Book Talk Favorites
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A Bend in the River, V.X. Naipaul
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A Civil Action, Jonathan Harr
3.
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
4.
A Death in the Family, James Agee
5.
A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen
6.
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
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A Gathering of Old Men, Ernest Gaines
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A Gesture Life, Chang-Rae Lee
9.
A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor
10.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
11.
A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest Gaines
12.
A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt
13.
A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
14.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
15.
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
16.
A Raison in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
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A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean
18.
A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
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A Room with a View, E.M. Forster
20.
A Separate Peace, John Knowles
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A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
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A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
23.
A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
24.
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
25.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
26.
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
27.
Absalom, Absalom, William Faulkner
28.
Adam Bede, George Eliot
29.
The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
30.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
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The Aeneid, Vergil
32.
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
33.
Agnes of God, John Pielmeier
34.
The Alchemist, Paul Coelho
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Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
36.
All My Sons, Arthur Miller
37.
All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
38.
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
39.
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
40.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
41.
The American, Henry James
42.
An American Tragedy, Theordore Dreiser
43.
America Is in the Heart, Carlos Bulosan
44.
Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
45.
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
46.
Another Country, James Baldwin
47.
Antigone, Sophocles
48.
Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare
49.
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Mordecai Richler
50.
Arms and the Man, George Bernard Shaw
51.
Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis
52.
The Art of Fielding: A Novel, Chad Harbach
53.
The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
54.
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
55.
As You Like It, William Shakespeare
56.
The Assistant, Bernard Malamud
57.
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
58.
Atonement, Ian McEwan
59.
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
60.
Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
61.
The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
62.
The Bear, William Faulkner
63.
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
64.
Beloved, Toni Morrison
65.
Benito Cereno, Herman Melville
66.
Beowulf, Anonymous
67.
Billy Budd, Herman Melville
68.
The Birthday Party, Harold Pinter
69.
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
70.
Black Boy, Richard Wright
71.
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
72.
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
73.
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
74.
The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Amy Tan
75.
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
76.
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
77.
Breathing Lessons, Anne Tyler
78.
The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao, Junat Diaz
79.
Brighton Rock, Graham Greene
80.
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
81.
Candide, Voltaire
82.
Cane River, Lalita Tademy
83.
Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
84.
The Caretaker, Harold Pinter
85.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams
86.
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
87.
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
88.
Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
89.
Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood
90.
The Centaur, John Updike
91.
Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko
92.
The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekov
93.
The Children’s Hour, Lillian Hellman
94.
The Cider House Rules, John Irving
95.
The Clan of the Cave Bear, Jean Auel
96.
Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
97.
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
98.
Coming Through Slaughter, Michael Ondaatje
99.
Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis De Bernieres
100.
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
101.
Crime and Punishment, Feodor Dostoevski
102.
The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy
103.
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
104.
Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton
105.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Mark Haddon
106.
Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
107.
Daisy Miller, Henry James
108.
Dancing at Lufhnasa, Brian Friel
109.
Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury
110.
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
111.
Daughter of Fortune, by Isabel Allende
112.
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
113.
The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown
114.
The Dead, James Joyce
115.
Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
116.
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
117.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy
118.
Delta Wedding, Eudora Welty
119.
Desire Under the Elms, Eugene O’Neill
120.
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler
121.
Dive from Clausen’s Pier, Ann Packer
122.
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
123.
The Diviners, Margaret Laurence
124.
Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
125.
The Dollmaker, Harriet Arnow
126.
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
127.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, R.L. Stevenson
128.
Dracula, Bram Stoker
129.
Dragon’s Teeth, Upton Sinclair
130.
Early Autumn, Lois Bromfield
131.
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
132.
The Edge of Sadness, Edwin O’Connor
133.
Einstein’s Dreams, Alan Lightman
134.
Emma, Jane Austen
135.
Empire Falls, Richard Russo
136.
An Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen
137.
Eqqus, Peter Schaeffer
138.
Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
139.
The Eumenides, Aeschylus
140.
The Executioner’s Song, Norman Mailer
141.
The Fall, Albert Camus
142.
Fall On Your Knees, Ann Marie MacDonald
143.
