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