10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

Elif Shafak

Fiction

12 Rules for Life

Jordan B. Peterson

Nonfiction

12 Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

Nonfiction

1776

David McCullough

Nonfiction

1984

George Orwell

Fiction

2001: A Space Odyssey

Arthur C. Clarke

Fiction

55 Miles to the Gas Pump

Annie Proulx

Fiction

The 57 Bus

Dashka Slater

Nonfiction

The 5th Wave

Rick Yancey

Fiction

The 7 Stages of Grieving

Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman

Play or Drama

A
The Abolition of Man

C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction

About a Boy

Nick Hornby

Fiction

Absalom and Achitophel

John Dryden

Narrative Poetry

Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner

Fiction

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie

Fiction

Absurd Person Singular

Sir Alan Ayckbourn

Play or Drama

An Abundance of Katherines

John Green

Fiction

Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Dario Fo

Play or Drama

Across Five Aprils

Irene Hunt

Fiction

Address on Woman’s Rights

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nonfiction

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Mary E. Pearson

Fiction

The Adventure of the Speckled Band

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

Fiction

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

Fiction

The Aeneid

Virgil

Narrative Poetry

After Darkness

Christine Piper

Fiction

After Twenty Years

O. Henry

Fiction

After the Race

James Joyce

Fiction

Agamemnon

Aeschylus

Play or Drama

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

Fiction

Age of Iron

J. M. Coetzee
Fiction

Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë

Fiction

Ain’t I a Woman?

