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1857 – 1860’s
MADAME BOVARY
by Gustave Flaubert A TALE OF TWO
CITIES by Charles Dickens GREAT
EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens CRIME AND
PUNISHMENT by Fyodor Dostoyevsky LITTLE WOMEN
by Louisa M. Alcott A SENTIMENTAL
EDUCATION by Flaubert THE IDIOT by
Fyodor Dostoyevsky WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy 1870’s
MIDDLEMARCH
by George Eliot THE POSSESSED
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky THE
ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER by Twain ANNA KARENINA
by Leo Tolstoy BLACK BEAUTY
by Anna Sewell 1880’s THE
GRANDISSIMES: A STORY OF CREAOLE LIFE by George Washington Cable THE BROTHERS
KARAMAZOV by Fyodor Dostoyevsky THE
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain FLATLAND: A
ROMANCE OF MANY DIMENSIONS by Edwin A. Abbott DR. JEKYLL
AND MR. HYDE by Robert Louis Stevenson KIDNAPPED by
Robert Louis Stevenson THE DEATH OF
IVAN ILYICH AND OTHER STORIES by Leo Tolstoy LOOKING
BACKWARD by Edward Bellamy SELECTED
STORIES by Anton Chekhov THREE MEN IN A BOAT by Jerome K. Jerome 1890’s
HUNGER by
Knut Hamsun THE PICTURE
OF DORIAN GRAY by Oscar Wilde THE AWAKENING by Kate Chopin 1900’s
LORD JIM by
Joseph Conrad SISTER CARRIE
by Theodore Dreiser THE WONDERFUL
WIZARD OF OZ by L. Frank Baum BUDDENBROOKS
by Thomas Mann KIM by
Rudyard Kipling HEART OF
DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad THE WINGS OF
THE DOVE by Henry James THE
AMBASSADORS by Henry James THE CALL OF
THE WILD by Jack London THE WAY OF
ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler NOSTROMO by
Joseph Conrad THE GOLDEN
BOWL by Henry James THE HOUSE OF
MIRTH by Edith Wharton THE JUNGLE by
Upton Sinclair THE SECRET
AGENT by Joseph Conrad A ROOM WITH A
VIEW by E.M. Forster THE OLD
WIVES' TALE by 1910’s
HOWARDS END
by E.M. Forster ETHAN FROME
by Edith Wharton ZULEIKA
DOBSON by Max Beerbohm O PIONEERS!
by Willa Cather SONS AND
LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence HERLAND by
Charlotte Perkins Gilman OF HUMAN
BONDAGE by THE GOOD
SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford THE RAINBOW
by D.H. Lawrence THE SONG OF
THE LARK by Willa Cather A PORTRAIT OF
THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce DIARY OF A
MADMAN AND OTHER STORIES by Lu Xun HIS FAMILY by
Ernest Poole MY ANTONIA by
Willa Cather THE
MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington 1920’s
GYPSY BALLADS
by Federico Garcia Lorca THE BOOK OF
DISQUIET by Fernando Pessoa THE AGE OF
INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton WOMEN IN LOVE
by D.H. Lawrence ALICE ADAMS
by Booth Tarkington SIDDHARTHA by
Hermann Hesse THE WORM
OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison ULYSSES by
James Joyce ONE OF OURS
by Willa Cather A PASSAGE TO THE ABLE
McLAUGHLINS by Margaret Wilson THE COMPLETE
STORIES by Franz Kafka THE SO BIG by
Edna Ferber ARROWSMITH by
Sinclair Lewis MRS. DALLOWAY
by Virgnia Woolf THE GREAT
GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald THE TRIAL by
Franz Kafka AN AMERICAN
TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser THE CASTLE by
Franz Kafka THE SUN ALSO
RISES by Ernest Hemingway DEATH COMES
FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Cather EARLY AUTUMN
by Louis Bromfield REMEMBRANCE
OF THINGS PAST by Proust TO THE
LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf PARADE'S END
by Ford Madox Ford POINT COUNTER
POINT by Aldous Huxley THE A FAREWELL TO
ARMS by Ernest Hemingway A HIGH WIND
IN LOOK HOMEWARD
ANGEL by Thomas Wolfe SCARLET
SISTER MARY by Julia Peterkin THE SOUND AND
THE FURY by William Faulkner ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT by Erich Maria Remarque 1930’s
AS I LAY
DYING by William Faulkner CONFESSIONS
OF ZENO by Italo Svevo LAUGHING BOY
by Oliver La Farge THE MALTESE
FALCON by Dashiell Hammett YEARS OF
GRACE by Margaret Ayer Barnes THE GOOD
EARTH by BRAVE NEW
WORLD by Aldous Huxley JOURNEY TO
THE END OF THE NIGHT by Louis-Ferdinand Celine LIGHT IN
AUGUST by William Faulkner THE STUDS
LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell TOBACCO ROAD
by Erskine Caldwell THE STORE by
T. S. Stribling THE RED PONY
by John Steinbeck A HANDFUL OF
DUST by Evelyn Waugh APPOINTMENT
IN I, CLAUDIUS
by Robert Graves INDEPENDENT
PEOPLE by Halldor K Laxness LAMB IN HIS
