College Bound Reading List
This was compiled from several prominent lists. I suspect that some entries are based on the preferences
of the original list composer rather than universal agreement (I certainly don’t agree with all entries and
would have added others), but this is a beginning for those interested in advanced reading.
Abelove, Joan
Achebe, Chinua
Ackerman, Diane
Adams, Douglas
Adams, Henry
Adams, Richard
Addison, Joseph
Adler, Sabine
Aeschylus
Aesop
Agee, James
Albee, Edward
Albom, Mitch
Alcott, Louisa May
Alexander, Caroline
Alexie, Sherman
Alighieri, Dante
Allende, Isabel
Allison, Dorothy
Alter, Peter
Alvarez, Julia
Ambrose, Stephen E.
Amis, Kingsley
Amis, Martin
Anaya, Rudolfo
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Anderson, M. T.
Anderson, Sherwood
Angelou, Maya
Anonymous
Ansary, Tamim
Anzaldua, Gloria
Apollo
Armstrong, Karen
Arnold, Matthew
Arnow, Harriet
Aronson, Marc
Ashe, Arthur
Attenborough, David
Atwood, Margaret
Auden, W. H.
Auel, Jean M.
Austen, Jane
Azimov, Isaac
Baca, Jimmy Santiago
Bach, Richard
Bagdasarian, Adam
Bahrampour, Tara
Go and Come Back
Things Fall Apart
A Natural History of the Senses
A Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The Education of Henry Adams
Watership Down
Commerce of Everyday Life
Lovers in Art
The Oresteia, Eumenides, Lysistrata, Prometheus Bound
Fables
A Death in the Family, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Zoo Story, The Sandbox
Tuesdays with Morrie
Little Women, The Inheritance
The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Reservation Blues…
The Inferno, The Divine Comedy
House of the Spirits, Daughter of Fortune
Bastard Out of Carolina, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
Genesis
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of Butterflies
D-Day, Undaunted Courage, Citizen Soldiers…
Lucky Jim
Money
Bless Me, Ultima, Serafina’s Stories
Speak
Feed
Winesburg, Ohio
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, And Still I Rise
Beowulf
West of Kabul-East of New York
Borderlands
Concrete Candy
The Battle for God
Culture and Anarchy
The Dollmaker
Witch Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials
Days of Grace
The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth
The Handmaid’s Tale, The Blind Assassin, Cat’s Eye, Alias Grace,
Surfacing
Poems
Clan of the Cave Bear
Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Northanger Abbey,
Persuasion, Mansfield Park
I Robot, Foundation series
Cry
Illusions
Forgotten Fire
To See and See Again
Baker, Russell
Baldwin, James
Ballard, Allen
Balzac, Honore de
Bambara, Toni Cade
Banks, Russell
Baraka, Amiri
Barker, Pat
Barth, John
Bates, Karen Grigsby
Beckett, Samuel
Beerbohm, Max
Bell, William
Bellamy, Edward
Belloli, Andrea P.
Bellow, Saul
Benet, Rosemary
Bennett, Arnold
Berenbaum, Michael
Berg, A. Scott
Berger, Thomas
Bernstein Carl & Woodward
Berry, Wendell
Best, Joel
Bird, Isabella
Bishop, Elizabeth
Bissinger, H. G.
Blake, William
Bloch, Ariel and Chana
Bolt, Robert
Borges, Jorge Luis
Boswell, James
Boulle, Pierre
Bowen, Catherine Drinker
Bowen, Elizabeth
Bowles, Paul
Boyle, T. C.
Bradbury, Ray
Bradford, Richard
Bradshaw, Gillian
Bradstreet, Anne
Brassai
Brathwaite, Edward Kamau
Brecht, Bertolt
Bronowski, Jacob
Bronte, Charlotte
Bronte, Emily
Brooks, Gwendolyn
Brown, David
Brown, Dee
Browning, Robert
Bryant, William C.
Bryson, Bill
Growing Up
Go Tell It On the Mountain, The Fire Next Time, Another Country
Where I’m Bound
Pere Goriot
Gorill, My Love
Cloudsplitter, Continental Drift, Rule of the Bone
Dutchman
Regeneration
The Sot-Weed Factor
Plain Brown Wrapper
Waiting for Godot
Zuleika Dobson
Forbidden City
Looking Backward: 200-1887
Exploring World Art
Seize the Day, The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain
King, Humboldt’s Gift, Herzog
Johnny Appleseed
The Old Wives’ Tale
The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the US
Lindbergh
Little Big Man
All the President’s Men
Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from Media…
A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains
The Complete Poems
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
Songs of Innocence and Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,
Tiger Tiger
The Song of Songs
A Man for All Seasons
Labyrinths
The Life of Samuel Jonson, Boswell’s London Journal
Bridge Over the River Kwai
Miracle at Philadelphia
The Death of the Heart
The Sheltering Sky
Tortilla Curtain
Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way
Comes, The Illustrated Man
Red Sky at Morning
The Sand Reckoner
Works of Anne Bradstreet
Brassai: Letters to My Parents
Roots
Mother Courage and Her Children
The Ascent of Man, Science and Human Values
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Selected Poemjs
Inventing Modern America: From Microwave to the Mouse
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
My Last Duchess
Thanatopsis
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Buck, Pearl S.
