101 Great Books from College Board.com Recommended for College-Bound Readers (For Students Entering 9 th -12 th Grades for the School Year)

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1 101 Great Books from College Board.com Recommended for College-Bound Readers (For Students Entering 9 th -12 th Grades for the School Year) It's a good idea to talk to your parents, librarians, teachers, and counselor about your reading list. They can help you choose the best books for you from among your many options. Author Title -- Beowulf Achebe, Chinua Agee, James Austen, Jane Baldwin, James Beckett, Samuel Bellow, Saul Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Camus, Albert Cather, Willa Chaucer, Geoffrey Chekhov, Anton Chopin, Kate Conrad, Joseph Cooper, James Fenimore Crane, Stephen Dante de Cervantes, Miguel Defoe, Daniel Dickens, Charles Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Douglass, Frederick Dreiser, Theodore Dumas, Alexandre Eliot, George Ellison, Ralph Emerson, Ralph Waldo Faulkner, William Faulkner, William Things Fall Apart A Death in the Family Pride and Prejudice Go Tell It on the Mountain Waiting for Godot The Adventures of Augie March Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights The Stranger Death Comes for the Archbishop The Canterbury Tales The Cherry Orchard The Awakening Heart of Darkness The Last of the Mohicans The Red Badge of Courage Inferno Don Quixote Robinson Crusoe A Tale of Two Cities Crime and Punishment Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Tragedy The Three Musketeers The Mill on the Floss Invisible Man Selected Essays As I Lay Dying The Sound and the Fury

2 Fielding, Henry Fitzgerald, F. Scott Flaubert, Gustave Ford, Ford Madox Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Golding, William Hardy, Thomas Hawthorne, Nathaniel Tom Jones The Great Gatsby Madame Bovary The Good Soldier Faust Lord of the Flies Tess of the d'urbervilles The Scarlet Letter Heller, Joseph Catch 22 Hemingway, Ernest Homer Homer Hugo, Victor Hurston, Zora Neale Huxley, Aldous Ibsen, Henrik James, Henry James, Henry Joyce, James Kafka, Franz Kingston, Maxine Hong Lee, Harper Lewis, Sinclair London, Jack Mann, Thomas Marquez, Gabriel García Melville, Herman Melville, Herman Miller, Arthur Morrison, Toni O'Connor, Flannery O'Neill, Eugene Orwell, George Pasternak, Boris Plath, Sylvia Poe, Edgar Allan A Farewell to Arms The Iliad The Odyssey The Hunchback of Notre Dame Their Eyes Were Watching God Brave New World A Doll's House The Portrait of a Lady The Turn of the Screw A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Metamorphosis The Woman Warrior To Kill a Mockingbird Babbitt The Call of the Wild The Magic Mountain One Hundred Years of Solitude Bartleby the Scrivener Moby Dick The Crucible Beloved A Good Man is Hard to Find Long Day's Journey into Night Animal Farm Doctor Zhivago The Bell Jar Selected Tales

3 Proust, Marcel Swann's Way Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49 Remarque, Erich Maria Rostand, Edmond Roth, Henry Salinger, J.D. Shaw, George Bernard Shelley, Mary Silko, Leslie Marmon Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Sophocles Sophocles Steinbeck, John Stevenson, Robert Louis Stowe, Harriet Beecher Swift, Jonathan Thackeray, William Thoreau, Henry David Tolstoy, Leo Turgenev, Ivan Twain, Mark Voltaire Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Walker, Alice Wharton, Edith Welty, Eudora Whitman, Walt Wilde, Oscar Williams, Tennessee Woolf, Virginia Wright, Richard All Quiet on the Western Front Cyrano de Bergerac Call It Sleep The Catcher in the Rye Hamlet Macbeth A Midsummer Night's Dream Romeo and Juliet Pygmalion Frankenstein Ceremony One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Antigone Oedipus Rex The Grapes of Wrath Treasure Island Uncle Tom's Cabin Gulliver's Travels Vanity Fair Walden War and Peace Fathers and Sons The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Candide Slaughterhouse-Five The Color Purple The House of Mirth Collected Stories Leaves of Grass The Picture of Dorian Gray The Glass Menagerie To the Lighthouse Native Son