Sojourner Truth

Nonfiction

Akata Witch

Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction

Al Capone Does My Shirts

Gennifer Choldenko

Fiction

Alcestis

Euripides

Play or Drama

The Alchemist

Ben Jonson

Play or Drama

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

Fiction

Alias Grace

Margaret Atwood

Fiction

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

Fiction

All American Boys

Jason Reynolds

Fiction
All For Love

John Dryden

Play or Drama

All My Sons

Arthur Miller

Play or Drama

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque

Fiction

All Summer in a Day

Ray Bradbury

Fiction

All The King's Men

Robert Penn Warren

Fiction

All the Bright Places

Jennifer Niven

Fiction

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

Fiction

All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy

Fiction

All's Well that Ends Well

William Shakespeare

Play or Drama

Always Running

Luis J. Rodriguez

Nonfiction

Amal Unbound
Aisha Saeed

Fiction

America Is in the Heart

Carlos Bulosan

Fiction

American Born Chinese

Gene Luen Yang

Fiction

An American Childhood

Annie Dillard

Nonfiction

American Dirt

Jeanine Cummins

Fiction

The American Dream

Edward Albee

Play or Drama

American Gods

Neil Gaiman

Fiction

An American Marriage

Tayari Jones

Fiction

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction

B. Wordsworth

V. S. Naipaul

Fiction

The Bad Beginning

Lemony Snicket

Fiction

Bad Dreams

Tessa Hadley

Fiction

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Suzanne Collins

Fiction

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Dai Sijie

Fiction

Barn Burning

William Faulkner

Fiction

The Baron in the Trees

Italo Calvino

Fiction

Barracoon

Zora Neale Hurston

Nonfiction

Bartleby, the Scrivener

Herman Melville

Fiction

The Bath

Janet Frame

Fiction

The Beak of the Finch

Jonathan Weiner

Nonfiction

The Bean Trees

Barbara Kingsolver
Fiction

The Bear Came Over the Mountain

Alice Munro

Fiction

Beartown

Fredrik Backman

Fiction

The Beast in the Jungle

Henry James

Fiction

Beautiful Boy

David Sheff

Nonfiction

A Beautiful Mind

Sylvia Nasar

Nonfiction

The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction

Because of Winn-Dixie

Kate DiCamillo

Fiction

Becoming

Michelle Obama

Nonfiction

Becoming Nicole

Amy Ellis Nutt

Nonfiction

The Beekeeper of Aleppo

Christy Lefteri

Fiction
Before I Fall

Lauren Oliver

Fiction

Before We Were Free

Julia Alvarez

Fiction

Before We Were Yours

Lisa Wingate

Fiction

The Beggar’s Opera

John Gay

Play or Drama

Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Katherine Boo

Nonfiction

Behold the Dreamers

Imbolo Mbue

Fiction

Being Mortal

Atul Gawande

Nonfiction

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

Fiction

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Fiction

A Bend in the River

V. S. Naipaul

Fiction

Beneath a Scarlet Sky

Mark Sullivan

Fiction

Benito Cereno

Herman Melville

Fiction

Beowulf

Anonymous

Narrative Poetry

Berenice

Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction

Best Seller

P.G. Wodehouse

Fiction

The Best We Could Do

Thi Bui

Nonfiction

The Bet

Anton Chekhov

Fiction

Betrayal

Harold Pinter

Play or Drama

Between Shades of Gray

Ruta Sepetys

Fiction

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates
Nonfiction

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction

The Bhagavad Gita

Anonymous

Narrative Poetry

Big Fish

Daniel Wallace

Fiction

The Big Short

Michael Lewis

Nonfiction

The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler

Fiction

Big Two-Hearted River

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction

Billy Budd

Herman Melville

Fiction

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

Ben Fountain

Fiction

Binti

Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction

The Birds

Daphne du Maurier

Fiction
Birdsong

Sebastian Faulks

Fiction

The Birthday Party

Harold Pinter

Play or Drama

The Birthmark

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction

The Black Ball

Ralph Ellison

Fiction

Black Beauty

Anna Sewell

Fiction

Black Boy

Richard Wright

Nonfiction

Black Diggers

Tom Wright

Play or Drama

Black Elk Speaks

John G. Neihardt

Nonfiction

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

Fiction

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

Kim Michele Richardson

Fiction

Borderlands / La Frontera
Gloria Anzaldúa

Narrative Poetry

Born a Crime

Trevor Noah

Nonfiction

Boule de Suif

Guy de Maupassant

Fiction

Boy

Roald Dahl

Nonfiction

The Boy Behind the Curtain

Tim Winton

Nonfiction

Boy Overboard

Morris Gleitzman

Fiction

Boy Swallows Universe

Trent Dalton

Fiction

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

William Kamkwamba

Nonfiction

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

John Boyne

Fiction

Boys Don’t Cry

Malorie Blackman

Fiction

The Boys in the Boat

Daniel James Brown

Nonfiction

Braiding Sweetgrass

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Nonfiction

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

Susannah Cahalan

Nonfiction

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Fiction

Bread Givers

Anzia Yezierska

Fiction

The Breadwinner

Deborah Ellis

Fiction

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Truman Capote

Fiction

Breakfast of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut

Fiction

Breaking Night

Liz Murray

Nonfiction

Breath

Tim Winton

Fiction

Breath, Eyes, Memory

Edwidge Danticat

Fiction
Brick Lane

Monica Ali

Fiction

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky

Stephen Crane

Fiction

Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh

Fiction

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Thornton Wilder

Fiction

Bridge to Terabithia

Katherine Paterson

Fiction

A Brief History of Seven Killings

Marlon James

Fiction

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

Nonfiction

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz

Fiction

Brighton Rock

Graham Greene

Fiction

Brokeback Mountain

Annie Proulx

Fiction

Broken April
Ismail Kadare

Fiction

Bronx Masquerade

Nikki Grimes

Fiction

The Bronze Bow

Elizabeth George Speare

Fiction

Brooklyn

Colm Tóibín

Fiction

Brother

David Chariandy

Fiction

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction

Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson

Nonfiction

The Browning Version

Terence Rattigan

Play or Drama

Bud, Not Buddy

Christopher Paul Curtis

Fiction

The Buddha in the Attic

Julie Otsuka

Fiction

The Buddha of Suburbia

Hanif Kureishi
Fiction

Bullet in the Brain

Tobias Wolff

Fiction

Burial Rites

Hannah Kent

Fiction

Buried Child

Sam Shepard

Play or Drama

The Buried Giant

Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction

Burmese Days

George Orwell

Fiction

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Dee Brown

Nonfiction

By the Waters of Babylon

Stephen Vincent Benét

Fiction

Caesar and Cleopatra

George Bernard Shaw

Play or Drama

Cake

Cate Kennedy

Fiction

The Californian’s Tale

Mark Twain
Fiction

Call Me By Your Name

André Aciman

Fiction

The Call of the Wild

Jack London

Fiction

Candide

Voltaire

Fiction

Cannery Row

John Steinbeck

Fiction

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

Narrative Poetry

The Canterville Ghost

Oscar Wilde

Fiction

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Louis De Bernières

Fiction

The Caretaker

Harold Pinter

Play or Drama

Carmilla

Sheridan Le Fanu

Fiction

Carrie

Stephen King

Fiction
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

Jean Lee Latham

Fiction

Caste

Isabel Wilkerson

Nonfiction

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

Fiction

Cat in the Rain

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Tennessee Williams

Play or Drama

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

Fiction

The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger

Fiction

Catching Fire

Suzanne Collins

Fiction

Catching Teller Crow

Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina

Fiction

Cathedral

Raymond Carver

Fiction

Cat’s Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut

Fiction

Cat’s Eye

Margaret Atwood

Fiction

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Bertolt Brecht

Play or Drama

The Cay

Theodore Taylor

Fiction

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Mark Twain

Fiction

Celia, a Slave

Melton McLaurin

Nonfiction

The Cellist of Sarajevo

Steven Galloway

Fiction

Ceremony

Leslie Marmon Silko

Fiction

Chains

Laurie Halse Anderson

Fiction

The Changeling

Thomas Middleton and William Rowley

Play or Drama

Changes in the Land

William Cronon
Nonfiction

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl

Fiction

Charlotte Temple

Susanna Rowson

Fiction

Charlotte’s Web

E. B. White

Fiction

Chasing Lincoln’s Killer

James L. Swanson

Nonfiction

Chasing the Scream

Johann Hari

Nonfiction

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

Thomas Middleton

Play or Drama

The Cherry Orchard

Anton Chekhov

Play or Drama

Chickamauga

Ambrose Bierce

Fiction

Chike’s School Days

Chinua Achebe

Fiction

A Child Called It

Dave Pelzer

Nonfiction
The Child by Tiger

Thomas Wolfe

Fiction

Childhood’s End

Arthur C. Clarke

Fiction

Children of Blood and Bone

Tomi Adeyemi

Fiction

The Children of Men

P. D. James

Fiction

Children of Virtue and Vengeance

Tomi Adeyemi

Fiction

Chinese Cinderella

Adeline Yen Mah

Nonfiction

The Chinese Statue

Jeffrey Archer

Fiction

The Chocolate War

Robert Cormier

Fiction

The Chosen

Chaim Potok

Fiction

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

Fiction

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction

The Chrysalids

John Wyndham

Fiction

The Chrysanthemums

John Steinbeck

Fiction

Cinder

Marissa Meyer

Fiction

Circe

Madeline Miller

Fiction

The Circle

Dave Eggers

Fiction

The Circuit

Francisco Jiménez

Fiction

Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine

Nonfiction

The City & the City

China Miéville

Fiction

The City We Became

N. K. Jemisin

Fiction

The City of Ember

Jeanne DuPrau
Fiction

City of Glass

Paul Auster

Fiction

City of Thieves

David Benioff

Fiction

Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

Nonfiction

Civil Peace

Chinua Achebe

Fiction

Civilization and Its Discontents

Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction

Clap When You Land

Elizabeth Acevedo

Fiction

Clay

James Joyce

Fiction

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction

Clear Light of Day

Anita Desai

Fiction

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess

Fiction
Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell

Fiction

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Anthony Doerr

Fiction

Cloudstreet

Tim Winton

Fiction

Clybourne Park

Bruce Norris

Play or Drama

Code Name Verity

Elizabeth Wein

Fiction

Code Talker

Joseph Bruchac

Fiction

Cold Mountain

Charles Frazier

Fiction

The Collector

John Fowles

Fiction

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

Fiction

The Color of Law

Richard Rothstein

Nonfiction

The Color of Water

James McBride

Nonfiction

Columbine

Dave Cullen

Nonfiction

The Comedy of Errors

William Shakespeare

Play or Drama

Coming Home

Athol Fugard

Play or Drama

Coming of Age in Mississippi

Anne Moody

Nonfiction

Common Sense

Thomas Paine

Nonfiction

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx

Nonfiction

A Complicated Kindness

Miriam Toews

Fiction

Concrete Rose

Angie Thomas

Fiction

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

Fiction

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

Mark Twain
Fiction

The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius

Nonfiction

Convenience Store Woman

Sakaya Murata

Fiction

The Cop and the Anthem

O. Henry

Fiction

Copper Sun

Sharon Draper

Fiction

The Coquette

Hannah Webster Foster

Fiction

Coraline

Neil Gaiman

Fiction

Coriolanus

William Shakespeare

Play or Drama

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

Fiction

Counterparts

James Joyce

Fiction

Counting by 7s

Holly Goldberg Sloan

Fiction
The Country Wife

William Wycherley

Play or Drama

Crazy Rich Asians

Kevin Kwan

Fiction

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction

Crito

Plato

Nonfiction

Cross-Country

Cate Kennedy

Fiction

The Crossover

Kwame Alexander

Fiction

Crow Country

Kate Constable

Fiction

The Crucible

Arthur Miller

Play or Drama

The Cruel Prince

Holly Black

Fiction

Crumbs from the Table of Joy

Lynn Nottage

Play or Drama

Cry, the Beloved Country

Alan Paton

Fiction

Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner

Nonfiction

The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

Fiction

A Cup of Tea

Katherine Mansfield

Fiction

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

Fiction

The Custody of the Pumpkin

P.G. Wodehouse

Fiction

The Custom of the Country

Edith Wharton

Fiction

Cymbeline

William Shakespeare

Play or Drama

Cyrano De Bergerac

Edmond Rostand

Play or Drama

DNA
Dennis Kelly

Fiction

Daisy Miller

Henry James

Fiction

Dance of the Happy Shades

Alice Munro

Fiction

Darius the Great Is Not Okay

Adib Khorram

Fiction

Dark Roots

Cate Kennedy

Fiction

Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed

Ray Bradbury

Fiction

Darkness at Noon

Arthur Koestler

Fiction

The Daughters of the Late Colonel

Katherine Mansfield

Fiction

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

Fiction

David and Goliath

Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction

Dawn

Elie Wiesel
Fiction

A Day’s Wait

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction

Deacon King Kong

James McBride

Fiction

The Dead

James Joyce

Fiction

Dead Men’s Path

Chinua Achebe

Fiction

Dead Poets Society

N. H. Kleinbaum

Fiction

Deadly, Unna?

