College Bound
One of the biggest misconceptions college bound students
have could be thinking that their high school required reading will be enough to
carry them on to being a well-read college freshman. Often times people are oblivious to
the unspoken "required reading" that is expected of a college student. Here is a list
drawn up by a Junior/Senior AP Language and Composition teacher...
If you only have time to read 12:
... Beowulf
Allegieri, Dante - Inferno
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Salinger, J. D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
- Macbeth
- Romeo and Juliet
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Twain, Mark -The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
If you only have time to read 20 or more, add the following titles:
Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Austin, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451
Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
Dickens, Charles - Great Expectations
Falkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
This is just the first of a two page list. How is one expected to read all these books? Even at discounted prices to acquire them all for thorough studying could really add up. This is why sites like BookLagoon.com give away free books! There is no catch (outside the Rye, naturally), you don't pay a cent toward one book. Not one note, scarlet or otherwise is required. Only fill out free surveys and web offers and indulge yourself in the Tales.
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