Books You Need to Read
Submitted by Zealing on Wed, 03/25/2009 - 10:29
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- Achebe, Chinua- Things Fall Apart
- Abbott, John- Kit Carson
- About, Edmond- The King of the Mountains
- Adams, Douglas- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Adams, Richard- Watership Down
- Aeschylus- Prometheus Bound
- Agee, James- A Death in the Family (Pulitzer, 1958)
- Alcott, Louisa May- Little Women
- Allende, Isabel- Daughter of Fortune
- Amis, Kingsley- The Old Devils (Man Booker, 1986)
- Anderson, Sherwood- Winesburg, Ohio
- Anderson, Hans Christian- Fairy Tales and Stories
- Anonymous- The Bible
- Anonymous- Beowulf
- Anonymous- Davy Crockett
- Anonymous- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Anonymous- The Koran
- Anonymous- Mahabharata
- Anonymous- Njal's Saga
- Anonymous- Torah
- Aristotle- Nicomachean Ethics
- Archer, Jeffery- Kane and Abel
- Atwood, Margaret- The Blind Assassin (Man Booker, 2000)
- Atwood, Margaret- The Handmaid's Tale
- Auel, Jean M- The Clan of the Cave Bear
- Aurelius, Marcus- Meditations
- Austen, Jane- Emma
- Austen, Jane- Persuasion
- Austen, Jane- Pride and Prejudice
- Austen, Jane- Sense and Sensibility
- Bach, Richard- Illusions
- Baker, Nicholson- Checkpoint
- Baldwin, James- Go Tell it on the Mountain
- Balzac, Honore de- Pere Goriot
- Banville, John- The Sea (Man Booker, 2005)
- Barker, Pat- The Ghost Road (Man Booker, 1995)
- Baudrillard, Jean- Simulations
- Beckett, Samuel- Endgame
- Beckett, Samuel- Krapp's Last Tape
- Beckett, Samuel- Malone Dies
- Beckett, Samuel- Molly
- Beckett, Samuel- The Unamable
- Beckett, Samuel- Waiting For Godot
- Beerbohm, Max- Zuleika Dobson
- Bellow, Saul- The Adventures of Augie March
- Bellow, Saul- Henderson the Rain King
- Bellow. Saul- Herzog
- Bellow, Saul- Humboldt's Gift (Pulitzer 1976)
- Bellow, Saul- Mr Sammler's Planet
- Bely, Andrey- Petersburg
- Bennett, Arnold- The Old Wives' Tale
- Berger, John- G (Man Booker, 1972)
- Berniers, Louis de- Captain Corelli's Mandolin
- Berton, Pierre- The Last Spike
- Blackman, Malorie- Noughts and Crosses
- Blyton, Enid- The Magic Faraway Tree
- Boccacio, Giovanni- Decameron
- Boone, Daniel- John Bakeless
- Borges, Jorge Luis- Collected Fictions
- Bronte, Charlotte- Jane Eyre
- Bronte, Emily- Wuthering Heights
- Bowen, Elizabeth- The Death Of The Heart
- Bowles, Paul- The Sheltering Sky
- Bradbury, Ray- Farenheit 451
- Bradbury, Ray- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Brooker, Anita- Hotel du Lac (Man Booker, 1984)
- Brooks, Geraldine- March (Pulitzer 2006)
- Buck, Frank- Fang and Claw
- Buck, Frank- On Jungle Trails
- Buck, Pearl S.- The Good Earth
- Bulwer- Lytton, Edward- Last Days of Pompeii
- Bunyan, John- The PIlgrim's Progress
- Burgess, Anthony- A Clockwork Orange
- Burke, Edmund- Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson- The Secret Garden
- Burroughs, William S- Naked Lunch
- Butler, Robert Olen- A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Pulitzer 1993)
- Butler, Samuel- The Way of All Flesh
- Byatt, A S- Possession (Man Booker, 1990)
- Byrne, Donn- Marco Polo
- Caesar, Julius- Caesar's Conquests
- Cain, James M- The Postman Always Rings Twice
- Caldwell, Erskine- Tobacco Road
- Camus, Albert- The Stranger
- Carey, Peter- Oscar and Lucinda (Man Booker, 1988)
- Carey, Peter- True History of the Kelly Gang (Man Booker, 2001)
- Caroll, Lewis- Alice in Wonderland
- Carver, Raymond- Where I'm Calling From
- Cather, Willa- Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Cather, Willa- My Antonia
- Card, Orson Scott- Enders Game
- Celan, Paul- Poems of Paul Celan
- Celine, Louis- Ferdinana D- Journey to the End Of NIght
- Cellinie, Benvenuto- The Adventures of Cellini
- Cervantes, Miguel de- Don Quixote
