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College Summer Reading

Summer reading ideas for the college bound and college student. Beefing up your SAT verbal is just a bonus.

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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
College Summer Reading, World War I
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A Good Man is Hard to Find
by Flannery O'Connor
College Summer Reading
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A Lesson Before Dying
by Ernest Gaines
College Summer Reading, Oprah's Book Club
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A Portrait of the artist as a young man
by James Joyce
College Summer Reading
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A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
Classic Novels, College Summer Reading, Oprah's Book Club
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A Thousand splendid suns
by Khaled Hosseini
College Summer Reading
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All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
College Summer Reading, World War I
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An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser
Classic Novels, College Summer Reading, Small Town Life: The Darker Side
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Animal Farm
by George Orwell
College Summer Reading, Short Classic Novels
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As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
College Summer Reading, Oprah's Book Club
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Bastard out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison
College Summer Reading, Small Town Life: The Darker Side
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
African Americans in Historical Fiction, College Summer Reading
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Beowulf
by Unknown
Books to Movies, Classic Novels, College Summer Reading
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
College Summer Reading, Science Fiction Novels, The Future's So Bright
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Busmans Honeymoon
by Dorothy L. Sayers
College Summer Reading
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Candide
by Voltaire
College Summer Reading, Short Classic Novels
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
College Summer Reading
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Collected Stories
by Eudora Welty
College Summer Reading
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Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Classic Novels, College Summer Reading
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Cyrano de Bergerac
by Edmund Rostand
College Summer Reading
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Death comes for the archbishop
by Willa Cather
College Summer Reading
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Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
College Summer Reading
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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
College Summer Reading
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Dracula
by Bram Stoker
College Summer Reading
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Ella Minnow Pea
by Mark Dunn
College Summer Reading
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Escape from slavery : the boyhood of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass
College Summer Reading
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Feed
by M.T. Anderson
College Summer Reading
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Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
Classic Novels, College Summer Reading, Monsters, Stormy Weather, Written by Teens
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Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
Classic Novels, College Summer Reading
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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
Books to Movies, On the Stage, College Summer Reading
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Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
Classic Novels, College Summer Reading
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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
Classic Novels, College Summer Reading
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronteฬˆ
Books to Movies, Classic Novels, College Summer Reading
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Little brother
by Cory Doctorow
College Summer Reading, Staff Picks
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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
Classic Novels, College Summer Reading
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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Books to Movies, On the Stage, College Summer Reading
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Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
Classic Novels, College Summer Reading, Small Town Life: The Darker Side
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Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
Classic Novels, College Summer Reading, Stormy Weather
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Never Let Me Go
by Kauzo Ishiguro
College Summer Reading
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Nineteen Minutes
by Jodi Picoult
College Summer Reading
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Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
College Summer Reading
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On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
College Summer Reading
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One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
College Summer Reading
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
College Summer Reading, Big Family Sagas, Oprah's Book Club
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Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
College Summer Reading, Oprah's Book Club
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Pioneer Women
by Joanna Stratton
College Summer Reading
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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Books to Movies, College Summer Reading, Strong Women in Fiction
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Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
College Summer Reading
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Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Books to Movies, On the Stage, College Summer Reading
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Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
College Summer Reading
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
College Summer Reading, World War II
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Sold
by Patricia McCormick
College Summer Reading
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Someday this pain will be useful to you
by Peter Cameron
College Summer Reading
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Swanns Way
by Marcel Proust
College Summer Reading
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Tess of the DUrbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
Classic Novels, College Summer Reading, Small Town Life: The Darker Side
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
College Summer Reading
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The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
Classic Novels, College Summer Reading
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The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
College Summer Reading
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The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
College Summer Reading, World War II
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The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
College Summer Reading, Short Classic Novels
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The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Classic Novels, College Summer Reading
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The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
College Summer Reading
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The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
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The Complete illustrated stories and poems
by Edgar Allen Poe
College Summer Reading
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The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
Classic Novels, College Summer Reading
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The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
On the Stage, College Summer Reading
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The Curious incident of the dog in the night-time
by Mark Haddon
College Summer Reading
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The Forgotten fire
by Adam Bagdasarian.
College Summer Reading
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The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls
College Summer Reading
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The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
On the Stage, College Summer Reading
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The God of Animals
by Aryn Kyle
College Summer Reading
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The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
Classic Novels, College Summer Reading
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Classic Novels, College Summer Reading, Short Classic Novels
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The History of Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding
Classic Novels, College Summer Reading
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The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
College Summer Reading
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Victor Hugo
College Summer Reading
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The Iliad
by Homer
College Summer Reading
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The Known World
by Edward P. Jones
College Summer Reading
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The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
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The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
College Summer Reading, Short Classic Novels
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The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
Classic Novels, College Summer Reading
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The Odyssey
by Homer
College Summer Reading
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
College Summer Reading, Occult
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The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
College Summer Reading
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The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
College Summer Reading
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The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
The Civil War, Classic Novels, College Summer Reading, Short Classic Novels
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The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
College Summer Reading, Strong Women in Fiction
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The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
College Summer Reading, Oprah's Book Club
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Classic Novels, College Summer Reading, Small Town Life: The Darker Side
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The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
College Summer Reading, Oprah's Book Club, Stories Told From Different Points of View
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
College Summer Reading, Short Classic Novels
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The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
Classic Novels, College Summer Reading
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The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
College Summer Reading, Time Travel Romance
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The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
College Summer Reading
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These is my words
by Nancy Groves Turner
College Summer Reading
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
College Summer Reading
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To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
Classic Novels, College Summer Reading
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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Classic Novels, College Summer Reading
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Classic Novels, College Summer Reading
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Vanity Fair
by William Thackeray
College Summer Reading
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Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
On the Stage, College Summer Reading
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Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
College Summer Reading
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Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen
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Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
by Gregory Maguire
College Summer Reading, Witches
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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
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