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