- Chabon, Michael- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Pulitzer 2001)
- Chaucer, Geoffrey- The Canterbury Tales
- Cheever, John- The Stories of John Cheever (Pulitzer 1979)
- Cheever, John- The Wapshot Chronicles
- Chekov, Anton- The Cherry Orchard
- Chopin, Kate- The Awakening
- Churchill, Winston- The Crises
- Clezio, Jean- Marie Gustave Le- The Prospector (Author- Nobel Prize Winner, 2008)
- Coelho, Paulo- The Alchemist
- Coetzee, J M- Disgrace (Man Booker, 1999, Author- Nobel Prize Winner 2003)
- Coetzee, J M- LIfe and Times of Michael K (Man Booker, 1983, Author- Nobel Prize Winner 2003))
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor- Collected Works
- Colfer, Eoin- Aremis Fowl
- Collins, William Wilkie- The Moonstone
- Collins, William Wilkie- The Woman in White
- Conrad, Joseph- Heart of Darkness
- Conrad, Joseph- Lord Jim
- Conrad, Joseph- Nostromo
- Conrad, Joseph- The Secret Agent
- Cooper, James Fenimore- The Last of the Mohicans
- Cozzens, James Gould- Guard of Honor (Pulitzer 1949)
- Crane, Stephen- The Red Badge of Courage
- Cunningham, Michael- The Hours (Pulitzer 1999)
- Dahl, Roald- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Dahl, Roald- Matilda
- Dahl, Roald- The BFG
- Dahl, Roald- The Twits
- Dana, Richard Henry, Jr- Two Years Before the Mast
- Dante- The Divine Comedy
- Darwin, Charles- The Origin of Species
- David, Richard Harding- Soldiers of Fortune
- Davies, Robertson- The Cuning Man
- Davies, Robertson- Fifth Business
- Defoe, Daniel- Moll Flanders
- Defoe, Daniel- Robinson Crusoe
- Desai, Kiran- The Inheritance of Loss (Man Booker 2006)
- Dewey, John- How We Think
- Diaz, Junot- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer 2008)
- Dickens, Charles- Bleak House
- Dickens, Charles- A Christmas Carol
- Dickens, Charles- David Copperfield
- Dickens, Charles- Great Expectations
- Dickens, Charles- A Tale of Two Cities
- Dickens, Charles- The Pickwick Papers
- Dickens, Charles- Oliver Twist
- Dickey, James- Deliverance
- Diderot, Denis- Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
- Doblin, Alfred0 Berlin Alexanderplatz
- Doctorow, E.L-Ragtime
- Donleavy, J.R- The Ginger Man
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor- Crime and Punishment
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor- The Brothers Karamazov
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor- The Idiot
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor- The Possessed
- Douglass, Frederick- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Doyle, Arthur Conan- The Complete Works
- Doyle, Roddy- Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Man Booker, 1993(
- Dreiser, Theodore- An American Tragedy
- Dreiser, Theodore- Sister Carrie
- Drury, Allen- Advise and Consent (Pulitzer 1960)
- Dubus, Andre III- House of Sand and Fog
- Dumas, Alexandre- Camille
- Dumas, Alexandre- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Dumas, Alexandre- The Man in the Iron Mask
- Dumas, Alexandre- The Queen's Necklace
- Dumas, Alexandre- The Three Musketeers
- Durell, Lawrence- The Alexandria Quartet
- Eddison, E.R- The Worm Ouroboros
- Eliot, George- Middlemarch
- Eliot, George- The Mill on the Floss
- Eliot, George- Silas Marner
- Ellison, Ralph- Invisible Man
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo- Nature
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo- Selected Essays
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo- Self- Reliance
- Empson, William- Seven Types of Ambiguity
- Enright, Anne- The Gathering (Man Booker 2007)
- Eugenides, Jeffrey- Middlesex (Pulitzer 2003)
- Euripides- Medea
- Farrell, James T- The Studs Lonigan Trilogy
- Farrell, J G- The Siege of Krishnapur (Man Booker, 1973)
- Faulkner, William- A Fable (Pulitzer 1955)
- Faulkner, William- Absalom, Absalom!
