Books for the College-Bound The following list represents books we recommend that college bound students read.   James Agee  A Death in the Family On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying. The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly. Willa Cather  My Antonia  A New York lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with a pioneer Bohemian girl.   F. Scott Fitzgerald  The Great Gatsby This story centers on the mysterious, compelling, Jay Gatsby. Nick Carraway is his neighbor, who is fascinated by Gatsby's great display of wealth, and he becomes an accomplice in a plan to recapture the heart of Daisy Buchanan.   Stephen Hawking  A Brief History of Time An illustrated edition of the best-seller has been expanded to encompass the remarkable advances that have occurred in science and technology over the past eight years, with a new chapter on wormholes and time travel.   Joseph Heller  Catch-22 The story of a handful of the wildest flyboys of World War II, their tight little Mediterranean island, and their loose Italian women, The Catch-22: soldiers who won't fly a plane into combat must be crazy, but if they ask not to fly on the grounds that they are crazy, they must be sane.   Zora Neale Hurston  Their Eyes Were Watching God Meet the unforgettable Janie Crawford, an articulate black woman in the 1930s. Traces Janie's quest for identity, through three marriages, on a journey to her roots.   Niccolò Machiavelli  The Prince Presents Machiavelli's 1532 treatise on political power, statecraft, and the qualities of the ideal ruler. Includes selections from Machiavelli's Discourses.   Chaim Potok  The Chosen Set in New York toward the end of WWII, this is the story of two teenage Jewish boys, one the son of a Zionist, the other of a Russian Hassidic. They turn to each other in a fine show of male bonding.   Kurt Vonnegut  Slaughter-house Five A fourth-generation German-American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod, who, as an American infantry scout hors de combat, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, "The Florence of the Elbe," a long time ago, and survived to tell the tale.   Elie Wiesel  Night Night offers a personal and unforgettable account of the appalling horrors of Hitler's reign of terror. Through the eyes of 14-year-old Eliezer, we behold the tragic fate of the Jews from the little town of Sighet. Even as they are stuffed into cattle cars bound for Auschwitz, the townspeople refuse to believe rumors of anti-Semitic atrocities. Not until they are marched toward the blazing crematory at the camp's "reception center" does the terrible truth sink in.     More titles... Fiction       Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart James Agee A Death in the Family Rudolfo Anaya Bless Me, Ultima Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 Orson Scott Card Ender's Game Willa Cather My Antonia Kate Chopin The Awakening Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street Walter Van Tilburg Clark The Ox-Bow Incident Robert Cormier The Chocolate War Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment Ralph Ellison Invisible Man William Faulkner As I Lay Dying F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Joseph Heller Catch-22 Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird Jack London The Call of the Wild Herman Melville Moby Dick Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar Chaim Potok The Chosen J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye Upton Sinclair The Jungle John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five Alice Walker The Color Purple H.G. Wells The Time Machine Richard Wright Native Son     Non Fiction       Dee Alexander Brown Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Rachel Carson Silent Spring Charles Darwin On the Origin of the Species Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl Frank B. Gilbreth Cheaper by the Dozen Stephen W. Hawking A Brief History of Time Niccolò Machiavelli The Prince Karl Marx The Communist Manifesto Plato The Republic Henry David Thoreau Walden Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America Elie Wiesel Night Malcolm X with Alex Haley The Autobiography of Malcolm X