Phillip Gwynne

Fiction

Dear America

Jose Antonio Vargas

Nonfiction

Dear Justyce

Nic Stone

Fiction

Dear Martin

Nic Stone

Fiction

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Willa Cather

Fiction
Death Constant Beyond Love

Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction

Death and the King’s Horseman

Wole Soyinka

Play or Drama

Death and the Maiden

Ariel Dorfman

Play or Drama

Death in Venice

Thomas Mann

Fiction

Death in the Woods

Sherwood Anderson

Fiction

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Leo Tolstoy

Fiction

Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller

Play or Drama

Death on the Nile

Agatha Christie

Fiction

The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio

Fiction

Democracy in America

Alexis de Toqueville

Nonfiction

Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction

The Demon Lover

Elizabeth Bowen

Fiction

Desert Solitaire

Edward Abbey

Nonfiction

Desire Under the Elms

Eugene O’Neill

Play or Drama

The Destructors

Graham Greene

Fiction

The Devil and Tom Walker

Washington Irving

Fiction

The Devil in the White City

Erik Larson

Nonfiction

The Devil’s Arithmetic

Jane Yolen

Fiction

The Devil’s Highway

Luis Alberto Urrea

Nonfiction

The Devoted Friend

Oscar Wilde

Fiction

The Dew Breaker

Edwidge Danticat
Fiction

The Dharma Bums

Jack Kerouac

Fiction

Diamond Boy

Michael Williams

Fiction

The Diary of Anne Frank

Anne Frank

Nonfiction

The Diary of a Madman

Nikolai Gogol

Fiction

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Jeff Kinney

Fiction

Dibs in Search of Self

Virginia Axline

Nonfiction

A Different Mirror

Ronald Takaki

Nonfiction

The Disappearing Spoon

Sam Kean

Nonfiction

Discourse on Colonialism

Aimé Césaire

Nonfiction

Disgrace

J. M. Coetzee

Fiction
Disgraced

Ayad Akhtar

Play or Drama

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction

The Distance Between Us

Reyna Grande

Nonfiction

Divergent

Veronica Roth

Fiction

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Jean-Dominique Bauby

Nonfiction

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick

Fiction

Do Not Say We Have Nothing

Madeleine Thien

Fiction

Doctor Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

Play or Drama

A Doll's House

Henrik Ibsen

Play or Drama

The Doll’s House

Katherine Mansfield

Fiction

Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes

Fiction

Don’t Call Me Ishmael

Michael Gerard Bauer

Fiction

The Door in the Wall

H. G. Wells

Fiction

Dopesick

Beth Macy

Nonfiction

The Double Helix

James D. Watson

Nonfiction

Doubt: A Parable

John Patrick Shanley

Play or Drama

Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell

Nonfiction

The Downstairs Girl

Stacey Lee

Fiction

Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction

Dracula

Bram Stoker
Fiction

The Dream House

Craig Higginson

Fiction

Dream on Monkey Mountain

Derek Walcott

Play or Drama

Dreaming in Cuban

Cristina García

Fiction

Dreamland

Sam Quinones

Nonfiction

Dreams from My Father

Barack Obama

Nonfiction

The Dressmaker

Rosalie Ham

Fiction

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Olga Tokarczuk

Fiction

The Drover’s Wife

Henry Lawson

Fiction

Drown

Junot Díaz

Fiction

The Drowned World

J. G. Ballard

Fiction
The Drunkard

Frank O’Connor

Fiction

Dry

Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

Fiction

The Dry

Jane Harper

Fiction

Dry September

William Faulkner

Fiction

The Duchess of Malfi

John Webster

Play or Drama

The Dumb Waiter

Harold Pinter

Play or Drama

Dune

Frank Herbert

Fiction

Dune Messiah

Frank Herbert

Fiction

Désirée’s Baby

Kate Chopin

Fiction

East of Eden

John Steinbeck

Fiction
Echo

Pam Muñoz Ryan

Fiction

The Edible Woman

Margaret Atwood

Fiction

Educated

Tara Westover

Nonfiction

Educating Rita

Willy Russell

Play or Drama

Edward II

Christopher Marlowe

Play or Drama

Eichmann in Jerusalem

Hannah Arendt

Fiction

Elatsoe

Darcie Little Badger

Fiction

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman

Fiction

Eleanor and Park

Rainbow Rowell

Fiction

Electra

Sophocles

Play or Drama

Elephant
Raymond Carver

Fiction

The Elephant Vanishes

Haruki Murakami

Fiction

Ella Minnow Pea

Mark Dunn

Fiction

Emma

Jane Austen

Fiction

The Emperor Jones

Eugene O’Neill

Play or Drama

An Encounter

James Joyce

Fiction

The End of the Affair

Graham Greene

Fiction

Ender’s Game

Orson Scott Card

Fiction

Endgame

Samuel Beckett

Play or Drama

Enduring Love

Ian McEwan

Fiction

The Enemy

Pearl Buck
Fiction

The Enemy

V. S. Naipaul

Fiction

An Enemy of the People

Henrik Ibsen

Play or Drama

The English Patient

Michael Ondaatje

Fiction

An Englishman’s Home

Evelyn Waugh

Fiction

The Enormous Radio

John Cheever

Fiction

Enrique’s Journey

Sonia Nazario

Nonfiction

Enuma Elish

Anonymous

Mythology

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Anonymous

Mythology

An Episode of War

Stephen Crane

Fiction

Equus

Peter Shaffer

Play or Drama
Erasure

Percival Everett

Fiction

The Erratics

Vicki Laveau-Harvie

Nonfiction

Escape from Camp 14

Blaine Harden

Nonfiction

Escaping Salem

Richard Godbeer

Nonfiction

Esperanza Rising

Pam Muñoz Ryan

Fiction

Ethan Brand

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction

Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton

Fiction

The Ethics of Ambiguity

Simone De Beauvoir

Nonfiction

Eugene Onegin

Alexander Pushkin

Fiction

The Eumenides

Aeschylus

Play or Drama

Euthyphro
Plato

Nonfiction

Evans Tries an O-Level

Colin Dexter

Fiction

Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World

Fanny Burney

Fiction

Eveline

James Joyce

Fiction

Every Man in His Humour

Ben Jonson

Play or Drama

Everyday Use

Alice Walker

Fiction

Everyman

Anonymous

Play or Drama

Everything I Never Told You

Celeste Ng

Fiction

Everything That Rises Must Converge

Flannery O’Connor

Fiction

Everything, Everything

Nicola Yoon

Fiction

Evicted

Matthew Desmond
Nonfiction

Existentialism Is a Humanism

Jean-Paul Sartre

Nonfiction

Exit West

Mohsin Hamid

Fiction

Exodus

Anonymous

Mythology

Experience

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nonfiction

An Experiment with an Air Pump

Shelagh Stephenson

Play or Drama

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Jonathan Safran Foer

Fiction

The Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser

Narrative Poetry

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

Fiction

Fallen Angels

Walter Dean Myers

Fiction

A Family Supper

Kazuo Ishiguro
Fiction

Fantomina

Eliza Haywood

Fiction

Far From the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy

Fiction

Farewell Address

Abraham Lincoln

Nonfiction

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction

Farewell to Manzanar

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Nonfiction

The Farming of Bones

Edwidge Danticat

Fiction

Fast Food Nation

Eric Schlosser

Nonfiction

Fasting, Feasting

Anita Desai

Fiction

Father Comes Home from the Wars

Suzan-Lori Parks

Play or Drama

Fathers and Sons

Ivan Turgenev

Fiction
The Fault in Our Stars

John Green

Fiction

Faust

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Narrative Poetry

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

Nonfiction

Fear and Trembling

Søren Kierkegaard

Nonfiction

Feed

M. T. Anderson

Fiction

Fefu and Her Friends

María Irene Fornés

Play or Drama

The Fellowship of the Ring

J.R.R. Tolkien

Fiction

The Female Persuasion

Meg Wolitzer

Fiction

The Feminine Mystique

Betty Friedan

Nonfiction

Fences

August Wilson

Play or Drama

Fever 1793
Laurie Halse Anderson

Fiction

Fever Dream

Samantha Schweblin

Fiction

Fever Pitch

Nick Hornby

Nonfiction

Ficciones

Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction

Fiela’s Child

Dalene Matthee

Fiction

Fifth Business

Robertson Davies

Fiction

The Fifth Child

Doris Lessing

Fiction

The Fifth Season

N. K. Jemisin

Fiction

Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction

A Fine Balance

Rohinton Mistry

Fiction

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin
Nonfiction

Fire on the Mountain

Anita Desai

Fiction

Firekeeper’s Daughter

Angeline Boulley

Fiction

The First Casualty

Ben Elton

Fiction

First Confession

Frank O’Connor

Fiction

First They Killed My Father

Loung Ung

Nonfiction

Fish in a Tree

Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Fiction

The Fisherman and His Soul

Oscar Wilde

Fiction

Five Feet Apart

Rachael Lippincott

Fiction

Five Little Indians

Michelle Good

Fiction

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Mitch Albom

Fiction
Five-Dollar Family

Cate Kennedy

Fiction

Five-Twenty

Patrick White

Fiction

Flames

Robbie Arnott

Fiction

Flatland

Edwin A. Abbott

Fiction

Flexion

Cate Kennedy

Fiction

Flight

John Steinbeck

Fiction

The Flivver King

Upton Sinclair

Fiction

Flowering Judas

Katherine Anne Porter

Fiction

The Flowers

Alice Walker

Fiction

Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes

Fiction

The Fly
Katherine Mansfield

Fiction

Fly Away Peter

David Malouf

Fiction

The Fly in the Ointment

V. S. Pritchett

Fiction

Flyboys

Tobias Wolff

Fiction

Foe

J. M. Coetzee

Fiction

Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence

Doris Pilkington

Nonfiction

Fools Crow

James Welch

Fiction

For Cause and Comrades

James McPherson

Nonfiction

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction

Foreign Soil

Maxine Beneba Clarke

Fiction

Founding Brothers

Joseph J. Ellis
Nonfiction

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand

Fiction

The Four Agreements

Don Miguel Ruiz

Nonfiction

The Four Loves

C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

Fiction

Frankenstein in Baghdad

Ahmed Saadawi

Fiction

Franny and Zooey

J. D. Salinger

Fiction

Freak the Mighty

Rodman Philbrick

Fiction

Freakonomics

Steven Levitt

Nonfiction

The Freedom Writers Diary

Erin Gruwell

Nonfiction

The French Lieutenant’s Woman

John Fowles

Fiction
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies

Seth Holmes

Nonfiction

Friday Night Lights

Buzz Bissinger

Nonfiction

Friendship

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nonfiction

Frindle

Andrew Clements

Fiction

Fritz

Satyajit Ray

Fiction

The Frogs

Aristophanes

Play or Drama

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

E. L. Konigsburg

Fiction

Fuente Ovejuna

Lope De Vega

Play or Drama

Fun Home

Alison Bechdel

Nonfiction

The Fun They Had

Isaac Asimov

Fiction

Funny Boy
Shyam Selvadurai

Fiction

Funny in Farsi

Firoozeh Dumas

Nonfiction

The Furnished Room

O. Henry

Fiction

Future Home of the Living God

Louise Erdrich

Fiction

Gabriel-Ernest

Saki

Fiction

A Game of Thrones

George R. R. Martin

Fiction

Games at Twilight

Anita Desai

Fiction

Gang Leader for a Day

Sudhir Venkatesh

Nonfiction

Garbology

Edward Humes

Nonfiction

The Garden Party

Katherine Mansfield

Fiction

The Gardener
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction

Gates of Fire

Steven Pressfield

Fiction

Gathering Blue

Lois Lowry

Fiction

Gem of the Ocean

August Wilson

Play or Drama

Genesis

Anonymous

Mythology

A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles

Fiction

The German Ideology

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Nonfiction

Getting to Yes

Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, and Bruce Patton

Nonfiction

The Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln

Nonfiction

Ghost

Jason Reynolds

Fiction

Ghost Boys

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Fiction

The Ghost Map

Steven Johnson

Nonfiction

Ghosts

Henrik Ibsen

Play or Drama

The Gift of the Magi

O. Henry

Fiction

The Gilded Six Bits

Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction

Gilead

Marilynne Robinson

Fiction

Gimpel the Fool

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Fiction

Giovanni’s Room

James Baldwin

Fiction

Girl

Jamaica Kincaid

Fiction

The Girl Who Drank the Moon

Kelly Barnhill

Fiction

The Girl Who Smiled Beads

Clemantine Wamariya

Nonfiction
Girl in Translation

Jean Kwok

Fiction

The Girl on the Train

Paula Hawkins

Fiction

The Girl with Seven Names

Hyeonseo Lee

Nonfiction

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Tracy Chevalier

Fiction

The Girl with the Louding Voice

Abi Daré

Fiction

Girl, Interrupted

Susanna Kaysen

Nonfiction

Girl, Woman, Other

Bernardine Evaristo

Fiction

The Giver

Lois Lowry

Fiction

The Glass Castle

Jeannette Walls

Nonfiction

The Glass Hotel

Emily St. John Mandel

Fiction

The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

Play or Drama

Glass Sword

Victoria Aveyard

Fiction

Go Set a Watchman

Harper Lee

Fiction

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin

Fiction

Go, Went, Gone

Jenny Erpenbeck

Fiction

The Go-Between

L. P. Hartley

Fiction

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox

Fiction

Goblin Market

Christina Rossetti

Narrative Poetry

God Help the Child

Toni Morrison

Fiction

God Sees the Truth But Waits

Leo Tolstoy

Fiction

The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy
Fiction

The Godfather

Mario Puzo

Fiction

Going After Cacciato

Tim O’Brien

Fiction

Going Places

A.R. Barton

Fiction

Going to Meet the Man

James Baldwin

Fiction

The Golden Age

Joan London

Fiction

The Golden Ass

Apuleius

Fiction

The Golden Compass

Philip Pullman

Fiction

The Golden Notebook

Doris Lessing

Fiction

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

Fiction

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn

Fiction
Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

Fiction

Good Country People

Flannery O’Connor

Fiction

The Good Earth

Pearl Buck

Fiction

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

Holly Jackson

Fiction

A Good Man is Hard to Find

Flannery O’Connor

Fiction

Good Morning, Midnight

Jean Rhys

Fiction

Good Night, Mr. Tom

Michelle Magorian

Fiction

Good Omens

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Fiction

The Good Soldier

Ford Madox Ford

Fiction

The Good Woman of Setzuan

Bertolt Brecht

Play or Drama

Good to Great
Jim Collins

Nonfiction

Goodbye to Berlin

Christopher Isherwood

Fiction

Goodbye, Columbus

Philip Roth

Fiction

Gooseberries

Anton Chekhov

Fiction

Gorgias

Plato

Nonfiction

A Gorilla in the Guest-room

Gerald Durrell

Fiction

Gorilla, My Love

Toni Cade Bambara

Fiction

The Government Inspector

Nikolay Gogol

Play or Drama

Grace

James Joyce

Fiction

A Grain of Wheat

Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Fiction

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck
Fiction

The Grass is Singing

Doris Lessing

Fiction

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

Fiction

Greasy Lake

T. Coraghessan Boyle

Fiction

The Great Alone

Kristin Hannah

Fiction

The Great Divorce

C. S. Lewis

Fiction

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Fiction

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction

The Great Influenza

John M. Barry

Nonfiction

Green Grass, Running Water

Thomas King

Fiction

The Green Mile

Stephen King

Fiction
Grendel

John Gardner

Fiction

Grit

Angela Duckworth

Nonfiction

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Ann Shaffer

Fiction

The Guest

Albert Camus

Fiction

Guests of the Nation

Frank O’Connor

Fiction

The Guide

R. K. Narayan

Fiction

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift

Fiction

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond

Nonfiction

H is for Hawk

Helen Macdonald

Nonfiction

Hag-Seed

Margaret Atwood

Fiction
The Hairy Ape

Eugene O’Neill

Play or Drama

Half Broke Horses

Jeannette Walls

Fiction

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction

Half the Sky

Nicholas Kristof

Nonfiction

The Half-Skinned Steer

Annie Proulx

Fiction

Hamilton

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Play or Drama

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

Play or Drama

Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell

Fiction

A Handful of Dust

Evelyn Waugh

Fiction

The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood

Fiction

The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World

Gabriel Garcia Márquez

Fiction

A Hanging

George Orwell

Nonfiction

The Happiest Refugee

Anh Do

Nonfiction

Happy Endings

Margaret Atwood

Fiction

The Happy Prince

Oscar Wilde

Fiction

Harbor Me

Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction

Hard Times

Charles Dickens

Fiction

Harlem Shuffle

Colson Whitehead

Fiction

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Salman Rushdie

Fiction

Harrison Bergeron

Kurt Vonnegut

Fiction

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

J. K. Rowling
Fiction

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

J. K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany

Play or Drama

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

J. K. Rowling

Fiction

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

J. K. Rowling

Fiction

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

J. K. Rowling

Fiction

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

J. K. Rowling

Fiction

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

J. K. Rowling

Fiction

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

J. K. Rowling

Fiction

Harvest

Jim Crace

Fiction

Hatchet

Gary Paulsen

Fiction

The Hate Race

Maxine Beneba Clarke

Nonfiction
The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas

Fiction

A Haunted House

Virginia Woolf

Fiction

The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson

Fiction

Have You Seen Us?