- Faulkner, William- As I Lay Dying
- Faulkner, William- Light in August
- Faulkner, William- The Reivers (Pulitzer 1963)
- Faulkner, William- The Sound and the Fury
- Faulks, Sebastien- - Birdsong
- Feist, Raymond E.- Magician
- Fielding, Helen- Bridget Jones' Diary
- Fielding, Henry- Tom Jones
- Fitzgerald, F Scott- The Great Gatsby
- Fitzgerald, F Scott- Tender Is The Night
- Fitzgerald, Penelope- Offshore (Man Booker, 1979)
- Flaubert, Gustave- A Sentimental Education
- Flaubert, Gustave- Madame Bovary
- Follett, Ken- The Pillars of the Earth
- Ford, Madox Ford- The Good Soldier
- Ford, Madox Ford- Parade's End
- Ford, Richard- Independence Day (Pulitzer 1996)
- Forster, E.M- A Room With A View
- Forster, E.M- Howards End
- Forster, E.M- A Passage to India
- Fowles, John- The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Fowles, John- The Magus
- Franklin, Benjamin- Benjamin Franklin
- Franzen, Jonathan- The Corrections
- Frey, James- A Million Little Pieces
- Fuentes, Carlos- The Death of Artemio Cruz
- Gaddis, William- The Recognitions
- Galland, Anthony- Arabian Nights
- Gaud, Laurent- Death of an Ancient King
- Ghosh, Amitav- The Glass Palace
- Gibbons, Kaye- A Virtuous Woman
- Gibbons, Stella- Cold Comfort Farm
- Gide, Andre- The Counterfeiters
- Gogol, Nikolai Vasilevich- Dead Souls
- Gogol, Niklai Vasilevich- The Cossack Chief
- Golden, Arthur- Memoirs of a Geisha
- Golding, William- Rites of Passage (Man Booker, 1980)
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von- Faust
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von- The Sorrows of Young Werther
- Golding, William- The Lord of the Flies
- Goncharov, Ivan- Oblomov
- Gordimer, Nadine- The Conservationist (Man Booker, 1974)
- Grahame, Kenneth- Wind in the Willows
- Grass, Gunter- The Tin Drum
- Grau, Shirley Ann- The Keepers of the House (Pulitzer 1965)
- Graves, Robert- I, Claudius
- Greene, Henry- Loving
- Greene, Graham- The Heart of the Matter
- Gregory, Philippa- The Constant Princess*
- Gregory, Philippa- The Other Boleyn Girl
- Gregory, Philippa- The Boleyn Inheritance
- Guthrie, A. B.- The Way West (Pulitzer 1950)
- Haggard, H Rider- Cleopatra
- Haggard, H Rider- King Soloman's Mines
- Hale, Edward Everett- Man Without a Country
- Hamilton, Laurell K- Guilty Pleasures
- Hammett, Dashiell- The Maltese Falcon
- Hamsun, Knut- Hunger
- Hardy, Thomas- Far From the Madding Crowd
- Hardy, Thomas- Return of the Native
- Hardy, Thomas- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Harte, Bret- The Luck of Roaring Camp
- Harte, Bret- The Outcasts of Poker Flats
- Hawes, Charles Boardman- The Dark Frigate
- Hawes, Charles Boardman- The Mutineers
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel- The House of the Seven Gables
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel- The Scarlet Letter
- Heinlein, Robert- Citizen of the Galaxy
- Heinlein, Robert- The Door Into Summer
- Heinlein, Robert- Stranger In A Strange Land
- Heinlein, Robert- Starship Troopers
- Heinlein, Robert- The Puppet Masters
- Heller, Joseph- Catch 22
- Hemingway, Ernest- A Farewell to Arms
- Hemingway, Ernest- The Sun Also Rises
- Hemingway, Ernest- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Hemingway, Ernest- The Old Man and the Sea (Pulitzer 1953)
- Henty, G A- The Lion of the North
- Henty, G A- In the Reign of Terror
- Henty, G A- Won by the Sword
- Herbert, Frank- Dune
- Hijuelos, Oscar- The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (Pulitzer 1990)
- Hobbes, Thomas- Leviathan
- Holdstock, Robert- Mythago Wood
- Hollinghurst, Alan- The Line of Beauty (Man Booker, 2004)
- Homer- The Illiad
- Homer- The Odyssey
- Hope, Anthony- The Prisoner of Zenda
- Hough, Emerson- The Covered Wagon
- Howe, Irving- An American Tragedy
- Hubbard, L. Ron- Battlefield Earth
- Hubbard, L. Ron- Fear
- Hubbard, L. Ron- Mission Earth
- Hudson, William Henry- Green Mansions
- Hughes, Thomas- Ton Brown's School Days
- Hughes, Richard- A High Wind in Jamaica
- Hugo, Victor- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Hugo, Victor- Les Miserables
- Hugo, Victor- The Man Who Laughs
- Hugo, Victor- Toilers of the Sea
- Hulme, Keri- The Bone People (Man Booker, 1985)
- Hurston, Zora Neale- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Huxley, Aldous- Brave New World
- Huxley, Aldous- Point Counter Point
- Ibsen, Henrik- A Doll's House
- Ibsen, Henrik- Peer Gynt
- Irving, John- A Prayer for Owen Meaney
- Irving, Washington- Rip Van Winkle
- Irving, Washington- The Headless Horseman
- Irving, John- The World According To Garp
- Ishiguro, Kazuo- The Remains of the Day (Man Booker, 1989)
- Jackson, Shirley- The Haunting of Hill House
- James, Henry- The Ambassadors
- James, Henry- The Golden Bowl
- James, Henry- The Portrait of a Lady
- James, Henry- The Turn of the Screw
- James, Henry- The Wings of the Dove
- Jhabvala, Rith Prawer- Heat and Dust (Man Booker, 1975)
- Jones, Edward P- The Known World (Pulitzer 2004)
- Jones, James- From Here to Eternity
- Jong, Erica- Fear of Flying
- Joyce, James- Finnegans Wake
- Joyce, James- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Joyce, James- Ulysses
- Kafka- The Castle
- Kafka- The Trial
- Kafka- The Metamorphosis
- Kalidasa- The Recognition of Sakuntala
- Kant, Immanuel- Critique of Pure Reason
- Kantor, MacKinlay- Andersonville (Pulitzer 1956)
- Kawabata, Yasunari- The Sound of the Mountain
- Kelman, James- How Late It Was, How Late (Man Booker, 1994)
- Keneally, Thomas- Schindler's Ark (Man Booker, 1982)
- Kennnedy, William- Ironweed (Pulitzer 1984)
- Kerouac, Jack- On the Road
- Kesey, Ken-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Kesey, Ken- Sometimes a Great Nation
- King, Stephen- IT
- King, Stephen- The Stand
- Kingsley, Charles- W
- Kingsolver, Barbara- The Poisonwood Bible
- Kingston, Maxine Hong
- Kipling, Rudyard- Captains Courageous
- Kipling, Rudyard- Kim
- Kipling, Rudyard- The Jungle Book
- Koestler, Arthur- Darkness At Noon
- Lafayette, Madame- The Princes of Cleves
- Lahiri, Jhumpa- Interpreter of Maladies (PUlitzer 2000)
- Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi di- The Leopard
- Lawrence, D H- The Rainbow
- Lawrence, D H- Sons and Lovers
- Lawrence, D H- Women In Love
- Laxness, Halldor Kiljan0 Independent People
- Lee, Harper- To Kill a Mockingbird (Pulitzer 1961)
- Leopardi, Giacomo- Complete Poems of Giaomo Leopardi
- Lessing, Doris M- The Golden Notebook* (Author- Nobel Prize Winner, 2007)
- Lewis, C S- The Chronicles of Narnia
- Lewis, Sinclair- Arrowsmith
- Lewis, Sinclair- Main Street
- Lindgren, Astrid- Pippi Longstocking
- Lint, Charles de- Greenmantle
- Lint, Charles de- The Little Country
- Lint, Charles de- Memory and Dream
- Lint, Charles de- Moonheart
- Lint, Charles de- Mulengro
- Lint, Charles de- Someplace To Be Flying
- Lint, Charles de- Trader
- Lint, Charles de- Yarrow
- Lively, Penelope- Moon Tiger (Man Booker, 1987)
- London- Jack- The Call of the Wild
- London, Jack- The Sea Wolf
- London, Jack- White Fang
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth- The Song of Hiawatha
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth- Courtship of Miles Standish
- Longfellow- Henry Wadsworth- Evangeline
- Lovecraft, H.P- At The Mountains Of Madness
- Lowry, Malcolm- Under the Volcano
- Lurie, Alison- Foreign Affairs (Pulitzer 1985)
- MacDonald, Ann-Marie- Fall on Your Knees
- McCarthy, Cormac- Blood Meridian
- McCarthy, Cormac- The Road (Pulitzer 2007)
- McCarthy, Cormac- Suttree
- McCollough, Colleen- The Thorn Birds
- McCullers, Carson- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
- McEwan, Ian- Amsterdam (Man Booker, 1998)
- McMurtry, Larry- Lonesome Dove (Pulitzer 1986)
- McPherson, James Alan- Elbow Room (Pulitzer 1978)
- Machiavelli- The Prince
- Magorian, Michelle- Goodnight Mister Tom
- Mahfous, Naguib- Children of Gebelawi
- Mailer, Norman- The Executioner's Song (Pulitzer 1980)
- Mailer, Norman- The Naked And The Dead
- Malamud, Bernard- The Fixer (Pulitzer 1967)
- Mann, Thomas- Buddenbrooks
- Mann, Thomas- The Magic Mountain
- Manzoni, Alessandro- The Betrothed
- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia- Love in the time of Cholera
- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Marryat, Captain Fredercik- Mr Midship Easy
- Marryat, Captain Fredercik- The Little Savage
- Martel, Yann- Life of Pi (Man Booker, 2002)
- Marx, Karl- Das Kapital
- Maugham, Somerset W- Of Human Bondage
- Maupassant, Guy de- The Flayed Hand
- Maurier, Daphne du- Rebecca
- Maxwell, William- So Long, See You Tomorrow
- Melville, Herman- Bartleby the Scrivener
- Melville, Herma- Moby Dick
- Melville, Herman- Typee
- Meyer, Stephanie- Twilight
- Meyer, Stephanie- New Moon
- Meyer, Stephanie- Eclipse
- Meyer, Stephanie- Breaking Dawn
- Michener, James A- Tales of the South Pacific (Pulitzer 1948)
- Milhauser, Steven- Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Pulitzer 1997)
- Miller, Arthur- Death of a Salesman
- Miller, Arthur- The Crucible
- Miller, Henry- Tropic Of Cancer
