The Best Books To Read After High School Or Before College
“What are the best books to read before Starting College?” We looked at 432 of the top books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 37 books, all appearing on 2 or more, “Best Pre-College” book lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The books include images, descriptions, and links. The remaining 375+ books, as well as the lists we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.
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Top 37 Books To Read Before Starting College
37 .) 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Lists It Appears On:
- Fresh U
- Goodreads
- MSN
“Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah’s voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out why.
Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah’s pain, and as he follows Hannah’s recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever.”
36 .) All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Lists It Appears On:
- Arrowhead Library System
- Goodreads
- Great! Schools
Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other–if only he can come out of the war alive.
35 .) Animal Farm by George Orwell
Lists It Appears On:
- Arrowhead Library System
- Goodreads
- Great! Schools
As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, this remarkable allegory of a downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals, and their quest to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality is one of the most scathing satires ever published. As we witness the rise and bloody fall of the revolutionary animals, we begin to recognize the seeds of totalitarianism in the most idealistic organization; and in our most charismatic leaders, the souls of our cruelest oppressors.
34 .) Beloved by Toni Morrison
Lists It Appears On:
- College Magazine
- Goodreads
- Great! Schools
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
33 .) Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Lists It Appears On:
- Great! Schools
- Arrowhead Library System
- Goodreads
“Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature and one of the funniest—and most celebrated—books of all time. In recent years it has been named to “best novels” lists by Time, Newsweek, the Modern Library, and the London Observer.
Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy—it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he’s assigned, he’ll be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes a formal request to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved. “
32 .) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Lists It Appears On:
- Arrowhead Library System
- Goodreads
- Great! Schools
The two years before he wrote Crime and Punishment (1866) had been bad ones for Dostoyevsky. His wife and brother had died; the magazine he and his brother had started, Epoch, collapsed under its load of debt; and he was threatened with debtor’s prison. With an advance that he managed to wangle for an unwritten novel, he fled to Wiesbaden, hoping to win enough at the roulette table to get himself out of debt. Instead, he lost all his money; he had to pawn his clothes and beg friends for loans to pay his hotel bill and get back to Russia. One of his begging letters went to a magazine editor, asking for an advance on yet another unwritten novel — which he described as Crime and Punishment.
31 .) Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Lists It Appears On:
- Barnes & Nobel
- Teen Vogue
- Times Higher Education
“In Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life–and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving.
Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere.
Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can’t let go. She doesn’t want to.
Now that they’re going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn’t want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . . And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving and fragile and has never really been alone.For Cath, the question is: Can she do this?
Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? Writing her own stories?
And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?”
30 .) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Lists It Appears On:
- Arrowhead Library System
- Cafe Mom
- Great! Schools
Few creatures of horror have seized readers’ imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein’s terrible creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. Considering the novel’s enduring success, it is remarkable that it began merely as a whim of Lord Byron’s.
29 .) Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Lists It Appears On:
- Cafe Mom
- Great! Schools
- Arrowhead Library System
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by Herman Melville, in which Ishmael narrates the monomaniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on the albino sperm whale Moby Dick, which on a previous voyage destroyed Ahab’s ship and severed his leg at the knee.
28 .) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lists It Appears On:
- Arrowhead Library System
- Great! Schools
- The Culture Trip
One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women—brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul—this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.
27 .) Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Lists It Appears On:
- Cafe Mom
- Great! Schools
- Arrowhead Library System
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families.
26 .) Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Lists It Appears On:
- Arrowhead Library System
- Fresh U
- Goodreads
In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. This sound signals the true beginning of his life — the beginning of suffering, rejection, peace, and, finally, wisdom.
25 .) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Lists It Appears On:
- Fresh U
- Society 19
- Goodreads
As millions of readers around the globe have already discovered, The Da Vinci Code is a reading experience unlike any other. Simultaneously lightning-paced, intelligent, and intricately layered with remarkable research and detail, Dan Brown’s novel is a thrilling masterpiece—from its opening pages to its stunning conclusion.
24 .) The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Lists It Appears On:
- Fresh U
- Goodreads
- Her Campus
“Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning-author John Green’s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love. “
23 .) The Iliad by Homer
Lists It Appears On:
- Business Insider
- College Magazine
- Great! Schools
Composed around 730 B.C., Homer’s Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war between the invading Achaeans, or Greeks, and the Trojans in their besieged city of Ilion. From the explosive confrontation between Achilles, the greatest warrior at Troy, and Agamemnon, the inept leader of the Greeks, through to its tragic conclusion, The Iliad explores the abiding, blighting facts of war.
22 .) The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Lists It Appears On:
- Arrowhead Library System
- Cafe Mom
- Great! Schools
Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of “the Brotherhood”, and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Joyce, and Dostoevsky.
21 .) The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Lists It Appears On:
- Goodreads
- MSN
- This Is Insider
“A lot of professors give talks titled “”The Last Lecture.”” Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can’t help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?
When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn’t have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave–“”Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams””–wasn’t about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because “”time is all you have…and you may find one day that you have less than you think””). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.”
20 .) The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Lists It Appears On:
- Goodreads
- MSN
- Teen Vogue
“Read the cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory. Also a major motion picture starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a funny, touching, and haunting modern classic.
The critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky, Perks follows observant “wallflower” Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood. First dates, family drama, and new friends. Sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Devastating loss, young love, and life on the fringes. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie must learn to navigate those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up.”
19 .) The Stranger by Albert Camus
Lists It Appears On:
- Arrowhead Library System
- Goodreads
- Great! Schools
Albert Camus’s spare, laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with a clarity almost scientific, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life.
18 .) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Lists It Appears On:
- Arrowhead Library System
- Goodreads
- Great! Schools
Emily Brontë’s only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence, the Penguin Classics edition of Wuthering Heights is the definitive edition of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before; of the intense relationship between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw; and how Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff’s bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past.
17 .) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Lists It Appears On:
- Arrowhead Library System
- Cafe Mom
- Goodreads
- Great! Schools
Charlotte Brontë has entranced generations of readers with her character Jane Eyre, a young woman, who through a harsh orphan childhood develops a spirited independence, then finds love which only complicates her life.
16 .) Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Lists It Appears On:
- Arrowhead Library System
- Business Insider
- Goodreads
- Great! Schools
Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.
15 .) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Lists It Appears On:
- Arrowhead Library System
- Cafe Mom
- Goodreads
- Great! Schools
The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism.
14 .) The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Lists It Appears On:
- Arrowhead Library System
- Cafe Mom
- Goodreads
- Great! Schools
Jack London’s novels and ruggedly individual life seemed to embody American hopes, frustrations, and romantic longings in the turbulent first years of the twentieth century, years infused with the wonder and excitement of great technological and historic change. The author’s restless spirit, taste for a life of excitement, and probing mind led him on a series of hard-edged adventures from the Klondike to the South Seas. Out of these sometimes harrowing experiences — and his fascination with the theories of such thinkers as Darwin, Spencer, and Marx — came the inspiration for novels of adventure that would make him one of America’s most popular writers.
13 .) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Lists It Appears On:
- Arrowhead Library System
- Cafe Mom
- Goodreads
- Great! Schools
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.
12 .) The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lists It Appears On:
- Arrowhead Library System
- Cafe Mom
- Goodreads
- Great! Schools
The red letter A on her dress marks young mother Hester Prynne among her Puritan neighbors, who demand to know who fathered her child. Rumors swirl, but the shunned and shamed Hester keeps her secret—and his—for years, until a guilt-ridden confession reveals the truth, with unexpected consequences.
11 .) The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Lists It Appears On:
- College Magazine
- Grammarly
- The Culture Trip
- This Is Insider
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.
10 .) Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Lists It Appears On:
- Arrowhead Library System
- Cafe Mom
- Great! Schools
- Noodle
Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe’s critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa’s cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man’s futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order.
9 .) Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Lists It Appears On:
- Arrowhead Library System
- Cafe Mom
- Fresh U
- Goodreads
- Great! Schools
At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far removed from reality as the hope of being rescued.
8 .) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Lists It Appears On:
- Arrowhead Library System
- Fresh U
- Goodreads
- Great! Schools
- Her Campus
First published in 1813, Pride and Prejudice is one of the most popular and beloved British novels of all-time, maintaining its allure for contemporary readers everywhere and selling millions of copies worldwide! Jane Austen’s novel tells the story of the five unmarried Bennet sisters, daughters of a humble country squire, as they deal with the issues of marriage, manners, and upbringing in English country life. Now available as part of the Word Cloud Classics series, Pride and Prejudice is a must-have addition to the libraries of all classic literature lovers.
7 .) The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Lists It Appears On:
- Arrowhead Library System
- Fresh U
- Goodreads
- Great! Schools
- Society 19
Published to unprecedented acclaim, The Color Purple established Alice Walker as a major voice in modern fiction. This is the story of two sisters—one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South—who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this classic novel of American literature is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life.
6 .) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Lists It Appears On:
- Arrowhead Library System
- Cafe Mom
- Goodreads
- Great! Schools
- MSN
One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years—due largely to initial audiences’ rejection of its strong black female protagonist—Hurston’s classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature.
5 .) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Lists It Appears On:
- Arrowhead Library System
- Goodreads
- Great! Schools
- My College Advice
- The Culture Trip
- U Loop
Aldous Huxley’s profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order whose motto is “Community, Identity, Stability.”—all at the cost of our freedom, humanity, and perhaps our souls.
4 .) The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Lists It Appears On:
- Arrowhead Library System
- Fresh U
- Goodreads
- Great! Schools
- Society 19
- The Culture Trip
Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther’s breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes palpably real, even rational—as accessible an experience as going to the movies. A deep penetration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche, The Bell Jar is an extraordinary accomplishment and a haunting American classic.
