Important Pieces of Literature
1984 by George Orwell
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Death in the Family by James Agee
A Gathering of Days by Joan W. Blos
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
A Sport of Nature by Nadine Gordimer
A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Advice and Consent by Allen Drury
Agamemnon by Aeschylus
All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
Autobiography of W.E.B. Dubois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century by W. E. B. DuBois
Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza
Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Blackberry Winter by Margaret Mead
Brave the New World by Aldous Huxley
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Close to Home by Ellen Goodman
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Earle Stegner
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand
Dairy of Anne Frank by Wendy Ann Kesselman
Daniel Martin by John Fowles
Days of Grace: A Memoir by Arthur Ashe
Death Be Not Proud by John J. Gunther
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash
Epitaph for a Peach by David M. Masumoto
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Here Is Your War by Ernie Pyle
Hiroshima (N-F) by John Hersey
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Huey Long by T. Harry Williams
Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Ishi: Last of His Tribe by Theodora Kroeber
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel
Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
Local News by Gary Soto
Long Days Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neil
Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
My Antonia by Willa Cather
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
My World and Welcome to It by James Thurber
Native Son by Richard Wright
Night by Elie Wiesel
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
On Photography by Susan Sontag
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
On Writing by Stephen King
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty
Ordeal by Hunger by George R. Stewart
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
Parraot in the Oven by Victor Martinez
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Postcards by Annie Proulx
Pride and Predjudice by Jane Austen
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
Richard III by William Shakespeare
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
Teahouse of the August Moon by John Patrick
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Pavlovitch Chekhov
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
The Counter Life by Philip Roth
The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
The Falconer by John Cheever
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
The Friendly Persuasion by Jessamyn West
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Human Comedy by William Saroyan
The Inspector General by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
The Journals of Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
The Lilies of the Field by William E. Barrett
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
The Natural by Bernard Malamud
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
The Red Badge of Courage by Steven Crane
The Red Badge of Courage by Steven Crane
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvior
The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
The Ugly American by Eugene Burdick & William J. Lederer
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Working by Studs Terkel
Years of My Youth by William Dean Howells
You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney, Translator
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
A Place Where the Sea Remembers by Sandra Benitez
Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence by Marion Dane Bauer
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists by Joel Best
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Hope was Here by Joan Bauer
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
I Will Fight No More Forever: Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War by Merri Beal
It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter Alvarez
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Road to America by Baru
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
1984 by George Orwell
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Death in the Family by James Agee
A Gathering of Days by Joan W. Blos
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
A Sport of Nature by Nadine Gordimer
A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Advice and Consent by Allen Drury
Agamemnon by Aeschylus
All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
Autobiography of W.E.B. Dubois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century by W. E. B. DuBois
Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza
Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Blackberry Winter by Margaret Mead
Brave the New World by Aldous Huxley
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Close to Home by Ellen Goodman
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Earle Stegner
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand
Dairy of Anne Frank by Wendy Ann Kesselman
Daniel Martin by John Fowles
Days of Grace: A Memoir by Arthur Ashe
Death Be Not Proud by John J. Gunther
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash
Epitaph for a Peach by David M. Masumoto
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Here Is Your War by Ernie Pyle
Hiroshima (N-F) by John Hersey
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Huey Long by T. Harry Williams
Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Ishi: Last of His Tribe by Theodora Kroeber
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel
Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
Local News by Gary Soto
Long Days Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neil
Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
My Antonia by Willa Cather
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
My World and Welcome to It by James Thurber
Native Son by Richard Wright
Night by Elie Wiesel
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
On Photography by Susan Sontag
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
On Writing by Stephen King
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty
Ordeal by Hunger by George R. Stewart
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
Parraot in the Oven by Victor Martinez
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Postcards by Annie Proulx
Pride and Predjudice by Jane Austen
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
Richard III by William Shakespeare
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
Teahouse of the August Moon by John Patrick
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Pavlovitch Chekhov
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
The Counter Life by Philip Roth
The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
The Falconer by John Cheever
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
The Friendly Persuasion by Jessamyn West
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Human Comedy by William Saroyan
The Inspector General by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
The Journals of Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
The Lilies of the Field by William E. Barrett
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
The Natural by Bernard Malamud
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
The Red Badge of Courage by Steven Crane
The Red Badge of Courage by Steven Crane
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvior
The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
The Ugly American by Eugene Burdick & William J. Lederer
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Working by Studs Terkel
Years of My Youth by William Dean Howells
You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney, Translator
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
A Place Where the Sea Remembers by Sandra Benitez
Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence by Marion Dane Bauer
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists by Joel Best
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Hope was Here by Joan Bauer
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
I Will Fight No More Forever: Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War by Merri Beal
It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter Alvarez
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Road to America by Baru
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
