- A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
- A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O’Connor
- A Passage to India - E.M. Forester
- A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
- A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
- An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
- At the Mountains of Madness - Lovecraft
- Atonement - Ian McEwan
- Brave New World - Huxley
- Brideshead Revisted - Evelyn Waugh
- Catch-22 - Heller
- Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
- Dune - Frank Herbert
- Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- Hedda Gabler - Ibsen
- His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
- I,Claudius - Robert Graves
- Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
- Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
- Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
- Middlemarch - George Eliot
- My Experiments with Truth - Gandhi
- Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Paris Trout - Pete Dexter
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
- Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
- Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
- The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
- The Ginger Man - Donleavy
- The Giver - Lois Lowry
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
- The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
- The Road - Cormac McCarthy
- The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
- The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
- The Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston
- Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
- Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
(Note: Not in reading order.)
