NOTE: This reading list contains book lists from other sources. I will update this list as I find new books and come across new reading lists. Thank you for your patience.
The College Board Recommended Reading List for College Bound Students:
1.) Beowulf, Anonymous
2.) Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
3.) A Death in the Family, James Agee
4.) Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
5.) Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
6.) Waiting for Godo, Samuel T. Beckett
7.) The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
8.) Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
9.) Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
10.) The Stranger, Albert Camus
11.) Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
12.) Don Quixote, Miguel De Cervantes
13.) The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
14.) The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov
15.) The Awakening, Kate Chopin
16.) Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
17.) The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
18.) The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
19.) Inferno, Dante
20.) Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
21.) A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
22.) Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
23.) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass
24.) An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
25.) The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
26.) The Mill on the Floss, George Elliot
27.) Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
28.) Selected Essays, Ralph Waldo Emmerson
29.) As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
30.) The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
31.) Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
32.) The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
33.) Madame Bovary, Gustav Flaubert
34.) The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
35.) Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
36.) Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
37.) The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
38.) Catch 22, Joseph Heller
39.) A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
40.) The Iliad, Homer
41.) The Odyssey, Homer
42.) The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
43.) Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
44.) Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
45.) A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen
46.) The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
47.) The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
48.) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
49.) The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
50.) The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
51.) To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
52.) Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
53.) The Call of the Wild, Jack London
54.) The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
55.) One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
56.) Bartleby the Scrivener, Herman Melville
57.) Moby Dick, Herman Melville
58.) The Crucible, Arthur Miller
59.) Beloved, Toni Morrison
60.) A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Conner
61.) Long Day’s Journey into Night, Eugene O'Neill
62.) 1984, George Orwell
63.) Animal Farm, George Orwell
64.) Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
65.) The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
66.) Selected Tales, Edgar Allen Poe
67.) Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust
68.) The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
69.) All Quiet on the Western Front, Maria Erich Remarque
70.) Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand
71.) Call It Sleep, Henry Roth
72.) The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
73.) Hamlet, William Shakespeare
74.) Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare
75.) Macbeth, William Shakespeare
76.) A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare
77.) Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
78.) Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
79.) Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
80.) Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko
81.) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
82.) Antigone, Sophocles
83.) Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
84.) The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
85.) Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
86.) Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
87.) Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
88.) Vanity Fair, William Thackeray
89.) Walden, Henry David Thoreau
90.) War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
91.) Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
92.) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
93.) Candide, Voltaire
94.) Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
95.) The Color Purple, Alice Walker
96.) The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
97.) Collected Stories, Eudora Welty
98.) Leaves of Grass, Walt Witman
99.) The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
100.) The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams
101.) To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
102.) Native Son, Richard Wright
Reading List for Democratic Socialists: Source: ydsusa.org
1.) Socialism Past and Future, Michael Harrington 2.) Socialism for a Skeptical Age, Ralph Miliband 3.) Socialism Unbound, Stephen Eric Bronner 4.) Essential Works of Socialism, Irving Howe, ed. 5.) The Long Detour: the History and Future of the American Left, James Weinstein 6.) Renewing Socialism: Democracy, Strategy, and Imagination, Leo Panitch
7.) The Future of Democratic Equality, Joseph M. Schwartz 8.) Whose Millennium? Theirs or Ours?, Daniel Singer 9.) Envisioning Real Utopias, Erik Olin Wright 10.) Taking Socialism Seriously, Anatole Anton and Richard Schmitt, eds.
11.) Karl Marx: Selected Writings, David McLellan, ed. (or The Marx-Engels Reader, Robert C. Tucker, ed.)
