University Bound

Outstanding Fiction for the University Bound
Modified from YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association)

Blue = Read (78)

1. Watership Down by Richard Adams
2. The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
4. When Legends Die by Hal Borland
5. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
6. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
7. The Mountain and the Valley by Ernest Buckler
8. Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
9. More Joy in Heaven by Morley Callaghan
10. The Outsider by Albert Camus
11. La Guerre, Yes Sir! by Roch Carrier
12. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
13. The Horse’s Mouth by Joyce Cary
14. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
15. Shogun by James Clavell
16. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
17. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
18. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
19. I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
20. Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
21. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
22. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
23. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
24. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
25. The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas
26. Sherlock Holmes: Selected Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
27. The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
28. Middlemarch by George Elliot
29. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
30. The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
31. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
32. The Wars by Timothy Findley
33. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
34. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
35. Howards End by E.M. Forster
36. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
37. The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
38.  Lord Of the Flies by William Golding
39. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
40. The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
41. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
42. The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton
43. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
44. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
45. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
46. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
47. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
48. Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hemon
49. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
50. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
51. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
52. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
53. On The Road by Jack Kerouac
54. The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
55. The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
56. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
57. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock
58. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre
59. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
60. Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
61. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
62. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
63. The Watch That Ends the Night by Hugh MacLennan
64. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
65. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
66. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
67. Chesapeake by James A. Michener
68. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
69. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
70. The Luck of Ginger Coffey by Brian Moore
71. The Bell by Iris Murdock
72. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
73. A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
74. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordoff & James N. Hall
75. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
76. Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
77. The Fall of The House of Usher and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
78. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
79. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
80. All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
81. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler
82. As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross
83. The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy
84. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
85. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
86. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexandre Solzhenitsyn
87. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
88. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
89. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
90. Vanity Fair by William M. Thackeray
91. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
92. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
93. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
94. Trinity by Leon Uris
95. 20,000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
96. The Double Hook by Sheila Watson
97. The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
98. The War of The Worlds by H.G. Wells
99. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
100. Swamp Angel by Ethel Wilson
101. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
102. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
103. The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
104. Germinal by Emile Zola