The Well Read Student
Are you ready for college reading?
Some college require incoming freshmen to have read certain books. While ¶·Å£ÆåÅÆ 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