The American Library Association’s
College Prep. Reading Students,
The following pages contain lists of books which are acceptable for College Prep. Reading. In addition to the books on these lists, I will probably approve any other novel written by the authors listed here.
The books that are highlighted in yellow are books that I have read, found enjoyable, and would recommend to you. Of course, many of the other books are also wonderful, but I just have not read them.
-Mr. Hardebeck
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The American Library Association’s
list of outstanding books for college-bound students
Agee, James. A Death in the Family. 1957.
The enchanted childhood summer of 1915 suddenly becomes a baffling experience for Rufus Follet when his father dies.
Allison, Dorothy. Bastard Out of Carolina. 1992.
Bone confronts poverty, the troubled marriage of her mother and stepfather, and the stigma of being considered "white trash" as she comes of age in South Carolina.
Alvarez, Julia. In the Time of Butterflies. 1994.
Dede, the only survivor of the four Mirabel sisters, code named Mariposas or butterflies, reveals their role in the liberation of the Dominican Republic from the dictator Trujillo.
Anaya, Rudolfo. Bless Me, Ultima. 1972.
Ultima, a wise old mystic, helps a young Hispanic boy resolve personal dilemmas caused by the differing backgrounds and aspirations of his parents and society.
Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. 1986.
In Gilead, a Christian fundamentalist dystopia, fertile lower-class women serve as birth-mothers for the upper class.
Butler, Octavia. Parable of the Sower. 1993.
Lauren Olamina, who suffers from a hereditary trait called "hyperempathy" that causes her to feel others' pain physically, journeys north along the dangerous highways of twentieth-first century California.
Card, Orson Scott. Ender's Game. 1985.
In a world decimated by alien attacks, the government trains young geniuses like Ender Wiggin in military strategy with increasingly complex computer games.
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. 1899.
Edna Pontellier, an unhappy wife and mother, discovers new qualities in herself when she visits Grand Isle, a resort for the Creole elite of New Orleans.
Cisneros, Sandra. The House On Mango Street. 1991.
In short, poetic stories, Esperanza describes life in a low-income, predominantly Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. 1866.
A sensitive intellectual is driven by poverty to believe himself exempt from moral law.
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. 1952.
A young African American seeking identity during his high school and college days, and later in New York's Harlem, relates his terrifying experiences.
Emecheta, Buchi. Bride Price. 1976.
Aku-nna, a very young Ibo girl, and Chike, her teacher, fall in love despite tribal custom forbidding their romance.
Faulkner, William. The Bear. 1931.
Ike McCaslin's hunting trips for the legendary bear, Old Ben, are played out against opposing ideas of corruption and innocence.
Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain. 1997.
Inman, a wounded Civil War soldier, endures the elements, The Guard, and his own weakness and infirmity to return to his sweetheart, Ada, who is fighting her own battle to survive while farming the mountainous North Carolina terrain.
Gaines, Ernest. A Lesson Before Dying. 1993.
When Jefferson's attorney states, "I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this," disillusioned teacher Grant Wiggins is sent into the penitentiary to help this slow learner gain a sense of dignity and self-esteem before his execution.
Gardner, John. Grendel. 1971.
In a unique interpretation of the Beowulf legend, the monster Grendel relates his struggle to understand the ugliness in himself and mankind in the brutal world of fourteenth-century Denmark.
Gibbons, Kaye. Ellen Foster. 1987.
Casting an unflinching yet humorous eye on her situation, eleven-year-old Ellen survives her mother's death, an abusive father, and uncaring relatives to find for herself a loving home and a new mama.
Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. 1961.
In this satirical novel, Captain Yossarian confronts the hypocrisy of war and bureaucracy as he frantically attempts to survive.
Hemingway, Ernest. Farewell to Arms. 1929.
World War I is the setting for this love story of an English nurse and a wounded American ambulance officer.
Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha. 1951.
Emerging from a kaleidoscope of experiences and tasted pleasures, Siddhartha transcends to a state of peace and mystic holiness in this strangely simple story.
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. 1932.
In a chilling vision of the future, babies are produced in bottles and exist in a mechanized world without soul.
Keneally, Thomas. Schindler's List. 1982.
Oskar Schindler, a rich factory owner, risks his life and spends his personal fortune to save Jews listed as his workers during World War II.
