The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

Telegraph Avenue

Michael Chabon

Freedom

Jonathan Franzen

Underworld

Don DeLillo

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

Cormac McCarthy

Gravity’s Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

The Adventures of Augie March

Saul Bellow

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Anita Loos

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Herman Melville

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

James Fenimore Cooper

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne