{"id":690,"date":"2004-04-23T16:49:43","date_gmt":"2004-04-23T21:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=690"},"modified":"2004-04-23T16:49:43","modified_gmt":"2004-04-23T21:49:43","slug":"college-board-survey-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"College Board Survey Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

From a friend’s livejournal<\/a>:<\/p>\n

College Board’s 101 Greatest Works of Literature – bold those you have read, underline those you want to read. (I’m italicizing them because I’m too lazy to code the underlined ones.)<\/p>\n

Beowulf<\/strong>
\nAchebe, Chinua – Things Fall Apart
\nAgee, James – A Death in the Family
\nAusten, Jane – Pride and Prejudice<\/em>
\nBaldwin, James – Go Tell It on the Mountain
\nBeckett, Samuel – Waiting for Godot<\/strong>
\nBellow, Saul – The Adventures of Augie March<\/strong>
\nBront\u00eb, Charlotte – Jane Eyre<\/em>
\nBront\u00eb, Emily – Wuthering Heights<\/em>
\nCamus, Albert – The Stranger<\/strong> (in both English and French)
\nCather, Willa – Death Comes for the Archbishop
\nChaucer, Geoffrey – The Canterbury Tales<\/strong>
\nChekhov, Anton – The Cherry Orchard<\/strong>
\nChopin, Kate – The Awakening
\nConrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness<\/strong>
\nCooper, James Fenimore – The Last of the Mohicans<\/strong>
\nCrane, Stephen – The Red Badge of Courage
\nDante – Inferno<\/em>
\nde Cervantes, Miguel – Don Quixote
\nDefoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe<\/em>
\nDickens, Charles – A Tale of Two Cities
\nDostoyevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment<\/strong>
\nDouglass, Frederick – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass<\/strong>
\nDreiser, Theodore – An American Tragedy
\nDumas, Alexandre – The Three Musketeers
\nEliot, George – The Mill on the Floss
\nEllison, Ralph – Invisible Man<\/strong>
\nEmerson, Ralph Waldo – Selected Essays<\/strong>
\nFaulkner, William – As I Lay Dying
\nFaulkner, William – The Sound and the Fury
\nFielding, Henry – Tom Jones
\nFitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby<\/strong>
\nFlaubert, Gustave – Madame Bovary<\/strong>
\nFord, Ford Madox – The Good Soldier
\nGoethe, Johann Wolfgang von – Faust
\nGolding, William – Lord of the Flies<\/strong>
\nHardy, Thomas – Tess of the d’Urbervilles
\nHawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter<\/strong>
\nHeller, Joseph – Catch-22<\/em>
\nHemingway, Ernest – A Farewell to Arms
\nHomer – The Iliad<\/strong>
\nHomer – The Odyssey<\/strong>
\nHugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame<\/em>
\nHurston, Zora Neale – Their Eyes Were Watching God
\nHuxley, Aldous – Brave New World
\nIbsen, Henrik – A Doll’s House<\/strong>
\nJames, Henry – The Portrait of a Lady
\nJames, Henry – The Turn of the Screw
\nJoyce, James – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/strong>
\nKafka, Franz – The Metamorphosis
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\nKingston, Maxine Hong – The Woman Warrior<\/em>
\nLee, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird<\/strong>
\nLewis, Sinclair – Babbitt<\/strong>
\nLondon, Jack – The Call of the Wild<\/strong>
\nMann, Thomas – The Magic Mountain
\nMarquez, Gabriel Garc\u00eda – One Hundred Years of Solitude
\nMelville, Herman – Bartleby the Scrivener<\/strong>
\nMelville, Herman – Moby Dick<\/strong>
\nMiller, Arthur – The Crucible<\/strong>
\nMorrison, Toni – Beloved
\nO’Connor, Flannery – A Good Man is Hard to Find
\nO’Neill, Eugene – Long Day’s Journey into Night
\nOrwell, George – Animal Farm
\nPasternak, Boris – Doctor Zhivago
\nPlath, Sylvia – The Bell Jar
\nPoe, Edgar Allan – Selected Tales<\/strong>
\nProust, Marcel – Swann’s Way
\nPynchon, Thomas – The Crying of Lot 49
\nRemarque, Erich Maria – All Quiet on the Western Front
\nRostand, Edmond – Cyrano de Bergerac<\/strong> (in French)
\nRoth, Henry – Call It Sleep<\/strong>
\nSalinger, J.D. – The Catcher in the Rye<\/strong>
\nShakespeare, William – Hamlet
\nShakespeare, William – Macbeth<\/strong>
\nShakespeare, William – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
\nShakespeare, William – Romeo and Juliet<\/strong>
\nShaw, George Bernard – Pygmalion
\nShelley, Mary – Frankenstein<\/strong>
\nSilko, Leslie Marmon – Ceremony
\nSolzhenitsyn, Alexander – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
\nSophocles – Antigone
\nSophocles – Oedipus Rex<\/strong>
\nSteinbeck, John – The Grapes of Wrath<\/em>
\nStevenson, Robert Louis – Treasure Island<\/em>
\nStowe, Harriet Beecher – Uncle Tom’s Cabin<\/em>
\nSwift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels
\nThackeray, William – Vanity Fair
\nThoreau, Henry David – Walden<\/strong>
\nTolstoy, Leo – War and Peace
\nTurgenev, Ivan – Fathers and Sons
\nTwain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/strong>
\nVoltaire – Candide<\/strong>
\nVonnegut, Kurt Jr. – George Bergeron
\nWalker, Alice – The Color Purple
\nWharton, Edith – The House of Mirth
\nWelty, Eudora – Collected Stories
\nWhitman, Walt – Leaves of Grass<\/strong>
\nWilde, Oscar – The Picture of Dorian Gray
\nWilliams, Tennessee – The Glass Menagerie
\nWoolf, Virginia – To the Lighthouse
\nWright, Richard – Native Son<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve read 40of the 101 and almost all of those were for my English classes in middle and high school<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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