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

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)

Recommended for College-Bound Readers

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

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

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