Author

Title

Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre

Sandra Cisneros

House on Mango Street

Joseph Heller

Catch-22

Alice Walker

The Color Purple

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

Ken Kesey

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

George Orwell

1984

Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar

Alan Paton

Cry, the Beloved Country

Willy

Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello

John Steinbeck

Grapes of Wrath

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

Barbara Kingslover

Poisonwood Bible

Victor Hugo

Les Miserables

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Upton Sinclair

The Jungle

Susan Glaspell

Trifles

Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Daphne Du Maurier

Rebecca

George Orwell

Animal Farm

Pearl Buck

The Good Earth

William Golding

Lord of the Flies

T.C. Boyle

The Tortilla Curtain

Dorothy Allison

Bastard Out Of Carolina

H. B. Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Albert Camus

The Stranger

Jamaica Kincaid

Lucy

Zadie Smith

White Teeth

Milton

Paradise Lost

Author

Title

Henrik Ibsen

A Doll’s House

Fredrick Douglass

My Bondage and My Freedom

Maxine Hong Kingston

The Woman Warrior

Richard Wright

Black Boy

Toni Morrison

Beloved

Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility

Joseph Conrad

The Heart of Darkness (good luck)

Albert Camus

The Stranger

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Crime and Punishment

Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man

William Faulkner

As I Lay Dying

Henry Fielding

Tom Jones

Willa Cather

My Antonia

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

E.M. Forster

A Passage to India

Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D’Ubervilles

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter

Henry James

Turn of the Screw

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises

James Joyce

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (ick)

Franz Kafka

Metamorphosis (another fun choice)

Arthur Miller

Death of a Salesman

D.H. Lawrence

Sons and Lovers

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina (read the Cliff notes)

Voltaire

Candide

Cormac McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses

Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse Five

Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage