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FICTION BOOK LIST
(as of 3/07)
REFERENCE
Dupriez, Bernard: A Dictionary of Literary Devices
Ghiselin, Brewster: The Creative Process
Lanham, Richard A.: A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms
Harmon, William C.: A Handbook to Literature
Strunk, William & E.B. White: Elements of Style
Tufte, Virginia: Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style
ON WRITERS, WRITING, READING AND CULTURE
Aristotle: Poetics; Rhetoric
Bachelard, Gaston: The Poetics of Space
Bakhtin, M. M.: The Dialogic Imagination
Barthes, Roland: The Pleasure of the Text
Baxter, Charles: Burning Down the House
Baxter, Charles & Peter Turchi: Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life
Benjamin, Walter: Illuminations
Bennett, James R.: Prose Style
Berman, Marshall: All That Is Solid Melts into Air
Bernays, Anne & Pamela Painter: What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers
Berryman, John: The Freedom of the Poet
Blanchot, Maurice: The Gaze of Orpheus and the Siren's Song
Booth, Wayne C.: The Rhetoric of Fiction
Borges, Jorge Luis: Borges on Writing
Burroway, Janet: Writing Fiction
Busch Frederick: A Dangerous Profession: A Book About the Writing Life; Letters to a Fiction Writer
Butler, Judith: Gender Trouble
Butler, Robert Olen: From Where We Dream
Calvino, Italo: Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Cixous, Helena: Coming to Writing and Other Essays
Coetzee, J. M.: Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews
Cowley, Malcolm: And I Worked at the Writer's Trade
DeMarinis, Rick: The Art & Craft of the Short Story
Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Notebooks for The Idiot
Dufresne, John: The Lie That Tells a Truth
Eagleton, Terry: Literary Theory
Ellis, Sherry: Now Write! Fiction Writing Exercises from Today’s Best Writers and Teachers
Ellison, Ralph: Shadow and Act
Fielder, Leslie: Love and Death in the American Novel
Forster, E.M.: Aspects of the Novel
Gardner, John: On Becoming a Novelist; The Art of Fiction
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Gass, William: Fiction and the Figures of Life
Gilbert, Sandra & Susan Gubar: The Madwomam in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century
Literary Imagination
Gomez-Pena, Guillermo: The New World Border
Hills, Rust: Writing in General and the Short Story In Particular
Hoffman, Michael & Patrick Murphy: Essentials of the Theory of Fiction
Iyer, Pico: The Global Soul
James, Henry: The Art of the Novel; The Notebooks of Henry James
Kermode, Frank: The Sense of an Ending
Kundera, Milan: The Art of the Novel
Lodge, David: Consciousness & the Novel
Lohafer, Susan & Jo Ellyn Clarey: Short Story Theory at a Crossroads
Lott, Bret: Before We Get Started
Lukacs, Georg: The Theory of the Novel
Lubbock, Percy: The Craft of Fiction
Macauley, Robie & George Lanning: Technique in Fiction
Martone, Michael: Unconventions
May, Charles E.: Short Story Theories
Morris, Wright: About Fiction
Morrison, Toni: Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Nabokov, Vladimir: Lectures on Literature
O’Connor, Flannery: The Habit of Being; Mystery & Manners
O’Connor, Frank: The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story
Olsen, Tillie: Silences
Olson, Charles: Call Me Ishmael
Ong, Walter J.: Orality and Literacy
Ortega y Gasset, José: Meditations on Quixote
Paz, Octavio: Labyrinth of Solitude
Plimpton, George: Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews
Pound, Ezra: The ABC of Reading
Prose, Francine: Reading Like a Writer
Queneau, Raymond: Exercises in Style
Robbe-Grillet, Alain: For a New Novel
Roth, Philip: Goodbye, Columbus
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky: Epistemology of the Closet
Shklovsky, Viktor: The Theory of Prose
Smiley, Jane: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
Stern, Jerome: Making Shapely Fiction
Stevick, Philip: The Theory of the Novel
Todorov, Tzvetan: Introduction to Poetics
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Vargas Llosa, Mario: Letters to a Young Novelist
Welty, Eudora: One Writer’s Beginnings
SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGIES (MULTIPLE AUTHORS)
Carlson, Ron: You’ve Got to Read This
Chabon, Michael: McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
Charters, Ann: The Story and Its Writer
Jenks, Tom & Raymond Carver: American Short Story Masterpieces
Hagedorn, Jessica: Charlie Chan is Dead 2: Contemporary Asian-American Fiction
Halpern, Daniel: The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology
Leavitt, David & Mark Mitchell: The Penquin Book of Gay Short Stories
Love-Denman, Margaret & Barbara Shoup: Story Matters: Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process
Manguel, Alberto: Other Fires: Short Fiction by Latin American Women
Marcus, Ben: The Anchor Book of Modern Short Stories
McMillan, Terry: Breaking Ice, An Anthology of Contemporary African American Fiction
Mordecai, Pamela: Her True-True Name: An Anthology of Women’s Writing from the Caribbean
Oates, Joyce Carol: Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers
Reynolds, Margaret: The Penquin Book of Lesbian Short Stories
Rosenthal, Lucy: The Eloquent Short Story: Varieties of Narration
White, Edmund: The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction
Wolff, Tobias: Matters of Life and Death
SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS
Alarcon, Daniel: War by Candlelight
Alvarez, Julia: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Anderson, Sherwood: Winesburg, Ohio
Babel, Isaac: Red Cavalry; Collected Stories
Barnett, Allen: The Body and Its Dangers
Barrett, Andrea: Ship Fever
Barth, John: Lost in the Funhouse
Barthelme, Donald: Sixty Stories
Bausch, Richard: Selected Stories
Baxter, Charles: Believers; A Relative Stranger; Through the Safety Net
Beattie, Ann: Distortions; The Burning House; Park City
Becker, Leslee: The Sincere Café
Benedict, Pinckney: Town Smokes
Berriault, Gina: The Infinite Passion of Expectations; Women in Their Beds
Boccaccio, Giovanni: The Decameron
Böll, Heinrich: 18 Stories
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Borges, Jorge Luis: Labyrinths; Collected Fictions
Borowski, Tadeusz: This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Bowles, Paul: A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories
Boyle, T.C.: T. C. Boyle Stories
Braverman, Kate: Squandering the Blue
Brockmeier, Kevin: Things That Fall from the Sky
Brodkey, Harold: Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
Brown, Larry: Dirty Work; Big Bad Love
Brown, Rosellen: Street Games
Busch, Frederick: The Children in the Woods; Don’t Tell Anyone
Butler, Robert Olen: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Calvino, Italo: t zero
Camoin, François: Why Men Are Afraid of Women; The End of the World is Los Angeles
Carlson, Ron: A Kind of Flying: Selected Stories
Carter, Angela: Burning Your Boats: Collected Stories
Carver, Raymond: Cathedral; Where I'm Calling From
Chang, Eileen (Zhang Ai Ling): Love in a Fallen City
Chang, Lan Samantha: Hunger
Chaon, Dan: Among the Missing
Cheever, John: Stories of John Cheever
Chekhov, Anton: The Portable Chekhov; Ward Six and Other Stories
Cisneros, Sandra: Woman Hollering Creek
Connell, Evan S.: St. Augustine’s Pigeon and Other Stories
Coover, Robert: Pricksongs and Descants
Cortazar, Julio: All Fires the Fire
Crane, Stephen: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Stories
DeMarinis, Rick: Borrowed Hearts: New and Selected Stories
Díaz, Junot: Drown
Dickinson, Charles: With or Without
Dinesen, Isak: Winter’s Tales
Dodd, Susan: Old Wives’ Tales
Doerr, Anthony: The Shell Collector
Driscoll, Jack: Wanting Only to Be Heard
Dubus, Andre: Selected Stories; Adultery & Other Stories
Dubus III, Andre: The Cagekeeper and Other Stories
Dybek, Stuart: The Coast of Chicago; I Sailed with Magellan
Ebenbach, David: Between Camelots
Eisenberg, Deborah: The Stories (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg
Elkins, Stanley: Stanley Elkin’s Greatest Hits
Elliott, George P.: Among the Dangs
Emshwiller, Carol: Verging on the Pertinent
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Epstein, Leslie: The Steinway Quintet Plus Four
Erian, Alicia: Brutal Language of Love
Evans, Elizabeth: Suicide’s Girlfriend
Faulkner, William: Go Down, Moses; Selected Short Stories
Flaubert, Gustave: Three Tales
Ford, Richard: Rock Springs
Gaitskill, Mary: Bad Behavior
García Márquez, Gabriel: Collected Stories
Gass, William H.: In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
Gautreaux, Tim: Same Place, Same Things
Grimm, Mary: Stealing Time
Hannah, Barry: Airships
Haslett, Adam: You Are Not a Stranger Here
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: Twice-Told Tales; Selected Tales and Sketches
Hecht, Julie: Do The Windows Open?
Helms, Beth: American Wives
Hemingway, Ernest: In Our Time; Collected Stories
Hempel, Amy: Reasons to Live; At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom; Tumble Home
Henley, Patricia: The Secret of Cartwheels
Homes, A.M.: Things You Should Know
Houston, Pam: Cowboys Are My Weakness
Hurston, Zora Neale: The Complete Stories
Jen, Gish: Who’s Irish
Jin, Ha: The Bridegroom & Other Stories
Johnson, Denis: Jesus’ Son
Jones, Edward P.: Lost in the City; All Aunt Hagar’s Children
Joyce, James: Dubliners
Kafka, Franz: The Complete Stories
Kaplan, David Michael: Comfort
Kauffman, Janet: Collaborators; Places in the World a Woman Could Walk
Kincaid, Jamaica: Annie John
Kinsella, W.P.: Dance Me Outside
Kundera, Milan: Laughable Loves
Kuo, Alex: Lipstick & Other Stories
Lahiri, Jumpha: The Interpreter of Maladies
Lawrence, D.H.: Selected Short Stories
Lee, Don: Yellow
Leegant, Joan: An Hour in Paradise
Lessing, Doris: African Stories; A Man and Two Women
Longstreet, K.A.: Night-Blooming Cereus
Lott, Bret: A Dream of Old Leaves; How to Get Home
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Maclean, Norman: A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
Malamud, Bernard: The Complete Stories
Mann, Thomas: Death in Venice and Other Stories
Mansfield, Katherine: The Stories of Katherine Mansfield
Martone, Michael: Double-Wide: Collected Fiction
Mason, Bobbie Ann: Shiloh and Other Stories
Mattison, Alice: In Case We’re Separated
Maupassant, Guy de: Selected Short Stories
McCorkle, Jill: Crash Diet
McGraw, Erin: Bodies at Sea; Lies of the Saints
McPherson, James Alan: Elbow Room
Melville, Herman: Billy Budd and Other Stories
Michaels, Leonard: I Would Have Saved Them If I Could
Minot, Susan: Lust and Other Stories
Moody, Rick: The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven
Moore, Lorrie: Self-Help; Like Life; Birds of America
Mukherjee, Bharati: The Middleman and Other Stories
Munro, Alice: Open Secrets; Selected Stories
Murray, John: A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies
Nair, Meera: Video
Naylor, Gloria: The Women of Brewster Place
Nelson, Antonya: Female Trouble; Some Fun
Oates, Joyce Carol: High Lonesome: Stories 1966-2006
O’Brien, Tim: The Things They Carried
O’Connor, Flannery: A Good Man is Hard to Find; The Complete Stories
O’Connor, Frank: Collected Stories
Offut, Chris: Out of the Woods
Olsen, Tillie: Tell Me a Riddle
Orringer, Julie: How to Breathe Underwater
Packer, ZZ: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Paley, Grace: The Little Disturbances of Man; Collected Works
Pancake, Ann: Given Ground
Pancake, Breece D’J: The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake
Philips, Jayne Anne: Black Tickets; Fast Lanes
Poe, Edgar Allan: Collected Stories
Porter, Katherine Anne: Collected Stories
Powers, J. F.: Prince of Darkness; The Stories of J.F. Powers
Proulx, Annie: Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Redel, Victoria: Where The Road Bottoms Out
Richard, Mark: The Ice at the Bottom of the World
Salinger, J. D.: Nine Stories
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Salter, James: Dusk, Last Night
Sarraute, Nathalie: Tropisms
Saunders, George: CivilWarLand in Bad Decline; Pastoralia; In Persuasion Nation
Schulz, Bruno: Sanitorium under the Sign of the Hourglass; Street of the Crocodiles.
Schwartz, Sheila: Imagine a Great White Light
Shacochis, Bob: Easy in the Islands
Silber, Joan: Ideas of Heaven
Singer, Isaac Bashevis: Selected Stories
Smiley, Jane: The Age of Grief
Spencer, Darrell: Caution: Men in Trees
Swan, Gladys: A Visit to Strangers; News from the Volcano
Taylor, Peter: Collected Stories
Tolstoy, Leo: The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories
Trevor, William: Collected Stories
Turgenev, Ivan: A Sportsman’s Sketches
Vaswani, Neela: Where the Long Grass Bends
Vaz, Katherine: Fado and Other Stories
Updike, John: Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories
Vannatta, Dennis: This Time, This Place; Lives of the Artists
Wat, Aleksander: Lucifer Unemployed
Weaver, Gordon: Four Decades: New & Selected Stories
Welty, Eudora: The Golden Apples; Thirteen Stories; Collected Stories
Wetherell, W.D.: The Man Who Loved Levittown; Hyannis Boat and Other Stories
Wideman, John Edgar: All Stories Are True
Williams, Diane: The Stupefaction; Excitability: Selected Stories 1986-1996
Williams, Joy: Honored Guests
Woiwode, Larry: Silent Passengers
Wolff ,Tobias: Back in the World; In the Garden of the North American Martyrs; The Night in Question
Yates, Richard: Eleven Kinds of Loneliness; Collected Stories
NOVELLAS
Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Notes from the Underground and The Double
Dubus, Andre: We Don’t Live Here Anymore; The Last Worthless Evening
Elkin, Stanley: Searches and Seizures
Faulkner, William: Three Short Novels (Spotted Horses; Old Man; The Bear)
Harrison, Jim: Legends of the Fall
James, Henry: Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers
Lawrence, D.H.: Three Novellas (The Ladybird; The Fox; The Captain’s Doll)
Moody, Rick: Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas
Smiley, Jane: Ordinary Love and Good Will
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Stein, Gertrude: Three Lives (The Good Anna; Melanctha; The Gentle Lena)
Unamuno, Miguel de: Three Exemplary Novels
NOVELS
Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi: Half a Yellow Sun
Allende, Isabel: The House of Spirits
Allison, Dorothy: Bastard Out of Carolina
Amis, Martin: Time’s Arrow
Andric, Ivo: The Bridge on the Drina
Ansay, A. Manette: Vinegar Hill
Anshaw, Carol: Seven Moves; Aquamarine
Atwood, Margaret: Cat’s Eye
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice; Emma; Sense and Sensibility
Auster, Paul: New York Trilogy
Bai, Hua: The Remote Country of Women
Bainbridge, Beryl: Sweet William; The Bottle Factory Outing
Baldwin, James: Another Country; Go Tell It on the Mountain; Giovanni’s Room
Banks, Russell: Continental Drift
Barnes, Julian: Flaubert’s Parrot
Barrett, Andrea: Lucid Stars
Baxter, Charles: First Light; The Feast of Love
Beattie, Ann: Chilly Scenes of Winter; Picturing Will
Beckett, Samuel: Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable
Bellow, Saul: Humboldt’s Gift; Herzog
Benitez-Rojo, Antonio: Sea of Lentils
Berne, Suzanne: A Crime in the Neighborhood
Biely, Andrey: St. Petersburg
Böll, Heinrich: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Bradley, David: The Chaneyville Incident
Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights
Brown, Larry: Joe
Brown, Rosellen: Tender Mercies; Before and After
Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margarita
Burgess, Anthony: A Clockwork Orange
Busch, Frederick: Girls; Closing Arguments; The Mutual Friend
Byatt, A. S.: Possession
Calvino, Italo: Invisible Cities; Path to the Nest of Spiders; If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler . . .
Cain, James: Double Indemnity; The Postman Always Rings Twice; Serenade
Campbell, Bebe Moore: Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine
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Camus, Albert: The Stranger; The Plague
Cao, Xueqin: Dream of the Red Chamber
Capote, Truman: Other Voices, Other Rooms
Cary, Joyce: The Horse’s Mouth
Cather, Willa: My Ántonia; O Pioneers!
Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote
Chandler, Raymond: The Big Sleep
Chaon, Dan: You Remind Me of Me
Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
Cliff, Michelle: No Telephone to Heaven
Coe, Christopher: Such Times
Coetzee, J.M.: Disgrace; Waiting for the Barbarians; Elizabeth Costello
Connell, Evan S.: Mr. and Mrs. Bridge; The Diary of a Rapist; The Connoisseur
Conrad, Joseph: Lord Jim
Coover, Robert: The Universal Baseball Association
Cortazar, Julio: Hopscotch
Crace, Jim: Being Dead
Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
Cunningham, Michael: Flesh and Blood; Specimen Days; The Hours
DeLillo, Don: Libra; White Noise; Underworld; Cosmopolis
Dick, Philip K.: A Scanner Darkly; Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations; Little Dorrit; Bleak House; David Copperfield; A Tale of Two Cities;
A Christmas Carol
Dickey, James: Deliverance
Didion, Joan: Book of Common Prayer; Play It As It Lays; Democracy
Doctorow, E.L.: The March
Donato, Pietro di: Christ in Concrete
Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov; Crime and Punishment
Doyle, Roddy: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Drabble, Margaret: The Radiant Way; The Gates of Ivory
Dreiser, Theodore: An American Tragedy; Sister Carrie; Jennie Gerhardt
Dubus III, Andre: House of Sand and Fog
Ducornet, Rikki: The Fan-Maker’s Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade
Duras, Marguerite: The Lovers; Moderato Cantabile
Durrell, Lawrence: Justine
Eggars, Dave: What is the What?
Eliot, George: Middlemarch
Ellison, Ralph: Invisible Man
Enders, Alexandra: Bride Island
Erdrich, Louise: Love Medicine
Erian, Alicia: Towelhead
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Eugenides, Jeffrey: The Virgin Suicides; Middlesex
Exley, Frederick: A Fan's Notes; Pages From a Cold Island
Fante, John: Ask the Dust; Brotherhood of the Grape
Faulkner, William: As I Lay Dying; The Sound and the Fury; Light in August; Absalom, Absalom!
Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby.
Fitzgerald, Penelope: The Blue Flower; Offshore
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier; Parade’s End
Ford, Richard: The Sportswriter
Forster, E. M.: A Passage to India
Fowler, Karen Joy: Sarah Canary; The Jane Austen Book Club
Fowles, John: The French Lieutenant’s Woman; The Collector; The Magus
Frederic, Harold: The Damnation of Theron Ware
French, Marilyn: The Women’s Room
Fuentes, Carlos: The Death of Artemio Cruz; The Old Gringo
Gaddis, William: The Recognitions
Gaitskill, Mary: Veronica
García Márquez, Gabriel: Chronicles of a Death Foretold; One Hundred Years of Solitude; Autumn
of the Patriarch; Love in the Time of Cholera
Gardner, John : Grendel; The Sunlight Dialogues; Nickel Mountain
Gibson, William: Neuromancer
Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls; Collected Tales
Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
Goncharov, Ivan: Oblomov
Goyen, William: The House of Breath
Grass, Günter: The Tin Drum
Greene, Graham: The Power and the Glory; The Quiet American; The Third Man
Grimm, Mary: Left to Themselves
Grushin, Olga: The Dream Life of Sukhanov
Gupta, Sunetra: Memories of Rain
Haddon, Mark: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Hagedorn, Jessica: Dogeaters; Dream Jungle
Hammett, Dashiel: Red Harvest; The Maltese Falcon
Hamsun, Knut: Hunger; Pan
Hansen, Ron: Mariette in Ecstacy; The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Hardy, Thomas: Jude the Obscure; The Mayor of Casterbridge; Far from the Madding Crowd
Hasek, Jaroslav: The Good Soldier Schweik
Hawkes, John: Blood Oranges; The Passion Artist
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter; House of the Seven Gables
Hemingway, Ernest: The Sun Also Rises; A Farewell to Arms
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Henley, Patricia: Hummingbird House
Hijuelos, Oscar: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love; Our House in the Last World
Hoffman, Alice: Here on Earth; White Horses
Hogan, Linda: Mean Spirit
Hollinghurst, Allan: The Swimming-pool Library; Line of Beauty
Homes, A. M.: End of Alice
Hurston, Zora Neale: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huston, Nancy: The Mark of the Angel
Huysmans, Joris-Karl: Against Nature
Ingalls, Rachel: Mrs. Caliban; Gambit; Binstead’s Safari
Ishiguro, Kazuo: The Remains of the Day; The Unconsoled; Never Let Me Go
Jackson, Shirley: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
James, Henry: The American; Portrait of a Lady; The Ambassadors
Jen, Gish: Typical American; Mona in the Promised Land; The Love Wife
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer: Heat and Dust
Jin, Ha: In the Pond; Waiting
Johnson, Charles: Middle Passage
Johnson, Denis: Angels; Fiskadoro; Already Dead
Jones, Edward P.: The Known World
Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses
Kadare, Ismail: Broken April
Kafka, Franz: The Trial; The Castle
Kazantzakis, Nikos: Zorba the Greek
Kennedy, William: Ironweed; Legs
Kerouac, Jack: On the Road
Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Sometimes a Great Notion
King, Stephen: It; Gerald’s Game; The Shining; Salem’s Lot; Carrie
Kingston, Maxine Hong: Tripmaster Monkey
Koch, Christopher J.: The Year of Living Dangerously
Kosinski, Jerzy: The Painted Bird; Being There
Kundera, Milan: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting; The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Lagerkvist, Par: The Dwarf; Barabbas
Lahiri, Jhumpa: The Namesake
Lamb, Wally: I Know This Much Is True; She’s Come Undone
Lamming, George: In the Castle of My Skin
Lampedusa, Giuseppe di: The Leopard
Lawrence, D.H.: Women in Love; Sons and Lovers
Laxness, Halldór: World Light
Lea, Sydney: A Place in Mind
Lee, Chang-Rae: Native Speaker; A Gesture Life
Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
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Le Guin, Ursula: The Left Hand of Darkness
Lennon, Robert J.: Mailman
Lesley, Craig: Winterkill
Lessing, Doris: The Golden Notebook; If The Old Could; The Summer Before the Dark
Lethem, Jonathan: Motherless Brooklyn
Levi, Primo: If Not Now, When?
Lewis, Sinclair: Main Street
Lightman, Alan: Einstein’s Dreams
Lipman, Elinor: The Way Men Act
Livesey, Margot: Homework
Lott, Bret: Jewel
Lowry, Malcolm: Under the Volcano
Lurie, Alison: Foreign Affairs
Mailer, Norman: The Naked and the Dead
Malamud, Bernard: The Natural; The Assistant
Mafouz, Naguib: The Cairo Trilogy
Malouf, David: Remembering Babylon
Mantel, Hillary: Eight Months on Ghazzah Street; The Giant, O'Brien
Martin, Valerie: Mary Reilly; Property; The Great Divorce
Mason, Bobbie Ann: In Country
Matthiessen, Peter: At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Maxwell, William: So Long, See You Tomorrow
McCabe, Patrick: Butcher Boy
McCarthy, Cormac: All the Pretty Horses; Blood Meridian; Child of God; Outer Dark; The Road
McCarthy, Mary: The Group
McCracken, Elizabeth: Niagra Falls All Over Again
McCullers, Carson: The Member of the Wedding; The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter; The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
McDermott, Alice: Charming Billy; That Night
McEwan, Ian: Atonement; Amsterdam
McGrath, Patrick: The Grotesque
McMillan, Terry: Mama; Waiting to Exhale
McMurtry, Larry: The Last Picture Show; Lonesome Dove
Melville, Herman: Moby Dick; The Confidence Man
Michaels, Anne: Fugitive Pieces
Miller, Henry: Tropic of Capricorn; Tropic of Cancer
Millhauser, Steven: Little Kingdoms
Mistry, Rohinton: A Fine Balance
Mitchell, David: Black Swan Green; Cloud Atlas
Mo, Timothy: Sour Sweet; Renegade or Halo 2
Moody, Rick: The Ice Storm
Moore, Brian: The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
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Moore, Lorrie: Anagrams; Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
Moorhouse, Frank: Grand Days & Dark Palace
Morris, Wright: The Works of Love; Love Among the Cannibals
Morrison, Toni: Beloved; Sula; The Bluest Eye; Song of Solomon
Mukherjee, Bharati: Jasmine; Wife
Murakami, Haruki: Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Musil, Robert: The Man Without Qualities
Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita; Pale Fire
Naipaul, V.S.: A House for Mr. Biswas
Naslund, Sena Jeter: Ahab’s Wife; Sherlock in Love
Nemirovsky, Irene: Suite Francaise
Neugeboren, Jay: The Stolen Jew; Sam’s Legacy; Big Man
Ng, Mei: Eating Chinese Food Naked
Norman, Howard: The Bird Artist
Nunez, Sigrid: A Feather on the Breath of God
O’Brien, Tim: Going After Cacciato; In the Lake of the Woods
Ondaatje, Michael: The English Patient
Ong, Han: Fixer Chao
Oz, Amos: Panther in the Basement
Pasolini, Pier Paolo: A Violent Life
Patchett, Ann: Bel Canto
Peery, Janet: The River Beyond the World
Percy, Walker: The Moviegoer
Pessl, Marisha: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Philips, Jayne Anne: Machine Dreams; Shelter
Powers, J. F.: Morte D’Urban
Powers, Richard: Gold Bug Variations; The Echo Maker
Proulx, Annie: The Shipping News
Proust, Marcel: In Search of Lost Time
Puig, Manuel: Heartbreak Tango
Purdy, James: Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue; The Nephew
Pynchon, Thomas: Gravity’s Rainbow; The Crying of Lot 49
Rabelais, François: Gargantua and Pantagruel
Raffel, Dawn: In the Year of Long Division
Realuyo, Bino: The Umbrella Country
Redel, Victoria: Loverboy; The Border of Truth
Reed, Ishmael: The Freelance Pallbearers
Rhys, Jean: Wide Sargasso Sea
Robbe-Grillet, Alain: The Voyeur
Robbins, Tom: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Robinson, Marilynne: Housekeeping; Gilead
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MFA in Writing
Roth, Henry: Call It Sleep
Roth, Philip: The Ghost Writer; The Human Stain
Rulfo, Juan: Pedro Paramo
Rushdie, Salman: Midnight's Children; The Satanic Verses; Shame
Salinger, J. D.: Catcher in the Rye
Salter, James: Light Years
Sapphire: Push
Saramago, José: Blindness; The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis; All the Names
Schlink, Bernard: The Reader
Schriver, Lionel: We Need to Talk about Kevin
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon: Leaving Brooklyn; The Fatigue Artist
Scott, Paul: The Raj Quartet; Staying On
Sebald, W.G.: Emigrants; Rings of Saturn
Shelby, Hubert: Last Exit to Brooklyn
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
Shields, Carol: The Stone Diaries; Unless
Shih, Shu-Ching: City of the Queen
Silko, Leslie Marmon: Ceremony
Simpson, Mona: Anywhere But Here; The Lost Father
Smiley, Jane: A Thousand Acres
Smith, Lee: Black Mountain Breakdown
Smith, Zadie: White Teeth; On Beauty
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander: Cancer Ward; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Spark, Muriel: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Stark, Sharon Sheehe: A Wrestling Season
Stead, Christina: The Man Who Loved Children
Stegner, Wallace: Angle of Repose
Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath
Stendahl: The Red and the Black
Sterne, Laurence: Tristram Shandy
Stone, Robert: Damascus Gate; Dog Soldiers
Styron, William: Sophie’s Choice; The Confessions of Nat Turner
Suri, Manil: The Death of Vishnu
Suskind, Patrick: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Tan, Amy: The Joy Luck Club
Theroux, Paul: The Mosquito Coast
Thompson, Jim: The Killer Inside Me; The Getaway
Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina; War and Peace
Toole, John Kennedy: A Confederacy of Dunces
Toomer, Jean: Cane
Treuer, David: The Hiawatha
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Vermont College of Fine Arts
MFA in Writing
Trevor, William: After Rain
Tuck, Lily: Siam; The News from Paraguay
Turgenev, Ivan: Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark: Huckleberry Finn
Tyler, Anne: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant; The Accidental Tourist
Ugresic, Dubravka: The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
Undset, Sigrid: Jenny
Updike, John: The Centaur; Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich; Rabbit at Rest
Vargas Llosa, Mario: In Praise of the Stepmother; Conversation in the Cathedral
Vaz, Katherine: Saudade
Vea, Alfredo: La Maravilla
Verdelle, A.J.: The Good Negress
Voinovich, Vladimir: The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Vollmann, William T.: Europe Central
Welch, James: Winter in the Blood
West, Nathanael: Day of the Locust; Miss Lonelyhearts
Wetherell, W.D.: Wherever That Great Heart May Be; Chekhov’s Sister
Wharton, Edith: The House of Mirth; Age of Innocence
White, Edmund: The Beautiful Room is Empty
Wideman, John Edgar: Two Cities: A Love Story; Philadelphia Fire
Wiesel, Eli: Dawn
Wiggins, Marianne: John Dollar
Winterson, Jeanette: The Passion
Woiwode, Larry: Beyond the Bedroom Wall
Wolf, Christa: Cassandra
Womack, Jack: Random Acts of Senseless Violence
Wong, Shawn: American Knees; Home Base
Woolf, Virginia: The Voyage Out; To the Lighthouse; The Waves; Mrs. Dalloway
Wright, Richard: Native Son
Wu, Cheng’en: Journey to the West
Xingjian, Gao: Soul Mountain
Yamanaka, Lois-Ann: Blu’s Hanging
Yan, Mo: The Garlic Ballads
Yates, Richard: Revolutionary Road
Zola, Emile: Germinal
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