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