Author    Title
Joseph Heller     Catch-22
Chaim Potok    The Chosen
F. Scott Fitzgerald    This Side of Paradise
Ken Kesey    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Richard Wright     Black Boy
Barbara Kingsolver    Poisonwood Bible
Betty Smith    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Upton Sinclair    The Jungle
Dorothy Allison    Bastard Out Of Carolina
Fredrick Douglass    My Bondage and My Freedom
Toni Morrison    Beloved
Kathyrn Sockett    The Help
Ernest Hemingway    The Sun Also Rises
Kurt Vonnegut    Cat’s Cradle
Dalton Trumbo    Johnny Got His Gun
Sylvia Plath    The Bell Jar
Jeffrey Eugenides    Middlesex
Harriet Beecher Stowe    Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Graham Greene    The Quiet American
Sherman Alexie     Indian Killer or Reservation Blues
Octavia Butler    Kindred
Mark Twain    Pudd’nhead Wilson
Charles W. Chesnutt    The Marrow of Tradition
Ayn Ryand    Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead
Alice Walker    The Color Purple
Anthony Burgess    A Clockwork Orange
John Okada     No-No Boy
Mai Neng Moua    Bamboo Among the Oaks
Zora Neale Hurston    Their Eyes Were Watching God
John Steinbeck     East of Eden or Grapes of Wrath
Anne Petry    The Street