Bulosan, Carlos
Bunyan, John
Burgess, Anthony
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Burroughs, William S.
Butler, Octavia
Butler, Samuel
Byatt, A. S.
Caesar, Julius
Cain, James M.
Caldwell, Erskine
Calvino, Italo
Campbell, Joseph
Camus, Albert
Canada, Geoffrey
Cao, Lan
Capote, Truman
Card, Orson Scott
Carlyle, Thomas
Carroll, Jim
Carroll, Lewis
Carson, Rachel
Carver, Raymond
Castellanos, Rosario
Castillo, Ana
Cather, Willa
Catullus
Cervantes, Miguel de
Chambers, Aidan
Chandler, Raymond
Chang, Jung
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chbosky, Stephen
Cheever, John
Chekov, Anton
Chesteron, G. K.
Chevalier, Tracy
Chin, Frank
Chopin, Kate
Christie, Agatha
Churchill, Winston
Chute, Marchette
Cisneros, Sandra
Clancy, Tom
Clark, Walter van Tilburg
Clavell, James
Clift, Eleanor
Coelho, Paulo
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Collins, Wilkie
Colon, Jesus
Colton, Larry
Congreve, William
Connell, Evan
Conover, Ted
The Good Earth
America is in the Heart
Pilgrim’s Progress
A Clockwork Orange
The Secret Garden
Naked Lunch
Parable of the Talents, Kindred
The Way of All Flesh
Possession
Gallic Wars
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Tobacco Road
Invisible Cities, The Baron in the Trees
The Power of Myth
The Stranger, The Fall, The Plague
Fist Stick Knife gun
Monkey Bridge
In Cold Blood
Ender’s Game, Sarah
French Revolution: A History
Basketball Diaries
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Silent Spring, The Sea Around Us
Cathedral
The Nine Guardians
So Far from God
My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop, O Pioneers
Poems
Don Quixote
Postcards from No Man’s Land
The Big Sleep
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
The Canterbury Tales
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Wapshot Scandal, Stories of John Cheever, Falconer
The Cherry Orchard
The Innocence o Father Brown
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Donald Duk
The Awakening
The Mousetrap and Other Plays, Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Crisis, The Gathering Storm
Shakespeare of London
House on Mango Street, Caramelo
The Hunt for Red October
The Ox-Bow Incident
Shogun
Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment
The Alchemist
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Moonstone
The Way it Was and Other Writings
Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the …
The Way of the World
Deus Lo Volt: Chronicle of the Crusades
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
Conrad, Joseph
Conroy, Pat
Conway, Jill Kerr
Cooke, Alisair
Cooper, James Fenimore
Corio, David
Cormier, Robert
Corso, Philip
Corwin, Miles
Crane, Stephen
Craven, Margaret
Crichton, Michael
Criddle, Jan D.
Crow Dog, Mary
Crutcher, Chris
Cummings, E. E.
Cuomo, Kerry Kennedy
Curie, Eve
Dai, Sijie
Dana, Richard Henry
Dangarembga, Tsitsi
Danticat, Edwidge
Darwin, Charles
Davies, Robertson
Davis, Wade
de Crevecoeur
Defoe, Daniel
Delany, Sara and A. Elizabeth
de Lint, Charles
DeLillo, Don
Dershowitz, Alan M.
Diamant, Anita
Diamond, Jared
Dick, Philip
Dickens, Charles
Dickey, James
Dickinson, Emily
Didion, Joan
Dillard, Annie
DiLampedusa, Giuseppe
Dinesen, Isaak
DiPrima, Diane
Doctorow, E. L.
Donleavy, J. P.
Donne, John
Doolittle, H. D. Hilda
Dostoevsky, Feodor
Dorris, Michael
Douglass, Frederick
Dove, Rita
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Doyle, Roddy
Doyle, William
Dreiser, Theodore
Dry, Richard
Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Victory, The Secret Agent, Nostromo
Prince of Tides, The Water is Wide
The Road from Coorain
Alistair Cooke’s America
The Last of the Mohicans, The Deerslayer
The Black Chord
The Chocolate War, After the First Death
The Day After Roswell
And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted…
The Red Badge of Courage, Maggie: Girl of the Streets
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Jurassic Park
To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family
Lakota Woman
Whale Talk
Complete Poems 104-1962
Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing…
Madame Curie
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Two Years Before the Mast
Nervous Conditions
Breath, Eyes, Memory, The Farming of Bones
The Origin of Species
Fifth Business, The Cunning Man, Cornish Trilogy
Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of …
Letters from an American Farmer
Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years
Trader, Memory and Dream, Yarrow, Someplace to be Flying…
White Noise
Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the Threat, Responding to …
The Red Tent
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Man in the High Castle
Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, Bleak House,
David Copperfield, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend…
Deliverance
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Essays, Play It As It Lays
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
The Leopard
Out of Africa
Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years
Ragtime
The Giner Man
The Complete Poetry of John Donne
Helen in Egypt
Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
On the Bus with Rosa Parks
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford Mississippi 1962
An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie
Leaving
du Beavoir, Simone
DuBois, W. E. B.
