Rebecca Reads

101 Great Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers

List from College Board.

I’ve read the books in bold, and I’ve noted when I first read it. I’ve tried to note when I’ve read a book on Rebecca Reads.

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