A list of 101 books recommended for college-bound readers as compiled by The College Board.
Middle school book:
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
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Middle school book:
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
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Middle school book:
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
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Middle school book:
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
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Middle school book:
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
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Middle school book:
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
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Middle school book:
The Call Of The Wild
by Jack London
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Middle school book:
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
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Middle school book:
Long Day’s Journey into Night
by Eugene O’Neill
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Middle school book:
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
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Middle school book:
Short Stories and Tales, Complete
by Edgar Allan Poe
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Middle school book:
All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Remarque
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Middle school book:
Cyrano de Bergerac
by Edmond Rostand
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Middle school book:
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Middle school book:
Gulliver’s Travels
by Jonathan Swift
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Middle school book:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
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Middle school book:
Collected Short Stories
by Eudora Welty
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Middle school book:
Native Son
by Richard Wright
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High school book:
Beowulf
Anonymous
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High school book:
A Death in the Family
by James Agee
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High school book:
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
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High school book:
Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
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High school book:
Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
High school book:
The Adventures of Augie March
by Saul Bellow
High school book:
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
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High school book:
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
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High school book:
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
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High school book:
Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
High school book:
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
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High school book:
The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov
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High school book:
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
High school book:
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
High school book:
The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
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High school book:
Inferno
Dante
High school book:
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
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High school book:
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
High school book:
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
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High school book:
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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High school book:
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass
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High school book:
An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser
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High school book:
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
High school book:
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
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High school book:
Selected Essays
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
High school book:
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
High school book:
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
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High school book:
Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding
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High school book:
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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High school book:
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
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High school book:
The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
High school book:
Faust
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
High school book:
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
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High school book:
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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High school book:
Catch 22
by Joseph Heller
High school book:
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
High school book:
The Iliad
by Homer
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High school book:
The Odyssey
by Homer
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High school book:
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Victor Hugo
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High school book:
A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
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High school book:
The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
High school book:
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
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High school book:
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
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High school book:
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
High school book:
The Woman Warrior
by Maxine Hong Kingston
High school book:
Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis
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High school book:
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
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High school book:
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
High school book:
Bartleby, the Scrivener
by Herman Melville
High school book:
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
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High school book:
A Good Man is Hard to Find
by Flannery O'Connor
High school book:
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
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High school book:
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
High school book:
Swann's Way
by Marcel Proust
High school book:
The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon
High school book:
Call It Sleep
by Henry Roth
High school book:
The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
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High school book:
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
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High school book:
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
High school book:
A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
High school book:
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
High school book:
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
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High school book:
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
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High school book:
Ceremony
by Leslie Marmon Silko
High school book:
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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High school book:
Antigone
by Sophocles
High school book:
Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
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High school book:
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
High school book:
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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High school book:
Vanity Fair
by William M. Thackeray
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High school book:
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
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High school book:
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
High school book:
Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev
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High school book:
Candide
by Voltaire
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High school book:
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Jr. Vonnegut
High school book:
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
High school book:
The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
High school book:
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
High school book:
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
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High school book:
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
High school book:
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
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