Dumas, Alexandre
Du Maurier, Daphne
Dunn, Katherine
Durant, Will
Durrell, Lawrence
Ebenstein, Alan
Eddison, E. R.
Edmonds, E. G.
Eggers, Dave
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Eliot, George
Eliot, T. S.
Elliott, Stephen
Ellis, Joseph J.
Ellison, Ralph
Emecheta, Buchi
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Enzensberger, Hans
Epstein, Norrie
Erdrich, Louise
Escandon, Maria Amparo
Esquivel, Laura
Euripedes
Fadiman, Ann
Fagan, Bryan
Farrell, James T.
Faulkner, William
Faulks, Sebastian
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Feynman, Richard
Fielding, Helen
Fielding, Henry
Fitch, Janet
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Flagg, Fannie
Flannery, Sarah
Flaubert, Gustave
Flexnor, Eleanor
Ford, Ford Madox
Ford, Richard
Forster, E. M.
Foster, Thomas
Fowles, John
Fox, Paula
Frank, Anne
Frank, E. R.
Frank, Frederick
Frank, Mitch
Frank, Pat
Franklin, Benjamin
The Second Sex
The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches
The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, Count of Monte Cristo
Rebecca
Geek Love
Story of Philsophy
The Alexandria Quartet
Today’s Isms
The Worm Ouroboros
Trickster Stories
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
The Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede, Middlemarch, Silas Marner
The Waste Land, Murder in the Cathedral, Notes Toward…
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
A Life Without Consequences
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Invisible Man
Bride Price
Self Reliance and Other Essays
The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure
Friendly Shakespeare
The Beet Queen, Tracks, Love Medicine, Antelope Wife
Esperanza’s Box of Saints
Like Water for Chocolate
Medea
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
The Studs Lonigan Trilogy
As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Bear,
Absalom-Absalom, The Unvanquished, Intruder in the Dust, Go Down
Moses, The Reivers
Birdsong
Endless Life
What Do You Care What People Think?
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews
White Oleander
The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, Babylon Revisited
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
In Code: A Mathematical Journey
Madame Bovary
A Century of Struggle: The Woman’s Rights Movement in the US
The Good Soldier, Parade’s End
The Sportswriter
A Passage to India, Howard’s End, A Room with a View
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
The French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Magus
Borrowed Finery
The Diary of a Young Girl
Life is Funny
What Does It Mean to be Human?
Understanding September 11, Answering Questions about the Attacks
on America
Alas, Babylon
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Frazier, Charles
French, Ablert
Friedan, Betty
Friel, Brian
Frost, Robert
Fuentes, Carlos
Fugard, Athol
Gaarder, Jostein
Gaddis, William
Ghandi
Gaiman, Neil
Gaines, Ernest
Cold Mountain
Billy
The Feminine Mystique
Dancing at Lughnasa
The Poetry of Robert Frost
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Master Harold…and the Boys
Sophie’s World
The Recognitions
Non-violent Resistance
American Gods
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, A Lesson Before Dying,
A Gathering of Old Men
Galarza, Ernesto
Barrio Boy
Galeano, Eduardo
Open Veins of Latin America
Galsworthy, John
The Forsyte Saga
Garcia, Cristina
Dreaming in Cuban
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gardner, John
Grendel
Garfunkel, Trudy
On Wings of Joy: The Story of Ballet from the 16th Century to Today
Garland, Alex
The Beach
Gates Jr., Henry Louis
The Bondwoamn’s Narrative by Hannah Crafts
Geras, Adele
Troy
Ghosh, Amitav
The Glass Palace
Gibran, Kahlil
The Prophet
Gibson, William
Neuromancer
Ginsberg, Allen
Howl and Other Poems
Giovanni, Nikki
My House
Glancy, Diane
Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea
Glaspell, Susan
Trifles
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Faust
Gogol, Nikolai
The Overcoat, Dead Souls
Goldberg, Myla
Bee Season
Golding, William
Lord of the Flies, The Inheritors
Goldman, William
The Princess Bride
Goldsmith, Oliver
She Stoops to Conquer, The Vicar of Wakefield
Gordimer, Nadine
July’s People
Gordon, George (Lord Byron) Lord Byron: Poems
Gordon, Neil
The Company You Keep
Gordon, Sheila
Waiting for the Rain
Gould, Stephen Jay
The Hedgehog, The Fox, and the Magister’s Pox: Mending the…
Gourevitch, Philip
We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed…
Grass, Gunter
The Tin Drum
Graves, Robert
I Claudius
Green, Henry
Loving
Greenberg, Jan
Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth Century Am. Art
Greenberg, Joanne
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Greene, Graham
Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, The Power and the Glory, The
Third Man
Grey, Zane
Riders of the Purple Sage
Griffin, John Howard
Black Like Me
Guest, Judith
Ordinary People
Gunther, John
Death Be Not Proud
Guterson, David
Snow Falling on Cedars, East of the Mountains
Haddon, Mark
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Hagedorn, Jessica
Dogeaters
Halaby, Laila
Haley, Alex
Hamilton, Alexander
Hamilton, Edith
Hamilton, Jane
Hamilton, Laurell K.
Hammett, Dashiell
Hamper, Ben
Hansberry, Lorraine
Hanse, Drew D.
Hardy, Thomas
Harjo, Joy
Harper, Henn
Hart, Elva Trevino
Hart, H. L. A.
Hatch, John
Hawking, Stephen
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hayden, Torey L.
Hays, David
Hazlitt, William
Heame, Vicki
Heaney, Seamus
Heat-Moon, Williams Least
Hedges, Chris
Heilbroner, Robert
Heinlein, Robert
Hellenga, Robert
Heller, Joseph
Hellman, Lillian
Hemingway, Ernest
Henry, O.
Herbert, Frank
Herbert, George
Herriott, James
Hersey, John
Hesse, Hermann
Hillengrand, Laura
Hilton, James
Himes, Chester
Hoffer, Eric
Holdstock, Robert
Holliday, Laurel
Holthe, Tess Uriza
Homer
Hongo, Garrett
Hornby, Nick
Horvitz, Leswlie A.
Hosseini, Khaled
Howe, Peter
Hoyt, Erich & Ted Schultz
Hudson, W. H.
Hughes, Richard
West of the Jordan
Roots, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Federalist, Federalist Papers
Mythology
A Map of the World, The Book of Ruth
Guilty Pleasures
The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest
Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line
A Raisin in the Sun
The Dream: Martin Luther King Jur. and the Speech that Inspired a…
Tess of the D’Urbervilles, The Return of the Native, Jude the
Obscure, Mayor of Casterbridge…
How We Became Human
Give Me My Father’s Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo
The Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child
The Concept of Law
Mississippi Swamp
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, The Universe
in a Nutshell
The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables
Ghost Girl, Somebody Else’s Kids
My Old Man and the Sea: A Father and Son Sail Around Cape Horn
Table-Talk: Essays on Men and Manners
Adam’s Task: Calling Animals by Name
The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes, Opened Ground
Blue Highways, Columbus in the Americas
War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
Worldly Philosophers
Strangers in a Strange Land, The Door into Summer, Puppet Masters
The Sixteen Pleasures
Catch-22
The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine, The Children’s Hour, Pentimento
A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises,
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Islands in the Stream
Stories
Dune
The Complete English Poems
All Creatures Great and Small
Hiroshima, A Single Pebble
Siddhartha, Demian, Steppenwolf
Seabicuit
Good-bye Mr. Chips, Lost Horizon
Yesterday Will Make You Cry
True Believer
Mythago Wood
Children of Israel, Children of Palestine: Our Own True Stories
When Elephants Dance
The Iliad, The Odyssey
Yellow Light: Poems
High Fidelity
Eureka! Scientific Breakthroughs that Changed the World
The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Shooting Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer
Insect Lives
Green Mansions
A High Wind in Jamaica
Hughes, Langston
Hugo, Victor
Hulme, Keri
Hurston, Zora Neale
Huxley, Aldous
Hwang, David Henry
Ibsen, Henrik
Irving, John
Isherwood, Christopher
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Jackson, Phil
Jackson, Shirley
Jacobs, Harriet
James, Henry
Jen, Gish
Jewett, Sarah Orne
Jin, Ha
Johnson, Charles
Johnson, James Weldon
Jones, James
Jones, LeRoi
Jonson, Ben
Joravsky, Ben
Joyce, James
Kafka, Franz
Kaplow, Robert
Karlsen, Carol
Karr, Mary
Katz, Jonathan
Katzenberger, Elaine
Kaufman, Bel
Kawabata, Yasunari
Kay, Guy Gavriel
Kaysen, Susanna
Kazantzakis, Nikos
Keats, John
Keegan, John
Keller, Helen
Kendall, Martha E.
Keneally, Thomas
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, Robert
Kennedy, William
Kerouac, Jack
Kesey, Ken
Keyes, Daniel
Khue, Le Minh
Kidd, Sue Monk
King, Martin Luther Jr.
King, Ross
King, Stephen
Kingston, Maxine Hong
Selected Poems, Short Stories, The Ways of White Folks
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables
The bone People
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Dust Tracks on a Road, Mules and Men
Brave New World, Point Counter Point
M. Butterfly
A Doll’s House, An Enemy of the People, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, Wild
Duck, Peer Gynt
A Prayer for Owen Meany, The World According to Garp
The Berlin Stories
The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go
Sacred Hoops
The Haunting of Hill House, The Lottery
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, Daisy Miller, The
American, Washington Square, The Aspern Papers, Wings of the Dove,
The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl
Typical American
Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
Waiting
Middle Passage
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
From Here to Eternity
Blues People
Volpone
Hoop Dreams
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Dubliners, The Dead,
Finegan’s Wake
The Trial, The Metamorphosis, The Castle, The Caretaker
Me and Orson Welles
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
The Liar’s Club: A Memoir
Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho
First World, Ha Ha Ha: The Zaptista Challenge
Up the Down Staircase
Snow Country
Tigana
Girl, Interrupted
The Last Temptation of Christ
Complete Poems
The Face of Battle
The Story of My Life
Failure Is Impossible: The History of America Women’s Rights
Schindler’s List
Profiles in Courage
Thirteen Days
Ironweed
On the Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion
Flowers for Algernon
The Starts, The Earth, The River
The Secret Life of Bees
A Testament of Hope
Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Archit.
