Below is a recommended reading list for College bound students along with the Olean Public Library call numbers for the books.
| Aeschylus. | Orestia | 882.01 A |
| Anonymous. | Beowulf | 829.3 B |
| Anonymous. | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | 821.1 P |
| Aristophanes. | Lysistrata | 882 A |
| Aristotle. | Politics | 320.1 A |
| Augustine, Saint. | Confessions | 242 A |
| Austen, Jane. | Pride and Prejudice | FIC AUSTEN |
| Beckett, Samuel. | Waiting for Godot | 842.914 B |
| Bible | 220.52 B | |
| Bronte, Charlotte. | Jane Eyre | FIC BRONTE |
| Bronte, Emily. | Wuthering Heights | FIC BRONTE |
| Camus, Albert. | The Stranger | FIC CAMUS |
| Carroll, Lewis. | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | FIC CARROLL |
| Cather, Willa. | My Antonia | FIC CATHER |
| Cervantes, Miguel de. | Don Quixote | FIC CERVANTES |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey. | Canterbury Tales | 821 C |
| Chekhov, Anton. | The Cherry Orchard | 891.723 C |
| Chopin, Kate. | The Awakening | FIC CHOPIN |
| Conrad, Joseph. | Heart of Darkness | 823 C |
| Crane, Stephen. | The Red Badge of Courage | FIC CRANE |
| Dante. | Inferno | 851 D |
| Darwin, Charles. | Origin of Species | 575.5 D |
| Defoe, Daniel. | Robinson Crusoe. | FIC DEFOE |
| Dickens, Charles. | Great Expectations | FIC DICKENS |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor. | Crime and Punishment | FIC DOSTOEVSKY |
| Eliot, George. | The Mill On the Floss | FIC ELIOT |
| Ellison, Ralph. | Invisible Man | FIC ELLISON |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo. | Essays | 818.309 E |
| Euripides. | Medea | 882 E |
| Faulkner, William. | The Sound and the Fury | FIC FAULKNER |
| Fielding, Henry. | Tom Jones | FIC PB FIELDING |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott. | The Great Gatsby | FIC FITZGERALD |
| Flaubert, Gustave. | Madame Bovary | FIC FLAUBERT |
| Forster, E.M. | A Passage to India | FIC FORSTER |
| Franklin, Benjamin. | Autobiography | BIO FRANKLIN |
| Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. | One Hundred Years of Solitude | FIC GARCIA MARQUEZ |
| Goethe, Johann von. | Faust, Part I | 832.6 G |
| Golding, William. | Lord of the Flies | FIC GOLDING |
| Hamilton, Edith. | Mythology | 292.13 H |
| Hardy, Thomas. | Tess of D’Urbervilles | FIC HARDY |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel. | The Scarlet Letter | FIC HAWTHORNE |
| Hemingway, Ernest. | A Farewell to Arms | FIC HEMINGWAY |
| Homer. | Odyssey | 883 H |
| Hurston, Zora Neale. | Their Eyes Were Watching God | FIC HURSTON |
| Huxley, Aldous. | Brave New World | FIC HUXLEY |
| Ibsen, Henrik. | A Doll’s House | 839.822 I |
| Joyce, James. | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | FIC JOYCE |
| Kafka, Franz. | The Trial | FIC KAFKA |
| Lawrence, D. H. | Sons and Lovers | FIC LAWRENCE |
| Lewis, Sinclair. | Babbitt | FIC LEWIS |
| Machiavelli, Niccolo. | The Prince | 320.1 M |
| Mann, Thomas. | Death in Venice | FIC PB MANN |
| Marlowe, Christopher. | Doctor Faustus | 828 M |
| Marx, Karl. | Communist Manifesto | 335.4 M |
| Melville, Herman. | Moby-Dick | FIC MELVILLE |
| Miller, Arthur. | Death of a Salesman | 812 M |
| Milton, John. | Paradise Lost | 821 M |
| Montaigne, Michel de. | Selected Essays | 844 M |
| Morrison, Toni. | Sula | FIC MORRISON |
| O’Connor, Flannery. | A Good Man Is Hard to Find | 813.54 O |
| O’Neill, Eugene. | Desire Under the Elms | 812 O |
| Orwell, George. | Animal Farm | FIC ORWELL |
| Paton, Alan. | Cry, the Beloved Country | FIC PATON |
| Plato. | Republic | 888 P |
| Poe, Edgar Allan. | Great Tales and Poems | FIC POE |
| Salinger, J.D. | The Catcher in the Rye | FIC PB SALINGER |
| Scott, Sir Walter. | Ivanhoe | FIC SCOTT |
| Shakespeare, William. | Hamlet | 822.33 S |
| Shaw, George Bernard. | Pygmalion | 822 S |
| Shelley, Mary. | Frankenstein | FIC SHELLEY |
| Sophocles. | Oedipus Rex | 882.08 C |
| Steinbeck, John. | The Grapes of Wrath | FIC STEINBECK |
| Swift, Jonathan. | Gulliver’s Travels | FIC SWIFT |
| Thoreau, Henry David. | Walden | 818 T |
| Tolstoy, Leo. | War and Peace | FIC TOLSTOY |
| Turgenev, Ivan. | Fathers and Sons | 891.733 T |
| Twain, Mark. | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | FIC TWAIN |
| Updike, John. | Rabbit, Run | FIC UPDIKE |
| Virgil. | The Aeneid | 873 V |
| Voltaire. | Candide | FIC VOLTAIRE |
| Vonnegut, Kurt. | Slaughterhouse Five | FIC VONNEGUT |
| Walker, Alice. | The Color Purple | FIC WALKER |
| Wharton, Edith. | The Age of Innocence | FIC PB WHARTON |
| Whitman, Walt. | Leaves of Grass | 811 W |
| Wilde, Oscar. | The Importance of Being Ernest | 828 W |
| Wilder, Thornton. | Our Town | 812.52 W |
| Williams, Tennessee. | The Glass Menagerie | 812 W |
| Woolf, Virginia. | To the Lighthouse | FIC WOOLF |
| Wright, Richard. | Native Son | FIC PB WRIGHT |
(Taken from Reading Lists for College-Bound Students, Second Edition. Doug Estell, Michele L. Satchwell and Patricia S. Wright. New York: Macmillan, 1993.)
