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Library Journal’s Most Influential Fiction of the 20th Century

 

1	Harper Lee	To Kill a Mockingbird  1960
2	J.D. Salinger	The Catcher in the Rye  1945
3	J.R.R. Tolkien	Lord of the Rings  1956
4	Margaret Mitchell	Gone with the Wind  1936
5	Toni Morrison	Beloved  1987
6	Alice Walker	The Color Purple  1982
7	George Orwell	Nineteen Eighty Four  1949
8	George Orwell	Animal Farm  1954
9	William Golding	Lord of the Flies  1954
10	Joseph Heller	Catch-22  1961
11	Pearl Buck	The Good Earth  1931
12	E.B. White	Charlotte’s Web  1952
13	F. Scott Fitzgerald	The Great Gatsby  1925
14	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Slaughterhouse-Five  1969
15	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	One Hundred Years of Solitude  1970
16	Larry McMurty	Lonesome Dove  1986
17	Vladimir Nabokov	Lolita  1955
18	Ray Bradbury	Fahrenheit 451  1952
19	Daphne Du Maurier	Rebecca  1938
20	John Steinbeck	The Grapes of Wrath  1939
21	Betty Smith	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn  1947
22	J.R.R. Tolkien	The Hobbit  1937
23	Ken Kesey	One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest  1962
24	Muriel Spark	The Prime of  Miss Jean Brodie  1962
25	Willa Cather	My Antonia  1918
26	Ernest Hemingway	The Old Man and the Sea  1952
27	D.H. Lawrence	Lady Chatterley’s Lover  1928
28	Ralph Ellison	Invisible Man  1952
29	Leon Uris	Exodus  1957
30	William Styron	Sophie’s Choice  1979
31	Richard Wright	Native Son  1940
32	Laura Ingalls Wilder	Little House on the Prairie  1935
33	Ernest Hemingway	A Farewell to Arms  1929
34	A.A. Milne	Winnie the Pooh  1926
35	Upton Sinclair	The Jungle  1906
36	Margaret Atwood	The Handmaid’s Tale  1986
37	Edith Wharton	The Age of Innocence  1920
38	John Updike	Rabbit Run  1960
39	Jack Kerouac	On the Road  1957
40	Robert A. Heinlein	Stranger in a Strange Land1961
41	Aldous Huxley	Brave New World  1932
42	Wallace Stegner	Angle of Repose  1971
43	Erich Maria Remarque	All Quiet on the Western Front  1929
44	James Joyce	Ulysses  1922
45	Ernest Hemingway	The Sun Also Rises  1926
46	Albert Camus	The Stranger  1942
47	William Faulkner	The Sound and the Fury  1929
48	A,S, Byatt	Possession  1990
49	Carol Shields	The Stone Diaries  1994
50	Toni Morrison	Song of Solomon  1977
51	Amy Tan	The Joy Luck Club  1989
52	Alex Haley	Roots  1976
53	James Joyce	A Portait of the Artist as a Young Man  1916
54	Thomas Wolfe	Look Homeward Angel  1929
55	Katherine Anne Porter	Pale Horse, Pale Rider  1939
56	Edith Wharton	Ethan Frome  1911
57	Marguerite Duras	The Lover  1972
58	Anthony Burgess	A Clockwork Orange  1962
59	Sherwood Anderson	Winesburg, Ohio  1919
60	Virginia Woolf	To the Lighthouse  1927
61	John Irving	The World According to Garp  1978
62	L. Frank Baum	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz  1900
63	C.S. Lewis	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe  1950
64	A. Conan Doyle	The Hound of the Baskervilles  1902
65	Ayn Rand	The Fountainhead  1943
66	Nadine Gordimer	The Burger’s Daughter  1979
67	Jack London	The Call of the Wild  1903
68	Alexander Solzhenitsyn	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich  1963
69	Marlon Zimmer Bradley	The Mists of Avalon  1983
70	Robert Graves	I, Claudius  1934
71	James Jones	From Here to Eternity  1951
72	John Steinbeck	East of Eden  1952
73	Alan Paton	Cry, the Beloved Country  1948
74	Allen Drury	Advise and Consent  1959
