The Water Dancer

Ta-Nehisi Coates

White Teeth

Zadie Smith

Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

Kindred

Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood

The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

Sophocles

No Exit

Jean-Paul Sartre

The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts

Arthur Miller

Tangerine

Edward Bloor

Illness as Metaphor

Susan Sontag

Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton

Animal Farm

George Orwell

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Mildred D. Taylor

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

Not Without Laughter

Langston Hughes

Middlemarch

George Eliot

The Giver

Lois Lowry