3 .) The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Lists It Appears On:
- Arrowhead Library System
- Cafe Mom
- Fresh U
- Goodreads
- Great! Schools
- Society 19
- The Culture Trip
“The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.
The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it.
There are many voices in this novel: children’s voices, adult voices, underground voices–but Holden’s voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.”
2 .) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lists It Appears On:
- Arrowhead Library System
- Cafe Mom
- Goodreads
- Great! Schools
- Society 19
- Teen Vogue
- The Culture Trip
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald’s magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.
1 .) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Lists It Appears On:
- Arrowhead Library System
- Cafe Mom
- Goodreads
- Great! Schools
- MSN
- Society 19
- U Loop
- Noodle
One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
The 375+ Additional Best Books To Read Between High school& College
# | Book | Author | Lists |
(Title Appears On 2 Lists Each) | |||
38 | 1984 | George Orwell | Goodreads |
The Culture Trip | |||
39 | A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | Times Higher Education |
Arrowhead Library System | |||
40 | A Death in the Family | James Agee | Arrowhead Library System |
Great! Schools | |||
41 | A Doll’s House | Henrik Ibsen | Arrowhead Library System |
Great! Schools | |||
42 | A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | Arrowhead Library System |
Great! Schools | |||
43 | A Good Man is Hard to Find | Flannery O’Connor | Arrowhead Library System |
Great! Schools | |||
44 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | Arrowhead Library System |
Great! Schools | |||
45 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | Arrowhead Library System |
Goodreads | |||
46 | As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner | Arrowhead Library System |
Great! Schools | |||
47 | Candide | Voltaire | Goodreads |
Great! Schools | |||
48 | Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller | Arrowhead Library System |
Cafe Mom | |||
49 | Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak | Arrowhead Library System |
Great! Schools | |||
50 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | Arrowhead Library System |
Goodreads | |||
51 | Go Tell It On the Mountain | James Baldwin | Arrowhead Library System |
Great! Schools | |||
52 | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | Arrowhead Library System |
Cafe Mom | |||
53 | Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift | Arrowhead Library System |
Great! Schools | |||
54 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare | Cafe Mom |
Great! Schools | |||
55 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1) | J.K. Rowling | Goodreads |
Teen Vogue | |||
56 | Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | Arrowhead Library System |
Great! Schools | |||
57 | House of the Spirits | Isabel Allende | Arrowhead Library System |
MSN | |||
58 | Life of Pi | Yann Martel | Goodreads |
Her Campus | |||
59 | Long Day’s Journey Into Night | Eugene O’Neill | Arrowhead Library System |
Great! Schools | |||
60 | Macbeth | William Shakespeare | Great! Schools |
Arrowhead Library System | |||
61 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | Arrowhead Library System |
Great! Schools | |||
62 | Native Son | Richard Wright | Arrowhead Library System |
Great! Schools | |||
63 | Oedipus Rex | Sophocles | Arrowhead Library System |
Great! Schools | |||
64 | Oh, the Places You’ll Go! | Dr. Seuss | Her Campus |
The Culture Trip | |||
65 | On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft | Stephen King | This Is Insider |
CBS Minnesota | |||
66 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Aleksander Solzhenitsyn | Arrowhead Library System |
Great! Schools | |||
67 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Ken Kesey | Arrowhead Library System |
Goodreads | |||
68 | Our Town | Thornton Wilder | Arrowhead Library System |
Goodreads | |||
69 | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | Arrowhead Library System |
Great! Schools | |||
70 | Tess of the D’Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy | Arrowhead Library System |
Great! Schools | |||
71 | The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | Fresh U |
Her Campus | |||
72 | The Awakening | Kate Chopin | Arrowhead Library System |
Great! Schools | |||
73 | The Bible | Cafe Mom | |
Times Higher Education | |||
74 | The Cherry Orchard | Anton Chekhov | Arrowhead Library System |
Great! Schools | |||
75 | The Freshman Survival Guide: Soulful Advice for Studying, Socializing, and Everything In Between | Nora Bradbury-Haehl & Bill McGarvey | Marymount |
This Is Insider | |||
76 | The Giver | Lois Lowry | Fresh U |
Goodreads | |||
77 | The Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret Atwood | Goodreads |
Society 19 | |||
78 | The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde | Arrowhead Library System |
Goodreads | |||
79 | The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan | Arrowhead Library System |
Goodreads | |||
80 | The Mill on the Floss | George Eliot | Arrowhead Library System |
Great! Schools | |||
81 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | Cafe Mom |
Great! Schools | |||
82 | The Prince | Niccolo Machiavelli | Arrowhead Library System |
Goodreads | |||
