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