Books for the college bound
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The summer before college is one of the last times, at least for a few years, that students have the time to read for fun. What books should be they be reading to prepare for the intellectual (and emotional) adventure of college?
The list:
"Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert
"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac
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"The Dharma Bums" by Jack Kerouac
"Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
"Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Four Quartets" by T. S. Eliot
"Hot, Flat, and Crowded" by Thomas Friedman
"The Sea-Wolf" by Jack London
"The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
"This Side of Paradise" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
"The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand
"Way of the Peaceful Warrior" by Dan Millman
"Ceremony" by Leslie Marmon Silko
"Black Elk Speaks" by John G. Neihardt
"All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque
"Othello" by William Shakespeare
"Inferno" by Dante Alighieri
"Ulysses" by James Joyce
"The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair, Jr.
"The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
Anything by Willa Cather
"Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James W. Loewen
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" by Edward Albee
"Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl
"The Source" by James A. Michener
"Einstein's Dream" by Alan Lightman
"Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage" by Alfred Lansing
"Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations" by Georgina Howell
"Inside the Victorian Home" by Judith Flanders
"Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005" by Thomas Ricks
"The March of Folly" by Barbara W. Tuchman
"The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
"How to Read a Book" by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
"Speak, Memory" by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
"Letters To A Young Poet" by Rainer Maria Rilke
"The True Believer" by Eric Hoffer
"A People's History of America" by Howard Zinn
"Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit" by Daniel Quinn
