The Book List

The Short List

OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis The Que 1984 by George Orwell

A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess

A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell

A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway

A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh

A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes

A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul

A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster

A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving

A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster

A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute

ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner

ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser

ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner

ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell

ANTHEM by Ayn Rand

ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis

AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner

AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien

AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft

ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand

BELOVED by Toni Morrison

BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy

BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh

CATCH-22

DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler

DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather

DELIVERANCE by James Dickey

FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones

GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin

GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell

GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon

HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad

HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow

HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster

INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison

IRONWEED by William Kennedy

IT by Stephen King

KIM by Rudyard Kipling

LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner

LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov

LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding

LOVING by Henry Green

MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis

MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie

MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather

NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs

NATIVE SON by Richard Wright

NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad

ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute

ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey

ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane

PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov

PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford

POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley

PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth

RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow

SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh

SHANE by Jack Schaefer

SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury

SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey

SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence

SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron

SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy

TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald

THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton

THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell

THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James

THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder

THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger

THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West

THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand

THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN by John Fowles

THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy

THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James

THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford

THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck

THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald

THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson

THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers

THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene

THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton

THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien

THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington

THE MAGUS by John Fowles

THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett

THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy

THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer

THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain

THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark

THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdi

THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad

THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles

THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner

THE STAND by Stephen King

THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway

THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever

THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler

THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf

TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell

TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller

TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute

U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos

Ulysses

UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch

UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry

V. by Thomas Pynchon

WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams

WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand

WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys

WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson

WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor

WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence

ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm