Ambitious Books to Read Junior Year

1.
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist 3.88 avg rating — 419,627 ratings
2.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray 4.13 avg rating — 1,782,744 ratings
3.
How to Win Friends & Influence People
How to Win Friends & Influence People 4.22 avg rating — 1,110,717 ratings
4.
Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century
Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century 3.93 avg rating — 23,925 ratings
5.
Letters to a Young Poet
Letters to a Young Poet 4.28 avg rating — 113,840 ratings
6.
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood 4.09 avg rating — 710,350 ratings
7.
Of Human Bondage
Of Human Bondage 4.15 avg rating — 60,343 ratings
8.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by: Tom Wolfe
3.92 avg rating — 78,159 ratings
9.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,183 ratings
10.
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 403,088 ratings
11.
The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea 3.81 avg rating — 1,265,639 ratings
12.
ETHAN FORME
ETHAN FORME 3.45 avg rating — 134,932 ratings
13.
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 3.97 avg rating — 2,718,834 ratings
14.
Sophie’s Choice
Sophie’s Choice 4.17 avg rating — 93,607 ratings
14.
Valley of the Dolls
Valley of the Dolls 3.86 avg rating — 75,301 ratings
16.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,194 ratings
16.
David Copperfield
David Copperfield 4.04 avg rating — 253,091 ratings
18.
The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis 3.90 avg rating — 1,338,294 ratings
19.
The Pursuit of Love (Radlett & Montdore, #1)
The Pursuit of Love (Radlett & Montdore, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 21,961 ratings
20.
Love in a Cold Climate (Radlett & Montdore, #2)
Love in a Cold Climate (Radlett & Montdore, #2) 3.81 avg rating — 9,901 ratings
20.
The Lottery
The Lottery 4.04 avg rating — 104,216 ratings
22.
Don't Tell Alfred (Radlett & Montdore, #3)
Don't Tell Alfred (Radlett & Montdore, #3) 3.54 avg rating — 3,102 ratings
22.
The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner 4.35 avg rating — 3,402,007 ratings
24.
Empire Falls
Empire Falls 3.94 avg rating — 124,806 ratings
25.
Know My Name
Know My Name 4.69 avg rating — 243,471 ratings
26.
The Complete Short Novels
The Complete Short Novels 4.47 avg rating — 11,825 ratings
27.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 4.18 avg rating — 209,873 ratings
28.
Decline and Fall
Decline and Fall 3.83 avg rating — 15,502 ratings
29.
Bel Canto
Bel Canto 3.94 avg rating — 312,374 ratings
30.
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Notes of a Dirty Old Man 3.91 avg rating — 25,583 ratings
31.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 4.03 avg rating — 126,453 ratings
32.
How to Murder Your Life
How to Murder Your Life 3.88 avg rating — 20,207 ratings
33.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,296 ratings
34.
The Importance of Being Ernest
The Importance of Being Ernest 3.84 avg rating — 1,383 ratings
35.
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking 3.93 avg rating — 284,950 ratings
36.
Just Kids
Just Kids 4.21 avg rating — 333,643 ratings
37.
Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go 3.85 avg rating — 813,187 ratings
38.
No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men 4.17 avg rating — 233,384 ratings
39.
Candide
Candide
by: Voltaire
3.76 avg rating — 294,517 ratings
40.
The Adolescent
The Adolescent 3.93 avg rating — 10,374 ratings
41.
When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back
When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back 4.27 avg rating — 5,619 ratings
42.
A Movable Feast
A Movable Feast 4.02 avg rating — 162,850 ratings
43.
Conversations with Friends
Conversations with Friends 3.74 avg rating — 573,961 ratings
44.
To Have and Have Not
To Have and Have Not 3.51 avg rating — 35,654 ratings
45.
The Portable Nietzsche
The Portable Nietzsche 4.21 avg rating — 9,368 ratings
46.
Scoop
Scoop 3.79 avg rating — 22,000 ratings
47.
Crying in H Mart
Crying in H Mart 4.24 avg rating — 555,586 ratings
48.
Novels, 1930-1942: Dance Night / Come Back to Sorrento / Turn, Magic Wheel / Angels on Toast / A Time to Be Born
Novels, 1930-1942: Dance Night / Come Back to Sorrento / Turn, Magic Wheel / Angels on Toast / A Time to Be Born 3.74 avg rating — 409 ratings
49.
The Little Locksmith
The Little Locksmith 3.66 avg rating — 1,186 ratings
50.
Vile Bodies
Vile Bodies 3.72 avg rating — 17,247 ratings
51.
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.33 avg rating — 28,034 ratings
52.
The Road
The Road really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,001,679 ratings
53.
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces 3.89 avg rating — 291,776 ratings
54.
The Art of War
The Art of War
by: Sun Tzu
3.95 avg rating — 550,579 ratings
55.
The Blessing
The Blessing 3.79 avg rating — 2,572 ratings
56.
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir 3.90 avg rating — 198,658 ratings
57.
Vilette
Vilette 3.78 avg rating — 78,430 ratings
58.
We
We 3.88 avg rating — 107,853 ratings
59.
The Prince
The Prince 3.84 avg rating — 371,399 ratings
60.
Atonement
Atonement 3.95 avg rating — 551,968 ratings
61.
The Holy Barbarians
The Holy Barbarians 3.65 avg rating — 623 ratings
62.
How the Light Gets In
How the Light Gets In 3.42 avg rating — 4,065 ratings
63.
Christmas Pudding
Christmas Pudding 3.43 avg rating — 2,392 ratings
64.
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth 3.97 avg rating — 103,536 ratings
65.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Mysteries of Udolpho 3.42 avg rating — 16,588 ratings
66.
Ulysses
Ulysses 3.77 avg rating — 138,338 ratings
67.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,069,962 ratings
68.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories 3.79 avg rating — 46,667 ratings
69.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov 4.38 avg rating — 369,504 ratings
70.
Tender Is the Night
Tender Is the Night 3.77 avg rating — 146,416 ratings
71.
The Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965
The Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 3.77 avg rating — 177 ratings
72.
Wigs on the Green
Wigs on the Green 3.41 avg rating — 1,770 ratings
73.
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera 3.94 avg rating — 535,576 ratings
74.
Monsieur Proust
Monsieur Proust 3.96 avg rating — 1,138 ratings
75.
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Death of Ivan Ilych 4.14 avg rating — 205,042 ratings
76.
The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7)
The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7) 4.32 avg rating — 30,710 ratings
77.
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things 3.89 avg rating — 171,417 ratings
78.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,787 ratings
79.
The Black Sheep
The Black Sheep 3.99 avg rating — 2,225 ratings
80.
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette 3.88 avg rating — 1,723 ratings
81.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 4.09 avg rating — 495,963 ratings
82.
Demons
Demons 4.30 avg rating — 59,722 ratings
83.
The Naked and the Dead
The Naked and the Dead 3.94 avg rating — 26,162 ratings
84.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 3.69 avg rating — 182,715 ratings
85.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 3.64 avg rating — 160,994 ratings
86.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 356,977 ratings
87.
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books 3.66 avg rating — 138,465 ratings
88.
Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating — 873,322 ratings
89.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,972 ratings
90.
The Goldfinch
The Goldfinch 3.96 avg rating — 1,010,505 ratings
91.
Pushkin: A Biography
Pushkin: A Biography 3.79 avg rating — 387 ratings
92.
Eugene Onegin
Eugene Onegin 4.10 avg rating — 68,923 ratings
93.
The Captain's Daughter
The Captain's Daughter 3.85 avg rating — 27,077 ratings
94.
Grief Is for People
Grief Is for People 3.85 avg rating — 15,704 ratings
95.
Notes from the Underground
Notes from the Underground 4.17 avg rating — 209,212 ratings
96.
Notes from a Dead House
Notes from a Dead House 4.05 avg rating — 33,989 ratings
97.
A Man of the People
A Man of the People 3.89 avg rating — 5,429 ratings
98.
Daisy Miller
Daisy Miller 3.37 avg rating — 36,982 ratings
99.
Nausea
Nausea 3.93 avg rating — 134,150 ratings
100.
Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake 3.68 avg rating — 13,450 ratings