🏆 Top 100 Popular Books for College Students
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- 1. 1984 by George Orwell
- 2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 3. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- 4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- 5. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- 6. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- 7. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- 8. Normal People by Sally Rooney
- 9. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- 10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- 11. The Stranger by Albert Camus
- 12. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 13. Beowulf by Unknown
- 14. Animal Farm by George Orwell
- 15. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- 16. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- 17. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
- 18. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- 19. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- 20. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
- 21. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- 22. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- 23. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- 24. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- 25. The Odyssey by Homer
- 26. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
- 27. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- 28. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- 29. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- 30. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- 31. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- 32. Beloved by Toni Morrison
- 33. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel GarcĂa Márquez
- 34. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 35. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- 36. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- 37. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- 38. It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
- 39. The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
- 40. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- 41. Wonder by R.J. Palacio
- 42. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- 43. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
- 44. Atomic Habits by James Clear
- 45. Deep Work by Cal Newport
- 46. Educated by Tara Westover
- 47. Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Holiday
- 48. How to Win at College by Cal Newport
- 49. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- 50. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
- 51. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- 52. Quiet by Susan Cain
- 53. Adulting by Kelly Williams Brown
- 54. The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
- 55. How to Be a (Young) Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- 56. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- 57. Eat That Frog! by Brian Tracy
- 58. A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley
- 59. The Naked Roommate by Harlan Cohen
- 60. Glimmer of Hope by March for Our Lives Founders
- 61. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- 62. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- 63. Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
- 64. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- 65. Becoming by Michelle Obama
- 66. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- 67. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
- 68. Start With Why by Simon Sinek
- 69. Grit by Angela Duckworth
- 70. Mindset by Carol S. Dweck
- 71. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
- 72. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- 73. Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
- 74. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- 75. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- 76. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- 77. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
- 78. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
- 79. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- 80. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- 81. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- 82. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- 83. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- 84. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- 85. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- 86. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- 87. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- 88. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- 89. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- 90. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- 91. The Republic by Plato
- 92. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
- 93. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- 94. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- 95. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
- 96. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
- 97. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- 98. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
- 99. Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
- 100. Relativity by Albert Einstein