Books to Read



  1. Asim, Jabari. The N Word
  2. Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice 
  3. Barker, Gregory A. and Stephen E. Gregg. Jesus: Beyond Christianity: The Classic Texts
  4. Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot
  5. Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451
  6. Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre
  7. Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights
  8. Calvino, Italo. The Baron in the Trees 
  9. Camus, Albert. The Stranger 
  10. Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s 
  11. Carlson, Lori M., editor. Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing up Latino in the United States 
  12. Chekhov, Anton. The Cherry Orchard  
  13. Chopin, Kate. The Awakening 
  14. Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street 
  15. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness 
  16. Dante. The Inferno 
  17. Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities 
  18. Dickinson, Emily. Poems 
  19. Doctorow, E. L. Ragtime 
  20. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment 
  21. Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man 
  22. Edrich, Louise. The Beet Queen 
  23. Fadiman, Anne. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
  24. Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying 
  25. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. 
  26. Gardner, John. Grendel 
  27. Gillian, Maria Mazziotti and Jennifer, editors. Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry 
  28. Golding, William. Lord of the Flies 
  29. Hamilton, Edith. Mythology 
  30. Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun 
  31. Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D’Ubervilles
  32. Heller, Joseph. Catch-22  
  33. Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms 
  34. Hogan, Linda. The Woman Who Watches Over the World
  35. Homer. The Iliad and TheOdyssey  
  36. Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God 
  37. Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World 
  38. Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll’s House 
  39. Ionesco, Eugene. Rhinoceros. 
  40. Irving, John. The World According to Garp 
  41. James, Henry. Daisy Miller 
  42. Johnson, Adam. The Orphan Master's Son
  43. Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 
  44. Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis 
  45. Karr, Mary. The Liar’s Club: A Memoir 
  46. Keneally, Thomas. Schindler’s List 
  47. Kerouac, Jack. On the Road 
  48. Kessy, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 
  49. Kincaid, Jamaica. Annie John 
  50. Kosinski, Jerzy. The Painted Bird 
  51. Kroeger, Brooke. Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are
  52. Kushner, Tony. A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Pt. 1, Millennium Approaches; Pt. 2, Perestroika 
  53. Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird 
  54. McCarthy, Cormac. The Road
  55. McCourt, Frank. Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir 
  56. McCullers, Carson. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 
  57. Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. One Hundred Years of Solitude 
  58. Mason, Bobbi Ann. In Country 
  59. Melanson, Yvette. Looking for Lost Bird
  60. Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman 
  61. Miller, E. Ethelbert, editor. In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African American Poetry 
  62. Morrison, Toni. Beloved 
  63. Niatum, Duane, editor. Harper’s Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry 
  64. O’Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction 
  65. O’Conner, Flannery. The Complete Stories 
  66. O’Neill, Eugene. Long Day’s Journey into Night 
  67. Orwell, George. 1984 
  68. Ovid. Metomorphoses 
  69. Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar 
  70. Poe, Edgar Allen. Tales 
  71. Reeves, Nicholas. Akhenaten: Egypt's False Prophet
  72. Rodriguez, Richard. Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez: An Autobiography 
  73. Rosenberg, Liz, editor. Earth-shattering Poems 
  74. Roth, Philip. The Ghost Writer 
  75. Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye 
  76. Sanderson, Brandon. Mistborn
  77. Sartre, Jean Paul. No Exit 
  78. Shakespeare, William. Hamlet 
  79. Shakespeare, William. Macbeth 
  80. Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream 
  81. Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet 
  82. Shaw, George Bernard. Pygmalion 
  83. Sheff, David. Beautiful Boy
  84. Smith, Philip, editor. 100 Best-Loved Poems
  85. Stadler, Matthew. Allan Stein
  86. Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath  
  87. Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead  
  88. Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club 
  89. Thoreau, Henry David. Walden 
  90. Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina 
  91. Twain, Mark. Huckleberry Finn 
  92. Voltaire. Candide 
  93. Vonnegut, Kurt. Cat’s Cradle 
  94. Walker, Alice. The Color Purple 
  95. Watson, James D. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery and Structure of DNA 
  96. Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome. 
  97. Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass 
  98. Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest 
  99. Wilder, Thornton. Our Town 
  100. Wolff, Tobias. This Boy’s Life: A Memoir. 
  101. Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. 
  102. Wright, Richard. Native Son 
  103. X, Malcom, with the assistance of Alex Haley. The Autobiography of Malcom X  
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