| 1.The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald |
2.1984, George Orwell |
| 2.Catch-22, Joseph Heller |
4.The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck |
| 5.Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov |
6.Animal Farm, George Orwell |
| 6.Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
8.Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison |
| 9.Ulysses, James Joyce |
10.The Lord of the Flies, William Golding |
| 11.Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger |
12.Brave New World, Aldous Huxley |
| 13.The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner |
14.Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce |
| 15.To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee |
16.The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway |
| 17.Native Son, Richard Wright |
18.Beloved, Toni Morrison |
| 19.Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell |
19.To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf |
| 21.The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien |
22.The Color Purple, Alice Walker |
| 23.On the Road, Jack Kerouac |
24.The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton |
| 25.The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck |
26.Charlotte's Web, E. B. White |
| 26.The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien |
28.Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury |
| 29.Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier |
30.The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood |
| 31.A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein |
32.My Antonia, Willa Cather |
| 33.A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway |
34.A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess |
| 35.I, Claudius, Robert Graves |
36.Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton |
| 36.The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemmingway |
36.A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith |
| 39.Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson |
40.Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora N. Hurston |
| 41.The Call of the Wild, Jack London |
42.The World According to Garp, John Irving |
| 43.A Passage to India, E. M. Forster |
43.The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark |
| 45.The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford |
46.The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan |
| 47.Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry |
48.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey |
| 49.Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser |
50.U. S. A.(trilogy), John Dos Passos |
| 51.Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner |
52.Sophie's Choice, William Styron |
| 53.Lady Chatterley's Lover, D. H. Lawrence |
54.Exodus, Leon Uris |
| 55.All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren |
55.Rabbit Run, John Updike |
| 57.The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing |
57.The Jungle, Upton Sinclair |
| 57.Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth |
60.The Ambassadors, Henry James |
| 60.From Here to Eternity, James Jones |
60.Little House on the Prarie, Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| 63.The Golden Bowl, Henry James |
64.Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. Milne |
| 65.The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver |
66.2001 : A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke |
| 67.Possession, A. S. Byatt |
67.Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry |
| 69.All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria ReMarque |
69.Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 69.Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence |
72.The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand |
| 73.Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison |
74.Stone Diaries, Carol Shields |
| 75.Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck |
75.Roots, Alex Haley |
| 77.Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe |
78.Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Katherine Anne Porter |
| 79.Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad |
79.The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett |
| 79.Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham |
82.The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers |
| 83.Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler |
84.Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence |
| 85.The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer |
86.Dune, Frank Herbert |
| 86.A Room with a View, E. M. Forster |
86.The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler |
| 86.The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Frank L. Baum |
90.The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis |
| 91.The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle |
92.The Burger's Daughter, Nadine Gordimer |
| 92.A Confederacy of Dunces, John K. Toole |
94.An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser |
| 95.The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley |
96.East of Eden, John Steinbeck |
| 96.Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow |
96.Howards End, E. M. Forster |
| 99.Appointment in Samarra, John O'Hara |
99.Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys |
| 101.Cry the Beloved Country, Alan Paton |
102.Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow |
| 103.The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton |
103.The Wings of a Dove, Henry James |
| 105.Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather |
106.The Studs Lonigan Trilogy, James T. Farrell |
| 107.Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison |
107.Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller |
| 109.The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath |
110.As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner |
| 111.The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder |
111.A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh |
| 113.A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor |
113.The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara |
| 115.Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin |
115.The Shipping News, Annie Proulx |
| 117.White Noise, Don DeLillo |
118.Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand |
| 118.The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene |
120.Deliverance, James Dickey |
| 120.The Wapshot Chronicles, John Cheever |
122.A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell |
| 122.Snow Falling Cedars, David Guterson |
124.Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley |
| 124.Watership Down, Richard Adams |
126.The Moviegoer, Walker Percy |
| 126.The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Cran |
128.The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad |
| 129.A Death in the Family, James Agee |
129.Nostromo, Joseph Conrad |
| 131.Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh |
131.The Rainbow, Pearl S. Buck |
| 133.A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving |
134.Pale Fire, Vladimir Nobokov |
| 135.Ironweed, William P. Kennedy |
135.Light in August, William Faulkner |
| 137.Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak |
138.Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford |
| 139.Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer |
139.Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm |
| 141.Main Street, Sinclair Lewis |
142.Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley |
| 143.Call it Sleep, Henry Roth |
144.For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway |
| 145.Ellen Foster, Kaye Gibbons |
146.The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell |
| 146.Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns |
148.A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes |
| 148.The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro |
150.The Godfather, Mario Puzo |
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