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