Far from the Maddening Crowd, Thomas Hardy
144.
The Father, August Strindberg
145.
Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
146.
Faust, Johann Goethe
147.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
148.
Fences, August Wilson
149.
Fifth Business, Robertson Davies
150.
The Fixer, Bernard Malamud
151.
The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem
152.
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
153.
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
154.
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
155.
Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
156.
Gap Creek, Robert Morgan
157.
The Genetic Code, Isaac Asimov
158.
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
159.
Girl with Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
160.
The Given Day, Dennis LeHane
161.
The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams
162.
Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
163.
Going After Cacciato, Tim O’Brien
164.
The Golden Bowl, Henry James
165.
The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
166.
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
167.
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
168.
The Good Soldier, Ford Maddox Ford
169.
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
170.
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
171.
The Great Gatsby, F.Scott Fitzgerald
172.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer
173.
Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
174.
The Hairy Ape, Eugene O’Neill
175.
Half Broke Horses, Jeannette Walls
176.
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
177.
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
178.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
179.
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
180.
The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
181.
Hedda Gabbler, Henrik Ibsen
182.
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
183.
Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellows
184.
Henry IV, William Shakespeare
185.
Henry V, William Shakespeare
186.
Hiroshima, John Hersey
187.
The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
188.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
189.
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
190.
The Homecoming, Harold Pinter
191.
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
192.
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
193.
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
194.
House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus III
195.
The House of Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
196.
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
197.
House Made of Dawn, M. Scott Momaday
198.
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
199.
I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb
200.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
201.
I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
202.
Icy Sparks, by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
203.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
204.
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s
Berlin, Erik Larsen
205.
In the Lake of the Woods, Tim O’Brien
206.
Inferno, Dante
207.
The Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
208.
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
209.
Ironweed, William Kennedy
210.
Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
211.
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
212.
Jasmine, Bharti Mukherjee
213.
J.B., Archibald MacLeisch
214.
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, August Wilson
215.
Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding
216.
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
217.
Jude, the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
218.
Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare
219.
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
220.
The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
221.
King Lear, William Shakespeare
222.
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
223.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence
224.
Lady Windermere’s Fan, Oscar Wilde
225.
Lamb in His Bosom, Caroline Miller
226.
The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
227.
Les Miserable, Victor Hugo
228.
A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest Gaines
229.
Libra, Don DeLillo
230.
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
231.
Light in August, William Faulkner
232.
Little Bee, Chris Cleave
233.
The Little Foxes, Lillian Hellman
234.
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
235.
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
236.
Long Day’s Journey into Night, Eugene O’Neill
237.
The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright
238.
Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
239.
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
240.
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
241.
Love Medicine, Louise Erdich
242.
The Lovely Bones , Alice Sebold
243.
Lysistrata, Aristophanes
244.
Macbeth, William Shakespeare
245.
Madame Bovary, GustaveFlaubert
246.
Madame Butterfly, David Henry Hwang
247.
Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
248.
Major Barbara, George Bernard Shaw
249.
The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
250.
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
251.
March, Geraldine Brooks
252.
Martha Quest, Doris Lessing
253.
The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
254.
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
255.
Medea, Euripedes
256.
The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers
257.
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
258.
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Kim Edwards
259.
The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare
260.
Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
261.
Middlemarch, George Eliot
262.
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
263.
Midnight’s Children, Salmon Rushdie
264.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare
265.
Midwives, Chris Bohjalian
266.
The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
267.
The Misanthrope, Moliere
268.
Miss Lonelyhearts, Evelyn Waugh
269.
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
270.
Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
271.
Monkey Bridge, Lan Cao
272.
The Moor’s Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
273.
Mother Courage, Bertole Brecht
274.
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
275.
Mrs. Warren’s Profession, George Bernard Shaw
276.
Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
277.
Mudbound, Hillary Jordan
278.
Murder in the Cathedral, T.S. Eliot
279.
Mutiny on the Bounty, Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
280.
My Antonia, Willa Cather
281.
My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk
282.
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
283.
Native Son, Richard Wright
284.
Native Speaker, Chang-Rae Lee
285.
The Natural, Bernhard Malamud
286.
Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
287.
No Exit, Jean-Paul Sartre
288.
No-No Boy, John Okada
289.
Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
290.
O Pioneers, Willa Cather
291.
Obasan, Joy Kogawa
292.
The Odyssey, Homer
293.
Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
294.
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
295.
Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham
296.
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
297.
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Stout
298.
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
299.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
300.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
301.
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
302.
Open House, Elizabeth Berg
303.
The Optimist’s Daughter, Eudora Welty
304.
Orestia, Aeschylus
305.
Orlando, Virginia Woolf
306.
Othello, William Shakespeare
307.
Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
308.
Our Town, Thornton Wilder
309.
Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen
310.
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
311.
Pamela, Samuel Richardson
312.
Paradise Lost, John Milton
313.
Paula, Isabel Allende
314.
Pere Goriot, Honore De Balzac
315.
Persuasion, Jane Austen
316.
Phaedra, Jean Racine
317.
The Piano Lesson, August Wilson
318.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
319.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
320.
The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follet
321.
The Pilot's Wife, Anita Shreve
322.
The Plague, Albert Camus
323.
The Plot Against America, Philip Roth
324.
Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov
325.
Poccho, Jose Antonio Villarreal
326.
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
327.
Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
328.
The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
329.
Praisesong for the Widow, Paule Marshall
330.
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
331.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
332.
Rabbit, Run, John Updike
333.
Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow
334.
The Rapture of Canaan, Sheri Reynolds
335.
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
336.
The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
337.
Redburn, Herman Melville
338.
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
339.
Reservation Blues, Sherman Alexie
340.
The Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy
341.
Rhinoceros, Eugene Ionesco
342.
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
343.
Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
344.
Room: A Novel, Emma Donoghue
345.
Roots, Alex Haley
346.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard
347.
Saint Joan, George Bernard Shaw
348.
Sarah’s Key, Tatiana de Rosnay
349.
Say You’re One of Them, Uwem Akpan
350.
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
351.
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
352.
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
353.
Seize the Day, Saul Bellow
354.
Sent for You Yesterday, John Edgar Wideman
355.
The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
356.
Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
357.
Silas Marner, George Eliot
358.
Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
359.
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
360.
Snow, Orhan Pamuk
361.
Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
362.
So Big, Edna Ferber
363.
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
364.
Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
365.
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
366.
The Stone Angel, Margaret Laurence
367.
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
368.
The Stranger, Albert Camus
369.
Sula, Toni Morrison
370.
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
371.
Surfacing, Margaret Atwood
372.
Tartuffe, Moliere
373.
The Tempest, William Shakespeare
374.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
375.
The Trial, Franz Kafka
376.
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
377.
Them, Joyce Carol Oates
378.
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
379.
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
380.
The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
381.
The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass
382.
Tinkers, Paul Harding
383.
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
384.
Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell
385.
Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
386.
Trifles, Susan Glaspell
387.
Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne
388.
Truman, David McCullough
389.
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
390.
Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare
391.
Typical American, Gish Jen
392.
Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand
393.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
394.
Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
395.
The Vicar of Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith
396.
Victory, Joseph Conrad
397.
Volpone, Ben Jonson
398.
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
399.
The Wall, John Hersey
400.
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
401.
The Warden, Anthony Trollope
402.
Washington Square, Henry James
403.
The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot
404.
Watch on the Rhine, Lillian Hellman
405.
The Watch that Ends the Night, Hugh MacLennan
406.
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
407.
Watership Down, Richard Adams
408.
The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope
409.
What Crazy Looks Like On an Ordinary Day, Pearl Cleage
410.
Where the Heart Is, by Billie Letts
411.
White Noise, Don DeLillo
412.
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
413.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Edward Albee
414.
Wicked, Gregory Maguire
415.
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
416.
Winseburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson
417.
Winter in the Blood, James Welch
418.
The Winter’s Tale, William Shakespeare
419.
Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor
420.
The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
421.
Women of Brewster, Gloria Naylor
422.
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
423.
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
424.
The Zoo Story, Edward Albee
425.
Zoot Suit, Luis Valdez