The Stand
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Kincaid, Jamaica
Kingsolver, Barbara
Kingston, Maxine Hong
Kipling, Rudyard
Knowles, John
Koestler, Arthur
Kogawa, Joy
Kosinski, Jerzy N.
Kotlowitz, Alex
Kovic, Ron
Kozol, Jonathan
Krakauer, John
Krauss, Lawrence
Krich, John
Kundera, Milan
Kureishi, Hanif
Ladd, Florence
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Lamb, Charles
Lamb, Wally
Lambrecht, Bill
Lamott, Anne
Lang, Ji Li
Lanier, Shannon
Lara, Adair
Larkin, Philip
Larson, Edward J.
Latifa
Laurence, Margaret
Lawrence, D. H.
Lawrence, Jerome
Lawrence, Lee
Laye, Camara
LeCarre, John
Lederer & Burdick
Lee, Chang-Rae
Lee, Gus
Lee, Harper
LeGuin, Ursula
Leopold, Aldo
Leroux, Gaston
Lessing, Doris
Levine, Robert
Lewis, C. S.
Lewis, Sinclair
Li Po and Tu Fu
Lightfoot, Sara Lawrence
Lindburgh, Anne Morrow
Livingstone, Lili Cockerville
Livio, Mario
Llewellyn, Richard
London, Jack
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Lopez, Barry
Lord, Bette Bao
Annie John
Bean Trees: A Novel, Pigs in Heaven, Poisonwood Bible, Animal
Dreams
Woman Warrior
Kim, The Light that Failed
A Separate Peace
Darkness at Noon
Obasan
Being There, The Painted Bird
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing up in…
Born on the Fourth of July
Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth and Beyond
El Beisbol: Travels Through the Pan American Pastime
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Gabriel’s Gift
Sara’s Psalms
Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake
Charles Lamb: Selected Writings
I Know This Much is True, She’s Come Undone
Dinner at the New Gene Cafe
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
Jefferson’s Children: The Story of One American Family
Hold Me Close, Let Me Go: A Mother, a Daughter, and…
Collected Poems
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing…
My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban
The Diviners, Stone Angel
Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love
Inherit the Wind
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Dark Child
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Ugly American
The Native Speaker, A Gesture Life
China Boy
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lef Hand of Darkness
A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There
The Phantom of the Opera
The Golden Notebook
A Geography of Time
The Screwtape Letters
Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith
Li Po and Tu Fu
Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer
A Gift from the Sea
American Indian Ballerinas
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi the World’s Most Astonishing Numb.
How Green Was My Valley
Call of the Wild, Klondike Tales
The Poetical Works of Longfellow
Arctic Dreams
Spring Moon
Lovecraft, H. P.
Lowell, Robert
Lowry, Malcolm
Machiavelli, Niccolo
MacLean, Alistair
Maclean, Norman
MacLeish, Archibald
MacLennan, Hugh
Mah, Adeline
Mailer, Norman
Malamud, Bernard
Malcom X
Malory, Sir Thomas
Mann, Thomas
Maraire, J. Nozipo
Markandala, Kamala
Markham, Beryl
Marlowe, Christopher
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
Marrin, Albert
Marshall, Paule
Martel, Yann
Martinez, Manuel Luis
Martinez, Ruben
Marvel, Andrew
Mason, Bobbie Ann
Massie, Robert
Masters, Edgar Lee
Mathabane, Mark
Maugham, Somerset
Maybury-Lewis, David
McBride, James
McCall, Nathan
McCarthy, Cormac
McCarthy, Mary
McCourt, Frank
McCullers, Carson
McCullough, David
McEwan, Ian
McGreevey, Tom & J. Yeck
McKinley, Robin
McPhee, John
McPherson, James
Mead, Margaret
Melville, Herman
Mencken, H. L.
