original list overwhelmingly white + male list here

  • The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
  • Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  • Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
  • Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
  • Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
  • The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
  • Emma by Jane Austen
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
  • The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
  • Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  • Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
  • David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  • Middlemarch by George Elliot
  • The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
  • The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  • New Grub Street by George Gissing
  • Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
  • The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  • Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
  • Kim by Rudyard Kipling
  • The Call of the Wild by Jack London
  • The Golden Bowl by Henry James
  • Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe
  • The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  • The History of Mr. Polly by HG Wells
  • Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
  • The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
  • The Rainbow by DH Lawrence
  • Of Human Bondage by W Somerset Magham
  • The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  • Ulysses by James Joyce
  • Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
  • A Passage to India by EM Forster
  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
  • Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  • The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
  • Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
  • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  • Brave New World by Alduos Huxley
  • Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
  • Nineteen Nineteen by John Dos Passos
  • Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
  • Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
  • Murphy by Samuel Beckett
  • The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
  • Party Going by Henry Green
  • At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • Joy in the Morning by PG Wodehouse
  • All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
  • Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
  • The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
  • The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
  • The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
  • The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  • Voss by Patrick White
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
  • Catch-22 by Joseph Miller
  • The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  • A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
  • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  • Portnoy's Complaint by Phillip Roth
  • Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
  • Rabbit Redux by John Updike
  • Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
  • A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul
  • Midnight's Chilren by Salman Rushdie
  • Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
  • Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
  • An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
  • Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
  • Amongst Women by John McGahern
  • Underworld by Don DeLillo
  • Disgrace by JM Coetzee
  • True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

additions here

  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  • The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  • Beloved by Toni Morrison
  • The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
  • A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
  • Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
  • Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
  • I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan
  • Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
  • Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray
  • A Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein
  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  • Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
oct 14 2017 ∞
oct 15 2017 +