As would be expected, this is only a partial list. Any suggestions/additions would be greatly appreciated.
| READ? | AUTHOR | TITLE |
| Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart | |
| Agee, James | A Death in the Family | |
| Alighieri, Dante | Inferno | |
| Alighieri, Dante | Purgatorio | |
| Alighieri, Dante | Paradiso | |
| Allende, Isabel | Eva Luna | |
| [X] | Allende, Isabel | Of Love and Shadows |
| Allison, Dorothy | Bastard Out of Carolina | |
| [X] | Anaya, Rudolfo | Bless Me, Ultima |
| Angelou, Maya | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | |
| Atwood, Margaret | The Handmaid’s Tale | |
| Austen, Jane | Emma | |
| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice | |
| Baldwin, James | Go Tell It on the Mountain | |
| Banks, Russell | The Sweet Hereafter | |
| Beckett, Samuel | Waiting for Godot | |
| Bellow, Saul | The Adventures of Augie March | |
| Bolt, Robert | A Man for All Seasons | |
| Brönte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre | |
| Brönte, Emily | Wuthering Heights | |
| Buck, Pearl | The Good Earth | |
| Bullfinch | Bullfinch’s Mythology | |
| Bunyan, John | Pilgrim’s Progress | |
| [X] | Burgess, Anthony | A Clockwork Orange |
| Camus, Albert | The Stranger | |
| Cather, Willa | Death Comes for the Archbishop | |
| Cather, Willa | My Antonia | |
| Cather, Willa | O Pioneers! | |
| Chandler, Raymond | The Big Sleep | |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey | The Canterbury Tales | |
| Chekhov, Anton | The Cherry Orchard | |
| [X] | Chopin, Kate | The Awakening |
| Cisneros, Sandra | The House on Mango Street | |
| Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness | |
| Conroy, Pat | The Prince of Tides | |
| Cooper, James Fenimore | The Last of the Mohicans | |
| Courtenay, Bryce | The Power of One | |
| Crane, Stephen | The Red Badge of Courage | |
| Cunningham, Michael | The Hours | |
| Davies, Robertson | The Deptford Trilogy | |
| de Balzac, Honore | The Black Sheep | |
| de Bernieres, Louis | Corelli’s Mandolin | |
| de Cervantes, Miguel | Don Quixote | |
| de Laclos, Pierre Choderlos | Dangerous Liaisons | |
| Defoe, Daniel | Robinson Crusoe | |
| Delillo, Don | White Noise | |
| Dickens, Charles | A Tale of Two Cities | |
| Dickens, Charles | David Copperfield | |
| Dickens, Charles | Great Expectations | |
| Dillard, Annie | An American Childhood | |
| Dinesen, Isak | Out of Africa | |
| Disraeli, Benjamin | Sybil | |
| Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee | Sister of My Heart | |
| Dorris, Michael | A Yellow Raft in Blue Water | |
| Dos Passos, John | USA | |
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Crime and Punishment | |
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | The Brothers Karamozov | |
| Douglass, Frederick | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan | The Hound of the Baskervilles | |
| Dreiser, Theodore | An American Tragedy | |
| Dumas, Alexandre | The Count of Monte Cristo | |
| Dumas, Alexandre | The Three Musketeers | |
| DuMaurier, Daphne | Rebecca | |
| Duncan, David James | The Brothers K | |
| Dunne, Katherine | Geek Love | |
| Eliot, George | The Mill on the Floss | |
| [X] | Ellison, Ralph Lewis | Invisible Man |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Selected Essays | |
| Erdrich, Louise | Love Medicine | |
| [X] | Eugenides, Jeffrey | Middlesex |
| Faulkner, William | As I Lay Dying | |
| Faulkner, William | The Sound and the Fury | |
| Faulkner, William | Absalom, Absalom! | |
| Faulkner, William | As I Lay Dying | |
| Faulkner, William | Light in August | |
| Fielding, Henry | Tom Jones | |
| [X] | Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Great Gatsby |
| [X] | Flaubert, Gustave | Madame Bovary |
| Ford, Madox | The Good Soldier | |
| Forester, E.M. | Howard’s End | |
| Frasier, Charles | Cold Mountain | |
| Fredriksson, Marriane | Hanna’s Daughter | |
| Fredriksson, Marriane | Simon’s Family | |
| Gaines, Ernest | A Lesson Before Dying | |
| Garcia, Cristina | Dreaming in Cuban | |
| [X] | Gibbons, Kay | Ellen Foster |
| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | Faust | |
| Golding, William | Lord of the Flies | |
| Greene, Graham | The Power and the Glory | |
| Haley, Alex | Roots | |
| Hardy, Thomas | Tess of the d’Urbervilles | |
| Harris, Joann | Chocolat | |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Scarlet Letter | |
| Hegi, Ursula | Stones from the River | |
| Heller, Joseph | Catch 22 | |
| Hemingway, Ernest | A Farewell to Arms | |
| Hemingway, Ernest | For Whom the Bell Tolls | |
| Herr, Michael | Dispatches | |
| Hesse, Herman | Siddhartha | |
| Homer | The Iliad | |
| Homer | The Odyssey | |
| Hugo, Victor | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | |
| Hugo, Victor | Les Miserables | |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their Eyes Were Watching God | |
| [X] | Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World |
| Ibsen, Henrik | A Doll’s House | |
| Irving, John | A Prayer for Owen Meany | |
| Irving, John | The Cider House Rules | |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo | The Remains of the Day | |
| James, Henry | The Portrait of a Lady | |
| James, Henry | The Turn of the Screw | |
| Johnson, Charles | Middle Passage | |
