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Independent Reading Which books have been taken by whom?



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The Ultimate Reading List — Classics That Endure I know, I know: Wikipedia [|100 Greatest Novels of All Time!] Modern Library List http://entertainment.time.com/2005/10/16/all-time-100-novels/ Goodreads: A good place to find information about books. Most Frequently Cited 1970-2010 (AP Literature & Composition)

23 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 18 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 16 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 15 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski

15 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 15 Moby Dick by Herman Melville 13 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 13 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 12 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 12 King Lear by William Shakespeare 11 Billy Budd by Herman Melville 11 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 11 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 10 The Awakening by Kate Chopin

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">10 Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">10 Light in August by William Faulkner <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">10 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">10 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">9 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">9 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">8 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">8 Antigone by Sophocles <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">8 Beloved by Toni Morrison <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">8 Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">8 Candide by Voltaire <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">8 The Color Purple by Alice Walker <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">8 The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">8 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">8 Native Son by Richard Wright <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">8 Othello by William Shakespeare <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">8 A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">7 The Crucible by Arthur Miller <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">7 Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">7 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">7 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">7 Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">7 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">7 A Passage to India by E. M. Forster <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">7 A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">7 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">7 Sula by Toni Morrison <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">7 Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">6 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">6 All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">6 A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">6 An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">6 Equus by Peter Shaffer <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">6 Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">6 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">6 Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">6 The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">6 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">6 Obasan by Joy Kogawa <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">6 Portrait of a Lady by Henry James <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">6 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">6 Sula by Toni Morrison <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">6 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">6 The Tempest by William Shakespeare <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">6 The Turn of the Screw by Henry James <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">5 Bleak House by Charles Dickens

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;"> 5 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley5 The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chkhov <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">5 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">5 Hamlet by William Shakespeare <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">5 Macbeth by William Shakespeare <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">5 Medea by Euripides <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">5 The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">5 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">5 Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">5 Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">5 The Piano Lesson by August Wilson <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">5 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">5 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">5 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">5 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">5 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">5 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,;">5 Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor