The 100 Most-Often-Recommended Works

Novels and Short Stories:

Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James, Go Tell It on the Mountain
Bellow, Saul, Seize the Day
Bronte, Charlotte, Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert, The Stranger
Carroll, Lewis, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Cather, Willa, My Antonia
Cervantes, Miguel de, Don Quixote
Chopin, Kate, The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness
Crane, Stephen, The Red Badge of Courage
Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations
Dostoevski, Feodor, Crime and Punishment
Eliot, George, The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph, Invisible Man
Faulkner, William, The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry, Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave, Madame Bovary
Foarster, E.M., A Passage to India
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Golding, William, Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Hawethorn, Nathaniel, The Scarlet Letter
Hemingway, Earnest, A Farewell to Arms
Hurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Alduous, Brave New World
James, Henry, The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James, The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz, The Trail
Lawrence, D.H., Sons and Lovers
Lewis, Sinclair, Babbit
Malamud, Bernard, The Assistant
Mann, Thomas, Death in Venice
Melville, Herman, Moby-Dick
Morrison, Toni, Sula
O'Connor, Flannery, A Good Man is Hard to Find
Olson, Tillie, Tell Me a Riddle
Orwell, George, Animal Farm
Paton, Alan, Cry, The Beloved Country
Poe, Edgar Allan, Great Tales and Poems
Salinger, J.D., The Catcher in the Rye
Scott, Sir Walter, Ivanhoe
Shelly, Mary, Frankenstein
Steinbeck, John, The Grapes of Wrath
Swift, Johnathan, Gulliver's Travels
Thackeray, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair
Tolstoy, Leo, War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan, Fathers and Sons
Twain. Mark, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Updike, John, Rabbit, Run
Voltaire, Candide
Vonnergut, Kurt, Slaughterhouse Five
Walker, Alice, The Color Purple
Welty, Eudora, Thirteen Stories
Wharton, Edith, The Age of Innocence
Woolf, Virginia, To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard, Native Son