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29 Books Every College Student Should Read

Updated: Apr 13, 2018

  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


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