Miller, Arthur
Miller, Henry
Mill, John Stuart
Mills, Kay
Milton, John
Mishima, Yukio
Mistry, Rohinton
Mitchell, Margaret
At the Mountains of Madness
Life Studies, For the Union Dead
Under the Volcano
The Prince
Ice Station Zebra
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Young Men and Fire
J. B.
The Watch that Ends the Night
Chinese Cinderlla
The Executioner’s Song, The Naked and the Dead, Armies of the Night,
The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing
The Fixer, The Natural, The Magic Barrel, The Assistant
The Autobiography of Malcom X
Tales of King Arthur
Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks
Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter
Nectar in a Sieve
West with the Night
Doctor Faustus
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Terror of the Spanish Main—Sir Henry Morgan and His Buccaneers
Brown Girl, Brownstones, Praisesong for the Widow
Life of Pi
Drift: A Novel
Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
To His Coy Mistriss and other poems
In Country
Nicholas and Alexandra
Spoon River Anthology
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age…
Of Human Bondage
Millenium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World
The Color of Water
Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
All the Pretty Horses, Blood Meridian
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
A Member of the Wedding, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
John Adams
Atonement
Our Movie Heritage
Beauty
The Control of Nature
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Coming of Age in Samoa
Moby Dick, Barleby the Scrivener, Typee, Benito Cereno, Billy Budd,
Redburn
Treatise on the Gods
Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, All My Sons, A View from the Bridge
Tropic of Cancer
On Liberty and Other Essays
This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
Paradise Lost
Sound of Waves
A Fine Balance
Gone with the Wind
Moliere
Momaday, N. Scott
Monroe, Mary
Monsarrat, Nicholas
Moody, Ann
Moore, Alan
Moore, Marianne
Morrison, Toni
Mosley, Walter
Moyers, Bill
Myers, Walter Dean
Mukerjee, Bharati
Murakami, Haruki
Murdoch, Iris
Murray, Albert
Nabokov, Vladimir
Nafisi, Azar
Naipul, V. S.
Nash, Madeline
Naylor, Gloria
Nazer, Mende
Neruda, Pablo
Ng, Fae M.
Nichols, John Treadwell
Ninh, Bao
Nolen, Stephanie
Nordhoff, Charles
Norris, Frank
Norris, Pamela
Nye, Naomi Shihab
Oates, Joyce Carol
O’Brien, Flann
O’Brien, Patrick
O’Brien, Tim
O’Connor, Flannery
O’Connor, Patricia
Oe, Kenazburo
O’Hara, John
Okada, John
Oliver, Mary
Ondaatje, Michael
O’Neill, Eugene
Orwell, George
Otto, Whitney
Ovid
Ozick, Cynthia
Paine, Thomas
Panuk, Orhan
Parks, Gordon
Passos, John Dos
Pasternak, Boris
Patchett, Ann
Paton, Alan
Tartuffe, The Misanthrope
House Made of Dawn
God Don’t Like Ugly
The Cruel Sea
Coming of Age in Mississippi
Watchmen
The Poems of Marianne Moore
Sula, Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon
Workin’ on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Dead Hands of History
The Power of Myth
Monster
Jasmine, Desirable Daughters, Tree Bride
Kafka on the Shore
Under the Net
Train Whistle Guitar
Pale Fire, Pnin, Lolita, Pale Fire
Reading Lolita in Tehran
A Bend in the River, Middle Passage, A House for Mr. Biswas
El Nino: Unlocking the Secrets of the Master Weather Maker
Bailey’s Café, The Women of Brewster Place, Mama Day, Linden …
Slave
Selected Poems
Bone: A Novel
Milagro Beanfield War
The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam
Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in Space
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Octopus
Eve: A Biography
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
We Were the Mulvaneys, A Garden of Earthly Delights
At Swim-Two-Birds
Master and Commander
Going After Cacciato, The Things They Carried, In the Lake of the
Woods
A Good Man is Hard to Find, Wise Blood, Everything that Rises Must
Converge
Woe is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English
Nip the Buds-Shoot the Kids
Appointment in Samarra
No No Boy
New and Selected Poems
The English Patient, Coming Through Slaughter
Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Emperor Jones, Mourning Becomes
Electra, The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh
Animal Farm, 1984, Homage to Catalonia, A Collection of Essays
How to Make an American Quilt
Metamorphses
Heir to the Glimmering World
The Crisis
My Name is Red
The Learning Tree
USA (trilogy)
Doctor Zhivago
Bel Canto
Cry, the Beloved Country
Paul, Jim
Paz, Octavio
Pears, Iain
Peck, Richard
Peck, Robert
Pepys, Samuel
Percy, Walker
Petronius
Petry, Ann
Pham, Andrex X.
Pielmeier, John
Pinter, Harold
Pipher, Mary
Pirandello, Luigi
Pirsig, Robert
Plath, Sylvia
Plato
Poe, Edgar Allan
Pollan, Michael
Pope, Alexander
Porter, Katherine Anne
Porter, Roy
Postman, Neil
Potok, Chaim
Powell, Anthony
Preston, Richard
Proulx, Annie
Proust, Marcel
Pynchon, Thomas
Quinn, Daniel
Racine, Jean
Rand, Ayn
Rawlings, M. K.
Read, Piers Paul
Remarque, Erich Maria
Reynolds, Sheri
Rhys, Jean
Rice, Ben
Rich, Adrienne
Richardson, Samuel
Richler, Mordecai
Richter, Conrad
Rigden, John S.
Roach, Mary
Robinson, Marilynne
Rochlin, Michael Jacob
Rogasky, Barbara
Rogosin, Donn
Robert, Cokie
Robinson, Edwin A.
