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.)
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