1984 / Orwell

Absalom Absalom / Faulkner

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The / Twain

Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The / Twain

Age of Innocence, The / Wharton

All the King’s Men / Warren

Atlas Shrugged / Rand

Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The / Gaines

Awakening,The / Chopin

Bean Trees, The / Kingsolver

Betsey Brown / Shange

Big Sleep, The / Chandler

Billy Budd, Sailor / Melville

Black Boy / Wright

Bless Me, Ultima / Anaya

Breathing Lessons / Tyler

Bride Price / Emecheta

Brothers Karamazov / Dostoevsky

Caine Mutiny, The / Wouk

Call of the Wild / London

Candide / Voltaire

Cane / Toomer

Catcher in the Rye / Salinger

Ceremony / Silko

Chocolate War / Cormier

Christmas Carol, A / Dickens

Chronicle of a Death Foretold / Garcia Marquez

Clockwork Orange, A / Burgess

Color Purple, The / Walker

Crazy Horse Electric Game, The / Crutcher

Crime and Punishment / Dostoyevsky

Death in Venice, A / Mann

Demian / Hesse

Democracy / Didion

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant / Tyler

Don Quixote / Cervantes

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Stevenson

Edible Woman / Atwood

Ellen Foster / Gibbons

Empire of the Sun / Ballard

Ethan Frome / Wharton

Evelina / Burney

Fathers and Sons / Turgenev

Fixer, The / Malamud

Flowers for Algernon / Keyes

For Whom the Bell Tolls / Hemingway

Fountainhead, The / Rand

Frankenstein / Shelley

Giants in the Earth / Rolvaag

Go Tell It on the Mountain / Baldwin

Godfather, The / Puzo

Gone With the Wind / Mitchell

Great Expectations / Dickens

Grendel / Gardner

Gulliver’s Travels / Swift

Handmaid’s Tale, A / Atwood

Heart of Darkness / Conrad

Hobbit, The / Tolkien

House Made of Dawn / Momaday

House of Mirth / Wharton

In the Time of Butterflies / Alvarez

Invisible Man / Ellison

Jane Eyre / Bronte

Joy Luck Club / Tan

Last of the Mohicans, The / Cooper

Les Miserables / Hugo

Like Water for Chocolate / Esquivel

Little Women / Alcott

Lolita / Nabokov

Lord Jim / Conrad

Madame Bovary / Flaubert

Margret Howth / Davis

Master and Margarita, The / Bulgakov

Member of the Wedding, The / McCullers

Mill on the Floss, The / Elliot

Moby Dick / Melville

Moll Flanders / Defoe

Natural, The / Malamud

Nectar in a Sieve / Markandaya

Night / Wiesel

Old Man and the Sea, The / Hemingway

On the Road / Kerouac

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich / Solzhenitsyn

Out of Africa / Dinesen

Outsiders, The / Hinton

Passage to India, A / Forster

Pearl, The / Steinbeck

Persuasion / Austen

Pigman, The / Zindel

Pigs in Heaven / Kingsolver

Pilgrims in Aztlan / Mendez

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Joyce

Prayer for Owen Meany, A / Irving

Pride and Prejudice / Austen

Red Badge of Courage, The / Crane

Remains of the Day, The / Ishiguro

Robinson Crusoe / Defoe

Room With a View, A / Forster

Roots / Alex Haley

Ruby Fruit Jungle / Brown

Scarlet Letter, The / Hawthorne

Schindler’s List / Keneally

Seize the Day / Bellow

Shoeless Joe / Kinsella

Sister Carrie / Drieser

Slaughterhouse-Five / Vonnegut

Slave Dancer, The / Fox

Smilla’s Sense of Snow / Hoeg

Song of Solomon / Morrison

Soul Catcher / Herbert

Sound and the Fury, The / Faulkner

Stone Angel, The / Laurence

Stranger, The / Camus

Summer of My German Soldier / Greene

Sun Also Rises, The / Hemingway

Tale of Two Cities, A / Dickens

Tess of the d’Urbervilles / Hardy

That Was Then, This is Now / Hinton

Their Eyes Were Watching God / Hurston

Things Fall Apart / Achebe

Three Musketeers / Dumas

To Kill a Mockingbird / Lee

Trial, The / Kafka

Uncle Tom’s Cabin / Stowe

War and Peace / Tolstoy

Watership Down / Adams

Woman Warrior, The / Kingston