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The College Board: 101 Great Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers

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1

To Kill a Mockingbird

76,505 members

1,418 reviews

½ 4.4

6 Members: hipdeep, LeviSamJuno, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

2

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

70,256 members

1,135 reviews

3.8

6 Members: hipdeep, LeviSamJuno, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

3

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

41,970 members

510 reviews

3.9

6 Members: hipdeep, LeviSamJuno, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

4

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

19,192 members

172 reviews

4

6 Members: hipdeep, LeviSamJuno, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

5

by Charlotte Brontë

57,361 members

900 reviews

4.2

5 Members: LeviSamJuno, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

6

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

52,624 members

752 reviews

3.9

5 Members: LeviSamJuno, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

7

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

43,114 members

690 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

8

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

41,136 members

691 reviews

3.8

5 Members: hipdeep, LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

9

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

35,605 members

364 reviews

½ 3.4

5 Members: LeviSamJuno, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

10

by Albert Camus

34,635 members

489 reviews

3.9

5 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, lowtalker, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

11

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

32,877 members

423 reviews

3.8

5 Members: hipdeep, LeviSamJuno, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by William Shakespeare

31,850 members

284 reviews

4.2

5 Members: hipdeep, LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

13

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

27,716 members

270 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: LeviSamJuno, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

14

by William Shakespeare

25,292 members

218 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

15

by Beowulf poet

24,695 members

326 reviews

3.8

5 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, lowtalker, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

16

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

24,071 members

316 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: LeviSamJuno, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

17

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,050 members

372 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: LeviSamJuno, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

18

by Toni Morrison

22,230 members

397 reviews

3.9

5 Members: hipdeep, LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

19

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,111 members

425 reviews

3.8

5 Members: LeviSamJuno, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

20

The Call of the Wild

19,384 members

314 reviews

3.8

5 Members: LeviSamJuno, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

21

Pride and Prejudice

78,312 members

1,344 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

22

by George Orwell

58,401 members

853 reviews

4

4 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

23

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

50,288 members

674 reviews

3.9

4 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

24

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

29,756 members

432 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, LeviSamJuno, lowtalker, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Sylvia Plath

27,412 members

484 reviews

4

4 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

26

by Dante Alighieri

23,362 members

207 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, LeviSamJuno, lowtalker, ManWithAnAgenda

27

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

21,858 members

238 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, lowtalker, steller0707

28

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

21,471 members

163 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, lowtalker, ManWithAnAgenda

29

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,175 members

330 reviews

4.1

4 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

30

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

18,576 members

337 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, steller0707

31

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,146 members

260 reviews

3.9

4 Members: LeviSamJuno, lowtalker, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

32

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

12,658 members

157 reviews

3.9

4 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, lowtalker, ManWithAnAgenda

33

The Metamorphosis

12,024 members

208 reviews

3.9

4 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, lowtalker, ManWithAnAgenda

34

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

by Frederick Douglass

8,957 members

116 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, LeviSamJuno, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

35

by Henry Fielding

7,975 members

96 reviews

3.9

4 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, lowtalker, ManWithAnAgenda

36

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

6,521 members

70 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: hipdeep, LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

37

5,330 members

64 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: hipdeep, LeviSamJuno, lowtalker, ManWithAnAgenda

38

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

by Herman Melville

2,775 members

94 reviews

3.9

4 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

39

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,037 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: LeviSamJuno, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

40

by Henrik Ibsen

839 members

20 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

41

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

68,137 members

1,064 reviews

3.8

4 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707,cej1027

42

The Picture of Dorian Gray

38,453 members

616 reviews

4

3 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

43

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

33,444 members

460 reviews

4.1

3 Members: LeviSamJuno, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

44

by Gustave Flaubert

25,691 members

380 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, steller0707

45

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

20,786 members

208 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

46

20,090 members

304 reviews

3.8

3 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

47

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

18,730 members

242 reviews

3.8

3 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, steller0707

48

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,391 members

190 reviews

3.9

3 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

49

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

13,683 members

174 reviews

3.9

3 Members: LeviSamJuno, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

50

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

12,654 members

193 reviews

4

3 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Portrait of a Lady

10,609 members

126 reviews

3.9

3 Members: LeviSamJuno, lowtalker, ManWithAnAgenda

52

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

8,493 members

118 reviews

3.8

3 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

53

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

5,544 members

108 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, LeviSamJuno, steller0707

