101 Great Books
Recommended Reading for High School Students and Readers of all Ages
(Provided by collegeboard.com)
**Denotes titles typically included in the CdS Curriculum Author | Title | Author | Title | ------- | **Beowulf | Ford, Ford Madox | The Good Soldier | Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart | Goethe, Johann Wolfgan von | Faust | Agee, James | A Death in the Family | Golding, William | Lord of the Flies | Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice | Hardy, Thomas | Tess of the d’Urbervilles | Baldwin, James | Go Tell It on the Mountain | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | **The Scarlet Letter | Beckett, Samuel | Waiting for Godot | Heller, Joseph | Catch 22 | Bellow, Saul | The Adventures of Augie March | Hemingway, Ernest | A Farewell to Arms | Bronte, Charlotte | Jayne Eyre | Homer | **The Illiad | Bronte, Emily | Wuthering Heights | Homer | **The Odyssey | Camus, Albert | **The Stranger | Hugo, Victor | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Cather, Willa | Death Comes for the Archbishop | Hurston, Zora Neale | **Their Eyes Were Watching God | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World | Chaucer, Geoffrey | **The Canterbury Tales | Ibsen, Henrik | A Doll’s House | Chekhov, Anton | The Cherry Orchard | James, Henry | The Portrait of a Lady | Chopin, Kate | The Awakening | James, Henry | The Turn of the Screw | Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness | Joyce, James | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Cooper, James Fenimore | The Last of the Mohicans | Kafka, Franz | **The Metamorphosis | Crane, Stephen | The Red Badge of Courage | Kingston, Maxine Hong | The Woman Warrior | Dante | **Inferno | Lee, Harper | **To Kill a Mockingbird | Defoe, Daniel | Robinson Crusoe | Lewis, Sinclair | Babbitt | Dickens, Charles | **A Tale of Two Cities | London, Jack | The Call of the Wild | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Crime and Punishment | Mann, Thomas | The Magic Mountain | Douglas, Frederic | Narrative of