🏆 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 García 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