King, Laurie R. The Beekeeper's Apprentice, or, on the Segregation of the Queen. 1994.
Retired Sherlock Holmes meets his intellectual match in 15-year-old Mary Russell, who challenges him to investigate yet another case.
Kosinski, Jerzy. Painted Bird. 1965.
An abandoned dark-haired child wanders alone through isolated villages of Eastern Europe in World War II.
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. 1960.
A young girl tells of life in a small Alabama town in the 1930s and her father's defense in court of an African American accused of raping a white woman.
LeGuin, Ursula. The Left Hand of Darkness. 1969.
First envoy to the technologically primitive world of Winter, Al must deal with a hostile climate; a suspicious, bickering government; and his own conventional sexual mores.
McCullers, Carson. The Member of the Wedding. 1946.
A young Southern girl is determined to be the third party on a honeymoon, despite all advice.
McKinley, Robin. Beauty. 1978.
Love is the only key to unlocking a curse and transforming the Beast into a man.
Malamud, Bernard. The Fixer. 1966.
Victim of a vicious anti-Semitic conspiracy, Yakov Bok is in a Russian prison with only his indomitable will to sustain him.
Markandaya, Kamala. Nectar In A Sieve. 1954.
Natural disasters, an arranged marriage, and industrialization of her village are the challenges Rukmani must face as the bride of a peasant farmer in southern India.
Mason, Bobbi Ann. In Country. 1985.
After her father is killed in the Vietnam War, Sam Hughes lives with an uncle whom she suspects suffers from the effects of Agent Orange, and struggles to come to terms with the war's impact on her family.
Mori, Kyoko. Shizuko's Daughter. 1993.
In the years following her mother's suicide, Yuki develops the inner strength to cope with her distant father, her resentful stepmother, and her haunting, painful memories.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved. 1987.
Preferring death over slavery for her children, Sethe murders her infant daughter who later mysteriously returns and almost destroys the lives of her mother and sister.
O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction. 1990.
These stories follow Tim O'Brien's platoon of American soldiers through a variety of personal and military encounters during the Vietnam War.
O'Connor, Flannery. Everything That Rises Must Converge. 1965.
Stories about misfits in small Southern towns force the reader to confront hypocrisy and complacency.
Potok, Chaim. The Chosen. 1967.
A baseball injury brings together two Jewish boys, one Hasidic, the other Orthodox, first in hostility but finally in friendship.
Power, Susan. The Grass Dancer. 1994.
Ending in the 1980s with the love story of Charlene Thunder and grass dancer Harley Wind Soldier, this multigenerational tale of a Sioux family is told in the voices of the living and the dead.
Shaara, Michael. Killer Angels. 1974.
Officers and foot soldiers from both the Union and Confederacy steel themselves for the bloody Battle of Gettysburg.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. 1939.
An Oklahoma farmer and his family leave the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression to go to the promised land of California.
Uchida, Yoshiko. Picture Bride. 1987.
Hana Omiya journeys to America in the early 1900s to marry a man she has never met.
Watson, Larry. Montana 1948. 1993.
The summer he is 12, David watches as his family and small town are shattered by scandal and tragedy.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. 1940.
For Bigger Thomas, an African American man accused of a crime in the white man's world, there could be no extenuating circumstances, no explanations and only death.
Yolen, Jane. Briar Rose. 1992.
Disturbed by her grandmother Gemma's unique version of Sleeping Beauty, Rebecca seeks the truth behind the fairy tale.
101 Great Books
Recommended for College-Bound Readers by the College Board
It's a good idea to talk to your parents, librarians, teachers, and counselor about your reading list. They can help you choose the best books for you from among your many options.
|Author |Title |
|-- |Beowulf |
|Achebe, Chinua |Things Fall Apart |
|Agee, James |A Death in the Family |
|Austen, Jane |Pride and Prejudice |
|Baldwin, James |Go Tell It on the Mountain |
|Beckett, Samuel |Waiting for Godot |
|Bellow, Saul |The Adventures of Augie March |
|Brontë, Charlotte |Jane Eyre |
|Brontë, Emily |Wuthering Heights |
|Camus, Albert |The Stranger |
|Cather, Willa |Death Comes for the Archbishop |
|Chaucer, Geoffrey |The Canterbury Tales |
|Chekhov, Anton |The Cherry Orchard |
|Chopin, Kate |The Awakening |
|Conrad, Joseph |Heart of Darkness |
|Cooper, James Fenimore |The Last of the Mohicans |
|Crane, Stephen |The Red Badge of Courage |
|Dante |Inferno |
|de Cervantes, Miguel |Don Quixote |
|Defoe, Daniel |Robinson Crusoe |
|Dickens, Charles |A Tale of Two Cities |
|Dostoyevsky, Fyodor |Crime and Punishment |
|Douglass, Frederick |Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass |
|Dreiser, Theodore |An American Tragedy |
|Dumas, Alexandre |The Three Musketeers |
|Eliot, George |The Mill on the Floss |
|Ellison, Ralph |Invisible Man |
|Emerson, Ralph Waldo |Selected Essays |
|Faulkner, William |As I Lay Dying |
|Faulkner, William |The Sound and the Fury |
|Fielding, Henry |Tom Jones |
|Fitzgerald, F. Scott |The Great Gatsby |
|Flaubert, Gustave |Madame Bovary |
|Ford, Ford Madox |The Good Soldier |
|Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von |Faust |
|Golding, William |Lord of the Flies |
|Hardy, Thomas |Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
|Hawthorne, Nathaniel |The Scarlet Letter |
|Heller, Joseph |Catch 22 |
|Hemingway, Ernest |A Farewell to Arms |
|Homer |The Iliad |
|Homer |The Odyssey |
|Hugo, Victor |The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
|Hurston, Zora Neale |Their Eyes Were Watching God |
|Huxley, Aldous |Brave New World |
|Ibsen, Henrik |A Doll's House |
|James, Henry |The Portrait of a Lady |
|James, Henry |The Turn of the Screw |
|Joyce, James |A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
|Kafka, Franz |The Metamorphosis |
|Kingston, Maxine Hong |The Woman Warrior |
|Lee, Harper |To Kill a Mockingbird |
|Lewis, Sinclair |Babbitt |
|London, Jack |The Call of the Wild |
|Mann, Thomas |The Magic Mountain |
|Marquez, Gabriel García |One Hundred Years of Solitude |
|Melville, Herman |Bartleby the Scrivener |
|Melville, Herman |Moby Dick |
|Miller, Arthur |The Crucible |
|Morrison, Toni |Beloved |
|O'Connor, Flannery |A Good Man is Hard to Find |
|O'Neill, Eugene |Long Day's Journey into Night |
|Orwell, George |Animal Farm |
|Pasternak, Boris |Doctor Zhivago |
|Plath, Sylvia |The Bell Jar |
|Poe, Edgar Allan |Selected Tales |
|Proust, Marcel |Swann's Way |
|Pynchon, Thomas |The Crying of Lot 49 |
|Remarque, Erich Maria |All Quiet on the Western Front |
|Rostand, Edmond |Cyrano de Bergerac |
|Roth, Henry |Call It Sleep |
|Salinger, J.D. |The Catcher in the Rye |
|Shakespeare, William |Hamlet |
|Shakespeare, William |Macbeth |
|Shakespeare, William |A Midsummer Night's Dream |
|Shakespeare, William |Romeo and Juliet |
|Shaw, George Bernard |Pygmalion |
|Shelley, Mary |Frankenstein |
|Silko, Leslie Marmon |Ceremony |
|Solzhenitsyn, Alexander |One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
|Sophocles |Antigone |
|Sophocles |Oedipus Rex |
|Steinbeck, John |The Grapes of Wrath |
|Stevenson, Robert Louis |Treasure Island |
|Stowe, Harriet Beecher |Uncle Tom's Cabin |
|Swift, Jonathan |Gulliver's Travels |
|Thackeray, William |Vanity Fair |
|Thoreau, Henry David |Walden |
|Tolstoy, Leo |War and Peace |
|Turgenev, Ivan |Fathers and Sons |
|Twain, Mark |The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
|Voltaire |Candide |
|Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. |Slaughterhouse-Five |
|Walker, Alice |The Color Purple |
|Wharton, Edith |The House of Mirth |
|Welty, Eudora |Collected Stories |
|Whitman, Walt |Leaves of Grass |
|Wilde, Oscar |The Picture of Dorian Gray |
|Williams, Tennessee |The Glass Menagerie |
|Woolf, Virginia |To the Lighthouse |
|Wright, Richard |Native Son |
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York Globe, established the Pulitzer Prize through an endowment to Columbia University. The Fiction Award is given annually for fiction in book form by an American author and preferably dealing with American life.
