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Summer reading ideas for the college bound and college student. Beefing up your SAT verbal is just a bonus.

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A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

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A Good Man is Hard to Find

by Flannery O'Connor

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A Lesson Before Dying

by Ernest Gaines

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A Portrait of the artist as a young man

by James Joyce

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A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

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A Thousand splendid suns

by Khaled Hosseini

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All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

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An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

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Animal Farm

by George Orwell

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As I Lay Dying

by William Faulkner

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Bastard out of Carolina

by Dorothy Allison

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Beloved

by Toni Morrison

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Beowulf

by Unknown

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Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

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Busmans Honeymoon

by Dorothy L. Sayers

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Candide

by Voltaire

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Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

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Collected Stories

by Eudora Welty

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Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Cyrano de Bergerac

by Edmund Rostand

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Death comes for the archbishop

by Willa Cather

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Doctor Zhivago

by Boris Pasternak

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Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes

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Dracula

by Bram Stoker

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Ella Minnow Pea

by Mark Dunn

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Escape from slavery : the boyhood of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

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Feed

by M.T. Anderson

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Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

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Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

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Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

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Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

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Invisible Man

by Ralph Ellison

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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

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Little brother

by Cory Doctorow

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Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

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Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

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Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

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Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

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Never Let Me Go

by Kauzo Ishiguro

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Nineteen Minutes

by Jodi Picoult

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Oedipus Rex

by Sophocles

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On the Road

by Jack Kerouac

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One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Pillars of the Earth

by Ken Follett

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Pioneer Women

by Joanna Stratton

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Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

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Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

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Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

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Secret Life of Bees

by Sue Monk Kidd

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Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Sold

by Patricia McCormick

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Someday this pain will be useful to you

by Peter Cameron

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Swanns Way

by Marcel Proust

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Tess of the DUrbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

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The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

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The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

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The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak

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The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

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The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

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The Catcher in the Rye

by J.D. Salinger

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The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

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The Complete illustrated stories and poems

by Edgar Allen Poe

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The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

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The Crucible

by Arthur Miller

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The Curious incident of the dog in the night-time

by Mark Haddon

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The Forgotten fire

by Adam Bagdasarian.

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The Glass Castle

by Jeannette Walls

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The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

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The God of Animals

by Aryn Kyle

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The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

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The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The History of Tom Jones

by Henry Fielding

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The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

by Victor Hugo

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The Iliad

by Homer

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The Known World

by Edward P. Jones

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The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

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The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

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The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

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The Odyssey

by Homer

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

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The Plot Against America

by Philip Roth

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The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James

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The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

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The Red Tent

by Anita Diamant

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The Road

by Cormac McCarthy

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The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

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The Stranger

by Albert Camus

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The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas

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The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

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The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

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These is my words

by Nancy Groves Turner

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To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

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To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

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Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Vanity Fair

by William Thackeray

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Waiting for Godot

by Samuel Beckett

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Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

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War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

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Water for Elephants

by Sara Gruen

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Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West

by Gregory Maguire

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Wuthering Heights

by Emily Bronte

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