• A - B

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

• C - D

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

• F - G

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

• H - I

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

• L - N

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

• O - R

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

• S - T

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

• U - W

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