101 books they expect you to read by the time you get to college

By Sandra and Harry Charon.

If ever you are interested.

1. Bastard out of Carolina : Dorothy Allison
2. I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing : Maya Angelou
3. The Handmaid's Tale : Margaret Atwood
4. Pride and Prejudice : Jane Austen
5. Waiting for Godot : Samuel Beckett
6. Fahrenheit 451 : Ray Bradbury
7. Jane Eyre : Charlotte Bronte
8. Wuthering Heights : Emily Bronte
9. The Baron in the Trees : Italo Calvino
10. The Stranger : Albert Camus
11. Breakfast at Tiffany's : Truman Capote
12. Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States : Lori M Carlson (ed.)
13. Alice in Wonderland : Lewis Carroll
14. The Cherry Orchard : Anton Chekhov
15. The Awakening : Kate Chopin
16. The House on Mango Street : Sandra Cisneros
17. Heart of Darkness : Joseph Conrad
18. The Inferno : Dante
19. A Tale of Two Cities : Emily Dickens
20. Poems : Emily Dickinson
21. Ragtime : E.L Doctorow
22. Crime and Punishment : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
23. Invisible Man : Ralph Ellison
24. The Beet Queen : Louise Erdrich
25. As I Lay Dying : William Faulkner
26. The Great Gatsby : F Scott Fitzgerald
27. The Diary of a Young Girl : Anne Frank
28. Grendel : John Gardner
29. Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry : Maria Gillian and Jennifer Gillian (eds.)
30. Lord of Flies : William Golding
31. Mythology : Edith Hamilton
32. A Raising in the Sun : Lorraine Hansberry
33. Tess of D'Urbervilles : Thomas Hardy
34. The Scarlett Letter : Nathaniel Hawthorne
35. Catch-22 : Joseph Heller
36. A Farewell to Arms : Ernest Hemingway
37. Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version
38. The Odyssey : Homer
39. Their Eyes Were Watching God : Zora Neale Hurston
40. Brave New World : Aldous Huxley
41. A Doll's House : Henrik Ibsen
42. Rhinoceros : Eugene Ionesco
43. The World According to Garp : John Irving
44. Daisy Miller : Henry James
45. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man : James Joyce
46. The Metamorphosis : Franz Kafka
47. The Liars' Club: A Memoir : Mary Karr
48. Schindler's List : Thomas Keneally
49. On the Road : Jack Keruoac
50. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest : Ken Kesey
51. Annie John : Jamaica Kincaid
52. The Painted Bird : Jerzy Kosinski
53. Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Pt. 1, Millennium Approaches; Pt. 2, Perestroika : Tony Kushner
54. To Kill a Mockingbird : Harper Lee
55. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir : Frank McCourt
56. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter : Carson McCullers
57. One Hundred Years of Solitude : Gabriel Garcia Marquez
58. In Country : Bobbie Ann Manson
59. Death of a Salesman : Arthur Miller
60. In Search of Colour Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry : E Ethelbert Miller (ed.)
61. Beloved : Toni Morrison
62. Harper's Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry : Duane Niatum (ed.)
63. The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction : Tim O'Brien
64. The Complete Stories : Flannery O'Connor
65. Long Day's Journey into the Night : Eugene O'Neill
66. Nineteen Eighty-Four : George Orwell
67. Metamorphoses : Ovis
68. The Bell Jar : Sylvia Plath
69. Tales : Edgar Allen Poe
70. Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez: An Autobiography : Richard Rodriguez
71. Earth-Shattering Poems : Liz Rosenberd (ed.)
72. The Ghost Writer : Philip Roth
73. The Catcher in the Rye : J.D Salinger
74. No Exit : Jean Paul Sartre
75. Hamlet : William Shakespeare
76. Macbeth : William Shakespeare
77. A Midsummer Night's Dream : William Shakespeare
78. Romeo and Juliet : William Shakespeare
79. Pygmalion : George Bernard Shaw
80. 100 Best Loved Poems : Philip Smith
81. Maus: A Survivor's Tale and Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began : Art Spiegelman
82. The Grapes of Wrath : John Steinbeck
83. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde : Robert Louis Stevenson
84. Rosencrantz and Guidenstern are Dead : Tom Stoppard
85. The Joy Luck Club : Amy Tan
86. Walden : Henry David Thoreau
87. Anna Karenina : Leo Tolstoy
88. Huckleberry Finn : Mark Twain
89. Candide : Voltaire
90. Cat's Cradle : Kurt Vonnegut
91. The Colour Purple : Alice Walker
92. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery and Structure of DNA : James D Watson
93. Ethan Frome : Edith Wharton
94. Leaves of Grass : Walt Whitman
95. The Importance of Being Earnest : Oscar Wilde
96. Our Town : Thornton Wilder
97. The Glass Menagerie : Tennessee Williams
98. This Boy's Life: A Memoir : Tobias Wolff
99. Mrs Dalloway : Virginia Woolf
100. Native Son : Richard Wright
101. The Autobiography of Malcolm X : Malcolm X, with the assistance of Alex Haley

Source: Adlin. And brother.