Reading for the College Bound
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Title Suggestions
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. In the most famous gothic horror story ever told, Shelley confronts the limitations of science, the nature of human cruelty and the pathway to forgiveness
The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Tells the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God."
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Thirty-one-year-old Kathy, along with old friends from Hailsham, a private school in England, are forced to face the truth about their childhood when they all come together again
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. This American classic centers on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. In the course of his wanderings from a Southern college to New York's Harlem, an African-American man becomes involved in a series of adventures.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. A satirical novel about the utopia of the future, a world in which babies are decanted from bottles and the great Ford is worshipped.
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. An African-American woman searches for a fulfilling relationship through two loveless marriages and finally finds it in the person of Tea Cake, an itinerant laborer and gambler.
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. Chronicles the mental breakdown of Esther Greenwood--a brilliant, beautiful, talented and successful young woman.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo as told through the history of the Buendia family.