Novels for students

v. 1. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain

The bell jar / Sylvia Plath

Black boy / Richard Wright

The bluest eye / Toni Morrison

Catch-22 / Joseph Heller

The Catcher in the rye / J. D. Salinger

Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury

A farewell to arms / Ernest Hemingway

Frankenstein / Mary Shelley

The Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan

Love in the time of cholera / Gabriel García Márquez

Of mice and men / John Steinbeck

Ordinary people / Judith Guest

Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen

The scarlet letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne

v. 2.

The chocolate war / Robert Cormier

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant / Anne Tyler

Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes

The great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald

Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad

The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros

I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou

Invisible man / Ralph Ellison

Lord of the flies / William Golding

My Ántonia / Willa Cather

One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Ken Kesey

A separate peace / John Knowles

Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe

To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee

Wuthering Heights / Emily Brönte

v. 3.

Animal farm / George Orwell

Annie John / Jamaica Kincaid

The awakening / Kate Chopin

Crime and punishment / Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Cry, the beloved country / Alan Paton

Democracy / Joan Didion

Ellen Foster / Kaye Gibbons

Greundel / John Gardner

Obasan / Joy Kogawa

A passage to India / E.M. Forster

Slaughterhouse-five / Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles / Thomas Hardy

Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston

Wise blood / Flannery O'Connor

A yellow raft in blue water / Michael Dorris

v. 4.

All quiet on the western front / Erich Maria Remarque

Ceremony / Leslie Marmon Silko

The chosen / Chaim Potok

Go tell it on the mountain / James Baldwin

Great expectations / Charles Dickens

The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood

In country / Bobbie Ann Mason

Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte

July's people / Nadine Gordimer

The natural / Bernard Malamud

Night / Eliezer Wiesel

The red badge of courage / Stephen Crane

Seize the day / Saul Bellow

The sound and the fury / William Faulkner

Winesburg, Ohio / Sherwood Anderson

The women of Brewster Place / Gloria Naylor.

v. 5. The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman / Ernest J. Gaines

The bean trees / Barbara Kingsolver

The color purple / Alice Walker

Do androids dream of electric sheep? / Philip K. Dick

Ender's game / Orson Scott Card

Ethan Frome / Edith Wharton

Giants in the earth / O. E. Rölvaag

How the García girls lost their accents / Julia Alvarez

Like water for chocolate / Laura Esquivel

Love medicine / Louise Erdrich

Les misérables / Victor Hugo

One hundred years of solitude / Gabriel García Márquez

The outsiders / S. E. Hinton

The pearl / John Steinbeck

The sun also rises / Ernest Hemingway

A tale of two cities / Charles Dickens

v. 6.

The adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain

Beloved / Toni Morrison

Brave new world / Aldous Huxley

Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift

The heart is a lonely hunter / Carson McCullers

The house of the spirits / Isabel Allende

The jungle / Upton Sinclair

The left hand of darkness / Ursula K. Le Guin

The old man and the sea / Ernest Hemingway

One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich / Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Ragtime / E.L. Doctorow

Siddhartha / Herman Hesse

The stranger / Albert Camus

Uncle Tom's Cabin / Harriet Beacher Stowe

The woman warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston

v. 7.

The accidental tourist / Anne Tyler

Alice's adventures in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll

The Caine mutiny / Herman Wouk

Candide / Voltaire

Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café / Fannie Flagg

The grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck

The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy / Douglas Adams

Kitchen / Banana Yoshimoto

A lesson before dying / Ernest J. Gaines

Mama Day / Gloria Naylor

Moby-Dick / Herman Melville

Native son / Richard Wright

1984 / George Orwell

A portrait of the artist as a young man / James Joyce

The trial / Franz Kafka.

v. 8. As I lay dying / William Faulkner

The brothers Karamazov / Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky - The call of the wild / Jack London

Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Empire of the Sun / J.G. Ballard

The Hobbit / J.R.R. Tolkien

Kindred / Octavia Butler

The master and margarita / Mikhail Bulgakov

The old gringo / Carlos Fuentes

On the road / Jack Kerouac

Sister Carrie / Theodore Dreiser

Song of Solomon / Toni Morrison

Ten little indians / Agatha Christie

Them / Joyce Carol Oates

To the lighthouse / Virginia Woolf

v. 9.

Always coming home / Ursula K. Le Guin

Billy Budd, Sailor: an inside narrative / Herman Melville

Deliverance / James Dickey

The fixer / Bernard Malamud

Gone with the wind / Margaret Mitchell

In the time of the butterflies / Julia Alvarez

The last of the Mohicans / James Fenimore Cooper

Lolita / Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

On the beach / Nevil Shute

Out of Africa / Isak Dinesen

The prince / Niccolo Machiavelli

Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe

Roots: the story of an American family / Alex Haley

Rubyfruit jungle / Rita Mae Brown

Tex / S.E. Hinton

v. 10.

Atlas shrugged / Ayn Rand

Breathing lessons / Anne Tyler

A Christmas Carol / Charles Dickens

Chronicle of a death foretold / Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Dead of the house / Hannah Greene

House made of dawn / N. Scott Momaday

Howards end / E. M. Forster

The naked and the dead / Norman Mailer

Pigs in heaven / Barbara Kingsolver

Shogun: a novel of Japan / James du Maresq Clavell

Summer of my German soldier / Bette Greene

War and peace / Leo Tolstoy.

v. 11. The age of innocence / Edith Wharton

Appointment in Samarra / John O'Hara

Bastard out of Carolina / Dorothy Allison

Betsey Brown / Ntozake Shange

Body and soul / Frank Conroy

Cane / Jean Toomer

The Clan of the Cave Bear / Jean Auel

The Crazy horse electric game / Chris Crutcher

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson

The grass dancer / Susan Power

Less than zero / Bret Easton Ellis

The return of the native / Thomas Hardy

A room with a view / E. M. Forster

The stone angel / Margaret Laurence

Watership down / Richard Adams

v. 12.

The ambassadors / Henry James

Animal dreams / Barbara Kingsolver

Bless me, Ultima / Rudolfo Anaya

The bride price / Buchi Emecheta

The edible woman / Margaret Atwood

Little Women / Louis May Alcott

Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf

The octopus / Frank Norris

The painted bird / Jerzy Kosinski

Pilgrims in Aztlán / Miguel Mémdez

Rabbit, run / John Updike

Rebecca / Daphne du Maurier

The slave dancer / Paula Fox

Too late the Phalarope / Alan Paton

The world accoding to Garp / John Irving

v. 13.

Absalom, absalom! / William Faulkner

All the king's men / Robert Penn Warren

Bridesmaid revisted / Evelyn Waugh

The death of the heart / Elizabeth Bowen

The kitchen god's wife / Amy Tan

The member of the wedding / Carson McCullers

Moll Flanders / Daniel Defoe

Nectar in a sieve / Kamala Markandaya

The optimist's daughter / Eudora Welty

The remains of the day / Kazuo Ishiguro

Snow falling on cedars / David Guterson

Sufacing / Margaret Atwood

The sweet hereafter / Russell Banks

Vanity fair / William Thackeray

The wonderful wizard of oz / L. Frank Baum.

v. 14. Cat's eye / Margaret Atwood

For whom the bell tolls / Ernest Hemingway

Hatter Fox / Marilyn Harris

Herzog / Saul Bellow

Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert

Margret Howth / Rebecca Harding Davis

Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens

Persuasion / Jane Austen

Pigman / Paul Zindel

Prayer for Owen Meany / John Irving

Ship of fools / Katherine Anne Porter

Sula / Toni Morrison

Three Musketeers / Alexandre Dumas

USA / John Dos Passos - Wrestling match / Buchi Emecheta

v. 15.

A clockwork orange / Anthony Burgess

The country of the pointed firs / Sarah Orne Jewett

Demian / Hermann Hesse

House of Mirth / Edith Wharton

In the castle of my skin / George Lamming

The last king of Scotland / Giles Foden

Looking backward: 2000-1887 / Edward Bellamy

Losing battles / Eudora Welty

Main Street / Sinclair Lewis

Mayor of Casterbridge / Thomas Hardy

Rumble fish / S. E. Hinton

Shizuko's daughter / Kyoko Mori

Shoeless Joe / W.P. Kinsella

v. 16.

The day of the locust / Nathanael West

The end of the affair / Graham Greene

Evelina / Fanny Burney

Fathers and sons / Ivan Turgenev

The Fountainhead / Ayn Rand

A gathering of old men / Ernest J. Gaines

Godfather / Mario Puzo

Lord Jim / Joseph Conrad

The Plague / Albert Camus

That was then, this is now / S.E. Hinton

The turn of the screw / Henry James.

v. 17. An American tragedy / Theodore Dreiser

The big sleep / Raymond Chandler

Death in Venice / Thomas Mann

The lone ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven / Sherman Alexie

The mambo kings play songs of love / Oscar Hijuelos

The mill on the floss / George Eliot

The red pony / John Steinbeck

Schindler's list / Thomas Keneally

Scoop / Evelyn Waugh

Smilla's sense of snow / Peter Høeg

Soul catcher / Frank Herbert

The time machine / H.G. Wells

The tree of red stars / Tessa Bridal

What looks like crazy on an ordinary day / Pearl Cleage

v. 18.

Daughter of fortune / Isabel Allende

Dracula / Bram Stoker

I am the cheese / Robert Cormier

A long and happy life / Reynolds Price

Look homeward, angel / Thomas Wolfe

Sense and sensibility / Jane Austen

Sons and lovers / D.H. Lawrence

Tom Jones / Henry Fielding

The unbearable lightness of being / Milan Kundera

Under the net / Iris Murdoch

A very long engagement / Sebastien Japrisot

Waterland / Graham Swift

When the legends die / Hal Borland

v. 19.

Alias Grace / Margaret Atwood

Babbit / Sinclair Lewis

The count of Monte Cristo / Alexandre Dumas

Darkenss at noon / Arthur Koestler

Death comes for the archbishop / Willa Cather

East of Eden / John Steinbeck

Far from the maddening crowd / Thomas Hardy

Farewell my concubine / Lilian Lee

Memoirs of a geisha / Arthur Golden

The portrait of a lady / Henry James

Tender is the night / F. Scott Fitzgerald

White fang / Jack London

Wide Sargasso sea / Jean Rhys.

v. 20. A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's Court / Mark Twain

Hard times / Charles Dickens

The house of the seven gables / Nathaniel Hawthorne

The hunchback of Notre Dame / Victor Hugo

Maggie: a girl of the streets / Stephen Crane

The phantom of the opera / Gaston Leroux

The picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde

Silas Marner / George Eliot

Summer / Edith Wharton

This side of paradise / F. Scott Fitzgerald

Treasure Island / Robert Louis Stevenson

The war of the worlds / H.G. Wells

The wind in the willows / Kenneth Grahame

v. 21.

Dusklands / J.M. Coetzee

Emma / Jane Austen

The French lieutenant's woman / John Fowles

I, Claudius / Robert Graves

The immoralist / Andre Gide

Juneteenth / Ralph Ellison

Kim / Rudyard Kipling

The maltese falcon / Dashiell Hammett

Nausea / Jean-Paul Sartre

Parable of the sower / Octavia Butler

Tambourines to Glory / Langston Hughes

The violent bear it away / Flannery O'Connor.