100 + Books for the College Bound TITLE LEXILE AUTHOR Animal/Outdoors/Nature Dolphin Island 1000 Arthur C. Clarke Never Cry Wolf 1330 Farley Mowat Walden 1420 Henry David Thoreau Moby Dick 1200 Herman Melville The Call of the Wild 1170 Jack London White Fang 970 Jack London The Plague Dogs ? Richard Adams Watership Down 880 Richard Adams Kon-Tiki 1310 Thor Heyerdahl

Beyond Belief And Then There Were None 570 Agatha Christie The Hound of the Baskervilles 1090 Arthur Conan Doyle Beowulf 1090 Seamus Heaney translation Dracula 1070 Bram Stoker The Turn of the Screw 1140 Henry James Frankenstein 1170 Mary Shelley The House of Seven Gables 1320 Nathaniel Hawthorne The Picture of Dorian Gray 920 Oscar Wilde Beloved 870 Toni Morrison

British Literature The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1120 Muriel Spark The lnheritors ? William Golding Great Expectations 1200 Charles Dickens Oliver Twist 990 Charles Dickens Pride and Prejudice 1100 Jane Austen The Return of the Native 1040 Thomas Hardy Tess of the D’ Urbervilles ? Thomas Hardy Brighton Rock ? Graham Greene A Burnt out Case ? Graham Greene

Fantasy/Science Fiction Brave New World 870 Aldous Huxley 2001: A Space Odyssey 1060 Arthur C. Clarke Anthem 880 Ayn Rand Flowers for Algernon 910 Daniel Keyes 1984 1090 George Orwell The Invisible Man 980 H.G. Wells The Fellowship of the Ring 860 J.R.R. Tolkien The Lost Horizon 1060 James Hilton Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 1030 Jules Verne Cat's Cradle ? Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five 850 Kurt Vonnegut On the Beach 780 Nevil Shute Fahrenheit 451 890 Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles 740 Ray Bradbury Green Mansions ? W.H. Hudson A Canticle for Leibowitz 1000 Walter Miller, Jr.

Gothic Romance The Count of Monte Cristo 930 Alexander Dumas Jane Eyre 890 Charlotte Bronte Rebecca 880 Daphne Du Maurier The Scarlet Pimpernel 1140 Emmuska Orczy The Scarlet Letter 1420 Nathaniel Hawthorne

Historical Novels Dr. Zhivago 1010 Boris Pasternak A Tale of Two Cities 1130 Charles Dickens Shogun ? James Clavell Wide Sargasso Sea ? Jean Rhys Gone with the Wind 1100 Margaret Mitchell The Crystal Cave 960 Mary Stewart The Once and Future King 1080 T.H. White

Humor and Satire Up the Down Staircase ? Bel Kaufman Harold and Maude ? Colin Higgins Cheaper by the Dozen 890 Framk Gilbreth & Ernestine Carey Gulliver's Travels ? Jonathan Swift Catch 22 1140 Joseph Heller One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1110 Ken Kesey The Mouse That Roared ? Leonard Wibberley Don Quixiote ? Miguel de Cervantes A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1080 Mark Twain

Maturing/Psycological Problems Member of the Wedding 900 Carson McCullers Bless the Beasts and Children 970 Glendon Swarthout The Learning Tree 860 Gordon Parks I Never Promised You a Rose Garden 960 Hannah Green Across Five Aprils 1100 Irene Hunt The Catcher in the Rye 790 J.D. Salinger Franny and Zooey 990 J.D. Salinger A Separate Peace 1110 John Knowles Black Boy 950 Richard Wright The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 990 Mark Twain The Bell Jar 1140 Sylvia Plath My Antonia 1010 Willa Cather

Multi-Cultural/World Literature One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich 900 Alexander Solzhenitsyn The Color Purple 970 Alice Walker The Fixer 960 Bernard Malamud A Passage to India 950 E.M. Forster Cyrano de Bergerac ? Edmond Rostand The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman 710 Ernest J. Gaines Siddhartha 1010 Herman Hesse Out of Africa ? Isak Dinesan Anna Karenina 1080 Leo Tolstoy I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1070 Maya Angelou The Good Earth 1530 Pearl S. Buck The Invisible Man 950 Ralph Ellison Kim 940 Rudyard Kipling

Problems of Modern Humanity The Natural 1060 Bernard Malamud The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 760 Carson McCullers Ethan Frome 1160 Edith Wharton Night 590 Elle Wiesel A Farewell to Arms 730 Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls 840 Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea 940 Ernest Hemingway The Great Gatsby 1070 F. Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night 990 F. Scott Fitzgerald Lord Of the Flies 770 William Golding To Kill a Mockingbird 870 Harper Lee The Winds of War 930 Herman Wouk Death Be Not Proud 1060 John Gunther Hiroshima 1190 John Hersey Black Like Me 990 John Howard Griffin East of Eden 700 John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath 680 John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men 630 John Steinbeck Travels with Charley ? John Steinbeck Ordinary People 600 Judith Guest Exodus 920 Leon Uris Cold Sassy Tree 930 Olive Ann Burns Sister Carrie 980 Theodore Dreisser In Cold Blood 1040 Truman Capote The Jungle 1170 Upton Sinclair As I Lay Dying 870 William Faulkner War Johnny Got His Gun 970 Dalton Trumbo All Quiet on the Western Front 830 Erich Remarque King Rat ? James Clavell The Bridges at Toko-Ri ? James Michener Western/Native American Culture When the Legends Die 850 Hal Borland Centennial ? James A. Michener I Heard the Owl Call my Name 1080 Margaret Craven Little Big Man ? Thomas Berger The Ox-Bow Incident 890 Walter Van Tilburg Clark