Athol Fugard

Play or Drama

Hayavadana

Girish Karnad

Play or Drama

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers

Fiction

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

Fiction

Heart of a Dog

Mikhail Bulgakov

Fiction

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Dave Eggers

Nonfiction

Hedda Gabler

Henrik Ibsen

Play or Drama

The Help
Kathryn Stockett

Fiction

The Henna Artist

Alka Joshi

Fiction

Henry IV Part 1

William Shakespeare

Play or Drama

Henry IV Part 2

William Shakespeare

Play or Drama

Henry V

William Shakespeare

Play or Drama

Her First Ball

Katherine Mansfield

Fiction

Herland

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fiction

Heroes

Robert Cormier

Fiction

Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

Nonfiction

The Hiding Place

Corrie Ten Boom

Nonfiction

Hillbilly Elegy

J. D. Vance
Nonfiction

Hills Like White Elephants

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction

Hind Swaraj

Mohandas K. Gandhi

Nonfiction

Hippolytus

Euripides

Play or Drama

Hiroshima

John Hersey

Nonfiction

History

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nonfiction

The History Boys

Alan Bennett

Play or Drama

A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

Julian Barnes

Nonfiction

A History of the World in Six Glasses

Thomas Standage

Nonfiction

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

Fiction

The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien

Fiction
Holes

Louis Sachar

Fiction

The Hollow of the Three Hills

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction

Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell

Nonfiction

Home Fire

Kamila Shamsie

Fiction

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

Fiction

Hoot

Carl Hiaasen

Fiction

Hop-Frog

Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction

Hope Leslie

Catharine Sedgwick

Fiction

A Hope in the Unseen

Ron Suskind

Nonfiction

The Horse and His Boy

C. S. Lewis

Fiction

A Horse and Two Goats

R. K. Narayan

Fiction

The Horse-Dealer’s Daughter

D. H. Lawrence

Fiction

A Horseman in the Sky

Ambrose Bierce

Fiction

Horses of the Night

Margaret Laurence

Fiction

The Hot Zone

Richard Preston

Nonfiction

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Jamie Ford

Fiction

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction

The Hours

Michael Cunningham

Fiction

A House for Mr Biswas

V. S. Naipaul

Fiction

Housekeeping

Marilynne Robinson

Fiction

Hunters in the Snow

Tobias Wolff
Fiction

I Am Legend

Richard Matheson

Fiction

I Am Malala

Malala Yousafzai

Nonfiction

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

Erika L. Sánchez

Fiction

I Am the Messenger

Markus Zusak

Fiction

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

Harlan Ellison

Fiction

I Have a Dream Speech

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nonfiction

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

Nonfiction

I Must Betray You

Ruta Sepetys

Fiction

I Stand Here Ironing

Tillie Olsen

Fiction

I Will Always Write Back

Caitlin Alifirenka, Martin Ganda, and Liz Welch

Nonfiction

I for Isobel

Amy Witting

Fiction

I, Rigoberta Menchú

Rigoberta Menchu

Nonfiction

I, Robot

Isaac Asimov

Fiction

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

Maryse Condé

Fiction

An Ideal Husband

Oscar Wilde

Play or Drama

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction

If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin

Fiction

If I Die in a Combat Zone

Tim O’Brien

Nonfiction

If I Stay

Gayle Forman

Fiction

If We Were Villains

M. L. Rio

Fiction
If on a winter’s night a traveler

Italo Calvino

Fiction

The Iliad

Homer

Narrative Poetry

An Imaginary Life

David Malouf

Fiction

Imagined Communities

Benedict Anderson

Nonfiction

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

Nonfiction

The Immortalists

Chloe Benjamin

Fiction

The Imp of the Perverse

Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

Play or Drama

In Another Country

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

Fiction

In Custody
Anita Desai

Fiction

In Search of Respect

Philippe Bourgois

Nonfiction

In the American Society

Gish Jen

Fiction

In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado

Nonfiction

In the Lake of the Woods

Tim O’Brien

Fiction

In the Penal Colony

Franz Kafka

Fiction

In the Shadow of the Banyan

Vaddey Ratner

Fiction

In the Skin of a Lion

Michael Ondaatje

Fiction

In the Time of the Butterflies

Julia Alvarez

Fiction

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Jacobs

Nonfiction

The Inconvenient Indian

Thomas King
Nonfiction

Indian Camp

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction

Indian Horse

Richard Wagamese

Fiction

Indian Ink

Tom Stoppard

Play or Drama

Inferno

Dante Alighieri

Narrative Poetry

Infinite Country

Patricia Engel

Fiction

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

Fiction

Inherit the Wind

Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

Play or Drama

The Inheritance of Loss

Kiran Desai

Fiction

Inside Out and Back Again

Thanhhà Lai

Narrative Poetry

An Inspector Calls

J. B. Priestley

Play or Drama
Interior Chinatown

Charles Yu

Fiction

The Interlopers

Saki

Fiction

Internment

Samira Ahmed

Fiction

Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction

Interview with the Vampire

Anne Rice

Fiction

Intimate Apparel

Lynn Nottage

Play or Drama

Into Thin Air

Jon Krakauer

Nonfiction

Into the Beautiful North

Luis Alberto Urrea

Fiction

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

Nonfiction

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Brian Selznick

Fiction

The Invention of Wings

Sue Monk Kidd

Fiction

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino

Fiction

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

V. E. Schwab

Fiction

The Invisible Man

H. G. Wells

Fiction

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

Fiction

Iphigenia at Aulis

Euripides

Play or Drama

Ishmael

Daniel Quinn

Fiction

The Island of Dr. Moreau

H. G. Wells

Fiction

The Island of Missing Trees

Elif Shafak

Fiction

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Scott O’Dell

Fiction

It

Stephen King
Fiction

It Can’t Happen Here

Sinclair Lewis

Fiction

It Ends with Us

Colleen Hoover

Fiction

It’s Kind of a Funny Story

Ned Vizzini

Fiction

Ivanhoe

Walter Scott

Fiction

Ivy Day in the Committee Room

James Joyce

Fiction

I’ll Give You the Sun

Jandy Nelson

Fiction

I’m Not Scared

Niccolò Ammaniti

Fiction

I’m the King of the Castle

Susan Hill

Fiction

James

Percival Everett

Fiction

James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl
Fiction

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

Fiction

Jasper Jones

Craig Silvey

Fiction

Jazz

Toni Morrison

Fiction

Jerusalem

Jez Butterworth

Play or Drama

The Jew of Malta

Christopher Marlowe

Play or Drama

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

Katherine Anne Porter

Fiction

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

August Wilson

Play or Drama

Johnny Got His Gun

Dalton Trumbo

Fiction

Johnny Tremain

Esther Forbes

Fiction

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Richard Bach

Fiction
Joseph Andrews

Henry Fielding

Fiction

Journey

Patricia Grace

Fiction

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Jules Verne

Fiction

Journey’s End

R.C. Sherriff

Play or Drama

The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan

Fiction

Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy

Fiction

Julie of the Wolves

Jean Craighead George

Fiction

Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

Play or Drama

July’s People

Nadine Gordimer

Fiction

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

Fiction

The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

Fiction

Jurassic Park

Michael Crichton

Fiction

A Jury of Her Peers

Susan Glaspell

Fiction

Just Mercy

Bryan Stevenson

Nonfiction

Kabuliwala

Rabindranath Tagore

Fiction

Kaffir Boy

Mark Mathabane

Nonfiction

Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami

Fiction

Kanthapura

Raja Rao

Fiction

Keeping it from Harold

P.G. Wodehouse

Fiction

Kew Gardens

Virginia Woolf

Fiction

The Killer Angels

Michael Shaara

Fiction

The Killers

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction

Killers of the Flower Moon

David Grann

Nonfiction

Kim

Rudyard Kipling

Fiction

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

Cho Nam-joo

Fiction

Kindertransport

Diane Samuels

Play or Drama

Kindred

Octavia E. Butler

Fiction

King Lear

William Shakespeare

Play or Drama

King Leopold’s Ghost

Adam Hochschild

Nonfiction

Kingdom of Matthias

Paul E. Johnson and Sean Wilentz

Nonfiction

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Manuel Puig
Fiction

Kitchen

Banana Yoshimoto

Fiction

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

Fiction

Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction

The Knife of Never Letting Go

Patrick Ness

Fiction

Kokoro

Natsume Soseki

Fiction

Lab Girl

Hope Jahren

Nonfiction

The Ladies’ Paradise

Émile Zola

Fiction

Lady Audley’s Secret

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Fiction

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

D. H. Lawrence

Fiction

Lady Macbeth

Susan King
Fiction

The Lady Maid’s Bell

Edith Wharton

Fiction

Lady Susan

Jane Austen

Fiction

Lady Windermere’s Fan

Oscar Wilde

Play or Drama

The Lady With the Dog

Anton Chekhov

Fiction

The Lady in the Looking Glass

Virginia Woolf

Fiction

The Lady or the Tiger?

