Great American Novels

• Moby Dick, Herman Melville
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
• The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
• The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
• The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
• Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
• On the Road, Jack Kerouac
• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
• Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
• Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
• Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
• American Pastoral, Phillip Roth
• Underworld, Don DeLillo
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
• Middlesex, Jeffery Eugenides
• The Road, Cormac McCarthy
• Freedom, Jonathan Franzen

French Autofiction

• La Place, Annie Ernaux
• Les années, Annie Ernaux
• Jeune Fille, Anne Wiazemsky

Misc. National Epics

• War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
• Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
• Ulysses, James Joyce
• The Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe
• The Aeneid, Vergil