* 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