75	E.M. Forster	A Passage to India  1924
76	Arthur C. Clarke	2001: A Space Odyssey  1968
77	Ford Maddox Ford	The Good Soldier  1927
78	Zora Neale Hurston	Their Eyes Were Watching God  1937
79	Kenneth Graham	The Wind in the Willows  1908
80	Philip Roth	Portnoy’s Complaint  1969
81	Albert camus	The Plague  1947
82	Antine de Exupery	The Little Prince  1943
83	Toni Morrison	The Bluest Eye  1969
84	Barbara Kingsolver	The Bean Trees  1988
85	Edgar Rice Burroughs	Tarzan of the Apes  1914
86	Theodore Dreiser	Sister Carrie  1900
87	Flannery O’Connor	A Good Man is Hard to Find  1955
88	Marcel Proust	Remembrance of Things Past  1960
89	E.L. Doctorow	Ragtime  1975
90	Judith Guest	Ordinary People  1976
91	W. Somerset Maugham	Of Human Bondage  1915
92	Joseph Conrad	Heart of Darkness  1902
93	Sinclair Lewis	Babbit  1922
94	Robert Penn Warren	All the King’s Men  1946
95	D.H. Lawrence	Women in Love  1920
96	Samuel Beckett	Waiting for Godot  1953
97	John Dos Passos	USA  1919, 1936, 1938
98	Milan Kundera	The Unbearable Lightness of Being  1984
99	James Agee	A Death in the Family  1957
100	T.H. White	The Once and Future King  1953
101	Dashiell Hammett	The Maltese Falcon  1930
102	Henry James	The Golden Bowl  1904
103	Doris Lessing	The Golden Notebook  1962
104	John Galsworthy	The Forsyth Saga  1922
105	Raymond Chandler	The Big Sleep  1939
106	Sylvia Plath	The Bell Jar  1963
107	Henry James	The Ambassadors  1903
108	Isabel Allende	The House of the Spirits  1985
109	John Steinbeck	Of Mice and Men  1937
110	Norman Mailer	The Naked and the Dead  1948
111	Thomas Mann	The Magic Mountain  1924
112	Dalton Trumbo	Johnny Got His Gun  1959
113	William Kennedy	Ironweed  1983
114	Ernest Hemingway	A Farewell to Arms  1929
115	Frank Herbert	Dune  1965
116	Boris Pasternak	Doctor Zhivago  1958
117	Willa Cather	Death Comes to the Archbishop  1927
118	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Cat’s Cradle  1963
119	Evelyn Waugh	Brideshead Revisited  1945
120	Anne Tyler	Breathing Lessons  1988
121	Judy Blume	Are You There God, It’s me, Margaret  1970
122	Anne Tyler	The Accidental Tourist  1985
123	Jane Smiley	A Thousand Acres  1991
124	E.M. Forster	A Room with a View  1908
125	Flannery O’Connor	Wise Blood  1952
126	Gunter Grass	The Tin Drum  1959
127	Jean Rhys	Wide Sargasso Sea  1966
128	Don De Lillo	White Noise  1985
129	Maurice Sendak	Where the Wild Things Are  1963
130	John Cheever	The Wapshot Chronicle  1979
131	Malcolm Lowry	Under the Volcano  1947
132	Henry Miller	Tropic of Cancer  1934
133	Chinua Achebe	Things Fall Apart  1959
134	Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings	The Yearling  1948
135	Herman Wouk	The Winds of War  1971
136	Walker Percy	The Moviegower  1961
137	Somerset Maugham	The Razor’s Edge  1944
138	Albert Camus	The Rebel  1954
139	John Steinbeck	The Pearl  1947
140	Colin Wilson	The Outsider 1956 (Not a work of fiction.)
141	Henry Roth	Call It Sleep  1934
142	Carson McCullers	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter  1940
143	Mario Puzo	The Godfather  1969
144	Eudora Welty	A Curtain of Green  1941
145	Graham Greene	The End of the Affair  1951
146	James McBride	The Color of Water  1996
147	Herman Wouk	The Caine Mutiny  1951
148	Thornton Wilder	The Bridge of San Luis Rey  1927
149	Irving Stone	The Agony and the Ecstacy  1961
150	James T. Farrell	Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy  1935

