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1 Titles Most Likely to Appear on a College Reading List Chosen, The Man of the People, A Things Fall Apart Death in the Family, A Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Paula Bastard Out of Carolina Bless Me, Ultima Gather Together in My Name Bicentennial Man, The Cat's Eye Handmaid's Tale, The Emma Mansfield Park Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Go Tell It on the Mountain Old Goriot Salt Eaters, The Floating Opera, The Sot-Weed Factor, The Snow White She Came to Stay Oroonoko Dangling Man Henderson the Rain King Seize the Day Adventures of Augie March Little Big Man Devil's Dictionary, The Death of the Heart Sheltering Sky, The Dandelion Wine Fahrenheit 451 Red Sky at Morning Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights Good Earth, The Clockwork Orange, A Enderby Way of all Flesh, The God's Little Acre Tobacco Road Plague, The Stranger, The Breakfast at Tiffany's Achebe, Chinua Achebe, Chinua Achebe, Chinua Agee, James Agee, James Allende, Isabel Allison, Dorothy Anaya, Rudolfo Angelou, Maya Asimov, Isaac Atwood, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Baldwin, James Balzac, Honore de Bambara, Toni Cade Barth, John Barth, John Barthelme, Donald Beauvoir, Simone de Behn, Aphra Berger, Thomas Bierce, Ambrose Bowden, Elizabeth Bowles, Paul Bradbury, Ray Bradbury, Ray Bradford, Richard Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Buck, Pearl Burgess, Anthony Burgess, Anthony Butler, Samuel Caldwell, Erskine Caldwell, Erskine Camus, Albert Camus, Albert Capote, Truman 1

2 In Cold Blood Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass Death Comes for the Archbishop My Antonia O Pioneers! Don Quixote Wapshot Chronicle, The Awakening, The House on Mango Street Ox-Bow Incident, The Heart of Darkness Lord Jim Red Badge of Courage, The Hours, The Moll Flanders Robinson Crusoe Bleak House David Copperfied Great Expectations Hard Times Nicholas Nickleby Oliver Twist Tale of Two Cities Billy Bathgate Ragtime This House of Sky Brothers Karamazov, The Crime and Punishment Notes from the Underground Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Middlemarch Mill on the Floss, The Silas Marner Invisible Man Parzifal Absalom! Absalom! As I Lay Dying Capote, Truman Carroll, Lewis Cather, Willa Cather, Willa Cather, Willa Cervantes, Miguel de Cheever, John Chopin, Kate Cisneros, Sandra Clark, Walter V.T. Conrad, Joseph Conrad, Joseph Crane, Stephen Cunningham, Michael Defoe, Daniel Defoe, Daniel Doctorow, E.L. Doctorow, E.L. Doig, Ivan Dostoevski, Fyodor Dostoevski, Fyodor Dostoevski, Fyodor Douglass, Frederick Dumas, Alexandre Dumas, Alexandre Eliot, George Eliot, George Eliot, George Ellison, Ralph Eschenback, Wolfram yon 2

3 Light in August Sound and the Fury, The Joseph Andrews Tom Jones Great Gatsby, The Tender is the Night Madame Bovary Good Soldier, The Howard's End Longest Journey, The Passage to India, A Room with a View, A Where Angels Fear to Tread French Lieutenant's Woman Fielding, Henry Fielding, Henry Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Flaubert, Gustave Ford, Ford Madox Fowles, John Gathering of Old Men, A Lesson Before Dying, A Forsyte Saga, The Grendel Sunlight Dialogues, The Lord of the Flies Vicar of Wakefield, The Heart of the Matter, The Power and the Glory, The Quiet American, The Far from the Maddening Crowd Jude the Obscure Mayor of Casterbridge Return of the Native, The Tess of the D 'Urbervilles House of the Seven Gables, The Scarlet Letter, The Stranger in a Strange Land Catch 22 Farewell to Arms, A For Whom the Bell Tolls Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, The Siddhartha Demian Spit Delaney's Island Shropshire Lad, A Rise of Silas Lapham Hunchback of Notre Dame Les Miserables Their Eyes Were Watching God Gaines, Ernest Gaines, Ernest Galsworthy, John Gardner, John Gardner, John Golding, William Goldsmith, Oliver Greene, Graham Greene, Graham Greene, Graham Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Heinlein, Robert Heller, Joseph Hesse, Herman Hesse, Herman Hodgins, Jack Housman, A.E. Howells, William Dean Hugo, Victor Hugo, Victor Hurston, Zora Neal 3

4 Brave New World Cider House Rules World According to Garp, The Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Ambassadors, The American, The Daisy Miller Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw Wings of the Dove, The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A Perfect Storm, The Trial, The Ironweed One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Small Place, A Tripmaster Monkey Woman Warrior Kim Separate Peace, A Lady Chatterley's Lover Sons and Lovers Women in Love To Kill a Mockingbird Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Golden Notebook, The Out of the Silent Planet Screwtape Letters, The Arrowsmith Babbit Main Street Huxley, Aldous Irving, John Irving, John Jacobs, Harriet Joyce, James Junger, Sebastian Kafka, Franz Kennedy, William Kesey, Ken Kincaid, Jamaica Kingston, Maxine Hong Kingston, Maxine Hong Kipling, Rudyard Knowles, John Lawrence, D.H. Lawrence, D.H. Lawrence, D.H. Lee, Harper LeGuin, Ursula LeGuin, Ursula Lessing, Doris Lewis, C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis, Sinclair Lewis, Sinclair Lewis, Sinclair Call of the Wild American Dream, An Armies of the Night, The Executioner's Song Le Morte D'Arthur Buddenbrooks Death in Venice Magic Mountain, The Betrothed, The Love in the Time of Cholera One Hundred Years of Solitude Of Human Bondage Razor's Edge, The London, Jack Mailer, Norman Mailer, Norman Mailer, Norman Malory, Sir Thomas Mann, Thomas Mann, Thomas Mann, Thomas Manzoni, Alessandro Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Maugham, Somerset Maugham, Somerset 4

