Literary Analysis Novels
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea-Jules Verne
From the Earth to the Moon-Jules Verne
Around the World in 80 Days-Jules Verne
A Journey to the Center of the Earth-Jules Verne
The Mysterious Island-Jules Verne
Round the Moon-Jules Verne
Five Weeks in a Balloon-Jules Verne
The Food of the Gods-H.G. Wells
In the Days of the Comet-H.G. Wells
The First Men in the Moon-H.G. Wells
Bleak House-Charles Dickens
Cannery Row-John Steinbeck
Tortilla Flat-John Steinbeck
Little Men-Louisa May Alcott
Little Women-Louisa May Alcott
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter-Carson McCullers
A Passage to India- E.M. Forster
Death Comes for the Archbishop-Willa Cather
Invisible Man-Ralph Ellison
The Awakening-Kate Chopin
Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy
Cyrano de Bergerac-Arthur Koestler
Farewell to Manzanar- Jeanne Wakatuski Houston
Gone with the Wind- Margaret Mitchell
The Importance of Being Earnest- Oscar Wilde
The Jungle Book- Rudyard Kipling
Life on the Mississippi- Mark Twain
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black- Lorraine Hansberry
Uncle Tom’s Cabin- Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Good Earth- Pearl Buck
Our Town- Thornton Wilder
The House of Seven Gables- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Out of Africa- Isak Dinesen
Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath
Black Boy-Richard Wright
Caine Mutiny-Herman Wouk
Farewell to Arms-Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea-Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls-Ernest Hemingway
Catch 22-Joseph Heller
Fail-Safe-Eugene Burdick and John Wheeler
The Count of Monte Cristo-Alexander Dumas
The Three Musketeers-Alexander Dumas
The Man in the Iron Mask-Alexander Dumas
The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-Robert Lewis Stevenson
Hiroshima-John Hersey
In Cold Blood-Truman Capote
Ivanhoe-Sir Walter Scott
Inherit the Wind-Jerome Lawrence
The Last of the Mohicans-James Fenimore Cooper
Les Miserables-Victor Hugo
Look Homeward Angel-Thomas Wolfe
Lord Jim-Joseph Conrad
Moby Dick-Herman Melville
The Once and Future King- T.H. White
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man-James Joyce
Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austen
Pygmalion-George Bernard Shaw
Return of the Native- Thomas Hardy
Robinson Crusoe-William Defoe
Tess of the D’Urbervilles-Thomas Hardy
The Trial- Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis-Franz Kafka
Waiting for Godot-Samuel Beckett
Up From Slavery-Booker T. Washington
The Turn of the Screw-James Henry
The Scarlet Letter-Nathaniel Hawthorne
Daisy Miller-Henry James
Age of Innocence-Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome-Edith Wharton
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court-Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper-Mark Twain
Pudd’nhead Wilson-Mark Twain
The Last Tycoon-F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night-F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise- F. Scott Fitzgerald
East of Eden-John Steinbeck
The Sound and the Fury-William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying- William Faulkner
Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury
Emma-Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility-Jane Austen
Gulliver’s Travels-Jonathan Swift
Frankenstein-Mary W. Shelley
Dracula-Bram Stoker
Jane Eyre-Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights-Emily Bronte
David Copperfield-Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist-Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens
Don Quixote-Miguel Cervantes
The Picture of Dorian Gray-Oscar Wilde
Captains Courageous- Rudyard Kipling
Gunga Din-Rudyard Kipling
Kim-Rudyard Kipling
The Invisible Man-H.G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau-H.G. Wells
The Time Machine-H.G. Wells
War of the Worlds-H.G. Wells
A Passage to India-E.M. Foster
Mrs. Dalloway-Virginia Woolf
The Hobbit- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings-J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring-J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers-J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return on the King-J.R.R. Tolkien
Ivanhoe-Sir Walter Scott
The Lady of the Lake-Sir Walter Scott
Treasure Island-Robert Lewis Stevenson
Kidnapped-Robert Lewis Stevenson
The Red Pony-John Steinbeck
Slaughterhouse Five-Kurt Vonnegut
The Hound of the Baskervilles-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Tarzan of the Apes-Edgar Rice Burroughs
Madame Bovary-Gustave Flaubert
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn-Betty Smith
The Crucible-Arthur Miller
The Jungle-Upton Sinclair
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the “DO NOT READ” list, is written before 1980, and is appropriate for your ability level.