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The 100 Most-Often-Recommended Works for College Freshman-- Novels and Short Stories |
| Author | Title | Available at Media Center |
| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Yes |
| James Baldwin | Go Tell It on the Mountain | Yes |
| Saul Bellow | Seize the Day | No |
| Charlotte Brontë | Jane Eyre | Yes |
| Emily Brontë | Wuthering Heights | Yes |
| Albert Camus | The Stranger | Yes |
| Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Yes |
| Willa Cather | My Antonia | Yes |
| Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Yes |
| Kate Chopin | The Awakening | Yes |
| Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness | Yes |
| Stephen Crane | The Red Badge of Courage | Yes |
| Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Yes |
| Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | Yes |
| Feodor Dostoevski | Crime and Punishment | Yes |
| George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss | Yes |
| Ralph Ellison | Invisible Man | Yes |
| William Faulkner | The Sound and the Fury | Yes |
| Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | No |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby | Yes |
| Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | Yes |
| E.M. Forster | A Passage to India | Yes |
| Gabriel García Márquez | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Yes |
| William Golding | Lord of the Flies | Yes |
| Thomas Hardy | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Yes |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter | Yes |
| Ernest Hemingway | A Farewell to Arms | Yes |
| Zora Neale Hurston | Their Eyes Were Watching God | Yes |
| Aldous Huxley | Brave New World | Yes |
| Henry James | The Turn of the Screw | Yes |
| James Joyce | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Yes |
| Franz Kafka | The Trial | Yes |
| D.H. Lawrence | Sons and Lovers | Yes |
| Sinclair Lewis | Babbitt | Yes |
| Bernard Malamud | The Assistant | Yes |
| Thomas Mann | Death in Venice | Yes |
| Herman Melville | Moby-Dick | Yes |
| Toni Morrison | Sula | Yes |
| Flannery O'Connor | A Good Man Is Hard to Find | Yes |
| Tillie Olsen | Tell Me a Riddle | Yes |
| George Orwell | Animal Farm | Yes |
| Alan Paton | Cry, the Beloved Country | Yes |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Great Tales and Poems | Yes |
| J.D. Salinger | The Catcher in the Rye | Yes |
| Sir Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Yes |
| Mary Shelley | Frankenstein | Yes |
| John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath | Yes |
| Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Yes |
| William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Yes |
| Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace | Yes |
| Ivan Turgenev | Fathers and Sons | Yes |
| Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Yes |
| John Updike | Rabbit, Run | Yes |
| Voltaire | Candide | Yes |
| Kurt Vonnegut | Slaughterhouse Five | Yes |
| Alice Walker | The Color Purple | Yes |
| Eudora Welty | Thirteen Stories | No |
| Edith Wharton | The Age of Innocence | Yes |
| Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse | Yes |
| Richard Wright | Native Son | Yes |
Drama
| Aeschylus | Oresteia | No |
| Aristophanes | Lysistrata | Yes |
| Samuel Beckett | Waiting for Godot | Yes |
| Bertolt Brecht | Mother Courage and Her Children | No |
| Anton Chekov | The Cherry Orchard | Yes |
| Euripides | Medea | Yes |
| Johann von Goethe | Faust, Part I | No |
| Henrik Ibsen | A Doll's House | Yes |
| Christopher Marlowe | Doctor Faustus | Yes |
| Arthur Miller | Death of a Salesman | Yes |
| Molière | The Misanthrope | No |
| Eugene O'Neill | Desire Under the Elms | No |
| William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Yes |
| George Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion | Yes |
| Sophocles | Oedipus Rex | Yes |
| Oscar Wilde | The Importance of Being Earnest | Yes |
| Thornton Wilder | Our Town | Yes |
| Tennessee Williams | The Glass Menagerie | Yes |
Poetry
| Allison, Alexander, Editor | Norton Anthology of Poetry (Shorter Edition) | Yes |
| Anonymous | Beowulf | Yes |
| Anonymous | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Yes |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales | Yes |
| Dante | Inferno | Yes |
| Homer | The Odyssey | Yes |
| John Milton | Paradise Lost | Yes |
| Vergil | The Aeneid | Yes |
| Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass | Yes |
Miscellaneous
| Aristotle | Poetics | Yes |
| Saint Augustine | Confessions | Yes |
| Bible (esp. King James Version) | Yes | |
| Charles Darwin | Origin of the Species | Yes |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | "The American Scholar" | No |
| Benjamin Franklin | Autobiography | Yes |
| Sigmund Freud | Civilization and Its Discontents | Yes |
| Edith Hamilton | Mythology | Yes |
| Niccolò Machiavelli | The Prince | Yes |
| Karl Marx | Communist Manifesto | Yes |
| Michel de Montaigne | Selected Essays | Yes |
| Plato | Republic | Yes |
| Henry David Thoreau | Walden | Yes |
Updated 10 March 2009
Mr. Jones