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My 11th grade English teacher compiled a list of 62 "independent novels" as the basis of a research paper. My goal: read them all.

And, yes, I realize some of them are in fact plays, but for the sake of simplicity . . .

  • War Books
    • Red Badge of Courage
    • Catch-22
    • A Farewell to Arms
    • All Quiet on the Western Front
    • For Whom the Bell Tolls
    • The Sun Also Rises
  • Odd/Different Novels
    • The Sound and the Fury
    • As I Lay Dying
    • A Clockwork Orange
    • Slaughterhouse-Five
    • Cat's Cradle
    • Flannery O'Connor short stories
  • African-American Novels
    • Song of Solomon
    • The Bluest Eye
    • Sula
    • Native Son
    • The Invisible Man
    • Nobody Knows My Name
    • The Color Purple
  • Psychological Novels
    • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    • The Bell Jar
    • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Love Stories/Novels of Manners
    • Ethan Frome
    • The Age of Innocence
    • Wuthering Heights
    • Jane Eyre
    • Emma
    • Sense and Sensibility
    • Pride and Predjudice
  • Dramas
    • A Streetcar Named Desire
    • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    • The Glass Menagerie
    • Death of a Salesman
    • All My Sons
  • Dystopias/Futuristic Novels
    • Brave New World
    • 1984
    • The Handmaid's Tale
    • The Fountainhead
    • Atlas Shrugged
  • Coming of Age
    • The Catcher in the Rye
    • A Member of the Wedding
    • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Women's Plight
    • The Awakening
    • Sophie's Choice
    • Tess of the D'Urbervilles
    • Mrs. Dalloway
    • To the Lighthouse
    • Daisy Miller
  • Clash of Cultures
    • The Joy Luck Club
  • Jewish Novels
    • The Chosen
    • The Promise
    • My Name is Asher Lev
  • Comedies
    • The Importance of Being Earnest
    • Waiting for Godot
  • Miscellaneous
    • A Death in the Family
    • A Prayer for Owen Meany
    • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
    • Moby Dick
    • The Grapes of Wrath
    • Of Mice and Men
    • East of Eden
    • The Accidental Tourist
may 13 2009 ∞
oct 4 2020 +