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Great Books Foundation’s Reading List

 

Henry Adams	The Education of Henry Adams. 1907
Aeschylus	Agamemnon. 458 B.C.
Aristotle	Politics. “On Happiness” (excerpt from Nicomachean Ethics). “On Tragedy” 4th Century B.C.
Saint Augustine	The City of God. 413-26
Bible	Genesis. Exodus. Job. Ecclesiastes. The Gospel of Mark
Edmund Burke	Reflections on the Revolution in France. 1790
Geoffrey Chaucer	The Canterbury Tales. c. 1387
Anton Chekhov	Rothschild’s Fiddle. 1894. Uncle Vanya. 1896
Karl von Clausewitz	“What Is War?” (excerpt from On War). 1833
Joseph Conrad	“Heart of Darkness” (story in Typhoon and Youth). 1902
Alighieri Dante	“The Inferno” (canticle in the Divine Comedy) c. 1310-1320
Charles Darwin	“The Moral Sense of Man and The Lower Animals” (excerpts from On the Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man(1871)
John Dewey	“The Virtues” (excerpt from Ethics) 1908. “Habits and Will” (excerpt from Human Nature and Conduct) 1922
Denis Diderot	Rameau’s Nephew. 1805
Fyodor Dostoevsky	Notes from the Underground. 1864
Euripides	Medea. Iphigenia at Aulis. 5th century B.C.
Gustave Flaubert	“A Simple Heart” (short story) c. 1850
Sigmund Freud	“On Dreams” (excerpt from The Interpretation of Dreams) 1900
Edward Gibbon	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 1776, 1781, 1787-88
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Faust, Part I. 1808
Nikolai Gogol	“The Overcoat” (first part of novel Dead Souls) 1842
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison	The Federalist. 1787-88
Herodotus	“The Persian War” (excerpt from History) 5th century B.C.
Thomas Hobbes	Origin of Government. c. 1690
Homer	The Iliad. 8th or 7th century B.C.
David Hume	“Of Personal Identity” (excerpt from A Treatise on Human Nature) 1739-40. “Of Justice and Injustice” (excerpt from Essays, Moral and Political) 1739-40
Henry James	The Beast in the Jungle. 1903
Franz Kafka	The Metamorphosis. 1915
Immanuel Kant	Conscience. c. 1781. “First Principles of Morals” (excerpt from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics). 1785
Soren Kierkegaard	“The Knight of Faith” (excerpt from Fear and Trembling). 1843
John Locke	“Of Civil Government” (excerpt from the Second of his Two Treatises of Government). 1690
Niccolo Machiavelli	The Prince. 1513
Maimonides	“On Evil” (excerpt from Guide for the Perplexed) 12th century
Karl Marx	“Alienated Labour” (excerpt from Das Kapital). 1867
Herman Melville	Billy Budd, Sailor. 1924
John Stuart Mill	On Liberty. 1859 Utilitarianism. 1863
Moliere	The Misanthrope. 1666
Michel Montaigne	“Of Experience” 1578 (Book III, Chapter 13 of Essays.
Baron de Montesquieu	“Principles of Government” (excerpt from The Spirit of the Laws) 1748
Friedrich Nietzsche	Thus Spoke Zarathustra. 1883-92
Plato	The Republic. Symposium. The Crito. The Apology. 4th century B.C.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau	The Social Contract. 1762
Arthur Schopenhauer	“The Indestructability of Our Inner Nature” (excerpt from The World as Will and Representation) 1818
William Shakespeare	Hamlet. 1600-01. Othello. 1604. King Lear. 1606. Anthony and Cleopatra. 1607-08. The Tempest. 1611
George Bernard Shaw	Caesar and Cleopatra. 1899
Georg Simmel	“Individual Freedom” (excerpt from The Philosophy of Money) 1900
Adam Smith	Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. 1776
Sophocles	Antigone. Oedipus the King. 5th century B.C.
Jonathan Swift	Gulliver’s Travels. 1726
Henry David Thoreau	Civil Disobedience. 1849
Thuycidides	History of the Peloponnesian War. 5th century B.C.
Alexis de Tocqueville	“The Power of the Majority” (excerpt from Democracy in America). 1835, 1840
Leo Tolstoy	The Death of Ivan Ilych. 1886
Max Weber	The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. 1920

 

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Book Smart Challenge

Book Smart by Jane Mallison

Works in Translations

Beowulf

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The Odyssey by Homer

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Tales from Ovid

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

The Aeneid by Virgil

Some Notable Biographies

Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes

The Path to Power by Robert Caro

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin

W.E.B. De Bois by David L. Lewis

The Peabody Sisters by Megan Marshall

The Five of Hearts by Patricia O’Toole

The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman

Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey

Young Men on a Quest

Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

The Assistant by Bernard Malamud

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Strong Women

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

Medea by Euripides

Vanity Fair by William Thackeray

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Crimes

Continental Drift by Russell Banks

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Early Autumn by Robert B. Parker

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

Varied Venues

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz

Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry

A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul

My Dream of You by Nuala O’Faolain

Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal

Mr. Mani by A. B. Yehoshua

Unaccustomed Places

Time and Again by Jack Finney

A Passage to India by E. M. Forster

Brave New World by Aldoux Huxley

The Ambassadors by Henry James

Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Song of the Kings by Barry Unsworth

The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh

Smiles

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Headlong by Michael Frayn

The Satires by Juvenal

Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie

Birds of America by Lorrie Moore

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Fables for Our Time by James Thurber

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Great Eighteenth Century Works