83 | The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane | Arrowhead Library System |
Great! Schools | |||
84 | The Republic | Plato | Arrowhead Library System |
Goodreads | |||
85 | The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | Cafe Mom |
Goodreads | |||
86 | The Tell-Tale Heart | Edgar Allan Poe | Goodreads |
Goodreads | |||
87 | The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas | Great! Schools |
Goodreads | |||
88 | Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Arrowhead Library System |
Great! Schools | |||
89 | Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett | Arrowhead Library System |
Great! Schools | |||
90 | Walden | Henry David Thoreau | Arrowhead Library System |
Great! Schools | |||
91 | Zeitoun | Dave Eggers | College Magazine |
Society 19 | |||
(Titles Appear On 1 List Each) | |||
92 | 14 Tips to Completing Great Scholarship Applications | Marymount University | Marymount |
93 | 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens | Sean Covey | MSN |
94 | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | Goodreads |
95 | A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century | Barbara Tuchman | Arrowhead Library System |
96 | A Dog’s Journey | W. Bruce Cameron | Fresh U |
97 | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned | Michael J. Fox | This Is Insider |
98 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | William Shakespeare | Great! Schools |
99 | A Passage to India | E.M. Forster | Arrowhead Library System |
100 | A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There | Aldo Leopold | Arrowhead Library System |
101 | A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING | BILL BRYSON | My College Advice |
102 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams | Arrowhead Library System |
103 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | Great! Schools |
104 | A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, | Martin Luther King | Arrowhead Library System |
105 | A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | Goodreads |
106 | A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L’Engle | Fresh U |
107 | A Yellow Raft in Blue Water | Michael Dorris | Arrowhead Library System |
108 | Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation | Eboo Patel | Business Insider |
109 | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | Arrowhead Library System |
110 | Alistair Cooke’s America | Alistair Cooke | Arrowhead Library System |
111 | Allegiant (Divergent, #3) | Veronica Roth | Goodreads |
112 | Almost Adulting | Arden Rose | MSN |
113 | Americanah | Chimamanda Adichie | Grammarly |
114 | Americans’ Favorite Poems | Favorite Poem Project | Noodle |
115 | An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser | Great! Schools |
116 | Anatomy of a Boyfriend | Daria Snadowsky | Barnes & Nobel |
117 | And One More Thing Before You Go… | Maria Shriver | CBS Minnesota |
118 | And Still I Rise | Arrowhead Library System | |
119 | And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | Goodreads |
120 | Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1) | Dan Brown | Goodreads |
121 | Anna and the French Kiss | Stephanie Perkins | Barnes & Nobel |
122 | Antigone | Sophocles | Great! Schools |
123 | Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Fresh U | |
124 | Art of War | Sun Tzu | Cafe Mom |
125 | Asking For It | Kate Harding | Society 19 |
126 | Atonement | Ian McEwan | Goodreads |
127 | Babbitt | Sinclair Lewis | Great! Schools |
128 | Bad Feminist | Roxane Gay | Business Insider |
129 | Bartleby the Scrivener | Herman Melville | Great! Schools |
130 | Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era | James McPherson | Arrowhead Library System |
131 | Before You Leap – a self-help ‘autobiographical’ book | Kermit the Frog | Times Higher Education |
132 | Beowulf | ——- | Great! Schools |
133 | Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear | Elizabeth Gilbert | This Is Insider |
134 | Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life | Anne Lamott | Noodle |
135 | Born on the Fourth of July | Ron Kovic | Arrowhead Library System |
136 | Boy Meets Boy | David Levithan | MSN |
137 | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | Dee Brown | Arrowhead Library System |
138 | Call It Sleep | Henry Roth | Great! Schools |
139 | Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) | Suzanne Collins | Goodreads |
140 | Ceremony | Leslie Marmon Silko | Great! Schools |
141 | Citizen: An American Lyric | Claudia Rankine | Business Insider |
142 | City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2) | Cassandra Clare | Goodreads |
143 | Collected Stories | Eudora Welty | Great! Schools |
144 | Complete Poems | Carl Sandburg | Arrowhead Library System |
145 | Complete Poems | John Keats | Arrowhead Library System |
146 | Complete Poems, 1904-1962 | E.E. Cummings | Arrowhead Library System |
147 | Confessions of a Shopaholic | Sophie Kinsella | Times Higher Education |
148 | Contagious: Why Things Catch On | Jonah Berger | CBS Minnesota |
149 | Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance | Simone Biles | MSN |
150 | Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World | Tony Wagner | CBS Minnesota |
151 | Cry, the Beloved Country | Alan Paton | Arrowhead Library System |
152 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Edmond Rostand | Great! Schools |
153 | Days of Grace | Arthur and Arnold Rampersad. Ashe | Arrowhead Library System |