54

The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

4,683 members

110 reviews

3.8

3 Members: hipdeep, LeviSamJuno, lowtalker

55

An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

3,917 members

48 reviews

3.9

3 Members: LeviSamJuno, lowtalker, steller0707

56

Heart of Darkness [Norton Critical Edition]

by Joseph Conrad

3,106 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, steller0707

57

The Cherry Orchard

by Anton Chekhov

1,964 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: hipdeep, LeviSamJuno, lowtalker

58

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

48,487 members

735 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963

59

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

43,536 members

673 reviews

4.2

2 Members: LeviSamJuno, lowtalker

60

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

42,906 members

478 reviews

4.2

2 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963

61

by Joseph Heller

39,172 members

514 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, LeviSamJuno

62

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

35,672 members

440 reviews

3.9

2 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963

63

by Herman Melville

34,464 members

524 reviews

3.8

2 Members: LeviSamJuno, ManWithAnAgenda

64

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

16,863 members

222 reviews

4

2 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963

65

by Ralph Ellison

15,886 members

203 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, LeviSamJuno

66

The Crucible: Text and Criticism

by Arthur Miller

14,916 members

155 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: LeviSamJuno, ManWithAnAgenda

67

by William Faulkner

14,433 members

212 reviews

3.9

2 Members: LeviSamJuno, lowtalker

68

by Boris Pasternak

11,068 members

149 reviews

3.9

2 Members: LeviSamJuno, lowtalker

69

The Crying of Lot 49

by Thomas Pynchon

10,777 members

192 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: LeviSamJuno, lowtalker

70

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

9,976 members

83 reviews

4.1

2 Members: LeviSamJuno, ManWithAnAgenda

71

The Magic Mountain

9,356 members

168 reviews

4.2

2 Members: LeviSamJuno, lowtalker

72

8,998 members

177 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

73

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev

8,531 members

126 reviews

3.9

2 Members: LeviSamJuno, lowtalker

74

The Turn of the Screw

7,872 members

241 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: LeviSamJuno, ManWithAnAgenda

75

by Richard Wright

7,547 members

98 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, LeviSamJuno

76

Cyrano de Bergerac

by Edmond Rostand

7,217 members

86 reviews

4.1

2 Members: LeviSamJuno, lowtalker

77

by George Bernard Shaw

6,540 members

76 reviews

3.8

2 Members: LeviSamJuno, ahef1963

78

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

by Maxine Hong Kingston

4,863 members

70 reviews

3.8

2 Members: LeviSamJuno, steller0707

79

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

by Flannery O'Connor

3,946 members

95 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

80

by Leslie Marmon Silko

3,447 members

58 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, steller0707

81

A Death in the Family

2,990 members

65 reviews

3.9

2 Members: LeviSamJuno, steller0707

82

Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

2,342 members

43 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, steller0707

83

51,391 members

453 reviews

4

Member: LeviSamJuno

84

38,652 members

373 reviews

4

Member: LeviSamJuno

85

27,930 members

434 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: LeviSamJuno

86

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas père

20,701 members

242 reviews

4.1

Member: LeviSamJuno

87

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

18,496 members

393 reviews

4.1

Member: LeviSamJuno

88

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

16,466 members

187 reviews

3.8

Member: LeviSamJuno

89

by Henry David Thoreau

13,751 members

180 reviews

3.8

Member: LeviSamJuno

90

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

12,748 members

120 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: LeviSamJuno

91

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

11,701 members

75 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

92

by Marcel Proust

10,831 members

176 reviews

4.2

Member: LeviSamJuno

93

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

9,495 members

197 reviews

4

Member: LeviSamJuno

94

6,441 members

68 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

95

Death Comes for the Archbishop

by Willa Cather

5,776 members

143 reviews

4

Member: LeviSamJuno

96

Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)

by Emily Brontë

4,979 members

110 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: steller0707

97

by Sinclair Lewis

4,965 members

95 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: LeviSamJuno

98

Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)

by Jonathan Swift

3,799 members

60 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

99

The Adventures of Augie March

3,764 members

72 reviews

3.9

Member: LeviSamJuno

100

Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

3,416 members

36 reviews

4.1

Member: hipdeep

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