BOSOM by Caroline Miller TENDER IS THE
NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald THE POSTMAN
ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain TROPIC OF
CANCER by Henry Miller NOW IN
NOVEMBER by Josephine Winslow Johnson ABSALOM,
ABSALOM! by William Faulkner AT THE
MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft HONEY IN THE
HORN by Harold L. Davis WE THE LIVING
by Ayn Rand GONE WITH THE
WIND by Margaret Mitchell OF MICE AND
MEN by John Steinbeck THE HOBBITT
by J.R.R. Tolkein THEIR EYES
WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neale Hurston ANTHEM by Ayn
Rand SCOOP by
Evelyn Waugh THE DEATH OF
THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen THE LATE
GEORGE APLEY by Marquand REBECCA by
Daphne Du Maurier AT
SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien FINNEGANS
WAKE by James Joyce THE DAY OF
THE LOCUST by Nathanael West THE YEARLING
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck 1940’s
DARKNESS AT NATIVE SON by
Richard Wright THE HEART IS
A LONELY HUNTER by IN THIS OUR
LIFE by Ellen Glasgow THE MAN
WITHOUT QUALITIES by Robert Musil THE STRANGER
by Albert Camus A TREE GROWS
IN DRAGON’S
TEETH by Upton Sinclair JOHNNY
TREMAIN by Esther Forbes THE
FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand BRIDESHEAD
REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh JOURNEY IN
THE DARK by Martin Flavin PIPPI
LONGSTOCKING by Astrid Lindgren THE RAZOR’S
EDGE by W. Somerset Maugham A LOVING by
Henry Green ANIMAL FARM
by George Orwell ZORBA THE
GREEK by Nikos Kazantzakis ALL THE
KING’S MEN by Robert Penn Warren UNDER THE
VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry THE 1984 by
George Orwell TALES OF THE
SOUTH PACIFIC by Michener THE HEART OF
THE MATTER by Graham Greene THE NAKED AND
THE DEAD by Norman Mailer GUARD OF
HONOR by James Gould Cozzens SHANE by Jack
Schaefer THE
SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor 1950’s
A TOWN LIKE THE MAN WITH
THE GOLDEN ARM by Algren THE WAY WEST
by A.B. Guthrie, Jr. A DANCE TO
THE MUSIC OF TIME by Powell COLLECTED
STORIES OF WILIAM FAULKNER by William Faulkner FEAR by L.
Ron Hubbard MEMOIRS OF
HADRIAN by Marguerite Yourcenar THE CATCHER
IN THE THE PUPPET
MASTERS by Robert Heinlein THE TOWN by
Conrad Richter EAST OF FROM HERE TO
ETERNITY by James Jones THE CAINE
MUTINY by Herman Wouk THE INVISIBLE
MAN by Ralph Ellison THE OLD MAN
AND THE SEA by Hemingway FAHRENHEIT
451 by Ray Bradbury GO TELL IT ON
THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin LORD OF THE
FLIES by William Golding THE
ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Bellow THE SOUND OF
THE MOUNTAIN by Kawabata UNDER THE NET
by Iris Murdoch A FABLE by
William Faulkner LOLITA by
Vladimir Nabokov PEDRO PARAMO
by Juan Rulfo THE GINGER
MAN by J.P. Donleavy THE LORD OF
THE RINGS by J. R. R. Tolkien THE
RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis DOUBLE STAR
by Robert Heinlein SEIZE THE DAY
by Saul Bellow TEN NORHT THE DEVIL TO
PAY IN THE BACKLANDS by Joao Guimaraes Rosa ATLAS
SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand CITIZEN OF
THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein ON THE BEACH
by Nevil Shute ON THE ROAD
by Jack Kerouac THE THE DOOR INTO
SUMMER by Robert Heinlein THE FIELD OF
VISION by Wright Morris A DEATH IN
THE FAMILY by James Agee THE WAPSHOT
CHRONICLE by John Cheever TRILOGY:
MOLLOY, MALONE DIES, THE UNNAMABLE by Samuel Beckett A SEPARATE
PEACE by John Knowles CHILDREN OF
GEBELAWI by Naguib Mahfouz NAKED LUNCH
by William S. Burroughs SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
by Kurt Vonnegut STARSHIP
TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein THE HAUNTING
OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson THE MAGIC
BARREL by Bernard Malamud THE TIN DRUM
by Gunter Grass THE TRAVELS
OF MAIMIE McPHEETERS by Robert Lewis Taylor THINGS FALL APART by Chinua Achebe 1960’s
RABBIT, RUN
by John Updike ADVISE AND
CONSENT by Allen Drury GOODBYE, TO KILL A
MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee TRUSTEE FROM
THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute A HOUSE FOR
MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul CATCH-22 by
Joseph Heller STRANGER IN A
STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein THE WATERS OF
KRONOS by Conrad Richter V.
by Thomas Pynchon A CLOCKWORK
ORANGE by Anthony Burgess ONE FLEW OVER
THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey ONE LONELY
NIGHT by Mickey Spillane PALE FIRE by
Vladimir Nabokov SOMETHING
WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury THE EDGO OF
SADNESS by Edwin O'Connor THE GOLDEN
NOTEBOOK by Doris M. Lessing THE MOVIEGOER
by Walker Percy THE PRIME OF
MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark WOMAN IN THE
DUNES by Kobo Abe THE REIVERS
by William Faulkner MORTE
D’URBAN by J.F. Powers HERZOG by
Saul Bellow SOMETIMES A
GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey THE CENTAUR
by John Updike DUNE by Frank
Herbert THE KEEPERS
OF THE HOUSE by Shirley
Ann Grau THE MAGUS by
John Fowles COLLECTED
STORIES by Katherine Anne Porter THE MOON IS A
HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein ONE HUNDRED
YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel Garcia Marquez THE FIXER by
Bernard Malamud THE
CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER by Styron THE EIGHTH
DAY by HOUSE MADE OF
DAWN by N. Scott Momaday PORTNOY'S
COMPLAINT by Philip Roth STEPS by
Jerzy Kosinski THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN by John Fowles 1970’s
A SEASON OF
MIGRATION TO THE NORTH by Tayeb Salih COLLECTED
STORIES by Jean Stafford DELIVERANCE
by James Dickey FIFTH
BUSINESS by Robertson Davies THEM by Joyce
Carol Oates RABBIT REDUX
by John Updike MR.
SAMMLER’S PLANET by Saul Bellow ANGLE OF
REPOSE by Wallace Stegner THE COMPLETE
STORIES by Flannery O'Connor WATERSHIP
DOWN by Richard Adams BLESS ME,
ULTIMA by Rudolfo Anaya CHIMERA by
John Barth THE
OPTIMIST’S DAUGHTER by Edora Welty GRAVITY’S
RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon HISTORY by
Elsa Morante ZEN AND THE
ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig DOG SOLDIERS
by Robert Stone RAGTIME by
E.L. Doctorow ROOTS by Alex
Haley THE KILLER
ANGELS by Michael Shaara HUMBOLDT’S
GIFT by Saul Bellow JR by William
Gaddis ILLUSIONS by
Richard Bach THE SPECTATOR
BIRD by Wallace Stegner BLOOD TIE by
Mary Lee Settle ELBOW ROOM by
James Alan McPherson THE STANDby
Stephen King THE WORLD
ACCORDING TO GARP by A GOING AFTER
CACCIATO by Tim O’Brien SUTTREE by
Cormac McCarthy THE
HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams THE STORIES OF JOHN CHEEVER by John Cheever 1980’s
HOUSEKEEPING
by Marilynne Robinson BATTLEFIELD
EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard SOPHIE’S
CHOICE by William Styron THE
EXECUTIONER’S SONG by Norman Mailer A CONFEDERACY
OF DUNCES by John Kennedy Toole PLAINS SONG
FOR FEMALE VOICES by Wright Morris RABBIT IS
RICH by John Updike THE COLOR
PURPLE by Alice Walker WINTER’S
TALE by Mark Helprin IRONWEED by
William Kennedy MOONHEART by
Charles de Lint MYTHAGO WOOD
by Robert Holdstock THE HUNT FOR
RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy VICTORY OVER WHITE NOISE
by Don DeLillo BLOOD COLLECTED
FICTIONS by Jorge Luis Borges ENDER'S GAME
by Orson Scott Card FOREIGN
AFFAIRS by Alison Lurie LOVE IN THE
TIME OF CHOLERA by Gabriel Garcia Marquez MULENGRO by
Charles de Lint THE
HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood THE SECRET OF