The Life of Johnson by James Boxwell

Letters from an American Farmer by J. de Crevecoeur

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson

The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox

The School for Scandal by Richard B. Sheridan

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Thraliana by Hester Thrale

Candide by Voltaire

Pain and Pleasure

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

My Antonia by Willa Cather

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud

The Chosen by Chaim Potok

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Battlefield

Regeneration by Pat Barker

March by Geraldine Brooks

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

The Iliad by Homer

In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

The Long March by William Styron

Patriotic Gore by Edmund Wilson

Award Winners

A Death in the Family by James Agee

Herzog by Saul Bellow

Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas

All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

 

 

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EW’s 100 Modern Classics Challenge

EW 100: New Classics (50/100)

The 100 best reads from 1983 to 2008

1. The Road , Cormac McCarthy (2006)
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (2000)
3. Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987)
4. The Liars’ Club, Mary Karr (1995)
5. American Pastoral, Philip Roth (1997)
6. Mystic River, Dennis Lehane (2001)
7. Maus, Art Spiegelman (1986/1991)
8. Selected Stories, Alice Munro (1996)
9. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier (1997)
10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (1997)
11. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer (1997)
12. Blindness, José Saramago (1998)
13. Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1986-87)
14. Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates (1992)
15. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers (2000)
16. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (1986)
17. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez (1988)
18. Rabbit at Rest, John Updike (1990)
19. On Beauty, Zadie Smith (2005)
20. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding (1998)
21. On Writing, Stephen King (2000)
22. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz (2007)
23. The Ghost Road, Pat Barker (1996)
24. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry (1985)
25. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan (1989)
26. Neuromancer, William Gibson (1984)
27. Possession, A.S. Byatt (1990)
28. Naked, David Sedaris (1997)
29. Bel Canto, Anne Patchett (2001)
30. Case Histories, Kate Atkinson (2004)
31. The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien (1990)
32. Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch (1988)
33. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (2005)
34. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (2002)
35. The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
36. Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt (1996)
37. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (2003)
38. Birds of America, Lorrie Moore (1998)
39. Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)
40. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (1995-2000)
41. The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros (1984)
42. LaBrava, Elmore Leonard (1983)
43. Borrowed Time, Paul Monette (1988)
44. Praying for Sheetrock, Melissa Fay Greene (1991)
45. Eva Luna, Isabel Allende (1988)
46. Sandman, Neil Gaiman (1988-1996)
47. World’s Fair, E.L. Doctorow (1985)
48. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (1998)
49. Clockers, Richard Price (1992)
50. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (2001)
51. The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcom (1990)
52. Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan (1992)
53. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon (2000)
54. Jimmy Corrigan, Chris Ware (2000)
55. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls (2006)
56. The Night Manager, John le Carré (1993)
57. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe (1987)
58. Drop City, TC Boyle (2003)
59. Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat (1995)
60. Nickel & Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (2001)
61. Money, Martin Amis (1985)
62. Last Train To Memphis, Peter Guralnick (1994)
63. Pastoralia, George Saunders (2000)
64. Underworld, Don DeLillo (1997)
65. The Giver, Lois Lowry (1993)
66. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace (1997)
67. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2003)
68. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (2006)
69. Secret History, Donna Tartt (1992)
70. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (2004)
71. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Ann Fadiman (1997)
72. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon (2003)
73. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (1989)
74. Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger (1990)
75. Cathedral, Raymond Carver (1983)
76. A Sight for Sore Eyes, Ruth Rendell (1998)
77. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
78. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (2006)
79. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
80. Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney (1984)
81. Backlash, Susan Faludi (1991)
82. Atonement, Ian McEwan (2002)
83. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields (1994)
84. Holes, Louis Sachar (1998)
85. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson (2004)
86. And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts (1987)
87. The Ruins, Scott Smith (2006)
88. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby (1995)
89. Close Range, Annie Proulx (1999)
90. Comfort Me With Apples, Ruth Reichl (2001)
91. Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (2003)
92. Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow (1987)
93. A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley (1991)
94. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (2001)
95. Kaaterskill Falls, Allegra Goodman (1998)
96. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (2003)
97. Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson (1992)
98. The Predators’ Ball, Connie Bruck (1988)
99. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (1995)
100. America (the Book), Jon Stewart/Daily Show (2004)

 

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College Board’s 100 Best Challenge

101 Great Books (32/101)

Recommended for College-Bound Readers

 

