Recommended DA Summer Reading
(more books listed below):

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
1984 by George Orwell
The Odyssey by Homer



101 Books for The College Bound
(as recommended by the College Board)

Beowulf Mann, Thomas The Magic Mountain
Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart Marquez,
Gabriel García One Hundred Years of Solitude
Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice
Melville, Herman Bartleby the Scrivener
Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain
Melville, Herman Moby Dick
Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot
Miller, Arthur The Crucible
Bellow, Saul The Adventures of Augie March
Morrison, Toni Beloved
Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre
O'Connor, Flannery A Good Man is Hard to Find
Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights
O'Neill, Eugene Long Day's Journey into Night
Camus, Albert The Comes for the Archbishop
Pasternak, Boris Doctor Zhivago
Chaucer, Geoffrey The Canterbury Tales
Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar
Chekhov, Anton The Cherry Orchard
Poe, Edgar Allan Selected Tales
Chopin, Kate The Awakening
Proust, Marcel Swann's Way
Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness
Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49
Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans
Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front
Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage
Rostand, Edmond Cyrano de Bergerac
Dante Inferno
Roth, Henry Call It Sleep
de Cervantes, Miguel Don Quixote
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe
Shakespeare, William Hamlet
Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities
Shakespeare, William Macbeth
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Crime and Punishment
Shakespeare, William A Midsummer Night's Dream
Douglass, Frederick Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet
Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy
Shaw, George Bernard Pygmalion
Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Eliot, George The Mill on the Floss
Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony
Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Emerson, Ralph Waldo Selected Essays
Sophocles Antigone
Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying
Sophocles Oedipus Rex
Faulkner, William The Sound and the Fury
Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath
Fielding, Henry Tom Jones
Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island
Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby
Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin
Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary
Swift, Jonathan Gulliver's Travels
Ford, Ford Madox The Good Soldier
Thackeray, William Vanity Fair
Goethe, JohannWolfgang von Faust
Thoreau, Henry David Walden
Golding, William Lord of the Flies
Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace
Hardy, Thomas Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Turgenev, Ivan Fathers and Sons
Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter
Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Heller, Joseph Catch 22
Voltaire Candide
Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five
Homer The Iliad
Walker, Alice The Color Purple
Homer The Odyssey
Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth
Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Welty, Eudora Collected Stories
Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God
Whitman, Walt Leaves of Grass
Huxley, Aldous Brave New World
Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray
Ibsen, Henrik A Doll's House
Williams, Tennessee The Glass Menagerie
James, Henry The Portrait of a Lady
Woolf , Virginia To the Lighthouse
James, Henry The Turn of the Screw
Wright, Richard Native Son
Joyce, James A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz The Metamorphosis
Kingston , Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair Babbitt
London, Jack The Call of the Wild