5 All the Pretty Horses Charming Billy Billy Budd Moby-Dick Egoist, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, The Fallen Angels Monster Tropic of Cancer Canticle for Leibowitz House Made of Dawn Bachelors, The Beloved Jazz Song of Solomon Sula Love of a Good Woman, The Man Without Qualities, The Lolita Pale Fire Mutiny on the Bounty If I Die in a Combat Zone McCarthy, Cormac McDermott, Alice Melville, Herman Melville, Herman Meredith, George Meredith, George Meyers, Walter Dean Meyers, Walter Dean Miller, Henry Miller, Walter Momaday, N. Scott Montherlant, Henry de Munro, Alice Musil, Robert Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Nordhoff, Charles/James Norman Hall O'Brien, Tim Things They Carried, The O'Brien, Tim A Good Man is Hard to Find O Connor, Flannery Wise Blood O'Connor, Flannery English Patient, The Ondaatje, Michael "1984" Orwell, George Animal Farm Orwell, George Cry the Beloved Country Paton, Alan Love in the Ruins Percy, Walker The Bell Jar Ship of Fools Dance to the Music of Time, The Postcards Shipping News, The Remembrance of Things Past Gravity's Rainbow Plath, Sylvia Porter, Katherine Anne Powell, Anthony Proulx, E. Annie Proulx, E. Annie Proust, Marcel Pynchon, Thomas Anthem Fountainhead, The All Quiet on the Western Front Last of the Wine, The Rand, Ayn Rand, Ayn Remarque, Erich Maria Renault,Mary Giants in the Earth Cyrano de Bergerac Goodbye, Columbus Rolvaag, O.E. Rostand, Edmond Roth, Philip 5

6 God of Small Things, The Roy, Arundhati Midnight's Children Rushdie, Salman Satanic Verses, The Rushdie, Salman Catcher in the Rye, The Salinger, J.D. Nine Tailors, The Sayers, Dorothy L. Ivanhoe Scott, Walter Waverly Scott, Walter Frankenstein Shelley, Mary Tale of Genji Ceremony Bread and Wine Jungle, The Thousand Acres, A Gorky Park Humphrey Clinker One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Three Lives East of Eden Grapes of Wrath, The Of Mice and Men Pearl, The Shikibu, Murasaki Silko, Leslie Marmon Silone, Ignazio Sinclair, Upton Smiley, Jane Smith, Martin Cruz Smollet, Tobias Solzhentisyn, Alexander Spark, Muriel Stein, Gertrude Tortilla Flat Sentimental Journey Sterne, Laurence Tristram Shandy Sterne, Laurence Kidnapped Stevenson, Robert Louis Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island Stevenson, Robert Louis Dracula Stoker, Bram Uncle Tom's Cabin Stowe, Harriet Beecher Confessions of Nat Turner Styron, William Lie Down in Darkness Styron, William Sophie's Choice Styron, William Gulliver's Travels Swift, Jonathan Joy Luck Club, The Tan, Amy Kitchen God's Wife, The Tan, Amy Magnificent Ambersons, The Vanity Fair Walden Lord of the Rings Anna Karenina War and Peace Cane Barchester Towers Way We Live Now, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Accidental Tourist, The Breathing Lessons Tarkington, Booth Thackery, William Makepeace Thoreau, Henry David Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy, Leo Toomer, Jean Trollope, Anthony Trollope, Anthony Twain, Mark Tyler, Anne Tyler, Anne 6

7 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Rabbit Run Candide Cat's Cradle Slaughterhouse Five Color Purple, The Possessing the Secret of Joy Temple of My Familiar, The Castle of Otranto, The All the King's Men Brideshead Revisited Handful of Dust, A Fool's Crow Time Machine, The Optimist's Daughter, The Robber Bridegroom, The Miss Lonelyhearts Age of Innocence Ethan Frome House of Mirth, The Once and Future King, The Night Picture of Dorian Gray, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Look Homeward, Angel You Can't Go Home Again Mrs. Dalloway Room of One's Own, A To the Lighthouse Caine Mutiny, The War and Remembrance Winds of War, The Black Boy Native Son 10 Tyler, Anne Updike, John Voltaire Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt Walker, Alice Walker, Alice Walker, Alice Walpole, Horace Warren, Robert Penn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Welch, James Wells, H.G. Welty, Eudora Welty, Eudora West, Nathanael Wharton, Edith Wharton, Edith Wharton, Edith White, T.H. Wiesel, Elie Wilde, Oscar Wilder, Thornton Wolfe, Thomas Wolfe, Thomas Woolfe, Virginia Woolfe, Virginia Woolfe, Virginia Wouk, Herman Wouk, Herman Wouk, Herman Wright, Richard Wright, Richard 7

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