Author	Title
–	Beowulf
Achebe, Chinua	Things Fall Apart
Agee, James	A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane	Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James	Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel	Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul	The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte	Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily	Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert	The Stranger
Cather, Willa	Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton	The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate	The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph	Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore	The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen	The Red Badge of Courage
Dante	Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel	Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel	Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles	A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor	Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore	An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre	The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George	The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph	Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Selected Essays
Faulkner, William	As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William	The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry	Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott	The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave	Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox	The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	Faust
Golding, William	Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas	Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel	The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph	Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest	A Farewell to Arms
Homer	The Iliad
Homer	The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor	The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale	Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous	Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik	A Doll’s House
James, Henry	The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry	The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz	The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong	The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper	To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair	Babbitt
London, Jack	The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas	The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel García	One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman	Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman	Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur	The Crucible
Morrison, Toni	Beloved
O’Connor, Flannery	A Good Man is Hard to Find
O’Neill, Eugene	Long Day’s Journey into Night
Orwell, George	Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris	Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia	The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan	Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel	Swann’s Way
Pynchon, Thomas	The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria	All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond	Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry	Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D.	The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William	Hamlet
Shakespeare, William	Macbeth
Shakespeare, William	A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare, William	Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard	Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary	Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon	Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles	Antigone
Sophocles	Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John	The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis	Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher	Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Swift, Jonathan	Gulliver’s Travels
Thackeray, William	Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David	Walden
Tolstoy, Leo	War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan	Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire	Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.	Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice	The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith	The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora	Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt	Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar	The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee	The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia	To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard	Native Son

 

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Modern Library’s 100 Novels Challenge

Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels

Editors’ Choices (24/100)

1.     ULYSSES by James Joyce

2.     THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.     A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce

4.     LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov

5.     BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley

6.     THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner

7.     CATCH-22

8.     DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler

9.     SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence

10.  THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck

11.  UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry

12.  THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler

13.  1984 by George Orwell

14.  I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves

15.  TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf

16.  AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser

17.  THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers

18.  SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut

19.  INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison

20.  NATIVE SON by Richard Wright

21.  HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow

22.  APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O’Hara

23.  U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos

24.  WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson

25.  A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster

26.  THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James

27.  THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James

28.  TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald

29.  THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell

30.  THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford

31.  ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell

32.  THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James

33.  SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser

34.  A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh

35.  AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner

36.  ALL THE KING’S MEN by Robert Penn Warren

37.  THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder

38.  HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster

39.  GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin

40.  THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene

41.  LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding

42.  DELIVERANCE by James Dickey

43.  A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell

44.  POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley

45.  THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway

46.  THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad

47.  NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad

48.  THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence

49.  WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence

50.  TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller

51.  THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer

52.  PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth

53.  PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov

54.  LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner

55.  ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac

56.  THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett

57.  PARADE’S END by Ford Madox Ford

58.  THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton

59.  ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm

60.  THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy

61.  DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather

62.  FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones

63.  THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever

64.  THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger

65.  A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess

66.  OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham

67.  HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad

68.  MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis

69.  THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton

70.  THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell

71.  A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes

72.  A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul

73.  THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West

74.  A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway

75.  SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh

76.  THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark

77.  FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce

78.  KIM by Rudyard Kipling

79.  A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster

80.  BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh

81.  THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow

82.  ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner

83.  A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul

84.  THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen

85.  LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad

86.  RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow

87.  THE OLD WIVES’ TALE by Arnold Bennett

88.  THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London

89.  LOVING by Henry Green

90.  MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie

91.  TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell

92.  IRONWEED by William Kennedy

93.  THE MAGUS by John Fowles

94.  WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys

95.  UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch

96.  SOPHIE’S CHOICE by William Styron

97.  THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles

98.  THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain

99.  THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy

100. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington

 (36/100)

