Read College Board's 101 Books for College-Bound Reader's List

Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

total: 21/ 101

1. —Beowulf
2. Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart
3. Agee, James A Death in the Family
4. Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice
5. Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain
6. Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot
7. Bellow, Saul The Adventures of Augie March
8. Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre
9. Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights
10. Camus, Albert The Stranger
11. Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop
12. Chaucer, Geoffrey The Canterbury Tales
13. Chekhov, Anton The Cherry Orchard
14. Chopin, Kate The Awakening
15. Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darknes
16. Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans
17. Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage
18. Dante, Inferno
19. de Cervantes, Miguel Don Quixote
20. Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe
21. Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities
22. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Crime and Punishment
23. Douglass, Frederick Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
24. Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy
25. Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers
26. Eliot, George The Mill on the Floss
27. Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man
28. Emerson, Ralph Waldo Selected Essays
29. Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying
30. Faulkner, William The Sound and the Fury
31. Fielding, Henry Tom Jones
32. Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby
33. Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary
34. Ford, Ford Madox The Good Soldier
35. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Faust
36. Golding, William Lord of the Flies
37. Hardy, Thomas Tess of the d’Urbervilles
38. Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter39. Heller, Joseph Catch 22
40. Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms
41. Homer The Iliad
42. Homer The Odyssey
43. Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame
44, Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God
45. Huxley, Aldous Brave New World
46. Ibsen, Henrik A Doll’s House
47. James, Henry The Portrait of a Lady
48. James, Henry The Turn of the Screw
49. Joyce, James A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
50. Kafka, Franz The Metamorphosis
51. Kingston, Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior
52. Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird
53. Lewis, Sinclair Babbitt
54. London, Jack The Call of the Wild
55. Mann, Thomas The Magic Mountain
56. Marquez, Gabriel García One Hundred Years of Solitude
57. Melville, Herman Bartleby the Scrivener
58. Melville, Herman Moby Dick
59. Miller, Arthur The Crucible
60. Morrison, Toni Beloved
61. O’Connor, Flannery A Good Man is Hard to Find
62. O’Neill, Eugene Long Day’s Journey into Night
63. Orwell, George Animal Farm
64. Pasternak, Boris Doctor Zhivago
65. Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar
66. Poe, Edgar Allan Selected Tales
67. Proust, Marcel Swann’s Way
68. Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49
69. Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front
70. Rostand, Edmond Cyrano de Bergerac
71. Roth, Henry Call It Sleep
72. Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
73. Shakespeare, William Hamlet
74. Shakespeare, William Macbeth
75. Shakespeare, William A Midsummer Night’s Dream
76. Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet
77. Shaw, George Bernard Pygmalion
78. Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
79. Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony
80. Solzhenitsyn, Alexander One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
81. Sophocles Antigone
82. Sophocles Oedipus Rex
83. Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath
84. Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island
85. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom’s Cabin
86. Swift, Jonathan Gulliver’s Travels
87. Thackeray, William Vanity Fair
88. Thoreau, Henry David Walden
89. Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace
90. Turgenev, Ivan Fathers and Sons
91. Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
92. Voltaire Candide
93. Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five
94. Walker, Alice The Color Purple
95. Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth
96. Welty, Eudora Collected Stories
97. Whitman, Walt Leaves of Grass
98. Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray
99. Williams, Tennessee The Glass Menagerie
100. Woolf, Virginia To the Lighthouse
101. Wright, Richard Native Son