- Miller, Sue- While I Was Gone
- Milne, A A- Winnie the Pooh
- Milton, John- Paradise Lost
- Mistry, Rohinton- A Fine Balance
- Mitchell, David- Cloud Atlas
- Mitchell, Margaret- Gone with the Wind
- Moliere, Jean Baptiste Poquelin - Tartuffe
- Momaday, N. Scott- House Made of Dawn (Pulitzer 1969)
- Montaigne, Michel de- Essays
- Montgomery LM- Anne of Green Gables
- Morante, Elsa- History
- Morgan, Robert- The Truest Pleasure
- Morgan, Robert- Gap Creek
- Morrison, Toni- The Bluest Eye
- Morrison, Toni- Beloved (Pulitzer 1988)
- Morrison, Toni- Sula
- Mundy, Talbot- King of the Khyber Rifles
- Munif, 'Abd al- Rahman- Cities of Salt
- Murdoch, Iris- The Sea, The Sea (Man Booker, 1978)
- Murdoch, Iris- Under The Net
- Musil, Robert- The Man Without Qualities
- Nabokov, Vladimir- Lolita
- Nabokov, Vladimir- Pale Fire
- Naipaul, V.S- A Bend In The River
- Naipaul, V.S- A House For Mr Biswas
- Naipaul, V.S- In a Free State (Man Booker, 1971)
- Newby, P.H- Something to Answer For (Man Booker, 1969)
- Nordhoff, Charles and Hall, James- Mutiny on the Bounty
- Nordhoff, Charles and Hall, James- Pitcairn's Island
- Norris, Frank- The Octopus
- O'Brien, Flann- At Swim-Two-Birds
- O'Connor, Edwin- The Edge of Sadness (Pulitzer 1962)
- O'Connor, Flannery- A Good Man is Hard to Find
- O'Connor, Flannery- Wise Blood
- O'Harra, John- Appointment In Samarra
- O'Neill, Eygene- Long Day's Journey Into Night
- Oates, Joyce Carol- We Were the Mulvaneys
- Okri, Ben- The Famished Road (Man Booker, 1991)
- Ondaatje, Michael- The English Patient (Man Booker, 1992)
- Orwell, George- 1984
- Orwell, George- Animal Farm
- Ouida- Under Two Flags
- Ovid- Metamorphoses
- Pamik, Orhan- My Name is Red (Author- Nobel Prize Winner, 2006)
- Pamuk, Orhan- Snow (Author- Nobel Prize Winner, 2006)
- Passos, John Dos- U.S.A (Trilogy)
- Parkman, Francis- The Conspiracy of the Pontiac
- Parkman, Franic- The Oregon Trail
- Pasternak, Boris- Doctor Zhivago
- Paton, Alan- Cry the Beloved Country
- Peake, Mervyn- Gormenghast
- Percy, Walker- The Moviegoer
- Pessoa, Fernando- The Book of Disquiet
- Pierre, DBC- Vernon God LIttle (Man Booker, 2003)
- Pilcher, Rosamunde- The Shell Seekers
- Pirsig, Robert- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Plath, Sylvia- The Bell Jar
- Plato- The Republic
- Poe, Edgar Allen- The Complete Tales and Poems
- Polo, Marco- Travels of Marco Polo
- Porter, Jane- The Scottish Chiefs
- Porter, Katherine Anne- Collected Stories (Pulitzer 1966)
- Pratchett, Terry- Mort
- Pratchett, Terry- The Colour fo Magic
- Pratchett, Terry and Gaiman, Neil- Good Omens
- Proulx, Annie- The Shipping News (Pulitzer 1994)
- Proust, Marcel- In Search of Lost Time
- Proust, Marcel- Remembrance of Things Past
- Proust, Marcel- Swann's Way
- Pullman, Philip- His Dark Materials
- Puzon, Mario- The Godfather
- Pyle, Howard- Knights of the Round Table
- Pyle, Howard- Men of Iron
- Pyle, Howard- Robin Hood
- Pynchon, Thomas- The Crying of Lot 49
- Pynchon, Thomas- Gravity's Rainbow
- Pynchon, Thomas- V.
- Rabelais, Francois- Gargantua and Pantagruel
- Rand, Ayn- Anthem
- Rand, Ayn- Atlas Shrugged
- Rand, Ayn- The Fountainhead
- Rand, Ayn- We The Living
- Ransome, Arthur- Swallows and Amazons
- Reade, Charles- The Cloister and the Hearth
- Remarque, Erich Maria- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Rhys, Jean- Wide Sargasso Sea
- Richardson, Samuel- Clarissa
- Richter, Conrad- The Town (Pulitzer, 1951)
- Roberts, Gregory David- Shantaram
- Robinson, Marilynne- Gilead (Pulitzer 2005)
- Rosa, Joao Guimaraes- The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
- Rostand, Edmond- Cyrano de Bergerac
- Roth, Henry- Call it Sleep
- Roth, Philip- American Pastoral (Pulitzer 1998)
- Roth, Philip- Portnoy's Complaint
- Rousseau, Jean Jacques- The Social Contract
- Rowling, J K- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- Rowling, J K- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Rowling, J K- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Rowling, J K- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Rowling, J K- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Rowling, J K- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
- Rowling, J K- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Roy, Arundhati- The God of Small Things (Man Booker, 1997)
- Rubens, Bernice- The Elected Member (Man Booker, 1970)
- Rubio, Hyman- Icy Sparks
- Rulfo, Juan- Pedro Paramo
- Rushdie, Salman- Midnight's Children (Man Booker, 1981, Booker of Bookers 1993, The Best of the Booker, 2008)
- Rushdie, Salman- The Satanic Verses
- Russo, Richard- Empire Falls- (Pulitzer 2002)
- Sachar, Louis- Holes
- Salih, Tayeb- A Season of Migration to the North
- Salinger, J D- The Catcher in the Rye
- Saramago, Jose- Blindness
- Saxon, Lyle- Lafitte the Pirate
- Schiller, Frederick- Joan of Arc
- Schiller, Frederick- William Tell
- Schopenhauer, Arthur- The World as Will and Idea
- Scott, Paul- Staying On (Man Booker, 1977)
- Scott, Walter- Ivanhoe
- Scott, Walter- Rob Roy
- Scott, Walter- Waverley
- Schaefer, Jack- Shane
- Schlink, Bernhard- The Reader
- Shute, Nevil- On The Beach
- Shute, Nevil- Trustee From The Toolroom
- Schwarz, Christina- Drowning Ruth
- Seth, Vikram- A Suitable Boy
- Seton, Anya- Kateherine-
- Seton, Ernest Thompson- Lives of the Hunted
- Seton, Ernest Thompson- Wild Animals I have Known
- Sewell, Anna- Black Beauty
- Shaara, Michael- The Killer Angels (Pulitzer 1975)
- Shakespeare, William- Hamlet
- Shakespeare, William- King Lear
- Shakespeare, William- Macbeth
- Shakespeare, William- Othello
- Shakespeare, William- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare, William- The Tempest
- Shakespeare, William- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Shaw, George Bernard- Pygmalion
- Shelley, Mary- Frankenstein
- Shields, Carol- The Stone Diaries (PUlitzer 1995)
- Shikibu, Murasaki- The Tale of Genji
- Shute, Nevil- A Town Like Alice
- Sienkiewicz, Henry- With Fire and Sword
- Silkon, Leslie Marmon- Ceremony
- Smiley, Jane- A Thousand Acres (Pulitzer 1992)
- Smith, Adam- The Wealth of Nations
- Smith, Dodie- I Capture the Castle
- Solzhenitseyn, Alexander- One Day in the Life of Ivan Deisovich
- Sophocles- Antigone
- Sophocles- Oedipus the King
- Spark, Muriel- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Spengler, Oswald- The Decline of the West
- Spillane- One Lonely Night
- Stafford, Jean- Collected Stories (Pulitzer 1970)
- Stanley, Henry M- How I Found LIvingstone
- Stegner, Wallace- Angle of Repose (Pulitzer 1972)
- Steinbeck, John- East of Eden
- Steinbeck, John- Of Mice and Men
- Steinbeck, John- The Grapes of Wrath
- Stendhal- The Red and the Black