1.  ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand

2.  THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand

3.  BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard

4.  THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien

5.  TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee

6.  1984 by George Orwell

7.  ANTHEM by Ayn Rand

8.  WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand

9.  MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard

10.  FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard

11.  ULYSSES by James Joyce

12.  CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller

13.  THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald

14.  DUNE by Frank Herbert

15.  THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein

16.  STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein

17.  A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute

18.  BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley

19.  THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger

20.  ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell

21.  GRAVITY’S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon

22.  THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck

23.  SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut

24.  GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell

25.  LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding

26.  SHANE by Jack Schaefer

27.  TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute

28.  A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving

29.  THE STAND by Stephen King

30.  THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN by John Fowles

31.  BELOVED by Toni Morrison

32.  THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison

33.  THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner

34.  LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov

35.  MOONHEART by Charles de Lint

36.  ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner

37.  OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham

38.  WISE BLOOD by Flannery O’Connor

39.  UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry

40.  FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies

41.  SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint

42.  ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac

43.  HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad

44.  YARROW by Charles de Lint

45.  AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft

46.  ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane

47.  MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint

48.  TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf

49.  THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy

50.  TRADER by Charles de Lint

51.  THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams

52.  THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers

53.  THE HANDMAID’S TALE by Margaret Atwood

54.  BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy

55.  A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess

56.  ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute

57.  A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce

58.  GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint

59.  ENDER’S GAME by Orson Scott Card

60.  THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint

61.  THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis

62.  STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein

63.  THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway

64.  THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving

65.  SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury

66.  THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson

67.  AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner

68.  TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller

69.  INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison

70.  THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling

71.  THE MAGUS by John Fowles

72.  THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein

73.  ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig

74.  I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves

75.  THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London

76.  AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O’Brien

77.  FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury

78.  ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis

79.  WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams

80.  NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs

81.  THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy

82.  GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton

83.  THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein

84.  IT by Stephen King

85.  V. by Thomas Pynchon

86.  DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein

87.  CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein

88.  BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh

89.  LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner

90.  ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST by Ken Kesey

91.  A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway

92.  THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles

93.  SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey

94.  MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather

95.  MULENGRO by Charles de Lint

96.  SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy

97.  MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock

98.  ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach

99.  THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies

100.              THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie

 

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Time’s 100 Best Novels Challenge

Time Magazine’s 100 All-Time Best Novels (32/100)

The Adventures of Augie March    - Saul Bellow

All the King’s Men    - Robert Penn Warren

American Pastoral    - Philip Roth

An American Tragedy    - Theodore Dreiser

Animal Farm    - George Orwell

Appointment in Samarra    - John O’Hara

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret    - Judy Blume

The Assistant    - Bernard Malamud

At Swim-Two-Birds    - Flann O’Brien

Atonement    - Ian McEwan

Beloved – Toni Morrison  

The Berlin Stories    - Christopher Isherwood

The Big Sleep    - Raymond Chandler

The Blind Assassin    - Margaret Atwood

Blood Meridian    - Cormac McCarthy

Brideshead Revisited    - Evelyn Waugh

The Bridge of San Luis Rey    - Thornton Wilder

Call It Sleep    - Henry Roth

Catch-22    - Joseph Heller

The Catcher in the Rye    - J.D. Salinger

A Clockwork Orange    - Anthony Burgess

The Confessions of Nat Turner    - William Styron

The Corrections    - Jonathan Franzen

The Crying of Lot 49    - Thomas Pynchon

A Dance to the Music of Time    - Anthony Powell

The Day of the Locust    - Nathanael West

Death Comes for the Archbishop    - Willa Cather

A Death in the Family    - James Agee

The Death of the Heart    - Elizabeth Bowen

Deliverance    - James Dickey

Dog Soldiers    - Robert Stone

Falconer    - John Cheever

The French Lieutenant’s Woman    - John Fowles

The Golden Notebook    - Doris Lessing

Go Tell it on the Mountain    - James Baldwin

Gone With the Wind    - Margaret Mitchell

The Grapes of Wrath    - John Steinbeck

Gravity’s Rainbow    - Thomas Pynchon

The Great Gatsby    - F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Handful of Dust    - Evelyn Waugh

