My Teacher Advisor wants to know what books I've read and I want to read books that may help me get into a better college. I'll have plenty of time over the summer, so any book recommendation is good.What are books that college admission officers like to see on applications?
1984
The Sound and the Fury
A Farewell to Arms
Anything by Shakespeare
The Professor's House
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Things Fall Apart
The Great Gatsby
A Long Day's Journey Into Night (play)
Any Mark Twain
Plato's Republic
The Canterbury Tales
The Heart of Darkness
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (difficult read)
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Power of One (really good)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Paradise Lost
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
The Scarlett Letter
Good luck and have fun!
The Old Man and the Sea- Hemingway
Animal Farm-Orwell
The Jungle-Sinclair
A Tale of Two Cities-Dickens
Oliver Twist-Dickens
The Last of the Mohicans-Cooper
Treasure Island-Stevenson
The Things They Carried, O'Brien
The Confederacy of Dunces-O'Toole
MacBeth-Shakespeare
Juliius Cesaer-Shakespeare
A Streetcar Named Desire-Williams
The Death of A Salesman-Miller
The Crucible-Miller
A Raisin in the Sun-Hansberry
The Inferno-Dante
The Illiad and the Odyssey-Homer
That should keep you busy.What are books that college admission officers like to see on applications?
And for some FUN - you could try:
The Rule of Four
The Dante Club
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Crime and Punishment
Anna Karenina
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell.What are books that college admission officers like to see on applications?
I think it's titled 'Millionaires' By Brad Meltzer.
How to win friends and influence people, Dale Carnegie? Still selling after all these years, and loads of on the road seminars as well. Seems to be a well accepted modern day classic.
War in Peace and To Kill a Mockingbird are for very smart people (To Kill A Mocking Bird is actually pretty good)
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