西西媽列的大學前必讀書目

1. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley2. The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien 3. 1984 - George Orwell4. Animal Farm - George Orwell5. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess6. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger7. Of Mice & Men - John Steinbeck 8. All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy9. Atonement - Ian McEwan10. Night - Elie Wiesel11.Harry Potter — Joanne Rowling12. War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy13. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy14. Anthem - Ayn Rand15. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand16. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand17. The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald18. Gautama - Hermann Hesse19. Invisible Man — Ralph Ellison20. The Chosen - Chaim Potok21. Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë 22. Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë23. King Lear - William Shakespeare 24. Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoyevsky25. To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee26. The Iliad – Homer27. The Odyssey - Homer. 28. Lorna Doone - RD Blackmore29. A Soldier of the Great War - Mark Helprin30. The World Is Flat — Thomas L. Friedman31. Advice to a Young Scientist - P. B. Medawar32. Simply Einstein - Richard Wolfson33. The Universe in a Nutshell - Stephen Hawking34. A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking35. The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene36. Fermat's Enigma - Simon Singh37. The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin38. Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco39. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco40. In The Wake of Chaos - Stephen Kellert41. Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse42. Candide - Voltaire Candide 43. Beowulf – unknown (I'd recommend the Seamus Heaney translation) 44. Grendel - John Gardner45. Silas Marner - George Eliot46. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman47. Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton48. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift49. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert50. My Antonia - Willa Cather51. The Man in the Panther's Skin (My favorite)52. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse53. The Financier - Theodore Dreiser 54. Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton55. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez56. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway57. East of Eden - John Steinbeck58. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf59. Rabbit, Run - John Updike60. The Stories of John Cheever - John Cheever61. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark62. The Hours - Michael Cunningham63. Beloved - Toni Morrison64. White Noise - Don DeLillo65. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov66. Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion67. Cathedral - Raymond Carver68. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce69. Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson70. Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri71. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - by Carson McCullers72. A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens73. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen74. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje75. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath76. The Zahir - Paulo Coelho 77. Wicked - Gregory Maguire 78. Happiness TM - Will Ferguson79. Female Chauvinist Pigs - Ariel Levy 80. Freakonomics - Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner81. The Bell Jar —Sylvia Plath 82. Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury83. My Ishmael - Daniel Quinn84. The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne