| Work |
Author |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott |
| Little Men | Louisa May Alcott |
| Ragged Dick | Horatio Alger |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou |
| Sounder | William Armstrong |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen |
| Emma | Jane Austen |
| Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen |
| Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbitt |
| National Velvet | Enid Bagnold |
| Go Tell It on the Mountain | James Baldwin |
| Peter Pan | Sir James Barrie |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum |
| Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret | Judy Blume |
| The Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury |
| Dandelion Wine | Ray Bradbury |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte |
| The Good Earth | Pearl Buck |
| The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| Tarzan of the Apes | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| The Stranger | Albert Camus |
| Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll |
| O Pioneers! | Willa Cather |
| My Antonia | Willa Cather |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| The Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore Cooper |
| The Chocolate War | Robert Cormier |
| I am the Cheese | Robert Cormier |
| The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane |
| The Andromeda Strain | Michael Crichton |
| Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton |
| Divine Comedy | Dante |
| The Inferno | Dante |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| Journal of the Plague Year | Daniel Defoe |
| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
| The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens |
| Hard Times | Charles Dickens |
| A Study in Scarlet | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas |
| Poor Richard's Almanack | Benjamin Franklin |
| Old Yeller | Fred Gipson |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
| The Wind in the Williams | Kenneth Grahame |
| Riders of the Purple Sage | Zane Grey |
| Roots | Alex Haley |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Tanglewood Tales | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert Heinlein |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Outsiders | S.E. Hinton |
| Iliad | Homer |
| The Odyssey | Homer |
| The Aenied | Vergil |
| Les Miserables | Victor Hugo |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Victor Hugo |
| Just So Stories | Rudyard Kipling |
| Kim | Rudyard Kipling |
| A Separate Peace | John Knowles |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle |
| A Wizard of Earthsea | Ursula Le Guin |
| The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | C.S. Lewis |
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London |
| White Fang | Jack London |
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers |
| The Ballad of the Sad Cafe | Carson McCullers |
| Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurtry |
| Moby Dick | Herman Melville |
| Billy Budd | Herman Melville |
| Omoo | Herman Melville |
| Tales of the South Pacific | James Michener |
| Winnie-the-Pooh | A.A. Milne |
| Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
| The Night Before Christmas | Clement Clarke Moore |
| Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O'Dell |
| The Rubaiyat | Omar Khayyam |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | Baroness Orczy |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| 1984 | George Orwell |
| The Yearling | Marjorie Rawlings |
| Harry Potter series | J.K. Rowling |
| The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger |
| Ivanhoe | Sir Walter Scott |
| Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak |
| Black Beauty | Anna Sewell |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
| A Light in the Attic | Shel Silverstein |
| Where the Sidewalk Ends | Shel Silverstein |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| Of mice and men | John Steinbeck |
| Cannery Row | John Steinbeck |
| Tortilla Flat | John Steinbeck |
| The Pearl | John Steinbeck |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| Walden | Henry David Thoreau |
| The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | James Thurber |
| The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkein |
| Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkein |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolston |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| The Prince and the Pauper | Mark Twain |
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Mark Twain |
| The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calveras County | Mark Twain |
| Around the World in 80 Days | Jules Verne |
| Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth | Jules Verne |
| Candide | Voltaire |
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| The Time Machine | H.G. Wells |
| The Invisible Man | H.G. Wells |
