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 PrejudiceSamuel Beckett: Waiting for GodotCharlotte Bronte: Jane EyreSamuel Butler: The Way of the FleshJoseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Lord JimCharles Dickens: Bleak House, Great Expectations, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver TwistDaphne du Maurier: RebeccaDldous Huxley: Brave New WorldKazuo Ishiguro: Remains of the DayJohn Milton: Paradise LostSir Thomas More: UtopiaGeorge Orwell: 1984, Animal FarmMary Shelley: FrankensteinJonathan Swift: Gulliver’s TravelsVirginia Woolf: A Room of One’s OwnBorland: When the Legends DieBradbury: Fahrenheit 451Hemingway: the old man and the sea, Farewell to ArmsHersey: HiroshimaLee: To Kill a MockingbirdLondon: The call of the WildSteinbeck: the Pearl, Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of WrathMark Twain: Adventure of Tom Sawyer, A connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s CourtBuck: The good earthChekhov: Chrry OrchardGabriel Garcia Marquez:One Hundred Yers of Solitudevon Goethe: Sorrows of Young WertherGolding: Lord of the FliesGreen: King Arthur and His Knights of the round TableHugo: Les MiserablesHenrik Ibsen: A doll’s House, Hedda GablerMachiavelli: the PrinceRemarque: All Quiet on the Western FrontAlbert Camus: The StrangerChopin: The AwakeningEllison: Invisible ManFaulkner: the Sound and the FuryKafka: The MetamorphosisSophocles: Antigone, Oedipus RexStowe: Uncle Tom’s CabinTurgenev: Fathers and SonJack Kerouac: on the roadJames Harriet: All Things Great and SmallJoseph Heller: Catch 22Arthur MIller: Death of a Salesman, the CrucibleAlexander Hamilton: the Federalist PapersScott Fitzgerald: The Great GatsbyUpton Sinclair: the JungleJohn Groberg: the other side of heavenEzra Taft Benson: the proper role of governmentStephen Crane: The red Badge of CourageNathaniel Hawthorne: The scarlet LetterChinua Achebe: Things Fall ApartJulia Alvarez: how the Garcia Girls Lost their AccentGeofferey Chaucer: the canterbury TalesFyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and PunishmentHomer: the Illiad, the OdysseyKen Kesey: one flew over the cuckoo’s NstEdgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and PoemsWilliam Shakespear: MacBeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Romeo and JulietAmy Tan: The Joy Luck Club