154 | Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather | Great! Schools |
155 | Death in Venice | Thomas Mann | Arrowhead Library System |
156 | Democracy in America | Alexis de Tocqueville | Arrowhead Library System |
157 | Divergent (Divergent, #1) | Veronica Roth | Goodreads |
158 | Doctor Faustus | Christopher Marlowe | Arrowhead Library System |
159 | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | Arrowhead Library System |
160 | East of Eden | John Steinbeck | Goodreads |
161 | Eat that Frog! 21 Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time | Brian Tracy | Marymount |
162 | Eating Animals | Jonathan Safran Foer | Her Campus |
163 | Emma | Jane Austen | Goodreads |
164 | Excellent Sheep | William Deresiewicz | Praxis |
165 | Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-65 | Juan Williams | Arrowhead Library System |
166 | Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turgenev | Great! Schools |
167 | Faust | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Great! Schools |
168 | Favorite Folktales From Around the World | Jane Yolen | Arrowhead Library System |
169 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter S. Thompson | Grammarly |
170 | Feminism Is For Everybody: Passionate Politics | bell hooks | Noodle |
171 | Fences | August Wilson | Cafe Mom |
172 | FIGHT CLUB | CHUCK PALAHNIUK | College Magazine |
173 | Firefly Lane | Kristin Hannah | Her Campus |
174 | Forever | Judy Blume | MSN |
175 | Freaks I’ve Met | Donald Jans | Goodreads |
176 | Freedom | Jonathan Franzen | U Loop |
177 | Friendly Shakespeare: A Thoroughly Painless Guide to the Best of | Norrie Epstein | Arrowhead Library System |
178 | From Rockaway | Jill Eisenstadt | The Culture Trip |
179 | Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic | Alison Bechdel | Business Insider |
180 | Getting from College to Career | Lindsey Pollak | Marymount |
181 | Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity | David Allen | This Is Insider |
182 | Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time | MSN | |
183 | Go Ask Alice | MSN | |
184 | Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn | Her Campus |
185 | Great Tales and Poems | Edgar Allan Poe | Arrowhead Library System |
186 | Growing Up | Russell Baker | Arrowhead Library System |
187 | GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL | JARED DIAMOND | My College Advice |
188 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) | J.K. Rowling | Goodreads |
189 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | J.K. Rowling | Fresh U |
190 | Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years | Sara and A. Elizabeth with Amy Hill Hearth Delany | Arrowhead Library System |
191 | Hiroshima | John Hersey | Arrowhead Library System |
192 | How It Went Down | Kekla Magoon | Barnes & Nobel |
193 | How to Become a Straight-A Student | Cal Newport | Times Higher Education |
194 | How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia | Mohsin Hamid | Noodle |
195 | How to Make A Winning College Application Video Essay: Everything You Need to Know, From Idea to Upload | Max Kiefer | Goodreads |
196 | How to Win at the Sport of Business | Mark Cuban | Praxis |
197 | How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie | Praxis |
198 | Howl and Other Poems | Allen Ginsberg | Arrowhead Library System |
199 | I Am Malala | Malala Yousafzai | Noodle |
200 | I Am NOT Going to School Today | Robie H. Harris | Times Higher Education |
201 | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Arrowhead Library System | |
202 | I, Claudius (Claudius, #1) | Robert Graves | Goodreads |
203 | If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young | Kurt Vonnegut | This Is Insider |
204 | Inferno | Dante | Great! Schools |
205 | INFINITE JEST | DAVID FOSTER WALLACE | College Magazine |
206 | Influence | Robert Cialdini | Praxis |
207 | Insurgent (Divergent, #2) | Veronica Roth | Goodreads |
208 | Invisible Men: Life in Baseball’s Negro Leagues | Donn Rogosin | Arrowhead Library System |
209 | IS EVERYONE HANGING OUT WITHOUT ME? (AND OTHER CONCERNS) | MINDY KALING | Teen Vogue |
210 | It’s Kind of a Funny Story | Ned Vizzini | Barnes & Nobel |
211 | Ivanhoe | Sir Walter Scott | Arrowhead Library System |
212 | Just One Day | Gayle Forman | Barnes & Nobel |
213 | Just Visiting | Dahlia Adler | Barnes & Nobel |
214 | Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? | Michael Sandel | Times Higher Education |
215 | Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid | Mark Mathabane | Arrowhead Library System |
216 | Labyrinths | Jorge Luis Borges | Arrowhead Library System |
217 | Lakota Woman | Mary and Richard Erdoes Crow Dog | Arrowhead Library System |
218 | Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | Great! Schools |
219 | Les Misérables | Victor Hugo | Goodreads |
220 | Letters to a Law Student | Nicholas J. McBride | Times Higher Education |
221 | Like Water for Chocolate | Laura Esquivel | Arrowhead Library System |
222 | Little Women (Little Women, #1) | Louisa May Alcott | Goodreads |
223 | Lolita | Vladimir Nobokov | U Loop |
224 | Long Walk to Freedom | Nelson Mandela | Grammarly |
225 | Look Homeward, Angel | Thomas Wolfe | Arrowhead Library System |
226 | Looking Backward: 2000-1887 | Edward Bellamy | Arrowhead Library System |
227 | LORD OF THE RINGS/HARRY POTTER/A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE | College Magazine | |
228 | Lucky | Alice Sebold | Society 19 |
229 | Madame Curie | Eve Curie | Arrowhead Library System |
