The Well Read Student
Are you ready for college reading?
Some college require incoming freshmen to have read certain books. While 51勛圖厙 University does not have this requirement, you may want to do some personal reading in "the classics" in order to be considered well-read. This will help not only with college reading but also with your ACT scores and your current Academy classes.
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Shakespeare
At least one comedy and one tragedy.
Midsummer Night's Dream and MacBeth
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Early American Novel
Hawthorne, Melville, etc.
The Scarlet Letter
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Classic American Poetry
Dickinson, Poe, Whitman
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Modern American Poetry
TS Eliot, Frost, William Carlos Williams
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Modern American Novel
Hemingway, Fitzgerald, etc.
The Great Gatsby and Old Man and the Sea
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British Victorian Novel
Hardy, Dickens, Austen, etc.
Pride and Prejudice
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Classic British Poetry
Chaucer, Shakespeare's sonnets, Tennyson, Donne, Wordsworth, Yeats
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Ancient Classics
Sophocles, Virgil, Homer
The Illiad
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Classic International Literature
Dante, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Machiavelli
The Prince
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Modern International Fiction/drama
Solzhenitsyn, Kafka, Beckett, Saint Exupery
The Little Prince, The Trial
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Multicultural Literature
Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Tonie Morrison, Maya Angelou
The Bluest Eyes
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Amercian Nonfiction/essay
Thoreau, Emerson, Postman, Annie Dillard
Walden, An American Childhood, Amusing Ourselves to Death