College Reading List
This is a list of books and/or authors that colleges expect students to have read. Happy reading!!!
Key
*=play
+=non-fiction or biography or autobiography
_____=there are film and/or TV version(s)
A
Adams, Richard- Watership Down
Alcott, Louisa May- Little Womenon-line text,
Little Men, Jo's Boys
Anderson. Maxwell- *The Bad Seed, *Anne of the Thousand Days
Andouilh, Jean- *The Lark
Angelou, Maya-+ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Auel, Jean- Clan of the Cave Bear
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Barrie, J.M.- Peter Panon-line text, *Peter Pan, *The Admirable Crichton
Bradbury, Ray- Farenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Dandelion Wine
Bradley, Marion Zimmer-The Mists of Avalon
Bronte, Charlotte- Jane Eyre
Burdick, Eugene-The Ninth Wave
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C
Capote, Truman- + In Cold Blood
Carroll, Lewis- Alice's Adventures In Wonderlandon-line text, Through the Looking Glasson-line text
Cather, Willa- My Antonia, Shadows on the Rock, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Paul's Case; Oh, Pioneers
Christie, Agatha- *The Mouse Trap, *Witness for the Prosecution,
*Ten Little Indians
Clavell, James- Shogun
Crane, Stephen- Red Badge of Courage on-line text
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D
De Foe, Daniel- Adventures of Robinson Crusoe on-line text
Dickens, Charles- David Copperfield, Oliver Twist , A Christmas Carol
Douglas, Lloyd C.-The Big Fisherman, The Robe
Doyle, Sir A. Conan- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Hound of the Baskervilles
Dumas, Alexandre- Man in the Iron Mask,
3Musketeers, Count of Monte Cristo
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E
Elliot, George- Silas Marner, Mill on the Floss
on-line text
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F
Ferber, Edna- So Big, Show Boat, Giant
Fitzgerald, F. Scott- The Great Gatsby
Forster, E. M.- A Passage to India
Frank, Anne- + Diary of a Young Girl
Frank, Pat- Alas Babylon
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G
Griffin, John Howard- + Black Like Me
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H
Haley, Alex- + Roots, + Autobigraphy of Malcome X
Heinlein, Robert- Stranger in a Strange Land
Heller, Joseph- Catch 22
Hellman, Lillian- *The Children's Hour
Hemingway, Ernest- Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Herriot, James- + All Creatures Great & Small , + All Things Bright & Beautiful
Hersey, John- + Hiroshima
Hilton, James- Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Last Horizon
Huxley, Aldous- Brave New World
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