Rodriguez, Luis
Rolvaag, O. E.
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Rostand, Edmond
Roth, Henry
Catapult
Labyrinth of Solitude
An Instance of the Fingerpost
A Long Way from Chicago, A Year Down Yonder
A Day No Pigs Would Die
Diary of Samuel Pepys
Love in the Ruins, The Moviegoer
Satyricon
The Street
Catfish and Mandala
Agnes of God
The Homecoming, The Birthday Party
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, The Middle of
Everywhere: The World’s Refugees Come to Our Town
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Bell Jar
The Republic
Great Tales and Poems
The Botany of Desire
The Rape of the Lock
Ship of Fools
Madness: A Brief History
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of …
The Chosen, My Name is Asher Lev
A Dance to the Music of Time (series)
The Demon in the Freezer
The Shipping News
Swann’s Way
The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s Rainbow, V
Ishmael
Paedre
The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, Anthem, We the Living
The Yearling
Alive
All Quiet on the Western Front
A Gracious Plenty
Wide Sargasso Sea, Voyage in the Dark
Pobby and Dingan
The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004
Pamela
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Sea of Grass
Hydrogen: The Essential Element
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Housekeeping
Away Game
Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust
Invisible Men: Life in Baseball’s Negro Leagues
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised our Nation
Richard Cory
Always Running
Giants in the Earth
My Day
Cyrano de Bergerac
Call It Sleep
Roth, Phillip
Rulfo, Juan
Rushdie, Salman
Russo, Richard
Sacks, Oliver
Sagan, Carl
Said, Kurban
Salinger, J. D.
Salzman, Mark
Sandburg, Carl
Sandler, Martin W.
Sandoz, Mari
Santiago, Esmeralda
Sapphire
Saroyan, William
Sartre, Jean Paul
Satrapi, Marjane
Sayers, Dorothy
Schaefer, Jack
Schlosser, Eric
Schumacher, E. F.
Scott, Sir Walter
Sebold, Alice
Selvadurai, Shyam
Senna, Danzy
Shaara, Michael
Shaffer, Peter
Shakur, Tupac
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, Bernard
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Shelly, Mary W.
Sheridan, Richard B.
Shields, Carol
Shute, Nevil
Silko, Leslie Marmon
Simon, Rachel
Sinclair, Upton
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Smiley, Jane
Smith, Anna Deveare
Smith, Betty
Smith, Huston
Smith, Lee
Smith, Zadie
Sobel, Dava
Song, Cathy
Sophocles
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander
Spark, Muriel
Spiegelman, Art
Stark, Peter
Portnoy’s Complaint, Goodbye Columbus, American Pastoral
The Burning Plain
The Moor’s Last Sigh, Midnight’s Children
Empire Falls
Seeing Voices, Awakenings
Contact, Cosmos
Ali and Nino: A Love Story
The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey
True Notebooks
Complete Poems, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years…, Paul Bunyan
Photography: An Illustrated History
Cheyenne Autumn
When I Was Puerto Rican
Push
The Human Comedy
No Exit
Perselpolis
The Nine Tailors
Shane
Fast Food Nation
Small is Beautiful
Ivanhoe
Lucky
Cinnamon Gardens
Caucasia
The Killer Angels
Equus
A Rose that Grew from Concrete
Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar,
King Lear, Merchant of Venice, Much Ado about Nothing, Othello,
Richard III, Henry IV parts I and II, Henry V, The Tempest
Man and Superman, Saint Joan, Pygmalion, Candida, Major Barbara,
Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Arms and Man
Shelley’s Poetry and Prose
Frankenstein
The School for Scandal
The Stone Diaries
On the Beach, A Town Like Alice, Trustee from the Toolroom
Ceremony, Storyteller
Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey
The Jungle
Stories
A Thousand Acres
Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights and Other Identities
Joy in the Morning, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Why Religion Matters, Illustrated World Religions
Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History
White Teeth
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved…
Picture Bride
Oedipus Rex, Antigone
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Maus
Last Breath: Cautionary Tales from the Limits of Human Endurance
Starkey, David
Stead, Christina
Steele, Richard
Steffens, Lincoln
Stegner, Wallace
Stein, Joseph
Steinbeck, John
Steinberg, Jacques
Stendahl
Stephenson, Neal
Sterne, Laurence
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stoker, Bram
Stone, Irving
Stone, Robert
Stoppard, Tom
Storm, Hyemeyohsts
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Straight, Susan
Strindberg, August
Stuart, Jesse
Styron, William
Susskind, Ron
Swift, Jonathan
Swofford, Anthony
Sykes, Bryan
Tan, Amy
Tarkington, Booth
Tayer, Jeffrey
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Terkel, Studs
Thackeray, William
Thomas, Dylan
Thomas, Lewis
Thoreau, Henry David
Thurber, James
Tobin, James
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Toer, Pramoedya Ananta
Tolstoy, Leo
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Toomer, Jean
Trollope, Anthony
Truman, Margaret
Trumbo, Dalton
Tuchman, Barbara
Turgenev, Ivan
Turner, Nancy E.
