1964 College Preparatory Reading List
- Description
- The purpose of this General Reading List was to help students "acquire a necessary reading background" for college. It was published in 1964 by the Nioga Library System in Niagara Falls, NY, and edited by Flora Webb, the Director of the Lee-Whedon Memorial Library in Medina, NY. From the Introduction: "This is a general list drawn from all fields. Subjects are taught to you separately in school for convenience, not because they exist in isolation from each other. The accumulation of habits, traditions, artistic expression and mental attitudes that we call "culture," "civilization," or "way of life" is indivisible and you must learn to see it as a whole, not in neatly labelled sections." It is fun to consider how, approximately 60 years later, this list should be changed and/or added to!
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79 reviews
3.8
Score 16.4
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by Harper Lee
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1,434 reviews
½ 4.4
Score 13.8
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by Jane Austen
81,174 members
1,372 reviews
½ 4.4
Score 13.59
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by Mark Twain
43,257 members
520 reviews
3.9
Score 13.39
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72,583 members
1,176 reviews
3.8
Score 12.35
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27,341 members
482 reviews
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Score 10.84
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8,691 members
115 reviews
½ 3.5
Score 10.81
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374 reviews
½ 3.4
Score 9.7
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70,174 members
1,086 reviews
3.8
Score 8.92
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3.8
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by John Bunyan
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173 reviews
½ 3.7
Score 6.18
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by Mark Twain
33,140 members
328 reviews
3.9
Score 6.01
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by Thomas Hardy
19,288 members
248 reviews
3.8
Score 5.95
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22,098 members
169 reviews
½ 3.7
Score 5.92
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by Lord Byron
463 members
5 reviews
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Score 5.86
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21,911 members
188 reviews
4.1
Score 5.86
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28,754 members
280 reviews
½ 3.7
Score 5.78
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21 reviews
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Score 5.76
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30,672 members
453 reviews
4.1
Score 5.54
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30,869 members
508 reviews
3.8
Score 5.39
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478 reviews
4.1
Score 4.45
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by Henry James
8,170 members
249 reviews
½ 3.4
Score 4.14
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403 reviews
4.1
Score 4.07
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by Anne Frank
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242 reviews
4.1
Score 3.98
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332 reviews
½ 4.4
Score 3.93
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3.9
Score 3.64
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14,765 members
193 reviews
3.9
Score 3.63
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by Karl Marx
15,190 members
138 reviews
½ 3.5
Score 3.62
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718 members
9 reviews
½ 4.4
Score 3.61
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23,051 members
339 reviews
3.8
Score 3.6
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by Thomas Hardy
8,337 members
114 reviews
3.9
Score 3.57
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17,109 members
190 reviews
3.8
Score 0
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