This book list, compiled by the College Board includes classics your student should read before (or during) college. But don't use the "s" word! Instead, let your child know that these aren't just classics, they are tales of romance, war, adventure, and courage, and that - while they won't love every story - a few are sure to become beloved lifelong companions. As author Italo Calvino wrote: "A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
Middle school books
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Title
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Crane, Stephen
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The Red Badge of Courage
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Dumas, Alexandre
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The Three Musketeers
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Golding, William
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Lord of the Flies
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Hurston, Zora Neale
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Huxley, Aldous
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Brave New World
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Lee, Harper
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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London, Jack
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The Call of the Wild
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Miller, Arthur
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The Crucible
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Morrison, Toni
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Beloved
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O'Neill, Eugene
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Long Day's Journey into Night
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Orwell, George
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Animal Farm
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Poe, Edgar Allen
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Selected Tales
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Remarque, Erich Maria
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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Rostand, Edmond
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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Stevenson, Robert Louis
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Treasure Island
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Swift, Jonathan
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Gulliver's Travels
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Twain, Mark
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Welty, Eudora
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Collected Stories
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Wright, Richard
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Native Son
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