Monday, January 30, 2012

What are books that college admission officers like to see on applications?

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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