230 | Main Street | Sinclair Lewis | Arrowhead Library System |
231 | Man and Superman, Saint Joan, Pygmalion | Bernard Shaw | Arrowhead Library System |
232 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden | Goodreads |
233 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | Goodreads |
234 | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | Fresh U |
235 | Milk and Honey | Rupi Kaur | MSN |
236 | Millenium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World | David Maybury-Lewis | Arrowhead Library System |
237 | Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) | Suzanne Collins | Goodreads |
238 | Mother Courage and Her Children | Bertolt Brecht | Arrowhead Library System |
239 | Much Ado About Nothing | William Shakespeare | Goodreads |
240 | My Antonia | Willa Cather | Arrowhead Library System |
241 | My House | Nikki Giovanni | Arrowhead Library System |
242 | Mythology | Edith Hamilton | Arrowhead Library System |
243 | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass | Great! Schools |
244 | Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time | Keith Ferrazzi | Marymount |
245 | NEVER LET ME GO | KAZUO ISHIGURO | College Magazine |
246 | Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman | Goodreads |
247 | Night | Elie Weisel | Arrowhead Library System |
248 | No Exit | Jean Paul Sarte | Arrowhead Library System |
249 | No One Belongs Here More Than You | Miranda July | CBS Minnesota |
250 | NORWEGIAN WOOD | HARUKI MURAKAMI | College Magazine |
251 | Notes on Democracy | H.L. Mencken | Praxis |
252 | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | Goodreads |
253 | On Beauty | Zadie Smith | The Culture Trip |
254 | One Question: Life-Changing Answers from Today’s Leading Voices | Ken Coleman | CBS Minnesota |
255 | Othello | William Shakespeare | Goodreads |
256 | Out of My Mind | Sharon M. Draper | Fresh U |
257 | Outliers: The Story of Success | Malcolm Gladwell | Marymount |
258 | Paper Valentine | Brenna Yovanoff | MSN |
259 | Penelope | Rebecca Harrington | Her Campus |
260 | Pere Goriot | Honore de Balzac | Arrowhead Library System |
261 | Picture | Lillian Ross | Times Higher Education |
262 | Poems | William Wordsworth | Arrowhead Library System |
263 | Poems of Dylan Thomas | Dylan Thomas | Arrowhead Library System |
264 | Profiles in Courage | John F. Kennedy | Arrowhead Library System |
265 | Profoundly Disconnected | Mike Rowe | Praxis |
266 | Pygmalion | George Bernard Shaw | Great! Schools |
267 | Quiet Power: The Secret Strength of Introverts | Susan Cain | MSN |
268 | Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession | Studs Terkel | Arrowhead Library System |
269 | READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN | AZAR NAFISI | Teen Vogue |
270 | Reclaim: The Septemist Manifesto | Carl Grip | Goodreads |
271 | Rich Dad Poor Dad for Teens | Robert Kiyosaki | MSN |
272 | Roomies | Tara Altebrando and Sara Zarr | Barnes & Nobel |
273 | Roots | Alex Haley | Arrowhead Library System |
274 | Sane New World | Ruby Wax | Times Higher Education |
275 | Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools | Jonathan Kozol | Arrowhead Library System |
276 | Saving Red | Sonya Sones | MSN |
277 | Seize the Day | Saul Bellow | Arrowhead Library System |
278 | Selected Essays | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Great! Schools |
279 | Selected Poems | Gwendolyn Brooks | Arrowhead Library System |
280 | Selected Poems | Langston Hughes | Arrowhead Library System |
281 | Selected Poems | William Carlos Williams | Arrowhead Library System |
282 | Selected Tales | Edgar Allen Poe | Great! Schools |
283 | Selp-Helf | Miranda Sings | MSN |
284 | She’s Come Undone | Wally Lamb | MSN |
285 | Silent Spring | Rachel Carson | Arrowhead Library System |
286 | Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda | Becky Albertalli | Barnes & Nobel |
287 | SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM | JOAN DIDION | College Magazine |
288 | SMALL WONDER | BARBARA KINGSOLVER | My College Advice |
289 | Something, anything | Edgar Allan Poe | Cafe Mom |
290 | Sons and Lovers | D.H. Lawrence | Arrowhead Library System |
291 | Stargirl | Jerry Spinelli | MSN |
292 | Sula | Toni Morrison | Arrowhead Library System |
293 | Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character | Richard P. Feynman | This Is Insider |
294 | Swann’s Way | Marcel Proust | Great! Schools |
295 | TEACHING TO TRANSGRESS | BELL HOOKS | My College Advice |
296 | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change | Stephen R. Covey | CBS Minnesota |
297 | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | Sherman Alexie | Barnes & Nobel |
298 | The Adventures of Augie March | Saul Bellow | Great! Schools |
299 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | Goodreads |
300 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | Goodreads |
301 | The Art of Asking | Amanda Palmer | Times Higher Education |
302 | The Ascent of Man | Jacob Bronowski | Arrowhead Library System |
303 | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin | Arrowhead Library System |
304 | The Autobiography of Malcom X | with Alex Haley Malcom X | Arrowhead Library System |
305 | The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman | Ernest Gaines | Arrowhead Library System |
306 | The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Business Insider |
307 | The Big Sea | Langston Hughes | Business Insider |
308 | The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison | MSN |
