'TKAM' listed among '101 Great Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers'

We’ve hit that time of year when more than a few kids have just finished high school and are preparing to enter the college ranks. With that in mind, I ran across an interesting recommended reading list earlier today called “101 Great Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers.”

Compiled by The College Board (the folks that created the SAT test), this list of great books features a number of titles that you’ll be familiar with. Students preparing to attend college will benefit from these books and those of us who are past our college days can still enjoy mulling over those that we have or haven’t read.

Without further ado, here’s the list:

1. Beowulf by Unknown
2. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
3. A Death in the Family by James Agee
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
6. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
7. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
8. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
9. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
10. The Stranger by Albert Camus

11. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
12. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
13. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
14. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
15. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
16. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
17. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
18. Inferno by Dante
19. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
20. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

21. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
22. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
23. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
24. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
25. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
26. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
27. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
28. Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
30. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

31. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
32. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
34. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
35. Faust by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
36. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
37. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
38. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
39. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
40. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

41. The Iliad by Homer
42. The Odyssey by Homer
43. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
44. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
45. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
46. A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
47. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
48. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
49. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
50. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

51. The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
52. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
53. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
54. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
55. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
56. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
57. Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
58. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
59. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
60. Beloved by Toni Morrison

61. A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
62. Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill
63. Animal Farm by George Orwell
64. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
65. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
66. Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
67. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
68. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
69. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
70. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

71. Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
72. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
73. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
74. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
75. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
76. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
77. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
78. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
79. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
80. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

81. Antigone by Sophocles
82. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
83. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
84. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
85. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
86. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
87. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
88. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
89. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
90. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

91. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
92. Candide by Voltaire
93. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
94. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
95. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
96. Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
97. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
98. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
99. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
100. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
101. Native Son by Richard Wright

In the end, how many of these books have you read? Which did you like or dislike? Which would you recommend and why? Which is your favorite and why? Let us know in the comments section below.