A Who's Who 

  of a Reading List

The following is an abbreviated list of authors recommended by colleges across the country. Add to these, as much nonfiction as you can from autobiographies, biographies, history, economics, science and philosophy.

For specific lists of suggested or recommended readings, contact the colleges you are interested in. Books of reading lists from a variety of schools across the country are available at libraries and bookstores.

You will notice that even this abbreviated list of authors is quite long. You can’t read all of these the summer before you go to college, so get reading now!

Acevedo Diaz,   
     Edvardo
Alearia, Ciro
Angelou, Maya
Anzaldua, Gloria
Asturias, Miguel
     Angel
Auster, Paul
Austin, Jane
Baraka, Imamu
    Amiri (LeRoi
     Jones)
Baroja, Pia
Beckett, Samuel
Berger, John
The Bible
Bordo, Susan
Brecht, Bertolt
Bronte, Charlotte
Bronte, Emily
Brooks,
      Gwendolyn
Brown, William
      Wells
Calderon, Pedro
Carroll, Lewis
Cather, Willa
Cela, Camilo Jose
Cervantes, Miguel
      de
Chauser, Geoffrey
Chekhov, Anton
Chopin, Kate
Coles, Robert
Crane, Stephen
Dante
Darwin, Charles
Defoe, Daniel
Dickens, Charles
Douglass,
       Frederick
Dubois, W.E.B.
Ellison, Ralph
Emerson, Ralph
      Waldo
Equiano, Olaudah
Faulkner, William
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Foucault, Michel
Freire
Fuentos, Carlos

Gallegos, Romula
Geertz, Clifford
Goethe, Johann
      von
Golding, William 
Griffin, Susan
HD (Hilde
      Doolittle)
Hamilton, Edith
Hardy, Thomas
Hawthorne,
       Nathaniel
Hemingway,
        Ernest
Homer
Hurston, Zora
        Neale
Hughes and
        Bontemps
Hughes, Langston
Huxley, Aldous
Ibsen, Henrik
Icaza, Jorges
Jacobs, Harriet
    (Brent)
James, Henry
Johnson, James
         Weldon
Joyce, James
Kafka, Franz
Larson, Nella
Lawrence, DH
Lewis, C.S.
Lewis, Sinclair
Limerick, Patricia
      Nelson
Lorca, Federico
          Garcia
Lorde, Audrey
Malcom X
Mann, Thomas
Marlowe, 
          Christopher
Garcia Marquez, 
          Gabriel
Melville, Herman
Miller, Arthur
Milton, John
Milosz, Czeslaw
Mitchell, W.J.T.
Moliere
Montale, Eugenio
Moore, Marianne
Morrison, Toni

O’Neill, Eugene
Oates, Joyce Carol
Orwell, George
Paton, Alan
Paz, Octavio
Percy, Walker
Plato
Poe, Edgar Allen
Pratt, Mary Louise
Purdy, James
Quiroga, Horacio
Rich, Adrienne
Rodriguez, Richard
Rulfo, Juan
Sabato, Ernesto
Sanchez, Sonia
Salinger, JD
Scott, Sir Walter
Shakespeare,
        William
Shaw, George
        Bernard
Shelley, Mary
Steedman, Carolyn
        Kay
Steinbeck, John
Swift, Jonathan
Thoreau, Henry
         David
Tolstoy, Leo
Tompkins, Jane
Twain, Mark
Unamuno, Miguel
         de
Updike, John
Vergil
Voltaire
Vonnegut, Kurt
Walker, Alice
Walker, Margaret
Welty, Eudora
Wharton, Edit
Whitman, Walt
Wilde, Oscar
Wideman, John 
      Edgar
Wilder, Thornton
Williams,
         Tennessee
Wilson, Harriet
Woods, Donald
Woolf, Virginia
Wright, Richard