309 | The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | Goodreads |
310 | The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | Great! Schools |
311 | The Chocolate War | Robert Cormier | Arrowhead Library System |
312 | The Chosen | Chaim Potok | Arrowhead Library System |
313 | The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future | Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway | Business Insider |
314 | The Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx | Arrowhead Library System |
315 | The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Emily Dickinson | Arrowhead Library System |
316 | The Complete Poetry of John Donne | John Donne | Arrowhead Library System |
317 | The Crucible | Arthur Miller | Great! Schools |
318 | The Crying of Lot 49 | Thomas Pynchon | Great! Schools |
319 | The Cure For Dreaming | Cat Winters | MSN |
320 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime | Mark Haddon | Fresh U |
321 | The Death of Artemio Cruz | Carlos Fuentes | Arrowhead Library System |
322 | The Defining Decade | Meg Jay | Times Higher Education |
323 | The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England | Carol Karlsen | Arrowhead Library System |
324 | The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | Arrowhead Library System |
325 | The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks | E. Lockhart | Barnes & Nobel |
326 | The Diviners | Libba Bray | MSN |
327 | The Ecological Rift | John Bellamy Foster | Goodreads |
328 | The Education of Margot Sanchez | Lilliam Rivera | MSN |
329 | The Elements of Style | Strunk and White | Noodle |
330 | The Freshman 50 | Carly A. Heitlinger | Her Campus |
331 | The Glass Menagerie | Tennessee Williams | Great! Schools |
332 | The Godfather | Mario Puzo | Goodreads |
333 | THE GOLDFINCH | DONNA TARTT | Teen Vogue |
334 | The Good Soldier | Ford Madox Ford | Great! Schools |
335 | The Good Terrorist | Doris Lessing | Grammarly |
336 | The Help | Kathryn Stockett | Fresh U |
337 | The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom | Corrie ten Boom | Goodreads |
338 | THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY | DOUGLAS ADAMS | College Magazine |
339 | The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | Goodreads |
340 | The House of Hades (The Heroes of Olympus, #4) | Rick Riordan | Goodreads |
341 | The House of Mirth | Edith Wharton | Great! Schools |
342 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Victor Hugo | Great! Schools |
343 | The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) | Suzanne Collins | Goodreads |
344 | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot | Noodle |
345 | The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America | Thomas King | Business Insider |
346 | The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution | Walter Isaacson, “This Boy’s Life | Business Insider |
347 | The Jungle | Upton Sinclair | Arrowhead Library System |
348 | The Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore Cooper | Great! Schools |
349 | The Learning Tree | Gordon Parks | Arrowhead Library System |
350 | The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1) | Rick Riordan | Goodreads |
351 | The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) | C.S. Lewis | Goodreads |
352 | The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth | Arrowhead Library System | |
353 | The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1) | Rick Riordan | Goodreads |
354 | The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold | Goodreads |
355 | The Madonnas of Echo Park | Brando Skyhorse | Business Insider |
356 | The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann | Great! Schools |
357 | The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick | Goodreads |
358 | The Manual to Manhood | Jonathan Catherman | MSN |
359 | The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus, #3) | Rick Riordan | Goodreads |
360 | The Marriage Plot | Jeffrey Eugenides | Times Higher Education |
361 | The Member of the Wedding | Carson McCullers | Arrowhead Library System |
362 | The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | Great! Schools |
363 | The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous, and Broke | Suze Orman | Marymount |
364 | The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College | Harlan Cohen | This Is Insider |
365 | The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco | Goodreads |
366 | The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness | Michelle Alexander | Business Insider |
367 | The Odyssey | Homer | Great! Schools |
368 | The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | Goodreads |
369 | The Opposite of Loneliness | Marina Keegan | Times Higher Education |
370 | The Origin of Species | Charles Darwin | Arrowhead Library System |
371 | The Overcoat | Nikolai Gogol | Arrowhead Library System |
372 | The Ox-Bow Incident | Walter Van Tilburg Clark | Arrowhead Library System |
373 | The Piano Lesson | August Wilson | Arrowhead Library System |
374 | The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1) | Ken Follett | Goodreads |
375 | The Poems | William Butler Yeats | Arrowhead Library System |
376 | The Poetical Works of Longfellow | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Arrowhead Library System |
377 | The Poetry of Robert Frost | Robert Frost | Arrowhead Library System |
378 | The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James | Great! Schools |