| Joyce, James | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | |
| Joyce, James | Dubliners | |
| Joyce, James | Ulysses | |
| Junger, Sebastian | The Perfect Storm | |
| Kafka, Franz | The Metamorphosis | |
| Karr, Mary | The Liar’s Club | |
| [X] | Keneally, Thomas | Schindler’s List |
| Kesey, Ken | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Next | |
| [X] | Kingsolver, Barbara | Animal Dreams |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | Pigs in Heaven | |
| Kingston, Maxine Hong | The Woman Warrior | |
| [X] | Knowles, John | A Separate Peace |
| Lee, Chang-Rae | A Gesture Life | |
| [X] | Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| [X] | Lee, Robert E. | Inherit the Wind |
| [X] | Lewis, C.S. | The Chronicles of Narnia |
| Lewis, Sinclair | Babbitt | |
| [X] | London, Jack | The Call of the Wild |
| [X] | Malamud, Bernard | The Natural |
| Mann, Thomas | The Magic Mountain | |
| Marquez, Gabriel Garcia | One Hundred Years of Solitude | |
| McCarthy, Cormac | Blood Meridian | |
| [X] | McCourt, Frank | Angela’s Ashes |
| McMurtry, Larry | Lonesome Dove | |
| Melville, Herman | Bartleby the Scrivener | |
| Melville, Herman | Moby Dick | |
| Miller, Arthur | The Crucible | |
| Milton, John | Paradise Lost | |
| Mitchell, Margaret | Gone with the Wind | |
| [X] | Morrison, Toni | Beloved |
| Morrison, Toni | Song of Solomon | |
| Nabokov, Vladimir | Lolita | |
| Nahai, Gina | Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith | |
| Nattel, Lilian | The River Midnight | |
| [X] | O’Brien, Tim | The Things They Carried |
| O’Connor, Flannery | A Good Man is Hard to Find | |
| O’Neill, Eugene | Long Day’s Journey into Night | |
| [X] | Orwell, George | Animal Farm |
| Orwell, George | 1984 | |
| Ovid | Metamorphoses | |
| Pasternak, Boris | Doctor Zhivago | |
| Paton, Alan | Cry, the Beloved Country | |
| Peacock, Thomas Love | Nightmare Alley | |
| Pirsig, Robert | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | |
| Plath, Sylvia | The Bell Jar | |
| Poe, Edgar Allan | Selected Tales | |
| [X] | Potok, Chaim | My Name is Asher Lev |
| [X] | Potok, Chaim | The Chosen |
| Proust, Marcel | Swann’s Way | |
| Pynchon, Thomas | The Crying of Lot 49 | |
| Rand, Ayn | Atlas Shrugged | |
| [X] | Remarque, Erich Maria | All Quiet on the Western Front |
| Richardson, Samuel | Clarissa | |
| Rostand, Edmond | Cyrano de Bergerac | |
| Roth, Henry | Call It Sleep | |
| Roy, Arundati | The God of Small Things | |
| Rushdie, Salman | Midnight’s Children | |
| Russell, Mary Doria | The Sparrow | |
| [X] | Salinger, J.D. | The Catcher in the Rye |
| Saroyan, William | An American Comedy | |
| Shaara, Michael | The Killer Angels | |
| Shakespeare, William | Hamlet | |
| [X] | Shakespeare, William | Macbeth |
| Shakespeare, William | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | |
| [X] | Shakespeare, William | Romeo and Juliet |
| [X] | Shakespeare, William | King Lear |
| [X] | Shakespeare, William | Othello |
| Shaw, George Bernard | Pygmalion | |
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein | |
| Silko, Leslie Marmon | Ceremony | |
| [X] | Smiley, Jane | A Thousand Acres |
| Smith, Betty | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | |
| Solzhenitsyn, Alexander | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | |
| Sophocles | Antigone | |
| [X] | Sophocles | Oedipus Rex |
| Stegner, Wallace | Angle of Repose | |
| [X] | Steinbeck, John | The Grapes of Wrath |
| Stendhal, Richard Howard | The Charterhouse of Parma | |
| Sterne, Laurence | Tristram Shandy | |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Treasure Island | |
| Stoker, Bram | Dracula | |
| [X] | Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
| Styron, William | Sophie’s Choice | |
| [X] | Swift, Jonathan | Gulliver’s Travels |
| [X] | Tan, Amy | The Joy Luck Club |
| Thackeray, William Makepeace | Vanity Fair | |
| Thoreau, Henry David | Walden | |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | The Lord of the Rings Trilogy | |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | The Hobbit | |
| Tolstoy, Leo | ||
| Tolstoy, Leo | Anna Karenina | |
| Tsukiyama, Gail | The Samurai’s Garden | |
| Turgenev, Ivan | Fathers and Sons | |
| [X] | Twain, Mark | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Undset, Sigrit | Kristin Lavransdatter | |
| Verne, Jules | Around the World in 80 Days | |
| Voltaire | Candide | |
| [X] | Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. | Slaugherhouse-Five |
| Walker, Alice | The Color Purple | |
| Wells, Rebecca | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood | |
| Welty, Eudora | Collected Stories | |
| Wharton, Edith | Age of Innocence | |
| Wharton, Edith | The House of Mirth | |
| Whitman, Walt | Leaves of Grass | |
| [X] | Wiesel, Elie | Night |
| Wilde, Oscar | The Picture of Dorian Gray | |
| Wilde, Oscar | The Importance of Being Earnest | |
| Williams, Tennessee | The Glass Menagerie | |
| [X] | Wolfe, Tom | The Right Stuff |
| Woolf, Virginia | To the Lighthouse | |
| Woolf, Virginia | A Room of One’s Own | |
| Woolf, Virginia | Mrs. Dalloway | |
| [X] | Wright, Richard | Native Son |
| Yamanaka, Lois-Ann | Blu’s Hanging | |
| Yezierska, Anzia | Bread Givers | |
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