Frank Stockton

Fiction

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

Sarah Vowell

Nonfiction

The Lais of Marie de France

Marie de France

Narrative Poetry

Lakota Woman

Mary Crow Dog

Nonfiction

Lamb to the Slaughter

Roald Dahl

Fiction
Laminex and Mirrors

Cate Kennedy

Fiction

The Landlady

Roald Dahl

Fiction

The Laramie Project

Moisés Kaufman

Play or Drama

The Last Battle

C. S. Lewis

Fiction

The Last Leaf

O. Henry

Fiction

The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch

Nonfiction

The Life You Save May Be Your Own

Flannery O’Connor

Fiction

Life in the Iron Mills

Rebecca Harding Davis

Fiction

Life is a Dream

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Play or Drama

The Life of Galileo

Bertolt Brecht

Play or Drama

The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes

Anonymous

Fiction

The Life of Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano

Nonfiction

Life of Pi

Yann Martel

Fiction

Light in August

William Faulkner

Fiction

The Lightning Thief

Rick Riordan

Fiction

Like Water for Chocolate

Laura Esquivel

Fiction

Like a House on Fire

Cate Kennedy

Fiction

Like a Winding Sheet

Ann Petry

Fiction

The Lincoln Highway

Amor Towles

Fiction

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders

Fiction

The Line Becomes a River

Francisco Cantú
Nonfiction

The Lion and the Jewel

Wole Soyinka

Play or Drama

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

C. S. Lewis

Fiction

Little Bee

Chris Cleave

Fiction

Little Britches

Ralph Moody

Nonfiction

A Little Cloud

James Joyce

Fiction

Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng

Fiction

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

Fiction

The Little Match Girl

Hans Christian Andersen

Fiction

Little Plastic Shipwreck

Cate Kennedy

Fiction

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Fiction
The Little Stranger

Sarah Waters

Fiction

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Fiction

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Sherman Alexie

Fiction

Lone Survivor

Marcus Luttrell

Nonfiction

The Lonely Londoners

Sam Selvon

Fiction

Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry

Fiction

Long Day’s Journey into Night

Eugene O’Neill

Play or Drama

A Long Long Way

Sebastian Barry

Fiction

The Long Rain

Ray Bradbury

Fiction

Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela

Nonfiction

A Long Walk to Water

Linda Sue Park

Fiction

Long Way Down

Jason Reynolds

Fiction

A Long Way Gone

Ishmael Beah

Nonfiction

A Long Way Home

Saroo Brierley

Nonfiction

The Longest Memory

Fred D’Aguiar

Fiction

Look Back in Anger

John Osborne

Play or Drama

Look Both Ways

Jason Reynolds

Fiction

Looking for Alaska

John Green

Fiction

Looking for Alibrandi

Melina Marchetta

Fiction

Lord Jim

Joseph Conrad
Fiction

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

Fiction

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

Heinrich Böll

Fiction

The Lost Salt Gift of Blood

Alistair MacLeod

Fiction

Lost in the Funhouse

John Barth

Fiction

The Lottery

Shirley Jackson

Fiction

Love Medicine

Louise Erdrich

Fiction

Love That Dog

Sharon Creech

Narrative Poetry

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction

Love's Labor's Lost

William Shakespeare

Play or Drama

The Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold

Fiction
The Lowland

Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction

The Luck of Roaring Camp

Bret Harte

Fiction

Lullaby

Leslie Marmon Silko

Fiction

The Lumber Room

Saki

Fiction

Lyddie

Katherine Paterson

Fiction

Lysistrata

Aristophanes

Play or Drama

M. Butterfly

David Henry Hwang

Play or Drama

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

August Wilson

Play or Drama

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

Play or Drama

Machinal

Sophie Treadwell

Play or Drama
The Machine Stops

E.M. Forster

Fiction

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

Fiction

Maestro

Peter Goldsworthy

Fiction

The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann

Fiction

The Magician’s Nephew

C. S. Lewis

Fiction

Mahabharata

Vyasa

Narrative Poetry

Major Barbara

George Bernard Shaw

Play or Drama

Make Your Home Among Strangers

Jennine Capó Crucet

Fiction

The Maltese Falcon

Dashiell Hammett

Fiction

A Man Called Ove

Fredrik Backman

Fiction

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Mark Twain

Fiction

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction

The Man Who Walked on the Moon

J. G. Ballard

Fiction

The Man Who Was Almost a Man

Richard Wright

Fiction

The Man Who Was Thursday

G. K. Chesterton

Fiction

The Man Who Would Be King

Rudyard Kipling

Fiction

A Man for All Seasons

Robert Bolt

Play or Drama

The Man in the High Castle

Philip K. Dick

Fiction

The Man of the Crowd

Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction

The Management of Grief

Bharati Mukherjee

Fiction

Maniac Magee

Jerry Spinelli
Fiction

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

Fiction

Man’s Search for Meaning

Victor Frankl

Nonfiction

Mao’s Last Dancer

Li Cunxin

Nonfiction

Marigolds

Eugenia Collier

Fiction

Marionettes, Inc.

Ray Bradbury

Fiction

The Mark on the Wall

Virginia Woolf

Fiction

The Marriage Portrait

Maggie O'Farrell

Fiction

Marriage is a Private Affair

Chinua Achebe

Fiction

The Marrow Thieves

Cherie Dimaline

Fiction

The Martian

Andy Weir

Fiction
Mary Barton

Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction

"Master Harold" … and the Boys

Athol Fugard

Play or Drama

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

Fiction

Matilda

Roald Dahl

Fiction

Maurice

E. M. Forster

Fiction

Maus

Art Spiegelman

Nonfiction

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy

Fiction

The Maze Runner

James Dashner

Fiction

McTeague

Frank Norris

Fiction

Me Before You

Jojo Moyes

Fiction

Me Talk Pretty One Day

David Sedaris

Nonfiction

Measure for Measure

William Shakespeare

Play or Drama

Medea

Euripides

Play or Drama

Medicine Walk

Richard Wagamese

Fiction

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

Nonfiction

Meditations on First Philosophy

René Descartes

Nonfiction

The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion

Thomas Hardy

Fiction

Memoirs of a Geisha

Arthur Golden

Fiction

A Memory

Eudora Welty

Fiction

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

Kim Edwards

Fiction

The Memory Police

Yoko Ogawa
Fiction

Meno

Plato

Nonfiction

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

Play or Drama

Merchants of Doubt

Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway

Nonfiction

A Mercy

Toni Morrison

Fiction

Mere Christianity

C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction

Messenger

Lois Lowry

Fiction

Metamorphoses

Ovid

Narrative Poetry

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

Fiction

The Meursault Investigation

Kamel Daoud

Fiction

Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction
Mexican WhiteBoy

Matt de la Peña

Fiction

Midaq Alley

Naguib Mahfouz

Fiction

Middlemarch

George Eliot

Fiction

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides

Fiction

The Midnight Library

Matt Haig

Fiction

Midnight’s Children

Salman Rushdie

Fiction

A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare

Play or Drama

Milkman

Anna Burns

Fiction

Milkweed

Jerry Spinelli

Fiction

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot

Fiction

The Minister’s Black Veil

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Arundhati Roy

Fiction

Minor Feelings

Cathy Park Hong

Nonfiction

The Minority Report

Philip K. Dick

Fiction

The Miracle Worker

William Gibson

Play or Drama

The Mis-Education of the Negro

Carter G. Woodson

Nonfiction

Misery

Stephen King

Fiction

Miss Brill

Katherine Mansfield

Fiction

Miss Julie

August Strindberg

Play or Drama

Miss Lonelyhearts

Nathanael West

Fiction

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs
Fiction

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

Fiction

Mockingjay

Suzanne Collins

Fiction

The Model Millionaire

Oscar Wilde

Fiction

A Model of Christian Charity

John Winthrop

Nonfiction

A Modest Proposal

Jonathan Swift

Nonfiction

Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe

Fiction

Monday’s Not Coming

Tiffany Jackson

Fiction

Moneyball

Michael Lewis

Nonfiction

The Monk

Matthew Lewis

Fiction

Monkey Beach

Eden Robinson

Fiction
The Monkey’s Paw

W. W. Jacobs

Fiction

Monster

Walter Dean Myers

Fiction

A Monster Calls

Patrick Ness

Fiction

Montana 1948

Larry Watson

Fiction

The Moon and Sixpence

W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction

The Moon is Down

John Steinbeck

Fiction

Moon of the Crusted Snow

Waubgeshig Rice

Fiction

Moon on a Rainbow Shawl

Errol John

Play or Drama

The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins

Fiction

Mortal Engines

Philip Reeve

Fiction

The Most Dangerous Game

Richard Connell

Fiction

A Mother

James Joyce

Fiction

Mother Courage and Her Children

Bertolt Brecht

Play or Drama

Mother Tongue

Amy Tan

Nonfiction

Mother to Mother

Sindiwe Magona

Fiction

Motherless Brooklyn

Jonathan Lethem

Fiction

The Mothers

Brit Bennett

Fiction

The Motorcycle Diaries

Ernesto Che Guevara

Nonfiction

Motorcycles & Sweetgrass

Drew Hayden Taylor

Fiction

Mountains Beyond Mountains

Tracy Kidder

Nonfiction

Mourning Becomes Electra

Eugene O’Neill
Play or Drama

A Moveable Feast

Ernest Hemingway

Nonfiction

The Moviegoer

Walker Percy

Fiction

The Moving Finger

Edith Wharton

Fiction

Mr. Pip

Lloyd Jones

Fiction

Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

Fiction

Mrs Mahmood

Segun Afolabi

Fiction

Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger

Saki

Fiction

Mrs. Sen’s

Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction

Mrs. Warren’s Profession

George Bernard Shaw

Play or Drama

Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare

Play or Drama
Murder in the Cathedral

T. S. Eliot

Play or Drama

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie

Fiction

Murder on the Orient Express

Agatha Christie

Fiction

My Antonia

Willa Cather

Fiction

My Beloved World

Sonia Sotomayor

Nonfiction

My Boy Jack

David Haig

Play or Drama

My Brilliant Career

Miles Franklin

Fiction

My Brilliant Friend

Elena Ferrante

Fiction

My Children! My Africa!

Athol Fugard

Play or Drama

My Cousin Rachel

Daphne du Maurier

Fiction

My Dark Vanessa
Kate Elizabeth Russell

Fiction

My Family and Other Animals

Gerald Durrell

Nonfiction

My Greatest Ambition

Morris Lurie

Fiction

My Kinsman, Major Molineux

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction

My Name is Asher Lev

Chaim Potok

Fiction

My Name is Red

Orhan Pamuk

Fiction

My Oedipus Complex

Frank O’Connor

Nonfiction

My Sister’s Keeper

Jodi Picoult

Fiction

My Son the Fanatic

Hanif Kureishi

Fiction

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Ann Radcliffe

Fiction

NW
Zadie Smith

Fiction

Night

Alice Munro

Fiction

Night

Elie Wiesel

Nonfiction

The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

Fiction

A Night Divided

Jennifer A. Nielsen

Fiction

Night Flying Woman

Ignatia Broker

Nonfiction

The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail

Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

Play or Drama

Night Watch

Jayne Anne Phillips

Fiction

The Night Watchman

Louise Erdrich

Fiction

The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah

Fiction

The Nightingale and the Rose

Oscar Wilde
Fiction

Nightwood

Djuna Barnes

Fiction

Nine Days

Toni Jordan

Fiction

Nineteen Minutes

Jodi Picoult

Fiction

No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy

Fiction

No Exit

Jean-Paul Sartre

Play or Drama

No Longer Human

Osamu Dazai

Fiction

No Sugar

Jack Davis

Play or Drama

No-No Boy

John Okada

Fiction

Noli Me Tangere

José Rizal

Fiction

Normal People

Sally Rooney

Fiction
North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen

Fiction

Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami

Fiction

The Nose

Nikolai Gogol

Fiction

The Notebook

Nicholas Sparks

Fiction

Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction

Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin

Nonfiction

Nothing to Envy

Barbara Demick

Nonfiction

Noughts and Crosses

Malorie Blackman

Fiction

Number the Stars

Lois Lowry

Fiction

O
O Pioneers!

