29 Books Every College Student Should Read

1. Into the Wild by John Krakauer

2. The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

3. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

4. Freedomby Jonathan Franzen

5. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

6. Lucyby Jamaica Kincaid

7. Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestionsby Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

8. Let the Great World Spinby Colum McCann

9. The Secret Historyby Donna Tartt

10. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

11. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

12. Life to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza

13. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

14. The Women's Room by Marilyn French

15. The Sellout by Paul Beatty

16. The Giver by Lois Lowry

17. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

18. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

19. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

20. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

21. The Sun Also Risesby Ernest Hemingway

22. The Stranger by Albert Camus

23. The Love Affairs of Nathaniel Pby Adelle Waldman

24. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

25. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

26. Belovedby Toni Morrison

27. White Teeth by Zadie Smith

28. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

29. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian​ by Sherman Alexie