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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.

  • Shakespeare
    At least one comedy and one tragedy.
    Midsummer Night's Dream
    and MacBeth
  • Early American Novel
    Hawthorne, Melville, etc.
    The Scarlet Letter
  • Classic American Poetry
    Dickinson, Poe, Whitman
  • Modern American Poetry
    TS Eliot, Frost, William Carlos Williams
  • Modern American Novel
    Hemingway, Fitzgerald, etc.
    The Great Gatsby
    and Old Man and the Sea
  • British Victorian Novel
    Hardy, Dickens, Austen, etc.
    Pride and Prejudice
  • Classic British Poetry
    Chaucer, Shakespeare's sonnets, Tennyson, Donne, Wordsworth, Yeats
  • Ancient Classics
    Sophocles, Virgil, Homer
    The Illiad
  • Classic International Literature
    Dante, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Machiavelli
    The Prince
  • Modern International Fiction/drama
    Solzhenitsyn, Kafka, Beckett, Saint Exupery
    The Little Prince, The Trial
  • Multicultural Literature
    Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Tonie Morrison, Maya Angelou
    The Bluest Eyes
  • Amercian Nonfiction/essay
    Thoreau, Emerson, Postman, Annie Dillard
    Walden
    , An American Childhood, Amusing Ourselves to Death