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter    - Carson McCullers

The Heart of the Matter    - Graham Greene

Herzog    - Saul Bellow

Housekeeping    - Marilynne Robinson

A House for Mr. Biswas    - V.S. Naipaul

I, Claudius    - Robert Graves

Infinite Jest    - David Foster Wallace

Invisible Man    - Ralph Ellison

Light in August    - William Faulkner

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe    - C.S. Lewis

Lolita    - Vladimir Nabokov

Lord of the Flies    - William Golding

The Lord of the Rings    - J.R.R. Tolkien

Loving    - Henry Green

Lucky Jim    - Kingsley Amis

The Man Who Loved Children    - Christina Stead

Midnight’s Children    - Salman Rushdie

Money    - Martin Amis

The Moviegoer    - Walker Percy

Mrs. Dalloway    - Virginia Woolf

Naked Lunch    - William Burroughs

Native Son    - Richard Wright

Neuromancer    - William Gibson

Never Let Me Go    - Kazuo Ishiguro

1984    - George Orwell

On the Road – Jack Kerouac  

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest    - Ken Kesey

The Painted Bird    - Jerzy Kosinski

Pale Fire    - Vladimir Nabokov

A Passage to India    - E.M. Forster

Play It As It Lays    - Joan Didion

Portnoy’s Complaint    - Philip Roth

Possession    - A.S. Byatt

The Power and the Glory    - Graham Greene

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie    - Muriel Spark

Rabbit, Run    - John Updike

Ragtime    - E.L. Doctorow

The Recognitions    - William Gaddis

Red Harvest    - Dashiell Hammett

Revolutionary Road    - Richard Yates

The Sheltering Sky    - Paul Bowles

Slaughterhouse-Five    - Kurt Vonnegut

Snow Crash    - Neal Stephenson

The Sot-Weed Factor    - John Barth

The Sound and the Fury    - William Faulkner

The Sportswriter    - Richard Ford

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold    - John le Carre

The Sun Also Rises    - Ernest Hemingway

Their Eyes Were Watching God    - Zora Neale Hurston

Things Fall Apart    - Chinua Achebe

To Kill a Mockingbird    - Harper Lee

To the Lighthouse    - Virginia Woolf

Tropic of Cancer    - Henry Miller

Ubik    - Philip K. Dick

Under the Net    - Iris Murdoch

Under the Volcano    - Malcolm Lowry

Watchmen    - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

White Noise    - Don DeLillo

White Teeth    - Zadie Smith

Wide Sargasso Sea    - Jean Rhys

 

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Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction Challenge

General Non-Fiction
1962		The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White (Atheneum)
1963		The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (Macmillan)
1964		Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter (Random)
1965		O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones (Viking)
1966		Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale (Dodd)
1967		The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis (Cornell Univ. Press)
1968		Rousseau And Revolution, The Tenth And Concluding Volume Of The Story Of Civilization by Will And Ariel Durant (Simon & Schuster)
1969		The Armies Of The Night by Norman Mailer (World)
1969		So Human An Animal by Rene Jules Dubos (Scribner)
1970		Gandhi’s Truth by Erik H. Erikson (Norton)
1971		The Rising Sun by John Toland (Random)
1972		Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 by Barbara W. Tuchman (Macmillan)
1973		Children of Crisis, Vols. II and III by Robert Coles (Little)
1973		Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances Fitzgerald (Little)
1974		The Denial of Death by the late Ernest Becker (Free Press/Macmillan)
1975		Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (Harper’s Magazine Press)
1976		Why Survive? Being Old In America by Robert N. Butler (Harper)
1977		Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner (Atlantic Little Brown)
1978		The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan (Random House)
1979		On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson (Harvard Univ. Press)
1980		Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter (Basic Books)
1981		Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture by Carl E. Schorske (Knopf)
1982		The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder (Atlantic-Little, Brown)
1983		Is There No Place On Earth For Me? by Susan Sheehan (Houghton Mifflin)
1984		The Social Transformation Of American Medicine by Paul Starr (Basic Books)
1985		The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel (Pantheon)
1986		Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld (Times Books)
1986		Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas (Alfred A. Knopf)
1987		Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler (Times Books)
1988		The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (Simon and Schuster)
1989		A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan (Random House)
1990		And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson (Pantheon)
1991		The Ants by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson (Belknap/Harvard University Press)
1992		The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin (Simon & Schuster)
1993		Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills (Simon & Schuster)
1994		Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days Of The Soviet Empire by David Remnick (Random House)
1995		The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time by Jonathan Weiner (Alfred A. Knopf)
1996		The Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg (Random House)
1997		Ashes To Ashes: America’s Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger (Alfred A. Knopf)
1998		Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (W.W. Norton)
1999		Annals of the Former World by John McPhee (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2000		Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (W.W. Norton & Company/The New Press)
2001		Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (HarperCollins)
2002		Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter (Simon & Schuster)
2003		“A Problem From Hell:” America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power (Basic Books)
2004		Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (Doubleday)
2005		Ghost Wars by Steve Coll (The Penguin Press)
2006		Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins (Henry Holt)
2007		The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (Alfred A. Knopf)
2008		The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedländer (HarperCollins)

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Pen Faulkner Award Challenge

Pen/Faulkner Award  (15/130)

2008

Kate Christensen, The Great Man

Annie Dillard, The Maytrees

David Leavitt, The Indian Clerk

T.M. McNally, The Gateway: Stories

Ron Rash, Chemistry and Other Stories

 

2007
Philip Roth, Everyman
Charles D’Ambrosio, The Dead Fish Museum
Deborah Eisenberg, Twilight of the Superheroes
Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
Edward P. Jones, All Aunt Hagar’s Children

2006
E.L. Doctorow, The March
Karen Fisher, A Sudden Country
William Henry Lewis, I Got Somebody in Staunton
James Salter, Last Night
Bruce Wagner, The Chrysanthemum Place

2005
Ha Jin, War Trash
Jerome Charyn, The Green Lantern
Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Steve Yarbrough, Prisoners of War

2004
John Updike, The Early Stories
   1953–1975
Frederick Barthemle, Elroy Nights
ZZ Packer, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Caryl Phillips, A Distant Shore
Tobias Wolff, Old School

2003
Sabina Murray, The Caprices
Peter Cameron, The City of Your
   Final Destination
William Kennedy, Roscoe
Victor LaValle, The Ecstatic
Gilbert Sorrentino, Little Casino