- Sterne, Laurence- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
- Stevenson, Robert Louis- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- Stevenson, Robert Louis- Kidnapped
- Stevenson, Robert Louis- Treasure Island
- Stevenson, Robert Louis- The Bottle Imp
- Stroker, Bram- Dracula
- Storey, David- Saville (Man Booker, 1976)
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Sue, Eugene- Mysteries of Pari
- Suskind, Patrick- Perfume
- Svevo, Italo- Confessions of Zeno
- Styron, William- The Confessions of Nat Turner (Pulitzer 1968)
- Styron, William- Sophie's Choice
- Swift, Graham- Last Orders (Man Booker, 1996)
- Tademy, Lalita- Cane River
- Tarkington, Booth- The Magnificent Ambersons
- Tartt, Donna- The Secret History
- Taylor, Peter- A Summons to Memphis (Pulitzer1987)
- Taylor, Robert Lewis- The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (Pulitzer 1959)
- Tennyson, Alfred- Idyls of the King
- Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
- Thoreau, Henry David- Walden
- Tolkien, J R R- The Hobbit
- Tolkien, J R R- The Lord of the Rings
- Tolle, Eckart- The Power of Now
- Tolle, Eckart- A New Earth
- Tolstoy, Leo- Anna Karenina
- Tolstoy, Leo- War and Peace
- Toole, John Kennedy- A Confederacy of Dunces (Pulitzer 1981)
- Tressell, Robert- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
- Trollope, Anthony- The Last Chronicle of Barest
- Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich- Fathers and Sons
- Tyler, Anne- Breathing Lessons (Pulitzer 1989)
- Twain, Mark- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- Twain, Mark- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Twain, Mark- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Twain, Mark- The Prince and the Pauper
- Updike, John- Rabbit at Rest (Pulitzer 1991)
- Updike, John- Rabbit is Rich (PUlitzer 1982)
- Vanamali, Davi- Ramayana
- Verne, Jules- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- Verne, Jules- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Verne, Jules- Around the World in 80 Days
- Vern, Jules- From Earth to the Moon
- Virgil- The Aeneid
- Voltaire- Candide
- Candide - Voltaire
- Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.- Slaughterhouse- Five
- Walker, Alice- The Colour Purple (Pulitzer 1983)
- Wallace, Lew- Ben Hur
- Warren, Robert Penn- All The King's Men
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- Waugh, Evelyn- A Handful of Dust
- Waugh, Evelyn- Scoop
- Wells, H G- The Invisible Man
- Wells, H G- The Time Machine
- Wells, H G- War of the Worlds
- Welty, Eudora- Collected Stories
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- West, Nathanael- The Day Of The Locust
- Whartin, Edith- The Age Of Innocence
- Whartin, Edith- The House of Mirth
- Whinfield, E H- The Mathnawi
- Whitman, Walt- Leaves of Grass
- Wiesel, Elie- Night
- Wilde, Oscar- The Importance of Being Earnest
- Wilde, Oscar- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Wilder, Thorton- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Wilder, Thorton- Our Town
- Williams, Tennessee- The Glass Menagerie
- Wilson, Jacqueline- Girls in Love
- Wilson, Jacqueline- The Story of Tracy Baker
- Wilson, Jacqueline- Vicky Angel
- Windling, Terri- The Wood Wife
- Winton, Tim- The Turning
- Winton, Tim- Dirt Music
- Winton, Tim- Cloudstreet
- Wolfe, Tom- The Electric Kool- Aid Acid Test
- Woolf, Virginia- Mrs Dalloway
- Woolf, Virginia- To the Lighthouse
- Wouk, Herman- The Caine Mutiny (Pulitzer 1952)
- Wright, Richard- Native Son
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- Wyss, Johann- Swiss Family Robinson
- Xueqin, Cao- Dream of the Red Chamber
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