1918: Ernest Poole His Family
1919: Booth Tarkington The Magnificent Ambersons
1920: No award
1921: Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
1922: Booth Tarkington Alice Adams
1923: Willa Cather One of Ours
1924: Margaret Wilson The Able McLaughlins
1925: Edna Ferber So Big
1926: Sinclair Lewis Arrowsmith
1927: Louis Bromfield Early Autumn
1928: Thornton Wilder The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1929: Julia Peterkin Scarlet Sister Mary
1930: Oliver La Farge Laughing Boy
1931: Margaret Ayer Barnes Years of Grace
1932: Pearl S. Buck The Good Earth
1933: T.S. Stribling The Store
1934: Caroline Miller Lamb in his Bosom
1935: Josephine Winslow Johnson Now in November
1936: Harold Davis Honey in the Horn
1937: Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind
1938: John Phillips Marquand The Late George Apley
1939: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The Yearling
1940: John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
1941: No award
1942: Ellen Glasgow In this Our Life
1943: Upton Sinclair Dragon's Teeth
1944: Martin Flavin Journey in the Dark
1945: John Hersey A Bell for Adano
1946: No award
1947: Robert Penn Warren All the King's Men
1948: James A. Michener Tales of the South Pacific
1949: James Gould Cozzens Guard of Honor
1950: A.B. Guthrie The Way West
1951: Conrad Richter The Town
1952: Herman Wouk The Caine Mutiny
1953: Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea
1954: No award
1955: William Faulkner A Fable
1956: Mackinlay Kantor Andersonville
1957: No award
1958: James Agee A Death in the Family
1959: Robert Lewis TaylorThe Travels of Jamie McPheeters
1960: Allen Drury Advise and Consent
1961: Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
1962: Edwin O'Connor The Edge of Sadness
1963: William Faulkner The Reivers
1964: No award
1965: Shirley Anne Grau The Keepers of the House
1966: Katherine Anne Porter Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
1967: Bernard Malamud The Fixer
1968: William Styron The Confessions of Nat Turner
1969: N. Scott Momaday House Made of Dawn
1970: Jean Stafford Collected Stories
1971: No award
1972: Wallace Stegner The Angle of Repose
1973: Eudora Welty The Optimist's Daughter
1974: No award
1975: Michael Shaara The Killer Angels
1976: Saul Bellow Humboldt's Gift
1977: No award
1978: James Alan McPherson Elbow Room
1979: John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever
1980: Norman Mailer The Executioner's Song
1981: John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces
1982: John Updike Rabbit is Rich
1983: Alice Walker The Color Purple
1984: William Kennedy Ironweed
1985: Alison Lurie Foreign Affairs
1986: Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove
1987: Peter Taylor A Summons to Memphis
1988: Toni Morrison Beloved
1989: Anne Tyler Breathing Lessons
1990: Oscar Hijuelos The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
1991: John Updike Rabbit at Rest
1992: Jane Smiley Thousand Acres
1993: Robert Olen Butler A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
1994: E. Annie Proulx The Shipping News
1995: Carol Shields Stone Diaries
1996: Richard Ford Independence Day
1997: Steven Millhauser Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
1998: Philip Roth American Pastoral
1999: Michael Cunningham The Hours
2000: Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies
2001: Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
2002: Richard Russo Empire Falls
2003: Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex
2004: Edward P. Jones The Known World
2005: Marilynne Robinson Gilead
Book Movement’s List of 100 Best-Selling Book Club Books
This list is also available online at . If you go to the website, there are descriptions of each book.
1. One Thousand White Women : The Journals of May Dodd: A Novel
by Jim Fergus
2. The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
3. The Cloister Walk
by Kathleen Norris
4. Eating Heaven
by Jennie Shortridge
5. Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
6. Gods in Alabama
by Joshilyn Jackson
7. The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
8. The Memory Keeper's Daughter
by Kim Edwards
9. The Glass Castle : A Memoir (Alex Awards (Awards))
by Jeannette Walls
10. The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
11. Moon Tide : A Novel
by Dawn Clifton Tripp
12. We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel (P.S.)
by Lionel Shriver
13. For One More Day
by Mitch Albom
14. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by Loung Ung
15. A Thread of Grace
by Mary Doria Russell
16. The Bright Forever : A Novel
by Lee Martin
17. Shantaram : A Novel
by Gregory David Roberts
18. I, Mona Lisa
by Jeanne Kalogridis
19. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by Anne Fadiman
20. Peace Like a River
by Leif Enger
21. A.D. 62: Pompeii
by Rebecca M. East
22. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer
23. My Sister's Keeper : A Novel
by Jodi Picoult
24. Sins Of My Mother
by Terri Jones Salte
25. Gilead: A Novel
by Marilynne Robinson
26. Night (Oprah's Book Club)
by Elie Wiesel
27. Running with Scissors
by Augusten Burroughs
28. Affinity
by Sarah Waters
29. The Art of Mending
by Elizabeth Berg
30. The Tortilla Curtain
by T. Boyle
31. The Mermaid Chair: A Novel
by Sue Monk Kidd
32. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
33. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan : A Novel
by Lisa See
34. Broken for You
by Stephanie Kallos
35. The Deception of the Emerald Ring
by Lauren Willig
36. The Glass Castle : A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
37. The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
38. The Good Son: A Novel
by Craig Nova
39. Hoot : Movie Tie-In
by Carl Hiaasen
40. Moloka'i
by Alan Brennert
41. Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam
by Zainab Salbi, Laurie Becklund
42. The Meaning of Wife
by Anne Kingston
43. Cotton Song: A Novel
by Tom Bailey
44. Silent Lies
by M.L. Malcolm
45. The Other Boleyn Girl
by Philippa Gregory
46. The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
47. The Grace That Keeps This World : A Novel
by Tom Bailey
48. An American Childhood
by Annie Dillard
49. A Million Little Pieces (Oprah's Book Club)
by James Frey
50. London Is the Best City in America
by Laura Dave
51. When Europa Rode The Bull
by Barbara Berot
52. 1776
by David McCullough
53. The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
54. The Known World
by Edward P. Jones
55. The Center of Everything
by Laura Moriarty
56. In the Time of the Butterflies
by Julia Alvarez
57. O My Darling: A Novel
by Amity Gaige
58. Atonement
by Ian McEwan
59. Three Day Road
by Joseph Boyden
60. Being Mrs. Alcott
by Nancy Geary
61. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
62. All This Heavenly Glory
by Elizabeth Crane
63. Harem: A Novel
by Dora Levy Mossanen
64. The Little Women
by Katharine Weber
65. Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt
66. Casino Royale
by Ian Fleming
67. The Hummingbird's Daughter : A Novel
by Luis Alberto Urrea
68. Snow Falling on Cedars : A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
by David Guterson
69. The Bonesetter's Daughter
by Amy Tan
70. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
by James McBride
71. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson
72. The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
73. The Glass Castle (a memoir,THE GLASS CASTLE)
by Jeanette Walls
74. Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
75. The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
by Diane Setterfield
76. In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
77. Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
78. The Five People You Meet in Heaven
by Mitch Albom
79. Hissy Fit : A Novel
by Mary Kay Andrews
80. Water for Elephants: A Novel
by Sara Gruen
81. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
by Gregory Maguire
82. The Samurai's Garden : A Novel
by Gail Tsukiyama
83. The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
84. Dark Angels: A Novel
by Karleen Koen
85. The Alchemist's Daughter : A Novel
by Katharine McMahon
86. Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
87. March: A Novel
by Geraldine Brooks
88. All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
89. The Captive Queen of Scots: A Novel
by Jean Plaidy
90. Colors of the Mountain
by Da Chen
91. The Persian Pickle Club
by Sandra Dallas
92. Lipstick Jungle: A Novel
by Candace Bushnell
93. The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
94. All Over But the Shoutin'
by Rick Bragg
95. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson
96. Tomorrow They Will Kiss : A Novel
by Eduardo Santiago
97. First Aid : A Novel
by Janet Davey
98. The Good Earth
by Pearl Buck
99. Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
by Roya Hakakian
100. Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D.H. Lawrence
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