To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Rabbit at Rest (Rabbit Angstrom, #4)

John Updike

A Thousand Acres

Jane Smiley

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

Robert Olen Butler

The Shipping News

Annie Proulx

The Stone Diaries

Carol Shields

Independence Day

Richard Ford

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

Steven Millhauser

The Hours

Michael Cunningham

Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Michael Chabon

Empire Falls

Richard Russo

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides

The Known World

Edward P. Jones

Gilead (Gilead, #1)

Marilynne Robinson

March

Geraldine Brooks

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz

Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)

Elizabeth Strout

Tinkers

Paul Harding

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan

The Orphan Master's Son

Adam Johnson

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

Less (Arthur Less, #1)

Andrew Sean Greer

The Overstory

Richard Powers

The Night Watchman

Louise Erdrich

The Netanyahus

Joshua Cohen