4 Literature and Language Arts from American Library Association 2009 Literature & Language Arts recommendations for the college-bound student (For Students Entering 9 th -12 th Grades for the School Year) Allison, Dorothy. Bastard Out of Carolina Penguin/Plume. Bone confronts illegitimacy, poverty, the troubled marriage of her mother and stepfather, and the stigma of being considered white trash as she comes of age in South Carolina. Anderson, M.T. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party Candlewick. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. II: The Kingdom on the Waves Candlewick. Set during the American Revolution, Octavian is raised as a pampered African prince by a society of Enlightenment philosophers who view him as an experiment. Realizing that his freedom is an illusion, Octavian sets off on a journey to find freedom and a place in the world. These books will challenge everything you have ever learned about the Revolutionary War. Bond, Jenny and Chris Sheedy. Who the Hell is Pansy O Hara?: The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World s Best-Loved Books Penguin. Did you ever wonder what an author was thinking when they wrote their book? Explore the quirky back-stories of some of the world s most famous 50 books. Cameron, Peter. Someday This Pain Will be Useful to You Farrar, Straus and Giroux. James hates everyone except his grandmother. Take a look at life through this brilliant and mischievous New York teen s eyes as he tries to figure out life and his place in it. Cisneros, Sandra. Caramelo Knopf/Vintage. LaLa learns the stories of her Awful Grandmother and weaves them into a colorful family history. The caramelo, a striped shawl begun by her Great-Grandmother, symbolizes their traditions. Dunn, Mark. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters Knopf/Anchor. The people of Nollop are good citizens, but as the use of more and more letters in the alphabet is outlawed, how will its residents communicate? Foer, Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Houghton Mifflin. Oskar Schell, a gifted 9-year old, explores the mystery of his father s death during the 9/11 attack. Gaines, Ernest. A Lesson Before Dying Knopf/Vintage. When Jefferson's attorney states, "I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this," disillusioned teacher Grant Wiggins is sent into the penitentiary to help Jefferson gain a sense of dignity and self-esteem before his execution. Green, John. Looking for Alaska Penguin. Join Miles Halter, who is intrigued by famous last words, as he heads off to boarding school in search of the Great Perhaps. What he finds is a beautiful but troubled girl named Alaska.

5 Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Knopf/Vintage. Christopher has two mysteries to solve: who killed Wellington the dog and what happened to his mother. But Christopher, who has Asperger Syndrome, a form of autism, approaches these mysteries and the world itself in a unique and special way. Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner Penguin/Riverhead. Years after he flees Afghanistan, Amir, now an American citizen, returns to his native land and attempts to atone for the betrayal of his best friend before he fled Kabul and the Taliban. Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go Knopf. Only special students are chosen to attend Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school tucked away in the English countryside. The chilling truth of their special nature slowly unfolds as we follow the stories of three former students. Jones, Lloyd. Mister Pip Dell Publishing/Dial Press. Matilda s Pacific Island village has been torn apart by civil war. Against this harsh backdrop, Mr. Watts, a lonely British expatriate, maintains calm by reading Dicken s Great Expectations aloud to the village children, transforming their lives. Keillor, Garrison, ed. Good Poems Penguin. An essential and accessible anthology of some of the best contemporary and classic poetry. Kidd, Sue Monk. Secret Life of Bees Penguin. Searching for the truth about her mother s life and death, a grieving Lily finds the answers, love, and acceptance where she least expects it. Kyle, Aryn. The God of Animals Simon & Schuster/Scribner. Twelve-year old Alice must face issues beyond her years. Her sister has run off, her mother won t get out of bed, and the family horse farm is failing. Can she keep the family from falling apart? Maguire, Gregory. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West HarperCollins. The Wizard of Oz retold from the point of view of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West. You ll never think of Oz the same way again. McCarthy, Cormac. The Road Knopf/Vintage. After an apocalyptic catastrophe, a father and his young son embark on a grim and perilous quest following the road to the sea. Murakami, Haruki. Kafka on the Shore Knopf/Vintage. Reality and fantasy converge in this story of a Japanese runaway s quest to find his longlost sister and mother. Myers, Walter Dean. Sunrise Over Fallujah Scholastic. Robin believes in his country and volunteers to fight in Iraq; but when he arrives he realizes that fighting for freedom is not always black and white.

6 Roth, Philip. The Plot Against America Knopf/Vintage. This is a fascinating alternate history that takes a hard look at one of America s legendary heroes, Charles Lindbergh, and at how bigotry and fear can shape politics. Sebold, Alice. Lucky: A Memoir Little Brown/Back Bay. You save yourself or you remain unsaved. With these words, Sebold recounts the brutal rape that she was lucky to survive. Tragedy and hope combine as she makes her way through a survivor s maze of emotions. Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead Grove Press Two bit players from Shakespeare's Hamlet are thrust into a terrifying and surreal new situation. Thompson, Craig. Blankets Top Shelf Productions. A young man questions his faith and experiences bittersweet first love in this autobiographical and groundbreaking graphic novel. Zusak, Marcus. The Book Thief Random House/Knopf. Living in Nazi Germany, young Liesel and her family choose to lie and steal to protect a Jewish refugee hiding in their basement. Narrated by Death, this is not your typical World War II story.