379 | The Power of Myth | Joseph Campbell | Arrowhead Library System |
380 | The Rachel Papers | Martin Amis | The Culture Trip |
381 | The Raven | Edgar Allan Poe | Goodreads |
382 | The Road | Cormac McCarthy | Goodreads |
383 | The Rules of Attraction | Bret Easton Ellis | The Culture Trip |
384 | The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2) | Rick Riordan | Goodreads |
385 | The Secret | Rhonda Byrne | MSN |
386 | The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace | Jeff Hobbs | MSN |
387 | The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus, #2) | Rick Riordan | Goodreads |
388 | The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | Great! Schools |
389 | The State | Franz Oppenheimer | Praxis |
390 | The Story of My Life | Helen Keller | Arrowhead Library System |
391 | The Strange Case of Dr | Robert Louis Stevenson | Cafe Mom |
392 | The Sun Is Also A Star | Nicola Yoon | MSN |
393 | The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision | Fritjof Capra | Goodreads |
394 | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Anne Brontë | Goodreads |
395 | The Time Machine | H.G. Wells | Arrowhead Library System |
396 | The Tin Drum | Gunter Grass | Arrowhead Library System |
397 | THE TIPPING POINT | MALCOLM GLADWELL | Teen Vogue |
398 | The Trial | Franz Kafka | Arrowhead Library System |
399 | The Truth About Alice | Jennifer Mathieu | MSN |
400 | The Turn of the Screw | Henry James | Great! Schools |
401 | The Waste Land | T.S. Eliot | Arrowhead Library System |
402 | The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin | Goodreads |
403 | The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | Goodreads |
404 | The Woman Warrior | Maxine Hong Kingston | Great! Schools |
405 | The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as told in the | Michael Berenbaum | Arrowhead Library System |
406 | There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in | Alex Kotlowitz | Arrowhead Library System |
407 | Thirteen Stories | Eudora Welty | Arrowhead Library System |
408 | This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate | Naomi Klein | Goodreads |
409 | This I Believe, edited | Jay Allison and Dan Gediman | Fresh U |
410 | This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life | David Foster Wallace | This Is Insider |
411 | This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer | Kay Mills | Arrowhead Library System |
412 | This Side of Paradise | F. Scott Fitzgerald | U Loop |
413 | This Song Will Save Your Life | Leila Sales | Barnes & Nobel |
414 | Tiny Pretty Things | Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton | Barnes & Nobel |
415 | Title | Author | Great! Schools |
416 | To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and P.S. I Still Love You | Jenny Han | Barnes & Nobel |
417 | To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family | Jan. D. and Teeda Butt Mam Criddle | Arrowhead Library System |
418 | To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Non-Fiction | Phillip Lopate | CBS Minnesota |
419 | To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | Great! Schools |
420 | Tom Jones | Henry Fielding | Great! Schools |
421 | Total Frat Move | W.R. Bolen | This Is Insider |
422 | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | Great! Schools |
423 | Unbecoming | Jenny Downham | Times Higher Education |
424 | Vanity Fair | William Thackeray | Great! Schools |
425 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | Great! Schools |
426 | WATCHMEN | ALAN MOORE | College Magazine |
427 | What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 | Teena Seelig | Times Higher Education |
428 | What We Left Behind | Robin Talley | Barnes & Nobel |
429 | Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do | Claude Steele | Business Insider |
430 | Who Owns the Future? | Jaron Lanier | CBS Minnesota |
431 | Winesburg, Ohio | Sherwood Anderson | Arrowhead Library System |
432 | Zero to One | Peter Thiel | Praxis |
22 Best Books To After High School Sources/Lists
Source | Article |
Arrowhead Library System | College Bound Reading List |
Barnes & Nobel | 15 YA Books Everyone Should Read Before College |
Business Insider | America’s top colleges assigned these books to freshmen |
Cafe Mom | 25 Classics All Kids Should Read Before They Go to College |
CBS Minnesota | Best Books To Read Before Heading Off To College |
College Magazine | 12 Books You Need to Read Before College |
Fresh U | 20 Books to Read Before College |
Goodreads | Top 100 Books to Read Before College |
Grammarly | 5 Books Every Student Should Read Before Starting College |
Great! Schools | 101 books for college-bound kids |
Her Campus | 10 Books You Should Read Before College |
Marymount | 7 Books to Read Before Your Freshman Year of College |
MSN | 30 Books Every Teen Needs to Read Before College |
My College Advice | The 5 Books All Students Should Read BEFORE Freshman Year of College |
Noodle | 10 Books Every Student Should Read Before College |
Praxis | 10 Books You Should Read Before College |
Society 19 | 10 Books You Should Read Before College |
Teen Vogue | 7 Books You Need to Read Before You Start College |
The Culture Trip | The 12 Books You Should Read Before Going to University |
This Is Insider | 12 books every college-bound student should read this summer |
Times Higher Education | 17 books you should read before (or at) university – chosen by students |
U Loop | 5 Books To Read Before Going To College |