Downsiders

Shusterman, Neal Everfound

Shusterman, Neal Everlost

Shusterman, Neal Everwild

Shusterman, Neal Game Changer

Shusterman, Neal Unwind

Shusterman, Neal Unwholly

Shusterman, Neal Unsouled

Shusterman, Neal Unbound

Sinclair, Upton The Jungle

Thomas, Angie The Hate U Give

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

Zoboi, Ibi American Street

Classroom Resources

7 Deadly Sins Sampler

Austen, Jane Emma

Bloom’s Beowulf

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Sonnets from the Portuguese

Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fables

Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Chivalry

Butler’s The Knight and Chivalry

Cairns, Trevor Medieval Knights

Cambridge Companion to Milton

Christie, Agatha Crooked House

Christie, Agatha Murder on the Orient Express

Donne, John Selected Poems

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries

Elizabethan Jacobian Drama

Greek Mythology

Gardner, John Grendel

Leithart, Peter Jane Austen

Sir Thomas Malory’s Tales of King Arthur

Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte de Arthur

Leithart, Peter Jane Austen

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

Miller, Arthur Death of a Salesman

Moliere Tartuffe

Moyle, Franny Constance

Neale, J.E. Queen Elizabeth I

Native American Myths & Legends

Norse Mythology

Restoration London (Liza Picard)

Scott, Sir Walter From Bannockburn to Flodden

Stevenson, Robert Louis Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Stoppard, Tom Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

The Shakespeare Book

Tytler, Sarah Tudor Queens and Princesses

Weir, Alison The Six Wives of Henry VIII

William Shakespeare Who’s Who in Shakespeare

Theatrical Makeup

NON-FICTION

Alexie, Sherman Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Arthur, Anthony Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair

Belzer & Wayne Dead Wrong

Berendt, John Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil

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

Drosin, Michael Citizen Hughes

Fleischmann, Arthur & Carly Carly’s Voice

Fraser & Navarro Evita

Friedman, Alan Spider’s Web

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

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

O’Reilly, Bill Killing the Rising Sun

O’Reilly, Bill Legends & Lies

Ricca, Brad Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

Schlosser, Eric Fast Food Nation

Shakur, Sanyika Monster

Thomas, Clarence My Grandfather’s Son

Twiss, Miranda The Most Evil Men and Women in History

Walls, Jeannette The Glass Castle (class set)

Yousafzai, Malala I Am Malala

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