1964 College Preparatory Reading List
- Description
- The purpose of this General Reading List was to help students "acquire a necessary reading background" for college. It was published in 1964 by the Nioga Library System in Niagara Falls, NY, and edited by Flora Webb, the Director of the Lee-Whedon Memorial Library in Medina, NY. From the Introduction: "This is a general list drawn from all fields. Subjects are taught to you separately in school for convenience, not because they exist in isolation from each other. The accumulation of habits, traditions, artistic expression and mental attitudes that we call "culture," "civilization," or "way of life" is indivisible and you must learn to see it as a whole, not in neatly labelled sections." It is fun to consider how, approximately 60 years later, this list should be changed and/or added to!
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78 reviews
3.8
Score 16.4
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by Harper Lee
78,358 members
1,432 reviews
½ 4.4
Score 13.8
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by Jane Austen
80,509 members
1,366 reviews
½ 4.4
Score 13.59
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by Mark Twain
42,904 members
518 reviews
3.9
Score 13.39
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72,042 members
1,165 reviews
3.8
Score 12.35
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27,008 members
476 reviews
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Score 10.84
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8,623 members
114 reviews
½ 3.5
Score 10.81
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36,500 members
372 reviews
½ 3.4
Score 9.7
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69,478 members
1,078 reviews
3.8
Score 8.92
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19 reviews
3.8
Score 8.66
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by John Bunyan
17,459 members
171 reviews
½ 3.7
Score 6.18
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by Mark Twain
32,812 members
323 reviews
3.9
Score 6.01
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by Thomas Hardy
19,143 members
244 reviews
3.8
Score 5.95
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21,963 members
168 reviews
½ 3.7
Score 5.92
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by Lord Byron
461 members
6 reviews
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Score 5.86
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21,722 members
188 reviews
4.1
Score 5.86
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28,503 members
279 reviews
½ 3.7
Score 5.78
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21 reviews
4.2
Score 5.76
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30,474 members
449 reviews
4.1
Score 5.54
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30,690 members
505 reviews
3.8
Score 5.39
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34,252 members
471 reviews
4.1
Score 4.45
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by Henry James
8,085 members
247 reviews
½ 3.4
Score 4.14
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19,053 members
403 reviews
4.1
Score 4.07
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by Anne Frank
28,281 members
513 reviews
4.1
Score 3.98
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29,444 members
328 reviews
½ 4.4
Score 3.93
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36,603 members
456 reviews
3.9
Score 3.64
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14,660 members
190 reviews
3.9
Score 3.63
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by Karl Marx
15,070 members
137 reviews
½ 3.5
Score 3.62
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713 members
9 reviews
½ 4.4
Score 3.61
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22,929 members
336 reviews
3.8
Score 3.6
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by Thomas Hardy
8,299 members
113 reviews
3.9
Score 3.57
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16,979 members
190 reviews
3.8
Score 0
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