Bold: books I’ve read
^: books I own and want to read this summer

1. —Beowulf
2. Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart
3. Agee, James A Death in the Family
4. Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice
5. Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain
6. Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot
7. Bellow, Saul The Adventures of Augie March
8. Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre
9. Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights
10. Camus, Albert The Stranger
11. Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop
12. Chaucer, Geoffrey The Canterbury Tales
13. Chekhov, Anton The Cherry Orchard
14. Chopin, Kate The Awakening
15. Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness
16. Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans
17. Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage
18. Dante, Inferno
19. de Cervantes, Miguel Don Quixote
20. Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe
21. Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities
22. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Crime and Punishment
23. Douglass, Frederick Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
24. Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy
25. Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers
26. Eliot, George The Mill on the Floss
27. Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man
28. Emerson, Ralph Waldo Selected Essays
29. Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying
30. Faulkner, William The Sound and the Fury
31. Fielding, Henry Tom Jones
32. Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby
33. Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary
34. Ford, Ford Madox The Good Soldier
35. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Faust
36. Golding, William Lord of the Flies
37. Hardy, Thomas Tess of the d’Urbervilles
^38. Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter
39. Heller, Joseph Catch 22
40. Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms
41. Homer The Iliad
42. Homer The Odyssey
43. Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame
44, Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God
45. Huxley, Aldous Brave New World
46. Ibsen, Henrik A Doll’s House
47. James, Henry The Portrait of a Lady
48. James, Henry The Turn of the Screw
49. Joyce, James A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
50. Kafka, Franz The Metamorphosis
51. Kingston, Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior
52. Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird
53. Lewis, Sinclair Babbitt
54. London, Jack The Call of the Wild
55. Mann, Thomas The Magic Mountain
^56. Marquez, Gabriel García One Hundred Years of Solitude
57. Melville, Herman Bartleby the Scrivener
58. Melville, Herman Moby Dick
59. Miller, Arthur The Crucible
60. Morrison, Toni Beloved
^61. O’Connor, Flannery A Good Man is Hard to Find
62. O’Neill, Eugene Long Day’s Journey into Night
63. Orwell, George Animal Farm
64. Pasternak, Boris Doctor Zhivago
65. Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar
66. Poe, Edgar Allan Selected Tales
67. Proust, Marcel Swann’s Way
68. Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49
69. Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front
70. Rostand, Edmond Cyrano de Bergerac
71. Roth, Henry Call It Sleep
72. Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
73. Shakespeare, William Hamlet
74. Shakespeare, William Macbeth
75. Shakespeare, William A Midsummer Night’s Dream
76. Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet
77. Shaw, George Bernard Pygmalion
78. Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
79. Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony
80. Solzhenitsyn, Alexander One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
81. Sophocles Antigone
82. Sophocles Oedipus Rex
83. Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath
84. Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island
85. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom’s Cabin
86. Swift, Jonathan Gulliver’s Travels
87. Thackeray, William Vanity Fair
^88. Thoreau, Henry David Walden
89. Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace
90. Turgenev, Ivan Fathers and Sons
91. Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
92. Voltaire Candide
93. Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five
^94. Walker, Alice The Color Purple
95. Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth
96. Welty, Eudora Collected Stories
97. Whitman, Walt Leaves of Grass
98. Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray
99. Williams, Tennessee The Glass Menagerie
100. Woolf, Virginia To the Lighthouse
101. Wright, Richard Native Son

33 done…..68 to go! It’s a good thing I’m still young ;-)

Super easy, super light, fun read. The main charecter is likeable, and sympathetic. it gets a bit depressing towards the end, but nowhere near as sad as a Hardy novel. Its amusing how much society has changed, and yet, the social commentary is still relevant. I’d like to read more by Wharton—I read Ethan Frome recently, and I enjoyed it too.

It’s not a good point for me to do this right now.
This is a much better goal for say, this summer.
Perfect for then, even.
I’ll re open it then.

Either in school or for enjoyment.

Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice
Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird
Miller, Arthur The Crucible
Orwell, George Animal Farm
Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar
Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet
Williams, Tennessee The Glass Menagerie

—Beowulf
Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart
Agee, James A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice READ
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
Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage
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
Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers
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
Ford, Ford Madox The Good Soldier
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
Kafka, Franz The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird READ
Lewis, Sinclair Babbitt
London, Jack The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel García One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur The Crucible READ
Morrison, Toni Beloved
O’Connor, Flannery A Good Man is Hard to Find
O’Neill, Eugene Long Day’s Journey into Night
Orwell, George Animal Farm READ
Pasternak, Boris Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar READ
Poe, Edgar Allan Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel Swann’s Way
Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William Hamlet
Shakespeare, William Macbeth
Shakespeare, William A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet READ
Shaw, George Bernard Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles Antigone
Sophocles Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Swift, Jonathan Gulliver’s Travels
Thackeray, William Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David Walden
Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee The Glass Menagerie READ
Woolf, Virginia To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard Native Son

I’ve read at least twenty-five of them, and some of them weren’t at all challenginng. All of the right writers are there, but of the wrong books.

I think i could do this. I do currently work in a library/

I keep reading other books… I’ll never get done with this!

Right now I’m halfway through “He Knew He Was Right” and I want to read “Love in the Time of Cholera”, but after those two, I have three college board books lined up and ready to go…