Outstanding Fiction for the University Bound
Modified from YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association)
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1. Watership Down by Richard Adams
2. The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
4 . When Legends Die by Hal Borland
5 . Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
6. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
7. The Mountain and the Valley by Ernest Buckler
8. Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
9. More Joy in Heaven by Morley Callaghan
10. The Outsider by Albert Camus
11. La Guerre, Yes Sir! by Roch Carrier
12. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
13. The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary
14. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
15. Shogun by James Clavell
16. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
17. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
18. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
19. I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
20. Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
21. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
22. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
23. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( also Crime and Punishment)
24. The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas
25. Sherlock Holmes: Selected Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
26. The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
27. Middlemarch by George Elliot
28. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
29. The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
30. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
31. The Wars by Timothy Findley
32. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
34. Howards End by E.M. Forster
35. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
36. The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
37. Lord Of the Flies by William Golding
38. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
39. The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
40. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
41. The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton
42. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
43. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
44. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
45. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
46. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
47. Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hemon
48. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
49. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
50. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
51. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
52. On The Road by Jack Kerouac
53. The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
54. The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
55. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
56. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock
57. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre
58. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
59. Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
60. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
61. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
62. The Watch That Ends the Night by Hugh MacLennan
63. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
64. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
65. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
66. Chesapeake by James A. Michener
67. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
68. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
69. The Luck of Ginger Coffey by Brian Moore
70. The Bell by Iris Murdock
71. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
72. A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
73. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordoff & James N. Hall
74. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
75. Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
76. The Fall of The House of Usher and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
77. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
78. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
79. All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
80. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler
81. As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross
82. The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy
83. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
84. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
85. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexandre Solzhenitsyn
86. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
87. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
88. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
89. Vanity Fair by William M. Thackeray
90. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
91. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
92. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
93. Trinity by Leon Uris
94. 20,000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
95. The Double Hook by Sheila Watson
96. The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
97. The War of The Worlds by H.G. Wells
98. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
99. Swamp Angel by Ethel Wilson
100. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
101. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
102. The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
103. Germinal by Emile Zola