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Question: Can you recommend good books to a college freshman that might help her attain an A+ in English!?
I just started college last week and I have one major problem right now!. English professors are already expecting that I have read classic books!.!.!. which obviously I haven't!. When I attended primary and secondary education, they didn't provide us long reading lists!. There were no even book reports!!! I've read J!.R!.R Tolkien, Khaled Hosseini, J!.K!. Rowling and some YA novels by myself due to my interests!. That's it!

Concerning the books (a list, if possible) please please start recommending books from the era of Aristotle, Plato and others up until to the 21st century!. I hope you could help me!.

I am suffering at this moment!.!.!.!. staked through my heart 'cause of this situation!.

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Here's a complete list for you:-
Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner by George Eliot

Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, The Old Curiosity Shop, Little Dorrit, Martin Chuzzlewit, Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol, A tale of Two Cities and Bleak House by Charles Dickens!.

The Grapes of wrath, Of Mice and Men, The Pearl,Tortilla flat by John Steinbeck

Tess of the Duberville, Jude the Obscure, The return of the Native, Under the Greenwood tree, A Pair of Blue eyes,The Mayor of Casterbridge, Far from the Madding Crowd and The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy

Villette, Shirley, The Professor,and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Agnes Grey, The tenant of Windfell Hall by Anne Bronte

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The Alchemist and Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho

A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

The Great Gatsby by F!. Scott Fitzgerald

The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Diary of Anne Frank

Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth and any other play by Shakespeare

The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart and other stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

The Sun also Rises by Earnest Hemingway

The Sound and the Fury and Light in August by William Faulkner

All Quite on the Western Front by Eric Maria Remarque

Night by Elie Wiesel

Black Boy by Richard Wright

The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Canterville Ghost, Salome, Vera Or The Nihilists,The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Don Quixote by Cervantes

Oedipus Rex and Antigone by Sophocles

Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malroy

The Metamorphosis by Kafka

Candide by Voltaire

Heart of Darkness and The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The Lost world and the Time Machine by H!.G!.Wells

Roll of Thunder, Hear my cry and Let the Circle be Unbroken by Mildred Taylor

A Grain Of Wheat, Matigari and Devil on the Cross by Ngugi

Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe

The Grass is Singing by Dorris Lessing

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe!.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London

A Room with A View and A Passage to India by E!.M!.Forster

Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Marquez

A House For Mr Biswas and Mr Stone and the Knights companion by V!.S!.Naipaul

The Guide, The English Teacher, Waiting for the Mahatma and Malgudi Days by R!.K!.Narayan

A Streetcar named Desire, The Glass Menagerie and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennesse Williams

All My Sons, Death of A Salesman, The Crucible and A View From The Bridge by Arthur Miller

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

The Reef, The Custom of the Country, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome and The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Mary Barton and North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

Actually, what I sometimes did was to read other books by the authors I was studying but which were not on my syllabus!. That really helped me in better understanding the style of the author as well as their interests while writing their books!. It might also help to read books by authors who are contemporaries of the author you are studying, just to get a grasp of the different schools of thought at that time!. It would be interesting to draw out a list of similarities and differences between the different authors!.

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Here's where I'd start:

The Iliad
The Odyssey

Hamlet
Romeo & Juliet
King Lear
Othello

Then,
The Great Gatsby
Invisible Man
Animal Farm and/or 1984
Pride and Prejudice
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Start there, any of those books will have themes and ideas that you can apply to almost any writing prompt!. You've got your work cut out for you, good luck!Www@QuestionHome@Com