Ambitious Books to Read Sophomore Year

1.
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,072,758 ratings
2.
Life of Pi
Life of Pi 3.94 avg rating — 1,726,509 ratings
3.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,259,651 ratings
4.
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men 3.89 avg rating — 2,751,710 ratings
5.
Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha 4.16 avg rating — 2,082,478 ratings
6.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,024 ratings
7.
My Ántonia
My Ántonia 3.84 avg rating — 144,853 ratings
8.
The Joy Luck Club
The Joy Luck Club
by: Amy Tan
3.97 avg rating — 703,394 ratings
9.
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 123,553 ratings
10.
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1) 4.09 avg rating — 499,154 ratings
11.
1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,225,676 ratings
12.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating — 971,523 ratings
13.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,202 ratings
14.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,730,892 ratings
15.
Out of Africa
Out of Africa 3.91 avg rating — 46,904 ratings
16.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 3.89 avg rating — 1,568,689 ratings
17.
The Wind's Twelve Quarters
The Wind's Twelve Quarters 4.06 avg rating — 7,605 ratings
18.
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies 3.70 avg rating — 3,117,218 ratings
19.
The Red Pony
The Red Pony 3.49 avg rating — 58,797 ratings
20.
All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See 4.31 avg rating — 1,904,401 ratings
21.
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo 4.32 avg rating — 991,960 ratings
21.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls 3.99 avg rating — 311,388 ratings
23.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,624 ratings
24.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
My Year of Rest and Relaxation 3.61 avg rating — 524,542 ratings
25.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,749 ratings
26.
Emma
Emma 4.05 avg rating — 950,014 ratings
27.
The Song of Achilles
The Song of Achilles 4.31 avg rating — 1,861,195 ratings
28.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations 3.80 avg rating — 857,493 ratings
29.
The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,153,600 ratings
30.
The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead
by: Ayn Rand
3.89 avg rating — 333,843 ratings
31.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 3.98 avg rating — 122,122 ratings
32.
The Stranger
The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,315,324 ratings
33.
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises 3.79 avg rating — 481,998 ratings
34.
Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted 3.94 avg rating — 269,378 ratings
35.
The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady 3.80 avg rating — 84,056 ratings
36.
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood 3.86 avg rating — 565,728 ratings
37.
The Pearl
The Pearl 3.56 avg rating — 261,775 ratings
38.
East of Eden
East of Eden 4.43 avg rating — 602,105 ratings
39.
The Group
The Group 3.68 avg rating — 16,960 ratings
40.
You Don’t Know What War Is
You Don’t Know What War Is 3.87 avg rating — 3,978 ratings
41.
The Glorious Guinness Girls
The Glorious Guinness Girls 3.32 avg rating — 3,668 ratings
42.
Sophomores
Sophomores 3.40 avg rating — 1,139 ratings
43.
One Summer in Paris
One Summer in Paris really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,716 ratings
44.
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter 4.13 avg rating — 17,743 ratings
45.
Doctor Sax
Doctor Sax 3.40 avg rating — 3,560 ratings
45.
Howl and Other Poems
Howl and Other Poems 4.13 avg rating — 117,394 ratings
47.
The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
48.
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 4.13 avg rating — 24,126 ratings
49.
The Broom of the System
The Broom of the System 3.85 avg rating — 23,981 ratings
50.
Rebecca
Rebecca 4.25 avg rating — 697,713 ratings
51.
Diary of an Oxygen Thief
Diary of an Oxygen Thief
by: Anonymous
2.72 avg rating — 70,656 ratings
52.
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway 3.78 avg rating — 341,904 ratings
53.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence 3.97 avg rating — 189,894 ratings
54.
The Secret History
The Secret History 4.16 avg rating — 950,329 ratings
55.
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty 4.20 avg rating — 8,257 ratings
56.
Roman Fever and Other Stories
Roman Fever and Other Stories 4.10 avg rating — 2,040 ratings
57.
Sanditon: Jane Austen's Last Novel Completed
Sanditon: Jane Austen's Last Novel Completed 3.79 avg rating — 7,529 ratings
58.
The Second Sex
The Second Sex 4.18 avg rating — 45,860 ratings
59.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,485 ratings
60.
This Side of Paradise
This Side of Paradise 3.64 avg rating — 78,636 ratings
61.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating — 1,451,205 ratings
62.
The Awakening and Selected Stories
The Awakening and Selected Stories 3.92 avg rating — 10,668 ratings
63.
An Old-Fashioned Girl
An Old-Fashioned Girl 4.09 avg rating — 21,860 ratings
64.
Gone Girl
Gone Girl 4.14 avg rating — 3,358,261 ratings
65.
Six Tales of the Jazz Age
Six Tales of the Jazz Age 3.87 avg rating — 600 ratings
66.
Lady Susan and Other Works
Lady Susan and Other Works 3.65 avg rating — 367 ratings
67.
Hello Down There
Hello Down There 3.82 avg rating — 68 ratings
68.
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Letters to His Daughter
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Letters to His Daughter 3.94 avg rating — 88 ratings
69.
Rose in Bloom (Eight Cousins, #2)
Rose in Bloom (Eight Cousins, #2) 4.05 avg rating — 23,941 ratings
70.
The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita 4.28 avg rating — 401,036 ratings
71.
The Waves: Virginia Woolf
The Waves: Virginia Woolf 4.14 avg rating — 51,031 ratings
72.
The Idiot
The Idiot 3.65 avg rating — 101,487 ratings
73.
Nine Stories
Nine Stories 4.18 avg rating — 152,901 ratings
74.
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult 3.52 avg rating — 14,377 ratings
75.
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? 4.01 avg rating — 45,369 ratings
76.
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution 4.57 avg rating — 5,907 ratings
77.
Normal People
Normal People 3.81 avg rating — 1,755,670 ratings
78.
I'm Glad My Mom Died
I'm Glad My Mom Died 4.44 avg rating — 1,350,025 ratings
79.
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 3.91 avg rating — 1,836 ratings
80.
Maggie-Now
Maggie-Now 3.92 avg rating — 2,745 ratings
81.
A Very Punchable Face
A Very Punchable Face 4.20 avg rating — 65,953 ratings
82.
A Mencken Chrestomathy
A Mencken Chrestomathy 3.94 avg rating — 1,504 ratings
83.
A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own 4.22 avg rating — 246,409 ratings
84.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Perks of Being a Wallflower 4.24 avg rating — 1,948,056 ratings
85.
The Portable Dorothy Parker
The Portable Dorothy Parker 4.33 avg rating — 11,889 ratings
86.
Dead Souls
Dead Souls 3.98 avg rating — 93,252 ratings
87.
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol 4.35 avg rating — 15,178 ratings
88.
The Idiot
The Idiot 4.21 avg rating — 207,619 ratings
89.
Play It As It Lays
Play It As It Lays 3.91 avg rating — 85,232 ratings
90.
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 66,156 ratings
91.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Where'd You Go, Bernadette 3.87 avg rating — 592,701 ratings
92.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 4.27 avg rating — 25,453 ratings
93.
A Handful of Dust
A Handful of Dust 3.89 avg rating — 28,244 ratings
94.
Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest 4.25 avg rating — 98,649 ratings
95.
On the Road
On the Road 3.61 avg rating — 438,475 ratings
96.
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay 3.91 avg rating — 9,507 ratings
97.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury 3.86 avg rating — 192,266 ratings
98.
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor 3.95 avg rating — 18,644 ratings
99.
The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by: Tom Wolfe
3.92 avg rating — 85,394 ratings
100.
The Woman in White
The Woman in White 4.01 avg rating — 162,711 ratings