1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. Beloved by Toni Morrison
3. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
5. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
6. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
7. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
8. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
9. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
10. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
11. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
12. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
13. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
14. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
15. White Noise by Don DeLillo
16. Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
17. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
18. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
19. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
20. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
21. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
22. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
23. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
24. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
25. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
26. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
27. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
28. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
29. Underworld by Don DeLillo
30. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
31. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
32. Independence Day by Richard Ford
33. The Known World by Edward P Jones
34. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
35. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
36. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
37. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
38. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
39. Dune by Frank Herbert
40. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
41. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
42. Fear Of Flying by Erica Jong
43. Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
44. House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
45. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
46. Ironweed by William Kennedy
47. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
48. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
49. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
50. Maggie: A Girl on the Streets by Stephen Crane
51. My Antonia by Willa Cather
52. Native Son by Richard Wright
53. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
54. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
55. Ragtime by E L Doctorow
56. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
57. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
58. Song Of Solomon by Toni Morrison
59. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
60. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
61. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
62. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
63. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
64. The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
65. The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
66. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
67. The Human Stain by Philip Roth
68. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
69. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
70. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
71. The Naked and Dead by Norman Mailer
72. The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
73. The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
74. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
75. The Reivers by William Faulkner
76. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
77. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
78. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
79. The Shining by Stephen King
80. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
81. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
82. Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
83. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien