只要看过了这书单所有的书(79本），就相当于在美国读了四年的高中英语（文学）课程，跟老美谈文学艺术的素材就够了（所以对面试也有帮助），备考SAT和托福更是水到渠成：
Jane Austen: Emma, Pride and Prejudice
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
Samuel Butler: The Way of the Flesh
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim
Charles Dickens: Bleak House, Great Expectations, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist
Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca
Dldous Huxley: Brave New World
Kazuo Ishiguro: Remains of the Day
John Milton: Paradise Lost
Sir Thomas More: Utopia
George Orwell: 1984, Animal Farm
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own
Borland: When the Legends Die
Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
Hemingway: the old man and the sea, Farewell to Arms
Hersey: Hiroshima
Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
London: The call of the Wild
Steinbeck: the Pearl, Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath
Mark Twain: Adventure of Tom Sawyer, A connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Buck: The good earth
Chekhov: Chrry Orchard
Gabriel Garcia Marquez:One Hundred Yers of Solitude
von Goethe: Sorrows of Young Werther
Golding: Lord of the Flies
Green: King Arthur and His Knights of the round Table
Hugo: Les Miserables
Henrik Ibsen: A doll’s House, Hedda Gabler
Machiavelli: the Prince
Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
Albert Camus: The Stranger
Chopin: The Awakening
Ellison: Invisible Man
Faulkner: the Sound and the Fury
Kafka: The Metamorphosis
Sophocles: Antigone, Oedipus Rex
Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Turgenev: Fathers and Son
Jack Kerouac: on the road
James Harriet: All Things Great and Small
Joseph Heller: Catch 22
Arthur MIller: Death of a Salesman, the Crucible
Alexander Hamilton: the Federalist Papers
Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Upton Sinclair: the Jungle
John Groberg: the other side of heaven
Ezra Taft Benson: the proper role of government
Stephen Crane: The red Badge of Courage
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The scarlet Letter
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Julia Alvarez: how the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent
Geofferey Chaucer: the canterbury Tales
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment
Homer: the Illiad, the Odyssey
Ken Kesey: one flew over the cuckoo’s Nst
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems
William Shakespear: MacBeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet
Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club