Willa Cather

Fiction

Obasan

Joy Kogawa

Fiction

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Ambrose Bierce

Fiction

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Neil Gaiman

Fiction

Odour of Chrysanthemums

D. H. Lawrence

Fiction

The Odyssey

Homer

Narrative Poetry

Oedipus Rex

Sophocles

Play or Drama

Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles

Play or Drama

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

Fiction

Of Plymouth Plantation

William Bradford

Nonfiction

Of White Hairs and Cricket

Rohinton Mistry

Fiction

Old God’s Time

Sebastian Barry

Fiction

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction

Old Man at the Bridge

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction

The Old Nurse’s Story

Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction

Old School

Tobias Wolff

Fiction

Old Yeller

Fred Gipson

Fiction

Oleanna

David Mamet

Play or Drama

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

Fiction

The Omnivore’s Dilemma

Michael Pollan

Nonfiction

On Beauty

Zadie Smith
Fiction

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

Fiction

On Her Knees

Tim Winton

Fiction

On Liberty

John Stuart Mill

Nonfiction

On Tyranny

Timothy Snyder

Nonfiction

On Writing Well

William Zinsser

Nonfiction

On the Come Up

Angie Thomas

Fiction

On the Face of It

Susan Hill

Play or Drama

On the Genealogy of Morals

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

Fiction

Once

Morris Gleitzman

Fiction
Once Upon a Time

Nadine Gordimer

Fiction

The Once and Future King

T. H. White

Fiction

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Fiction

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey

Fiction

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction

The One and Only Ivan

Katherine Applegate

Fiction

One of Us is Lying

Karen McManus

Fiction

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction

Only the Animals

Ceridwen Dovey

Fiction

The Open Boat

Stephen Crane

Fiction

The Open Window

Saki

Fiction

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson

Nonfiction

Orbiting Jupiter

Gary D. Schmidt

Fiction

Ordinary Men

Christopher Browning

Nonfiction

Ordinary People

Judith Guest

Fiction

The Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

Nonfiction

Orlando

Virginia Woolf

Fiction

Oroonoko

Aphra Behn

Fiction

Orphan Train

Christina Baker Kline

Fiction

Oryx and Crake

Margaret Atwood

Fiction

Othello

William Shakespeare
Play or Drama

The Other Foot

Ray Bradbury

Fiction

The Other Two

Edith Wharton

Fiction

The Other Wes Moore

Wes Moore

Nonfiction

Our Country’s Good

Timberlake Wertenbaker

Play or Drama

Our Missing Hearts

Celeste Ng

Fiction

Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens

Fiction

Our Town

Thornton Wilder

Play or Drama

Out of My Mind

Sharon Draper

Fiction

Out of This Furnace

Thomas Bell

Fiction

Out of the Dust

Karen Hesse

Fiction
Out of the Silent Planet

C. S. Lewis

Fiction

Outcasts United

Warren St. John

Nonfiction

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

Bret Harte

Fiction

Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction

The Outsiders

S. E. Hinton

Fiction

The Oval Portrait

Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction

The Overcoat

Nikolai Gogol

Fiction

The Overstory

Richard Powers

Fiction

Pachinko

Min Jin Lee

Fiction

A Painful Case

James Joyce

Fiction
The Painted Door

Sinclair Ross

Fiction

A Pair of Silk Stockings

Kate Chopin

Fiction

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction

Pale Horse, Pale Rider

Katherine Anne Porter

Fiction

Pamela

Samuel Richardson

Fiction

The Paper Menagerie

Ken Liu

Fiction

Paper Towns

John Green

Fiction

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler

Fiction

Paradise

Toni Morrison

Fiction

Paradise Lost

John Milton

Narrative Poetry

Paradise of the Blind

Duong Thu Huong

Fiction

Paradiso

Dante Alighieri

Narrative Poetry

A Passage to India

E. M. Forster

Fiction

Passing

Nella Larsen

Fiction

The Passion

Jeanette Winterson

Fiction

Past the Shallows

Favel Parrett

Fiction

Patron Saints of Nothing

Randy Ribay

Fiction

Paul’s Case

Willa Cather

Fiction

Peace Like a River

Leif Enger

Fiction

Peak

Roland Smith

Fiction

The Pearl

John Steinbeck
Fiction

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire

Nonfiction

The Pedestrian

Ray Bradbury

Fiction

Pedro Páramo

Juan Rulfo

Fiction

The Penelopiad

Margaret Atwood

Fiction

A People’s History of the United States

Howard Zinn

Nonfiction

Perelandra

C. S. Lewis

Fiction

A Perfect Day for Bananafish

J. D. Salinger

Fiction

The Perfect Storm

Sebastian Junger

Nonfiction

Perfume

Patrick Süskind

Fiction

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky

Fiction
Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi

Nonfiction

Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

Marjane Satrapi

Nonfiction

Persuasion

Jane Austen

Fiction

Petals of Blood

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Fiction

Peter Pan

J.M. Barrie

Fiction

Phaedo

Plato

Nonfiction

Phaedrus

Plato

Nonfiction

The Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster

Fiction

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux

Fiction

Philadelphia, Here I Come!

Brian Friel

Play or Drama

Philoctetes
Sophocles

Nonfiction

The Phoenix

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Fiction

Photograph 51

Anna Ziegler

Play or Drama

The Piano Lesson

August Wilson

Play or Drama

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Joan Lindsay

Fiction

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

Fiction

Piecing Me Together

Renée Watson

Fiction

Piers Plowman

William Langland

Narrative Poetry

Pigeon English

Stephen Kelman

Fiction

The Pigman

Paul Zindel

Fiction

The Pilgrim’s Progress

John Bunyan
Fiction

The Pillow Book

Sei Shonagon

Nonfiction

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

Fiction

The Plague

Albert Camus

Fiction

Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion

Fiction

The Playboy of the Western World

J. M. Synge

Play or Drama

Player Piano

Kurt Vonnegut

Fiction

Playing Beatie Bow

Ruth Park

Fiction

The Plot Against America

Philip Roth

Fiction

Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma

Camilla Townsend

Nonfiction

Poe's Stories

Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction
The Poet X

Elizabeth Acevedo

Fiction

Poetics

Aristotle

Nonfiction

The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction

Politics and the English Language

George Orwell

Nonfiction

Popol Vuh

Dennis Tedlock

Mythology

The Poppy War

R. F. Kuang

Fiction

The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James

Fiction

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

Fiction

The Possibility of Evil

Shirley Jackson

Fiction

The Postmaster

Rabindranath Tagore

Fiction

The Power
Naomi Alderman

Fiction

The Power and the Glory

Graham Greene

Fiction

The Power of Habit

Charles Duhigg

Nonfiction

The Praise of Folly

Desiderius Erasmus

Nonfiction

A Prayer for Owen Meany

John Irving

Fiction

Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

William Wordsworth

Nonfiction

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Fiction

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark

Fiction

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

Nonfiction

Prince Caspian

C. S. Lewis

Fiction

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain
Fiction

The Princess Bride

William Goldman

Fiction

The Prison

Bernard Malamud

Fiction

Prisoner B-3087

Alan Gratz

Fiction

The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses

Bessie Head

Fiction

Private Peaceful

Michael Morpurgo

Fiction

Prometheus Bound

Aeschylus

Play or Drama

Prometheus Unbound

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Narrative Poetry

Proof

David Auburn

Play or Drama

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

Narrative Poetry

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Max Weber

Nonfiction
Purgatorio

Dante Alighieri

Narrative Poetry

Purple Hibiscus

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction

Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

Play or Drama

Père Goriot

Honoré de Balzac

Fiction

The Queen’s Gambit

Walter Tevis

Fiction

Quicksand

Nella Larsen

Fiction

The Quiet American

Graham Greene

Fiction

The Racial Contract

Charles W. Mills

Nonfiction

Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks

Horatio Alger

Fiction

Ragtime

E. L. Doctorow
Fiction

The Rain Horse

Ted Hughes

Fiction

The Rainbow

D. H. Lawrence

Fiction

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

Play or Drama

The Ramayana

R. K. Narayan

Narrative Poetry

Ransom

David Malouf

Fiction

The Ransom of Red Chief

O. Henry

Fiction

The Rape of the Lock

Alexander Pope

Narrative Poetry

Rappaccini’s Daughter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction

The Rattrap

Selma Lagerlöf

Fiction

The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe

Narrative Poetry
Raymond’s Run

Toni Cade Bambara

Fiction

The Razor’s Edge

W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction

The Reader

Bernhard Schlink

Fiction

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline

Fiction

A Real Durwan

Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction

The Real Thing

Henry James

Fiction

Real Time

Amit Chaudhuri

Fiction

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier

Fiction

Recitatif

Toni Morrison

Fiction

Reckoning

Magda Szubanski

Nonfiction

The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane

Fiction

The Red Convertible

Louise Erdrich

Fiction

Red Queen

Victoria Aveyard

Fiction

Red Scarf Girl

Ji-li Jiang

Nonfiction

The Red-Headed League

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Edmund Burke

Nonfiction

Refugee

Alan Gratz

Fiction

The Refugees

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Fiction

Regeneration

Pat Barker

Fiction

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Mohsin Hamid

Fiction

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro
Fiction

The Remarkable Rocket

Oscar Wilde

Fiction

Remembering Babylon

David Malouf

Fiction

The Rent Collector

Camron Wright

Fiction

“Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman

Harlan Ellison

Fiction

Report on the Threatened City

Doris Lessing

Fiction

The Republic

Plato

Nonfiction

Reservation Blues

Sherman Alexie

Fiction

The Reservoir

Janet Frame

Fiction

Restart

Gordon Korman

Fiction

A Retrieved Reformation

O. Henry

Fiction
The Return of Martin Guerre

Natalie Zemon Davis

Nonfiction

The Return of the King

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction

The Return of the Native

Thomas Hardy

Fiction

The Return of the Soldier

Rebecca West

Fiction

The Revenger’s Tragedy

Thomas Middleton

Play or Drama

The Revolt of “Mother”

