College Bound Reading List, compiled by Arrowhead Library System

My Antonia

The Awakening

The Ox-Bow Incident

The Chocolate War

The Red Badge of Courage

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

Invisible Man

As I Lay Dying

The Great Gatsby

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

The Scarlet Letter

Fahrenheit 451

Seize the Day

Looking Backward: 2000-1887

Go Tell It On the Mountain

Winesburg, Ohio

A Death in the Family

Catch-22

A Farewell to Arms

Their Eyes Were Watching God

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

To Kill a Mockingbird

Lewis, Sinclair

Call of the Wild

The Member of the Wedding

Moby-Dick

Sula

A Good Man is Hard to Find

The Learning Tree

The Bell Jar

Great Tales and Poems

The Chosen

The Catcher in the Rye

The Jungle

The Grapes of Wrath

Uncle Tom's Cabin

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Slaughterhouse-Five

The Color Purple

The Time Machine

Thirteen Stories

Look Homeward, Angel

Native Son

Things Fall Apart

House of the Spirits

Pride and Prejudice

Labyrinths

Jane Eyre

WutheringHeights

The Stranger

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Don Quixote

Heart of Darkness

Robinson Crusoe

Great Expectations

Crime and Punishment

The Mill on the Floss

Like Water for Chocolate

Madame Bovary

A Passage to India

The Death of Artemio Cruz

One Hundred Years of Solitude

The Overcoat

Lord of the Flies

The Tin Drum

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Siddhartha

Brave New World

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

The Trial

Sons and Lovers

Death in Venice

Animal Farm

Doctor Zhivago

Cry, the Beloved Country

All Quiet on the Western Front

Ivanhoe

Frankenstein

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Gulliver's Travels

The Joy Luck Club

Anna Karenina

Night

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Days of Grace

Growing Up

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Alistair Cooke's America

Lakota Woman

Madame Curie

The Diary of a Young Girl

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Roots

Hiroshima

The Story of My Life

Profiles in Courage

Born on the Fourth of July

The Prince

The Autobiography of Malcom X

The Communist Manifesto

Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer

The Republic

Invisible Men: Life in Baseball's Negro Leagues

Walden

Democracy in America

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-65

Favorite Folktales From Around the World

The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth

The Ascent of Man

Silent Spring

The Origin of Species

A Sand CountyAlmanac: And Sketches Here and There

The Power of Myth

Waiting for Godot

Mother Courage and Her Children

The Cherry Orchard

A Doll's House

Doctor Faustus

Death of a Salesman

Long Day's Journey Into Night

No Exit

King Lear

Hamlet

Macbeth

Twelfth Night

Man and Superman

Saint Joan

Pygmalion

Oedipus Rex

The Importance of Being Earnest

Our Town

A Streetcar Named Desire

The Piano

Selected Poemsof Maya Angelou

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

The Complete Poetry of John Donne

The Wasteland

The Poetry of Robert Frost

The Poetical Works of Longfellow

Poems of Dylan Thomas

The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as told in the United StatesHolocaustMemorialMuseum.

Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

Friendly Shakespeare: A Thoroughly Painless Guide to the Best of the Bard.

The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England

A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr.

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in Urban America

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession

Popular Literature

Tuesdays with Morrie

Baseball in April

My Wicked, Wicked Ways

Living Up the Street

Bless Me, Ultima

It’s Not About the Bike

Autobiography of Malcolm X

Woman Hollering Creek

Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie

Lucas

Prey

Ordinary People

Lincoln at Gettysburg

The Odd Couple

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

BrightonBeach Memoirs

Lost in Yonkers

Jordan Rules

Shane

On Golden Pond

Fiddler on the Roof

Profiles in Courage

My Life

Air Time

Twilight

New Moon

Eclipse

Breaking Down

Go Ask Alice

An Inconvenient Truth

House on Mango Street

Lonesome Dove

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

How WalMart is Destroying America