2002
Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
Karen Joy Fowler, Sister Noon
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
Claire Messud, The Hunters
Manil Suri, The Death of Vishnu

2001
Philip Roth, The Human Stain
Michael Chabon, The Amazing
   Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Millicent Dillon, Harry Gold
Denis Johnson, The Name of
   the World
Mona Simpson, Off Keck Road

2000
Ha Jin, Waiting
Frederick Busch, The Night Inspector
Ken Kalfus, PU-239
Elizabeth Strout, Amy and Isabelle
Lily Tuck, Siam

1999
Michael Cunningham, The Hours
Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter
Barbara Kingsolver, The
   Poisonwood Bible
Brian Morton, Starting Out in
   the Evening
Richard Selzer, The Doctor Stories

1998
Rafi Zabor, The Bear Comes Home
Donald Antrim, The Hundred Brothers
Rilla Askew, The Mercy Seat
Mary Gaitskill, Because They
   Wanted To
Francisco Goldman, The Ordinary
   Seaman

1997
Gina Berriault, Women in their Beds
Daniel Akst, St. Burl’s Obituary
Kathleen Cambor, The Book of Mercy
Ron Hansen, Atticus
Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography
   of My Mother

1996
Richard Ford, Independence Day
Madison Smart Bell, All Souls’ Rising
William Gass, The Tunnel
Claire Messud, When the World
   Was Steady
J. Verdelle, The Good Negress

1995
David Guterson, Snow Falling
   on Cedars
Frederich Busch, The Children in
   the Woods
Ursula Hegi, Stones from the River
Joyce Carol Oates, What I Lived For
Joanna Scott, Various Antidotes

1994
Philip Roth, Operation Shylock
Stanley Elkin, Van Gogh’s Room
   at Arles
Dagoberto Gilb, The Magic of Blood
Fae Myenne Ng, Bone
Kate Wheeler, Not Where I
   Started From

1993
E. Annie Proulx, Postcards
Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent
   from a Strange Mountain
Francisco Goldman, The Long Night
   of White Chickens
Maureen Howard, Natural History
Sylvia Watanabe, Talking to
   the Dead

1992
Don DeLillo, Mao II
Stephen Dixon, Frog
Paul Gervais, Extraordinary People
Allan Gurganus, White People
Bradford Morrow, The
   Almanac Branch

1991
John Edgar Wideman, Philadelphia Fire
Paul Auster, The Music of Chance
Joanne Meschery, A Gentleman”s
   Guide to the Frontier
Steven Millhauser, The Barnum
   Museum
Joanna Scott, Arrogance

1990
E. L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate
Russell Banks, Affliction
Molly Gloss, The Jump-Off Creek
Josephine Jacobsen, On the Island
Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Leaving
   Brooklyn

1989
James Salter, Dusk
Mary McGarry Morris, Vanished
Thomas Savage, The Corner of Rife
   and Pacific
Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Death
   of Methuselah

1988
T. Coraghessan Boyle, World’s End
Richard Bausch, Spirits
Alice McDermott, That Night
Cynthia Ozick, The Messiah
   of Stockholm
Lawrence Thornton, Imagining
   Argentina

1987
Richard Wiley, Soldiers in Hiding
Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
Charles Johnson, The
   Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Janet Kauffman, Collaborators
Maureen Howard, Expensive Habits

1986
Peter Taylor, The Old Forest
William Gaddis, Carpenter’s Gothic
Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
Hugh Nissenson, The Tree of Life
Helen Norris, The Christmas Wife
Grace Paley, Later the Same Day

1985
Tobias Wolff, The Barracks Thief
Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra
Donald Hays, The Dixie Association
David Leavitt, Family Dancing
James Purdy, On Glory’s Courses

1984
John Edgar Wideman, Sent for You Yesterday
Ron Hansen, The Assasination of
   Jesse James by the Coward
   Robert Ford
William Kennedy, Ironweed
Jamaica Kincaid, At the Bottom of
   the River
Bernard Malamud, The Stories
Cynthia Ozick, The Cannibal Galaxy

1983
Toby Olson, Seaview
Maureen Howard, Grace Abounding
Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and
   Other Stories
George Steiner, The Portage to San
   Cristobal of A.H.
Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick
   Restaurant
William S. Wilson, Birthplace

1982
David Bradley, The
Chaneysville Incident
Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories
Richard Bausch, Take Me Back
Mark Helprin, Ellis Island and
   Other Stories
Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise

1981
Walter Abish, How German Is It?
Shirley Hazzard, The Transit
   of Venus
Walker Percy, The Second Coming
Gilbert Sorrentino, Aberration of
   Starlight
John Kennedy Toole, A
   Confederacy of Dunces

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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