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Recommended Reading List for College Students
Title
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A Clockwork Orange
A Farewell to Arms
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Absalom, Absalom!
All Quiet on the Western Front
American Pastoral
As I lay Dying
Atlas Shrugged
Brideshead Revisited
Candide
Cloud Atlas
Collected Fiction
Critique of Pure Reason
David Copperfield
Don Quixote
Dubliners
Faust
Finnegans Wake
Ham on Rye
Howards End
In Search of Lost Time
Invisible Man
Leaves of Grass
Les Miserables
Leviathan
Light in August
Lolita
Madame Bovary
Medea
Middlemarch
Midnight's Children
Norwegian Wood
Oedipus Rex
Old School
Olive Kitteridge
One Thousand and One Nights
Paradise Lost
Portnoy's Complaint
Pygmalion
Rebecca
Remains of the Day
Revolutionary Road
Room with a View
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Satanic Verses
Sons and Lovers
Tartuffe
Tender is the Night
The Aeneid
Author
Haruki Murakami
Anthony Burgess
Ernest Hemingway
James Joyce
Jennifer Egan
William Faulkner
Erich Maria Remarque
Philip Roth
William Faulkner
Ayn Rand
Evelyn Waugh
Voltaire
David Mitchell
Jorge Luis Borges
Immanuel Kant
Charles Dickens
Miguel de Cervantes
James Joyce
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
James Joyce
Charles Bukowski
E. M. Forster
Marcel Proust
Ralph Ellison
Walt Whitman
Victor Hugo
Thomas Hobbes
William Faulkner
Vladimir Nabokov
Gustave Flaubert
Euripides
George Eliot
Salman Rushdie
Haruki Murakami
Sophocles
Tobias Wolff
Elizabeth Strout
Unknown
John Milton
Philip Roth
George Bernard Shaw
Daphne du Maurier
Kazuo Ishiguro
Richard Yates
E. M. Forster
Tom Stoppard
Salman Rushdie
D. H. Lawrence
Moliere
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Virgil
VJB and Associates
Recommended Reading List for College Students
Title
The Ambassadors
The Art of Fielding
The Art of War
The Book Thief
The Brothers Karamazov
The Canterbury Tales
The Cherry Orchard
The Circle
The Color Purple
The Communist Manifesto
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka
The Divine Comedy
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Enchantress of Florence
The Fountainhead
The Ghost Writer
The Ginger Man
The Glass Menagerie
The Good Soldier
The Inheritance of Loss
The Joy Luck Club
The Jungle
The Last of the Mohicans
The Loved One
The Magic Mountain
The Master and Margarita
The Misanthrope
The Name of the Rose
The Namesake
The Plague
The Prince
The Red and the Black
The Republic
The Rights of Man
The Secret Lives of Bees
The Sound and the Fury
The Stories of John Cheever
The Trial
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Wapshot Chronicles
The Waste Land
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The World According to Garp
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
To the Lighthouse
Tristam Shandy
Tropic of Cancer
Ulysees
White Noise
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Author
Henry James
Chad Harbach
Sun Tzu
Markus Zusak
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Geoffrey Chaucer
Anton Chekhov
Dave Eggers
Alice Walker
Karl Marx
Flannery O'Connor
Franz Kafka
Dante Alighieri
Tom Wolfe
Salman Rushdie
Ayn Rand
Philip Roth
J. P. Donleavy
Tennessee Williams
Ford Maddox Ford
Kiran Desai
Amy Tan
Upton Sinclair
James Fenimore Cooper
Evelyn Waugh
Thomas Mann
Mikhail Bulgakov
Moliere
Umberto Eco
Jhumpa Lahiri
Albert Camus
Niccolò Machiavelli
Stendhal
Plato
Thomas Paine
Susan Kidd
William Faulkner
John Cheever
Franz Kafka
Milan Kundera
John Cheever
T. S. Eliot
Haruki Murakami
John Irving
Friedrich Nietzsche
Virginia Woolf
Laurence Sterne
Henry Miller
James Joyce
Don DeLillo
Edward Albee