A-B
- The Adventures of Augie March (1953), by Saul Bellow
- All the King’s Men (1946), by Robert Penn Warren
- American Pastoral (1997), by Philip Roth
- An American Tragedy (1925), by Theodore Dreiser
- Animal Farm (1946), by George Orwell
- Appointment in Samarra (1934), by John O’Hara
- Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (1970), by Judy Blume
- The Assistant (1957), by Bernard Malamud
- At Swim-Two-Birds (1938), by Flann O’Brien
- Atonement (2002), by Ian McEwan
- Beloved (1987), by Toni Morrison
- The Berlin Stories (1946), by Christopher Isherwood
- The Big Sleep (1939), by Raymond Chandler
- The Blind Assassin (2000), by Margaret Atwood
- Blood Meridian (1986), by Cormac McCarthy
- Brideshead Revisited (1946), by Evelyn Waugh
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), by Thornton Wilder
C – D
- Call It Sleep (1935), by Henry Roth
- Catch-22 (1961), by Joseph Heller
- The Catcher in the Rye (1951), by J.D. Salinger
- A Clockwork Orange (1963), by Anthony Burgess
- The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), by William Styron
- The Corrections (2001), by Jonathan Franzen
- The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), by Thomas Pynchon
- A Dance to the Music of Time (1951), by Anthony Powell
- The Day of the Locust (1939), by Nathanael West
- Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), by Willa Cather
- A Death in the Family (1958), by James Agee
- The Death of the Heart (1958), by Elizabeth Bowen
- Deliverance (1970), by James Dickey
- Dog Soldiers (1974), by Robert Stone
F – G
- Falconer (1977), by John Cheever
- The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969), by John Fowles
- The Golden Notebook (1962), by Doris Lessing
- Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953), by James Baldwin
- Gone With the Wind (1936), by Margaret Mitchell
- The Grapes of Wrath (1939), by John Steinbeck
- Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), by Thomas Pynchon
- The Great Gatsby (1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald
H – I
- A Handful of Dust (1934), by Evelyn Waugh
- The Heart is A Lonely Hunter (1940), by Carson McCullers
- The Heart of the Matter (1948), by Graham Greene
- Herzog (1964), by Saul Bellow
- Housekeeping (1981), by Marilynne Robinson
- A House for Mr. Biswas (1962), by V.S. Naipaul
- I, Claudius (1934), by Robert Graves
- Infinite Jest (1996), by David Foster Wallace
- Invisible Man (1952), by Ralph Ellison
L – N
- Light in August (1932), by William Faulkner
- The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), by C.S. Lewis
- Lolita (1955), by Vladimir Nabokov
- Lord of the Flies (1955), by William Golding
- The Lord of the Rings (1954), by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Loving (1945), by Henry Green
- Lucky Jim (1954), by Kingsley Amis
- The Man Who Loved Children (1940), by Christina Stead
- Midnight’s Children (1981), by Salman Rushdie
- Money (1984), by Martin Amis
- The Moviegoer (1961), by Walker Percy
- Mrs. Dalloway (1925), by Virginia Woolf
- Naked Lunch (1959), by William Burroughs
- Native Son (1940), by Richard Wright
- Neuromancer (1984), by William Gibson
- Never Let Me Go (2005), by Kazuo Ishiguro
- 1984 (1948), by George Orwell
O – R
- On the Road (1957), by Jack Kerouac
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962), by Ken Kesey
- The Painted Bird (1965), by Jerzy Kosinski
- Pale Fire (1962), by Vladimir Nabokov
- A Passage to India (1924), by E.M. Forster
- Play It As It Lays (1970), by Joan Didion
- Portnoy’s Complaint (1969), by Philip Roth
- Possession (1990), by A.S. Byatt
- The Power and the Glory (1939), by Graham Greene
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), by Muriel Spark
- Rabbit, Run (1960), by John Updike
- Ragtime (1975), by E.L. Doctorow
- The Recognitions (1955), by William Gaddis
- Red Harvest (1929), by Dashiell Hammett
- Revolutionary Road (1961), by Richard Yates
S – T
- The Sheltering Sky (1949), by Paul Bowles
- Slaughterhouse Five (1969), by Kurt Vonnegut
- Snow Crash (1992), by Neal Stephenson
- The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), by John Barth
- The Sound and the Fury (1929), by William Faulkner
- The Sportswriter (1986), by Richard Ford
- The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1964), by John le Carre
- The Sun Also Rises (1926), by Ernest Hemingway
- Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), by Zora Neale Hurston
- Things Fall Apart (1959), by Chinua Achebe
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), by Harper Lee
- To the Lighthouse (1927), by Virginia Woolf
- Tropic of Cancer (1934), by Henry Miller
U – W
- Ubik (1969), by Philip K. Dick
- Under the Net (1954), by Iris Murdoch
- Under the Volcano (1947), by Malcolm Lowry
- Watchmen (1986), by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
- White Noise (1985), by Don DeLillo
- White Teeth (2000), by Zadie Smith
- Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), by Jean Rhys
Graphic Novels
- Berlin: City of Stones (2000), by Jason Lutes
- Blankets (2003), by Craig Thompson
- Bone (2004), by Jeff Smith
- The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (2002), by Kim Deitch
- The Dark Knight Returns (1986), by Frank Miller
- David Boring (2000), by Daniel Clowes
- Ed the Happy Clown (1989), by Chester Brown
- Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (2000), by Chris Ware
- Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (2003), by Gilbert Hernandez
- Watchmen (1986), by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
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