LIFE by Rudy Rucker IT by Stephen
King LONESOME DOVE
by Larry McMurtry WORLD’S
FAIR by E.L. Doctorow YARROW by
Charles de Lint THE
COUNTERLIFE by Philip Roth A SUMMONS TO BELOVED by
Toni Morrison PACO’S
STORY by Larry Heinemann YOU MUST
REMEMBER THIS by Joyce Carol Oates GREENMANTLE
by Charles de Lint THE SATANIC
VERSES by Salman Rushdie LIBRA by Don
DeLillo WHERE I’M
CALLING FROM by Raymond Carver A PRAYER FOR
OWEN MEANY by John Irving BREATHING
LESSONS by Anne Tyler SPARTINA by
John Casey THE JOY LUCK CLUB by Amy Tan 1990’s
THE MAMBO
KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE by Oscar Hijuelos THE THINGS
THEY CARRIED by Tim O’Brien MATING by
Norman Rush RABBIT AT
REST by John Updike THE LITTLE
COUNTRY by Charles de Lint RAIN OF GOLD
by Victor E. Villasenor THE KITCHEN
GOD’S WIFE by Amy Tan A THOUSAND
ACRES by Jane Smiley ALL THE
PRETTY HORSES by Cormac McCarthy JESUS’ SON
by Denis Johnson OPERATION
SHYLOCK by Philip Roth A GOOD SCENT
FROM A STRANGE MOUNTAIN by Robert Olen Butler A FROLIC OF
HIS OWN by William Gaddis MEMORY AND
DREAM by Charles de Lint THE CUNNING
MAN by Robertson Davies THE SHIPPING
NEWS by E. Annie Proulx SABBATH’S
THEATER by Philip Roth THE STONE
DIARIES by Carol Shields THE HUNDRED
SECRET SENSES by Amy Tan SHIP FEVER
AND OTHER STORIES by Andrea Barrett THE WOOD WIFE
by Terri Windling TRADER by
Charles de Lint UNDERWORLD by
Don DeLillo BLINDNESS by
José Saramago COLD MOUNTAN
by Charles Frazier MARTIN
DRESSLER: THE TALE OF AN AMERICAN DREAMER by Steven Millhauser HARRY POTTER
AND THE SORCERER’S STONE by J.K. Rowling AMERICAN
PASTORAL by Philip Roth CHARMING
BILLY by Alice McKermott SOMEPLACE TO
BE FLYING by Charles de Lint HARRY POTTER
AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS by J.K. Rowling THE HOURS by
Michael Cunningham WAITING by Ha
Jin THE CIRCUIT
by Francisco Jimenez HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN by J.K. Rowling 2000’s
IN INTERPRETER
OF MALADIES by Jhumpa Lahiri HARRY POTTER
AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE by J.K. Rowling THE HUMAN
STAIN by Philip Roth LIFE OF PI by
Yann Martel THE AMAZING
ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY by Michael Chabon THE
CORRECTIONS by Jonathan Franzen BREAKING
THROUGH by Francisco Jimenez THE
BONESETTER’S DAUGHTER by Amy Tan SNOW MOUNTAIN
PASSAGE by James D. Houston BEL CANTO by
Ann Patchett GUILTY
PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton THE LOVELY
BONES by Alice Sebold THREE JUNES
by Julia Glass ATONEMENT by
Ian McEwan MIDDLESEX by
Jeffrey Eugenides THE FIVE
PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN by Mitch Albom DRINKING
COFFEE ELSEWHERE by ZZ Packer THE GREAT
FIRE by Shirley Hazzard THE KITE
RUNNER by Khaled Hosseini THE NAMESAKE
by Jhumpa Lahiri HARRY POTTER
AND THE ORDER OF THE THE KNOWN
WORLD by Edward P. Jones THE NEWS FROM
THE PLOT
AGAINST THE LINE OF
BEAUTY by Alan Hollinghurst SAVING FISH
FROM DROWNING by Amy Tan HARRY POTTER
AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE by J.K. Rowling THE SEA by
John Banville THE MARCH by
E.L. Doctorow MARCH by
Geraldine Brooks THE
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