12.) The Rosa Luxemburg Reader 13.) The Antonio Gramsci Reader
14.) Lenin, Lars T. Lih 15.) Leon Trotsky, Irving Howe 16.) The Making of the English Working Class, E.P. Thompson 17.) Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich 18.) The Working Class Majority, Michael Zweig 19.) Class Notes, Adolph Reed Jr. 20.) Embedded with Organized Labor, Steve Early 21.) Save Our Unions, Steve Early 22.) In Solidarity, Kim Moody 23.) "They're Bankrupting Us!": And 20 Other Myths about Unions, Bill Fletcher, Jr. 24.) Marxism and Politics, Ralph Miliband 25.) Poor People's Movements: How They Succeed, Why They Fail, Frances Fox Piven & Richard
26.) Cloward Fascism: Theory and Practice, Dave Renton 27.) Rethinking the New Left, Van Gosse 28.) Black Reconstruction, W.E.B. DuBois 29.) The Black Jacobins, C.L.R. James 30.) The Black Atlantic, Paul Gilroy 31.) How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America, Manning Marable Race Matters, Cornel West 32.) The Socialist Feminist Project: A Contemporary Reader in Theory & Politics, Nancy Holmstrom, ed.
33.) Women, Class & the Feminist Imagination: A Socialist-Feminist Reader, Ilene Philipson & Karen Hansen, eds. 34.) Women and the Politics of Class, Johanna Brenner Marxism and the Oppression of Women, Lise Vogel 35.) The Socialist Decision, Paul Tillich 36.) Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity, Cornel West
37.) Liberation Theology, Phillip Berryman 38.) Liberation Theology and Its Critics, Arthur F. McGovern 39.) These Holy Sparks: The Rebirth of the Jewish People, Arthur Waskow
40.) The Politics at God's Funeral, Michael Harrington 41.) Marxism and the Muslim World, Maxime Rodinson 42.) E.V. Debs, A Biography (originally published as The Bending Cross), Ray Ginger 43.) Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist, Nick Salvatore 44.) The Other American: A Biography of Michael Harrington, Maurice Isserman 45.) California Red: A Life in the American Communist Party, Dorothy Healey 46.) Marxism in the United States: Remapping the History of the American Left, Paul Buhle 47.) Socialism and America, Irving Howe 48.) We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World, Melvyn Dubofsky 49.) Rebels, Reformers and Racketeers: How Insurgents Transformed the Labor Movement, 50.) Herman Benson State of the Union: A Century of American Labor, Nelson Lichtenstein 51.) The Fall of the House of Labor, David Montgomery
52.) There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America, Philip Dray 53.) Strike!, Jeremy Brecher 54.) Ecology Against Capitalism, John Bellamy Foster 55.) The Greening of Marxism, Ted Benton 56.) Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism, James O'Connor 57.) After Progress: European Socialism and American Social Reform in the 20th Century, 58.) Norman Birnbaum Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000, Geoff Eley 59.) One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century,
60.) Donald Sassoon European Socialism: A Concise History with Documents, William Smaldone 61.) Panic Rules!: Everything You Need to Know About the Global Economy, Robin Hahnel 62.) The Amoral Elephant: Globalization and the Struggle for Social Justice in the 21st Century, William K. Tabb 63.) A Brief History of Neoliberalism, David Harvey 64.) The Economics of Global Turbulence, Robert Brenner 65.) The Making of Global Capitalism, Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin 66.) Empire of Capital, Ellen Meiksins Wood 67.) The New Imperialism, David Harvey 68.) How America Lost Iraq, Aaron Glatz 69.) Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013, Noam Chomsky 70.) The Enigma of Capital: and the Crises of Capitalism, David Harvey 71.) In & Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown & Left Alternatives, Greg Albo, Sam Gindin, Leo Panitch
72.) Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance, David McNally 73.) The Bolsheviks Come to Power, Alexander Rabinowitch 74.) Workers' Control and Socialist Democracy: The Soviet Experience, Carmen Sirianni
75.) Before Stalinism, Samuel Farber 76.) History of the Russian Revolution, Leon Trotsky 77.) The Stalinist Legacy: Its Impact on 20th-Century World Politics, Tariq Ali, ed. 78.) After Capitalism, David Schweickart 79.) Democracy and Economic Planning, Pat Devine 80.) Of the People, By the People: The Case for a Participatory Economy, Robin Hahnel 81.) Imagine: Living In a Socialist U.S.A., Francis Goldin, Debby Smith, & Michael Steven Smith, eds.
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