| The War of the Worlds | H.G. Wells |
| Charlotte's Web | E.B. White |
| Stuart Little | E.B. White |
| Native Son | Richard Wright |
| The Magnificent Ambersons | Booth Tarkington |
| The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton |
| Arrowsmith | Sinclair Lewis |
| The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Thornton Wilder |
| A Bell for Adano | John Hersey |
| All the King's Men | Robert Penn Warren |
| The Caine Mutiny | Herman Wouk |
| Andersonville | MacKinlay Kantor |
| A Death in the Family | James Agee |
| Advise and Consent | Allen Drury |
| The Reivers | William Faulkner |
| The Fixer | Bernard Malamud |
| The Killer Angels | Michael Shaara |
| Humboldt's Gift | Saul Bellow |
| The Executioner's Song | Norman Mailer |
| A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole |
| Rabbit is Rich | John Updike |
| Ironweed | William Kennedy |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| Winesberg, Ohio | Sherwood Anderson |
| The Adventures of Augie March | Saul Bellow |
| Henderson the Rain King | Saul Bellow |
| Herzog | Saul Bellow |
| The Devil's Dictionary | Ambrose Bierce |
| Tobacco Road | Erskine Caldwell |
| Breakfast at Tiffany's | Truman Capote |
| In Cold Blood | Truman Capote |
| Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather |
| The Awakening | Kate Chopin |
| The Hunt for Red October | Tom Clancy |
| Taipan | James Clavell |
| Shogun | James Clavell |
| The Great Santini | Pat Conroy |
| The Prince of Tides | Pat Conroy |
| The Pathfinder | James Fenimore Cooper |
| The Deerslayer | James Fenimore Cooper |
| Maggie: A Girl of the Streets | Stephen Crane |
| Two Years Before the Mast | Richard Henry Dana, Jr |
| Deliverance | James Dickey |
| Ragtime | E.L. Doctorow |
| U.S.A. trilogy | John Dos Passos |
| Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser |
| An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner |
| Light in August | William Faulkner |
| Absalom! Absalom! | William Faulkner |
| As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| This Side of Paradise | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Beautiful and the Damned | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Tender is the Night | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Last Tycoon | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman | Ernest Gaines |
| Grendel | John Gardner |
| The Maltese Falcon | Dashiell Hammett |
| A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansberry |
| Uncle Remus | Joel Chandler Harris |
| The House of the Seven Gables | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| The Marble Faun | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| The Little Foxes | Lillian Hellman |
| Dune | Frank Herbert |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston |
| The Cider House Rules | John Irving |
| The World According to Garp | John Irving |
| Daisy Miller | Henry James |
| The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James |
| The Turn of the Screw | Henry James |
| The Ambassadors | Henry James |
| The Golden Bowl | Henry James |
| The Bostonian | Henry James |
| The American | Henry James |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey |
| Main Street | Sinclair Lewis |
| Elmer Gantry | Sinclair Lewis |
| Arrowsmith | Sinclair Lewis |
| Dodsworth | Sinclair Lewis |
| The Natural | Bernard Malamud |
| The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison |
| Tar Baby | Toni Morrison |
| Sula | Toni Morrison |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Epic of Wheat trilogy | Frank Norris |
| The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath |
| The Chosen | Chaim Potok |
| My Name is Asher Lev | Chaim Potok |
| The Godfather | Mario Puzo |
| Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon |
| The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand |
| Anthem | Ayn Rand |
| Interview with the Vampire | Anne Rice |
| Giants in the Earth | Ole Rolvaag |
| Portnoy's Complaint | Philip Roth |
| Franny and Zoey | J.D. Salinger |
| The Human Comedy | William Saroyan |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair |
| Gimpel the Fool | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas | Gertrude Stein |
| The Winter of Our Discontent | John Steinbeck |
| East of Eden | John Steinbeck |
| The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan |
| The Kitchen God's Wife | Amy Tan |
| The Accidental Tourist | Anne Tyler |
| Exodus | Leon Uris |
| Cat's Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Slaughterhouse Five | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Ben Hur | Lew Wallace |
| The House of Mirth | Edith Wharton |
| Ethan Frome | Edith Wharton |
| You Can't Go Home Again | Thomas Wolfe |
| Look Homeward, Angel | Thomas Wolfe |
| The Bonfire of the Vanities | Tom Wolfe |
| The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test | Tom Wolfe |
| The Right Stuff | Tom Wolfe |
| War and Remembrance | Herman Wouk |
| Black Boy | Richard Wright |
