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Novels
1984, George Orwell
Alienist, The, Caleb Carr
All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Beowulf (Seamus Heaney translation), anonymous
Bluest Eye, The, Toni Morrison
Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The,
Milan Kundera
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
Brothers Karamazov, The, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Candide, Voltaire
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye, The, J.D. Salinger
Clockwork Orange, A, Anthony Burgess
Color Purple, The, Alice Walker
Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
Eva Luna, Isabel Allende
Eyre Affair, The, Jasper Fforde
Faust, Goethe
Fountainhead, The, Ayn Rand
Grapes of Wrath, The, John Steinbeck
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Great Gatsby, The, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The,
Douglas Adams
Hobbit, The, J.R.R. Tolkien
Hours, The, Michael Cunningham
House on Mango Street, The, Sandra Cisneros
How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents,
Julia Alvarez
Iliad, The, Homer
Inferno (Robert Pinsky translation),
Dante Alighieri
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Joy Luck Club, The, Amy Tan
Killer Angels, The, Michael Shaara
King Must Die, The, Mary Renault
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Lord of the Rings, The, J.R.R. Tolkein
Magus, The, John Fowles
Martian Chronicles, The, Ray Bradbury
Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
Modest Proposal, A, Jonathon
Swift
Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathon Lethem
Moviegoer, The, Walker Percy
My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
Mythology, Edith Hamilton
Natural, The, Bernard Malumud
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
Odyssey, The, Homer
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Old Man and the Sea, The, Ernest Hemingway
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken
Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel
Garcia Marquez
Pearl, The, John Steinbeck
Personal Anthology, A, Jorge Luis
Borges
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,
James Joyce
Power and the Glory, The, Graham Greene
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Rabbit, Run, John Updike
Red Tent, The, Anita Diamant
Remains of the Day, The, Kazuo Ishiguro
Scarlet Letter, The, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Separate Peace, A, John Knowles
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
Sound and the Fury, The, William Faulkner
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert
Heinlein
Sun Also Rises, The, Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora
Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
Tortilla Flat, John Steinbeck
Tree Grows In Brooklyn, A, Betty Smith
Tristan and Isolde, anonymous
Underground Man, The, Fyodor Dostoevsky
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
Women In Love, D.H. Lawrence
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Short Stories
Best American Nonrequired Reading
2002, The (anthology), Dave Eggers, ed.
Cathedral, Raymond Carver
Dubliners, James Joyce
Tales of O. Henry, O. Henry
Good Man is Hard to Find, A, Flannery
O'Conner
In Our Time, Ernest Hemingway
Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger
Speaking with the Angel (short story
anthology), Nick Hornby, ed.
Poetry
Collected poems of Emily Dickinson
Selected poems of Robert Frost
Collected poems of Langston Hughes
Poetry of Edwin Arlington Robinson
Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Masters
Drama
As You Like It, William Shakespeare
Crucible, The, Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
Glass Menagerie, The, Tennessee Williams
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
Heidi Chronicles, The, Wendy Wasserstein
Henry V, William Shakespeare
Iceman Cometh, The, Eugene O'Neill
Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare
King Lear, William Shakespeare
Long Day's Journey into Night, Eugene
O'Neill
Macbeth, William Shakespeare
Midsummer Night's Dream, A, William
Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
Othello, William Shakespeare
Richard III, William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
Streetcar Named Desire, A, Tennessee
Williams
Waiting For Godot, Samuel Beckett
The Arts
Room of One's Own, A, Virginia Woolf
Season, The, William Goldman
Woe is I, Patricia O'Connor (guide to speaking and writing
well)
Biography
Act One, Moss Hart
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya
Angelou
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas:
An American Slave, Frederick Douglas
Current Affairs
Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
Essays
"The Decay of Lying", Oscar Wilde
"Friendship", Ralph Waldo Emerson
"How to Be Alone", Jonathan Franzen
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, A, David Foster
Wallace
Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big
Difference, The, Malcolm Gladwell
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
History
All the President's Men, Bob Woodward and Carl
Bernstein (Watergate)
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The ,
Benjamin Franklin
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee
Brown
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The,
Edward Gibbon
Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel
A Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel
Defoe
People's History of the United States,
A, Howard Zinn
Professor and the Madman, The, Simon
Winchester (creation of OED)
Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy,
Jr.
Ten Days That Shook the World, John
Reed (Russian Revolution)
Thirteen Days, Robert F. Kennedy (Cuban
Missile Crisis)
Philosophy
Confessions of a Philosopher, Bryan Magee
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,
Robert Persig
Politics
Art of War, The, Sun Tzu
Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
Republic, The, Plato
Psychology
Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud
Mindfulness, Ellen Langer
Science
Brief History of Time, A, Stephen Hawking
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches, Marvin Harris
(anthropology)
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations
on the Origins of Human Intelligence,
Carl Sagan
Godel Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid,
Douglas Hofstadter
Immense Journey, The, Loren Eiseley
Origin of Species, The, Charles
Darwin
To Engineer is Human: the Role
of Failure in Successful Design, Henry
Petroski
Sports
The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn
(baseball)
Once More Around the Park: A Baseball
Reader, Roger Angell
The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and
the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever,
John Feinstein
The Summer of '49, David Halberstam
(baseball)
Magazines/Newspapers
The American Prospect (politics)
The Atlantic Monthly
The Economist
Newsweek
The New Yorker
Scientific American
Time
The Weekly Standard (politics)
The Boston Globe (op-ed columns, film/theater reviews,
science/technology articles)
The New York Press
The New York Times (op-ed columns, film/theater
reviews, science/technology articles)
The Village Voice
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