The Well Read Student

Are you ready for college reading?

Some college require incoming freshmen to have read certain books. While Andrews University does not have this requirement, you may want to do some personal reading in "the classics" in order to be considered well-read. This will help not only with college reading but also with your ACT scores and your current Academy classes.

• Shakespeare
  At least one comedy and one tragedy.
  Midsummer Night's Dream and MacBeth

• Early American Novel
  Hawthorne, Melville, etc.
  The Scarlet Letter

• Classic American Poetry
  Dickinson, Poe, Whitman

• Modern American Poetry
  TS Eliot, Frost, William Carlos Williams

• Modern American Novel
  Hemingway, Fitzgerald, etc.
  The Great Gatsby and Old Man and the Sea

• British Victorian Novel
  Hardy, Dickens, Austen, etc.
  Pride and Prejudice

• Classic British Poetry
  Chaucer, Shakespeare's sonnets, Tennyson, Donne, Wordsworth, Yeats

• Ancient Classics
  Sophocles, Virgil, Homer
  The Illiad

• Classic International Literature
  Dante, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Machiavelli
  The Prince

• Modern International Fiction/drama
  Solzhenitsyn, Kafka, Beckett, Saint Exupery
  The Little Prince, The Trial

• Multicultural Literature
  Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Tonie Morrison, Maya Angelou
  The Bluest Eyes

• Amercian Nonfiction/essay
  Thoreau, Emerson, Postman, Annie Dillard
  Walden, An American Childhood, Amusing Ourselves to Death