Turner, Sugar
Twain, Mark
Tyler, Anne
Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
The Man Who Loved Children
Commerce of Everyday Life: Selections from the Tattler and…
The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens
Angel of Repose
Fiddler on the Roof
The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, Cannery Row
The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College
The Red and the Black
Snow Crash
Tristam Shandy
Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
Kidnapped
Dracula
Lust for Life, Love is Eternal, Men to Move My Mountains, Clarence
Darrow for the Defense
Dog Soldiers
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arcadia
Seven Arrows
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Highwire Moon
The Father
The Thread that Runs So True
Sophie’s Choice, The Confessions of Nat Turner
A Hohpe in the Unseen
Gulliver’s Travels
Jarhead
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science that Reveals our Genetic…
The Joy Luck Club, The Bonesetter’s Daughter
The Magnificent Ambersons
Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness
Idylls of the King, In Memoriam
Race, Hard Times, The Good War…
Vanity Fair
Poems of Dylan Thomas
A General Theory of Love, Lives of a Cell
Walden, Civil Disobedience
Essays
Great Projects: The Epic Story of the Building of American…
Democracy in America
This Earth of Mankind
Anna Karenina, War and Peace, The Death of Ivan Illych
The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Cane
Barchester Towers, The Warden, The Way We Live Now
Women of Courage
Johnny Got His Gun
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, March of Folly,
The Guns of August
Fathers and Sons
These Is My Words
Sugar’s Life in the Hood: The Story of a Former Welfare Mother
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Pudd’nhead Wilson, The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s…
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Searching for Caleb, The Accidental
Tourist
Tyree, Omar
Undset, Sigrid
Ung, Loung
Updike, John
Uris, Leon
Valdez, Luis
Valenzuela, Luisa
Verdelle, A. J.
Vidal, Gore
Villarreal, Jose Antonio
Virgil
Voltaire
Von Drehle, David
Vonnegut, Kurt
Vreeland, Susan
Walcott, Derek
Walker, Alice
Walker, Margaret
Wallace, David Foster
Wallace, Lew
Warren, Robert Penn
Washington, Booker T.
Watson, Larry
Watson, Peter
Waugh, Evelyn
Weatherford, Jack
Weisel, Elie
Welch, James
Wells, H. G.
Wells, Rebecca
Welty, Eudora
West, Jessamyn
West, Nathanael
Wharton, Edith
Wheelen, Charles
White, T. H.
Whitman, Walt
Wideman, John Edgar
Wiesenthal, Simon
Wilbur, Richard
Wilder, Thornton
Williams, Juan
Wilde, Oscar
Wilder, Thornton
Williams, John A.
Williams, Tennessee
Williams, William Carlos
Wilson, August
Wilson, Edward O.
Winchester, Simon
Windling, Terri
Wodehouse, P. G.
Wolfe, Thomas
A Do right Man
Kristin Lavrandsdatter
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Rabbit Run, Centaur, Gertrude and Claudius, Pigeon Feathers
QB VII, Exodus
The Zoot Suit
Clara
The Good Negress
Lincoln: A Novel
Pocho
The Aeneid
Candide
Triangle: The Fire that Changed America
Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan
The Passion of Artemisia
Collected Poems: 1948-1984
The Color Purple, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, Meridian,
Temple of my Familiar
Jubilee
Infinite Jest
Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ
All the King’s Men
Up from Slavery
White Crosses
The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century
Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust, The Loved One, Scoop
Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World
Night
Winter in the Blood, Fools Crow
The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Thirteen Stories, The Optimist’s Daughter, One Writer’s Beginnings,
Delta Wedding
The Friendly Persuasion
Miss Lonelyhearts, Day of the Locust
The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
The Once and Future King, The Sword in the Stone
Leaves of Grass
Brothers and Keepers, Sent for You Yesterday
The Sunflower
Collected Poems: 1943-2004
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Our Town
Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1945-65
The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Our Town
The Man Who Cried I Am, Captain Blackman
A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,
Desire Under the Elms
Poems
The Piano Lesson, Fences, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Diversity of Life
The Professor and the Madman, Krakatoa
The Good Wife
The Inimitable Jeeves
Look Homeward Angel, You Can’t Go Home Again
Wolfe, Tom
Wolff, Milton
Wolff, Tobias
Woodward, C. Vann
Woods, Donald
Woolf, Virginia
Wordsworth, William
Wouk, Herman
Wright, Richard
Yates, Richard
Yeats, William Butler
Yolen, Jane
Yoshikawa, Eiji
Zacks, Richard
Zarnation, Eugene
Zindel, Paul
Zyskind, Sara
The Right Stuff
Another Hill
In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War, This Boy’s Life, Old
School
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Biko
To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, A Room of One’s Own, Orlando: A
Biography
William Wordsworth—the Major Works: Including the Prelude
The Caine Mutiny, Winds of War, War and Remembrance
Native Son, Black Boy
Revolutionary Road
Collected Poems
Favorite Folktales from Around the World, Briar Rose
Murashi
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd
We
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Stolen Years