Classical 800-400 BC
1. The Iliad – Homer
Medieval 1066-1500
2. The Divine Comedy – Dante
3. The Decameron – Bocaccio
4. The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
Renaissance 1500-1660
5. The Prince – Macchiavelli
6. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini – Benvenuto Cellini
Neo-Classical 1660-1775
7. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
8. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
9. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Romantic Period 1735-1830
10. The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
11. Persuasion - Jane Austen
12. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
13. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
14. Emma – Jane Austen
15. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Victorian Period 1932-1901
1. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
2. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
3. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
4. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
5. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
6. The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain
7. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
8. Middlemarch – George Eliot
9. Little Women – Louis May Alcott
10. A Long Fatal Love Chase – Louis May Alcott
11. Behind a Mask – Louisa May Alcott
12. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
13. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
14. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
15. Hard Times – Charles Dickens
16. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
17. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
18. Dracula – Bram Stoker
Modern 1914-1945
19. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
20. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
21. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
22. Mrs. Dolloway – Virginia Woolf
23. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
24. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
25. A Portrait of the Artist as Young Man – James Joyce
26. Their Eyes were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
27. The Sun also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
28. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
29. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
30. This Side of Paradise – F. Scott Fitzgerald
31. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
32. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. Death Comes for the Archbishop – Will Cather
34. My Antonia – Willa Cather
35. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
36. A Room with a View/Howard’s End – E.M. Forrester
37. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
38. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
39. Light in August – William Faulkner
40. As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
41. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
42. The Trial – Franz Kafka
43. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
44. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
Post-Modern 1950-Present
45. From Death to Morning – Thomas Wolfe
46. Paradise – Donald Barthelme
47. Sing the Body Electric – Ray Bradbury
48. Quicker than the Eye – Ray Bradbury
49. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
50. Dervish is Digital – Pat Cadigan
51. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
52. Falling Man- Don DeLillo
53. War Trash – Ha Jin
54. Waiting – Ha Jin
55. War Dances – Sherman Alexie
56. Reservations Blues – Sherman Alexie
57. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
58. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven – Sherman Alexie
59. The Hour I First Believed – Wally Lamb
60. I now this much is True – Wally Lamb
61. She’s Come Undone – Wally Lamb
62. Breakfast of Champions –Kurt Vonnegut
63. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
64. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
65. Terrorist – John Updike
66. The Poorhouse Fair – John Updike
67. The Holder of the World – Bharati Mukherjee
68. Desirable Daughter – Bharati Mukherjee
69. Beloved – Toni Morrison
70. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
71. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
72. The Dispossessed – Ursula LeGuin
73. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
74. The Temple of my Familiar – Alice Walker
75. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
76. The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
77. Accordion Crimes – Annie Proulx
78. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
79. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
80. Eleanor Rigby – Douglas Coupland
81. JPOD – Douglas Coupland
82. Hey Nostradamus – Douglas Coupland
83. Generations X – Douglas Coupland
84. Miss Wyoming – Douglas Coupland
85. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
86. The Wars – Timothy Findley
87. The Piano Man’s Daughter – Timothy Findley
88. Famous Last Words – Timothy Findley
89. Not Wanted on the Voyage – Timothy Findley
90. The Cat’s Table – Michael Ondaatje
91. In the Skin of a Lion – Michael Ondaatje
92. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
93. Lives of Girls and Women – Alice Munro
94. Open Secrets – Alice Munro
95. The Love of a Good Woman – Alice Munro
96. Shame – Salman Rushdie
97. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
98. The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein – Peter Ackroyd
99. The Beach – Alex Garland
100. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
101. Atonement – Ian McEwan
102. A Lesson Before Dying – Ernest J. Gaines
103. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman – Ernest J. Gaines
104. Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman
105. Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
106. Juneteenth – Ralph Ellison
107. The Game of Silence – Louise Erdrich
108. The Antelope Wife – Louise Erdrich
109. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
110. The Plague – Albert Camus
111. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
112. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
113. Of Love and Other Demons – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
114. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
115. Little Bee – Chris Cleave
116. The Green Mile –Stephen King
117. The Shining – Stephen King
118. Thinner – Stephen King
119. The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon – Stephen King
120. Neuromancer – William Gibson
121. All Tomorrow’s Parties – William Gibson
122. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
123. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. – Ken Kesey
124. Adam Bede – George Eliot
125. A Separate Peace – John Knowles
126. The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
127. The Bonesetter’s Daughter – Amy Tan
128. The World According to Garp – John Irving
129. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
130. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniers
131. Go tell it on the Mountain – James Baldwin
132. Oracle Night – Paul Auster
133. Kindred – Octavia Butler
134. The Devils –Fyodor Dostoyevsky
135. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
136. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
137. Never let me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
138. When we were Orphans – Kazuo Ishiguro
139. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguo
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