INDEPENDENT READING AUTHOR/WORKS LIST
Albee, EdwardThe Zoo Story
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Alcott, Louisa MayLittle Women
Alvarez, JuliaIn the Time of the Butterflies
Anaya, RudolphoBless Me, Ultima
Arnow, HarietteThe Dollmaker
Atwood, MargaretThe Handmaid’s Tale
Austen, JanePersuasion
Emma
Mansfield Park
Sense & Sensibility
Baldwin, JamesGo Tell It On the Mountain
Another Country
Baraka, Amiri & Jones, LeroiDutchman
Beckett, SamuelWaiting for Godot
Bulosan, CarlosAmerica is in the Heart
Camus, AlbertThe Plague
Cao, LanMonkey Bridge
Cather, WillaMy Antonia
Cervantes, MiguelDon Quixote
Chekov, AntonThe Cherry Orchard
Cisneros, SandraThe House on Mango Street
Conrad, JosephThe Heart of Darkness
Lord Jim
DanteThe Inferno
Davies, RobertsonFifth Business
de Crevecoeur, Hector St. JohnLetters from an American Farmer
Defoe, DanielMoll Flanders
Dickens, CharlesBleak House
David Copperfield
Tale of Two Cities
Divakaruni, ChitraSister of My Heart
Doctorow, E. L. Ragtime
Dos Passos, JohnU.S.A. (trilogy)
Dostoevsky, FyodorCrime & Punishment
Dreiser, TheodoreAn American Tragedy
Sister Carrie
Eliot, GeorgeThe Mill on the Floss
Middlemarch
Eliot, T.S.Murder in the Cathedral
Erdrich, LouiseLove Medicine
Tracks
Faulkner, WilliamAbsalom, Absalom,
Light in August
Sound & The Fury
The Bear
Fielding, HenryA History of Tom Jones
Flaubert, GustaveMadame Bovary
Ford, Ford MadoxThe Good Soldier
Forster, E.M.Passage to India
Frazier, CharlesCold Mountain
Fuller, CharlesA Soldier’s Play
Gaines, ErnestA Gathering of Old Men
A Lesson Before Dying
GoetheFaust
Guterson, DavidSnow Falling on Cedars
Jin, HaA Free Life
Hansberry, LorraineA Raisin in the Sun
Hardy, ThomasJude the Obscure
Tess of the D’Ubervilles
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hawthorne, NathanielThe House of the Seven Gables
The Scarlet Letter
Heller, JosephCatch-22
Hellman, LillianLittle Foxes
Hemingway, ErnestA Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Sun Also Rises
Hosseini, KhaledThe Kite Runner
Irving, John A Prayer for Owen Meany
Ishiguro, KazuoNever Let Me Go
Remains of the Day
James, HenryDaisy Miller
Portrait of a Lady
The American
Turn of the Screw
Jen, GishTypical American
Johnson, James WeldonAn Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Joyce, JamesPortrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kingsolver, BarbaraThe Poisonwood Bible
Kingston, Maxine HongThe Warrior Woman
Kogawa, JoyObasan
Lahiri, JhumpaThe Namesake
Larsen, NellaPassing
Lee, Chang-RaeA Gesture Life
Native Speaker
Marquez, Gabriel GarciaOne Hundred Years of Solitude
McCarthy, CormacAll the Pretty Horses
The Crossing
The Road
McCullers, CarsonThe Member of the Wedding
McEwan, IanAtonement
McKay, ClaudeHome to Harlem
Malamud, BernardThe Fixer
Melville, HermanMoby Dick
MiltonParadise Lost
MoliereThe Misanthrope
Momaday, N. ScottHouse Made of Dawn
Morrison, ToniSong of Solomon
Sula
Beloved
The Bluest Eye
Mukherjee, BharatiJasmine
Naylor, GloriaThe Women of Brewster Place
Ng, Fae MyenneBone: A Novel
O’Brien, TimothyThe Things They Carried
Going After Cacciato
O’Connor, FlanneryWise Blood
O’Neill, EugeneLong Days Journey Into Night
Mourning Becomes Electra
Oates, Joyce CarolWe are the Mulvaney’s
Pielmeier, JohnAgnes of God
Proulx, E. AnnieThe Shipping News
Rhys, JeanWide Sargasso Sea
Roth, PhilipAmerican Pastoral
Sartre, JeanPaulNo Exit
Shaw, George BernardMajor Barbara
Pygmalion
Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Silko, Leslie MarmonCeremony
Sinclair, UptonThe Jungle
Smiley, JaneA Thousand Acres
Stoppard, ThomasRosencrantz & Gildenstern are Dead
Stowe, Harriet BeecherUncle Tom’s Cabin
Styron, WilliamSophie’s Choice
Swift, JonathanGulliver’s Travels
Tan, AmyThe Bonesetter’s Daughter
Tolstoy, LeoAnna Karenina
Twain, MarkHuckleberry Finn
Villarreal, Jose AntonioPocho
Vonnegut, KurtSlaughterhouse Five
Walker, AliceThe Color Purple
Warren, Robert PennAll the King’s Men
Wharton, EdithEthan Frome
The Age of Innocence
The House of Mirth
Wideman, John EdgarSent For You Yesterday
Wilde, OscarThe Picture of Dorian Gray
The Importance of Being Earnest
Wilson, AugustFences
The Piano Lesson
Woolf, VirginiaMrs. Dalloway
To the Lighthouse
Wright, RichardBlack Boy
Native Son
Wroblewski, DavidThe Story of Edgar Sawtelle
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