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Fiction

Revolutionary Road

Richard Yates

Fiction

Rhinoceros

Eugene Ionesco

Play or Drama

Richard II

William Shakespeare

Play or Drama

Richard III

William Shakespeare

Play or Drama

Riders to the Sea

J. M. Synge

Play or Drama

Riding the Bus with My Sister

Rachel Simon

Nonfiction

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

Rudyard Kipling

Fiction

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Narrative Poetry

Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving

Fiction

The Rise of Silas Lapham

William Dean Howells

Fiction

Rising Out of Hatred

Eli Saslow

Nonfiction

Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption

Stephen King

Fiction

The Rivals

Richard Sheridan

Play or Drama

The River Between

Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Fiction

A River Runs Through It

Norman Maclean
Fiction

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

Fiction

The Road to Character

David Brooks

Nonfiction

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

Fiction

Rocket Boys

Homer Hickam

Nonfiction

The Rocking-Horse Winner

D. H. Lawrence

Fiction

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Mildred Taylor

Fiction

Roman Fever

Edith Wharton

Fiction

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

Play or Drama

Room

Emma Donoghue

Fiction

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction
A Room with a View

E. M. Forster

Fiction

A Rose for Emily

William Faulkner

Fiction

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Tom Stoppard

Play or Drama

The Round House

Louise Erdrich

Fiction

The Rover

Aphra Behn

Play or Drama

A Rumor of War

Philip Caputo

Nonfiction

Runaway

Alice Munro

Fiction

Runner

Robert Newton

Fiction

The Running Dream

Wendelin Van Draanen

Fiction

Running in the Family

Michael Ondaatje

Nonfiction

S
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

Eleanor Coerr

Fiction

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Yukio Mishima

Fiction

Saint Joan

George Bernard Shaw

Play or Drama

Salt to the Sea

Ruta Sepetys

Fiction

Salvage the Bones

Jesmyn Ward

Fiction

Salvatore

W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction

Same Kind of Different as Me

Ron Hall and Denver Moore

Nonfiction

A Sand County Almanac

Aldo Leopold

Nonfiction

Sandpiper

Ahdaf Soueif

Fiction

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

Nonfiction

Sarah’s Key
Tatiana De Rosnay

Fiction

The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie

Fiction

A Scandal in Bohemia

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction

The Scarlet Ibis

James Hurst

Fiction

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Orczy

Fiction

Schindler’s List

Thomas Keneally

Fiction

The School for Scandal

Richard Sheridan

Play or Drama

The Screwtape Letters

C. S. Lewis

Fiction

The Sculptor’s Funeral

Willa Cather

Fiction

Scythe

Neal Shusterman
Fiction

The Sea-Wolf

Jack London

Fiction

The Seagull

Anton Chekhov

Play or Drama

Season of Migration to the North

Tayeb Salih

Fiction

Second Class Citizen

Buchi Emecheta

Fiction

The Second Shepherd’s Play

Anonymous

Play or Drama

Second Treatise of Government

John Locke

Nonfiction

The Secret Agent

Joseph Conrad

Fiction

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Fiction

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

Fiction

The Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidd

Fiction
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

James Thurber

Fiction

The Secret River

Kate Grenville

Fiction

Secrets

Bernard MacLaverty

Fiction

Seedfolks

Paul Fleischman

Fiction

Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nonfiction

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

Nonfiction

The Selfish Giant

Oscar Wilde

Fiction

The Sellout

Paul Beatty

Fiction

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

Fiction

The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes

Fiction

A Sentimental Journey
Laurence Sterne

Fiction

A Separate Peace

John Knowles

Fiction

Seven Fallen Feathers

Tanya Talaga

Nonfiction

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction

Seventy-Two Derwents

Cate Kennedy

Fiction

Sexy

Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction

The Shack

William P. Young

Fiction

The Shadow Lines

Amitav Ghosh

Fiction

Shadow and Bone

Leigh Bardugo

Fiction

The Shadow of the Wind

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Fiction

Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah

Alana Valentine
Play or Drama

Shakuntala

Kalidasa

Play or Drama

The Shallows

Nicholas Carr

Nonfiction

Sharmaji

Anjana Appachana

Fiction

Sharp Objects

Gillian Flynn

Fiction

The Shawl

Louise Erdrich

Fiction

She Stoops to Conquer

Oliver Goldsmith

Play or Drama

Shiloh

Bobbie Ann Mason

Fiction

The Shining

Stephen King

Fiction

The Shipping News

Annie Proulx

Fiction

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight

Nonfiction
The Shoe-Horn Sonata

John Misto

Play or Drama

Shooting an Elephant

George Orwell

Nonfiction

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson

Nonfiction

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

Jeffrey Hobbs

Nonfiction

Should Wizard Hit Mommy?

John Updike

Fiction

Shuggie Bain

Douglas Stuart

Fiction

Shutter Island

Dennis Lehane

Fiction

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

Fiction

The Sign of the Beaver

Elizabeth George Speare

Fiction

The Sign of the Four

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction

The Signalman

Charles Dickens

Fiction

Signs Preceding the End of the World

Yuri Herrera

Fiction

Silas Marner

George Eliot

Fiction

Silence

Shūsaku Endō

Fiction

The Silence of the Girls

Pat Barker

Fiction

The Silence of the Lambs

Thomas Harris

Fiction

Silence! The Court is in Session

Vijay Tendulkar

Play or Drama

The Silent Patient

Alex Michaelides

Fiction

Silent Spring

Rachel Carson

Nonfiction

The Silmarillion

J.R.R. Tolkien
Fiction

The Silver Chair

C. S. Lewis

Fiction

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Becky Albertalli

Fiction

The Simple Gift

Steven Herrick

Fiction

A Simple Heart

Gustave Flaubert

Fiction

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward

Fiction

The Singing Lesson

Katherine Mansfield

Fiction

A Single Shard

Linda Sue Park

Fiction

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Jonathan Edwards

Nonfiction

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Anonymous

Narrative Poetry

The Sirens of Titan

Kurt Vonnegut

Fiction
Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser

Fiction

Sister Heart

Sally Morgan

Fiction

The Sisters

James Joyce

Fiction

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Luigi Pirandello

Play or Drama

Six of Crows

Leigh Bardugo

Fiction

The Sixth Extinction

Elizabeth Kolbert

Nonfiction

Sizwe Bansi Is Dead

Athol Fugard

Play or Drama

Skellig

David Almond

Fiction

The Skin I’m In

Sharon Flake

Fiction

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

Fiction

Sleepers
Cate Kennedy

Fiction

Small Great Things

Jodi Picoult

Fiction

Small Island

Andrea Levy

Fiction

A Small Place

Jamaica Kincaid

Nonfiction

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

Fiction

A Small, Good Thing

Raymond Carver

Fiction

The Sniper

Liam O’Flaherty

Fiction

Snow Falling on Cedars

David Guterson

Fiction

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Lisa See

Fiction

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction

So Long a Letter

Mariama Bâ
Fiction

So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo

Nonfiction

So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

Jon Ronson

Nonfiction

The Social Contract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nonfiction

Sofia Petrovna

Lydia Chukovskaya

Fiction

Solaris

Stanisław Lem

Fiction

Sold

Patricia McCormick

Fiction

Soldier’s Home

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury

Fiction

Son

Lois Lowry

Fiction

Son of a Trickster

Eden Robinson

Fiction
The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

Fiction

The Song of Roland

Anonymous

Narrative Poetry

Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

Fiction

Sonny’s Blues

James Baldwin

Fiction

Sons and Lovers

D. H. Lawrence

Fiction

The Son’s Veto

Thomas Hardy

Fiction

Sophie’s World

Jostein Gaarder

Fiction

The Sorrow of War

Bảo Ninh

Fiction

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fiction

The Souls of Black Folk

W.E.B. Du Bois

Nonfiction

The Sound Machine

Roald Dahl

Fiction

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

Fiction

The Sound of Things Falling

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Fiction

A Sound of Thunder

Ray Bradbury

Fiction

The Sound of Waves

Yukio Mishima

Fiction

The Spanish Tragedy

Thomas Kyd

Play or Drama

Spare Parts

Joshua Davis

Nonfiction

Speak

Laurie Halse Anderson

Fiction

Speech Sounds

Octavia E. Butler

Fiction

Spies

Michael Frayn

Fiction

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Anne Fadiman
Nonfiction

Spunk

Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

John Le Carré

Fiction

Sredni Vashtar

Saki

Fiction

Stamped

Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

Nonfiction

Stamped from the Beginning

Ibram X. Kendi

Nonfiction

Stardust

Neil Gaiman

Fiction

Stargirl

Jerry Spinelli

Fiction

Starship Troopers

Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction

Stasiland

Anna Funder

Nonfiction

Static

Cate Kennedy

Fiction
Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel

Fiction

The Stepford Wives

Ira Levin

Fiction

Still Alice

Lisa Genova

Fiction

The Stoat

John McGahern

Fiction

The Stone Angel

Margaret Laurence

Fiction

Stoner

John Williams

Fiction

The Storm

Kate Chopin

Fiction

Storm of Steel

Ernst Jünger

Nonfiction

The Story of My Life

Helen Keller

Nonfiction

The Story of Tom Brennan

J. C. Burke

Fiction

Story of Your Life

Ted Chiang

Fiction

The Story of an Hour

Kate Chopin

Fiction

The Stranger

Albert Camus

Fiction

Strangers in Their Own Land

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Nonfiction

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

Play or Drama

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas S. Kuhn

Nonfiction

A Study in Scarlet

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction

The Study of Poetry

Matthew Arnold

Nonfiction

The Subjection of Women

John Stuart Mill

Nonfiction

Such a Fun Age

Kiley Reid

Fiction

Sula

Toni Morrison
Fiction

The Sum of Us

Heather McGhee

Nonfiction

Summer of the Mariposas

Guadalupe García McCall

Fiction

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

Ray Lawler

Play or Drama

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction

The Sun Does Shine

Anthony Ray Hinton

Nonfiction

The Sun is Also a Star

Nicola Yoon

Fiction

Sundiata

D. T. Niane

Narrative Poetry

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

Simon Wiesenthal

Nonfiction

Surfacing

Margaret Atwood

Fiction

Survival in Auschwitz

Primo Levi

Nonfiction
Survival of the Sickest

Sharon Moalem

Nonfiction

Swallow the Air

Tara June Winch

Fiction

Swami and Friends

R. K. Narayan

Fiction

Sweat

Lynn Nottage

Play or Drama

Sweat

Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction

Sweet Bird of Youth

Tennessee Williams

Play or Drama

Thank You, M’am

Langston Hughes

Fiction

That Evening Sun

William Faulkner

Fiction

That Hideous Strength

C. S. Lewis

Fiction

That Was Then, This Is Now

S. E. Hinton

Fiction
Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction

Theogony

Hesiod

Narrative Poetry

The Theory of Flight

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

Fiction

There Are No Children Here

Alex Kotlowitz

Nonfiction

There There

Tommy Orange

Fiction

There Will Come Soft Rains

Ray Bradbury

Fiction

There’s Someone Inside Your House

Stephanie Perkins

Fiction

They Both Die at the End

Adam Silvera

Fiction

They Called Us Enemy

George Takei

Fiction

The Thing Around Your Neck

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction

The Thing in the Forest

A.S. Byatt

Fiction

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

Fiction

The Things They Carried

Tim O’Brien

Fiction

Things We Didn’t See Coming

Steven Amsterdam

Fiction

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Nonfiction

The Third Level

Jack Finney

Fiction

The Third and Final Continent

Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction

Thirteen Reasons Why

Jay Asher

Fiction

This Blessed House

Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction

This Boy’s Life

Tobias Wolff

Nonfiction

This Is How It Always Is

Laurie Frankel
Fiction

This Is Where It Ends

Marieke Nijkamp

Fiction

This Other Eden

Paul Harding

Fiction

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction

This Tender Land

William Kent Krueger

Fiction

A Thousand Acres

Jane Smiley

Fiction

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

Fiction

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

Yiyun Li

Fiction

The Three Day Blow

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction

Three Day Road

Joseph Boyden

Fiction

Three Men in a Boat

Jerome K. Jerome

Nonfiction
The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas

Fiction

The Three Sisters

Anton Chekhov

Play or Drama

The Three-Body Problem

Liu Cixin

Fiction

The Threepenny Opera

Bertolt Brecht

Play or Drama

Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll

Fiction

Through the Tunnel

Doris Lessing

Fiction

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction

Thérèse Raquin

Émile Zola

Fiction

Ti-Jean and His Brothers

Derek Walcott

Play or Drama

Till We Have Faces

C. S. Lewis

Fiction

The Time Machine

H. G. Wells

Fiction

The Time Traveler’s Wife

Audrey Niffenegger

Fiction

The Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

John Ford

Play or Drama

Titus Andronicus

William Shakespeare

Play or Drama

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

Jenny Han

Fiction

To Build a Fire

Jack London

Fiction

To Da-duh, in Memoriam

Paule Marshall

Fiction

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Fiction

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

Fiction

Tomorrow, When the War Began

John Marsden
Fiction

Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

Play or Drama

Topdog/Underdog

Suzan-Lori Parks

Play or Drama

The Tortilla Curtain

T. Coraghessan Boyle

Fiction

Touching Spirit Bear

Ben Mikaelsen

Fiction

The Tower

Marghanita Laski

Fiction

Tracks

Louise Erdrich

Fiction

Tracks: A Woman’s Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback

Robyn Davidson

Nonfiction

Tradition and the Individual Talent

T. S. Eliot

Nonfiction

The Train Driver

Athol Fugard

Play or Drama

Train to Pakistan

Khushwant Singh

Fiction
Trainspotting

Irvine Welsh

Fiction

Transcendent Kingdom

Yaa Gyasi

Fiction

Translations

Brian Friel

Play or Drama

Trash

Andy Mulligan

Fiction

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith

Fiction

The Trial

Franz Kafka

Fiction

The Trial of Dedan Kimathi

Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o and Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo

Play or Drama

Trifles

Susan Glaspell

Play or Drama

Tristram Shandy

Laurence Sterne

Fiction

The Trojan Women

Euripides

Play or Drama

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Avi

Fiction

True Grit

Charles Portis

Fiction

Trust

Hernan Diaz

Fiction

Tsotsi

Athol Fugard

Fiction

Tuck Everlasting

Natalie Babbitt

Fiction

Tuesdays with Morrie

Mitch Albom

Nonfiction

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

Fiction

The Turning

Tim Winton

Fiction

Turtles All the Way Down

John Green

Fiction

Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare
Play or Drama

Twelve Angry Men

Reginald Rose

Play or Drama

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne

Fiction

Twilight

Stephenie Meyer

Fiction

Twilight of the Idols

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction

Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

Anna Deavere Smith

Play or Drama

Two Gallants

James Joyce

Fiction

The Two Noble Kinsmen

William Shakespeare

Play or Drama

The Two Towers

J.R.R. Tolkien

Fiction

Tyres

Adam Thorpe

Fiction

Uglies

Scott Westerfeld
Fiction

The Ugly American

Eugene Burdick and William J. Lederer

Fiction

Ulysses

James Joyce

Fiction

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera

Fiction

Unbroken

Laura Hillenbrand

Nonfiction

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fiction

Uncle Vanya

Anton Chekhov

Play or Drama

Under Milk Wood

Dylan Thomas

Play or Drama

Under the Feet of Jesus

Helena María Viramontes

Fiction

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

Fiction

The Uninhabitable Earth

David Wallace-Wells

Nonfiction
Unpolished Gem

Alice Pung

Nonfiction

An Unquiet Mind

Kay Redfield Jamison

Nonfiction

Untouchable

Mulk Raj Anand

Fiction

Unwind

Neal Shusterman

Fiction

Up From Slavery

Booker T. Washington

Nonfiction

Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill

Nonfiction

Utopia

Sir Thomas More

Nonfiction

V for Vendetta

Alan Moore

Fiction

The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett

Fiction

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray

Fiction
The Vegetarian

Han Kang

Fiction

The Veldt

Ray Bradbury

Fiction

The Vendor of Sweets

R. K. Narayan

Fiction

Vertigo

Amanda Lohrey

Fiction

A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings

Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction

The Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith

Fiction

A View from the Bridge

Arthur Miller

Play or Drama

The Village Schoolmaster

Franz Kafka

Fiction

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft

Nonfiction

The Virgin Suicides

Jeffrey Eugenides

Fiction

The Visit
Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Play or Drama

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan

Fiction

The Visitor

Ray Bradbury

Fiction

Volpone

Ben Jonson

Play or Drama

Vox

Christina Dalcher

Fiction

Voyage in the Dark

Jean Rhys

Fiction

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

C. S. Lewis

Fiction

A Wagner Matinée

Willa Cather

Fiction

Waiting

Cate Kennedy

Fiction

Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett

Play or Drama

Waiting for the Barbarians

J. M. Coetzee
Fiction

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

Nonfiction

Walk Two Moons

Sharon Creech

Fiction

A Walk in the Woods

Bill Bryson

Nonfiction

A Walk to the Jetty

Jamaica Kincaid

Fiction

The Wanderer

Sharon Creech

Fiction

Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

Fiction

War Horse

Michael Morpurgo

Fiction

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

Fiction

The War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells

Fiction

The Warmth of Other Suns

Isabel Wilkerson

Nonfiction
A Warning to the Curious

M. R. James

Fiction

Warriors Don’t Cry

Melba Beals

Nonfiction

The Wars

Timothy Findley

Fiction

Washington Black

Esi Edugyan

Fiction

Washington Square

Henry James

Fiction

The Wasp Factory

Iain Banks

Fiction

Watchmen

Alan Moore

Fiction

The Water Dancer

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Fiction

Water by the Spoonful

Quiara Alegría Hughes

Play or Drama

Watership Down

Richard Adams

Fiction

The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

Christopher Paul Curtis

Fiction

The Wave

Todd Strasser

Fiction

The Waves

Virginia Woolf

Fiction

The Way Up to Heaven

Roald Dahl

Fiction

The Way of the World

William Congreve

Play or Drama

The Way to Rainy Mountain

N. Scott Momaday

Nonfiction

We

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Fiction

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Karen Joy Fowler

Fiction

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson

Fiction

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Lionel Shriver

Fiction

We Were Liars

E. Lockhart
Fiction

We the Animals

Justin Torres

Fiction

The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

Nonfiction

Weapons of Math Destruction

Cathy O’Neil

Nonfiction

The Wednesday Wars

Gary Schmidt

Fiction

Weep Not, Child

Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Fiction

Welcome to Our Hillbrow

Phaswane Mpe

Fiction

The Westing Game

Ellen Raskin

Fiction

The Whale Rider

Witi Ihimaera

Fiction

What Men Live By

Leo Tolstoy

Fiction

What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal

Zoë Heller

Fiction
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Raymond Carver

Fiction

What You Pawn I Will Redeem

Sherman Alexie

Fiction

What the Eyes Don’t See

Mona Hanna-Attisha

Nonfiction

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

Frederick Douglass

Nonfiction

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

Nonfiction

When I Was Puerto Rican

Esmeralda Santiago

Nonfiction

When It Happens

Margaret Atwood

Fiction

When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine

Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction

When Stars Are Scattered

Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed

Fiction

When They Call You a Terrorist

Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele

Nonfiction

When Will There Be Good News?

Kate Atkinson

Fiction

When the Emperor was Divine

Julie Otsuka

Fiction

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction

Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

Fiction

Where the Red Fern Grows

Wilson Rawls

Fiction

Whirlpool

Cate Kennedy

Fiction

Whistling Vivaldi

Claude Steele

Nonfiction

The White Devil

John Webster

Play or Drama

White Fang

Jack London

Fiction

White Fragility

Robin DiAngelo

Nonfiction

A White Heron

Sarah Orne Jewett

Fiction

White Noise

Don DeLillo

Fiction

White Spirit

Cate Kennedy

Fiction

White Teeth

Zadie Smith

Fiction

The White Tiger

Aravind Adiga

Fiction

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Edward Albee

Play or Drama

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson

Nonfiction

Why Nations Fail

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

Nonfiction

Why We Can’t Wait

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nonfiction

Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys

Fiction

The Widow’s Might

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fiction
The Wife of His Youth

Charles Chesnutt

Fiction

The Wife of Martin Guerre

Janet Lewis

Fiction

Wild

Cheryl Strayed

Nonfiction

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

Fiction

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami

Fiction

Winesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson

Fiction

The Winslow Boy

Terence Rattigan

Play or Drama

Winter Dreams

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction

The Winter's Tale

William Shakespeare

Play or Drama

Winter’s Bone

Daniel Woodrell

Fiction

Wise Blood
Flannery O’Connor

Fiction

Wit

Margaret Edson

Play or Drama

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Elizabeth George Speare

Fiction

With the Fire on High

Elizabeth Acevedo

Fiction

With the Old Breed

E.B. Sledge

Nonfiction

A Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction

The Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum

Fiction

Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel

Fiction

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

Sandra Cisneros

Fiction

The Woman Warrior

Maxine Hong Kingston

Nonfiction

Woman at Point Zero

Nawal El Saadawi
Fiction

The Woman in Black

Susan Hill

Fiction

The Woman in Cabin 10

Ruth Ware

Fiction

The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins

Fiction

The Women of Brewster Place

Gloria Naylor

Fiction

Wonder

R. J. Palacio

Fiction

The Word for World is Forest

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction

World War Z

Max Brooks

Fiction

A Worn Path

Eudora Welty

Fiction

The Worst Hard Time

Timothy Egan

Nonfiction

Woyzeck

Georg Büchner

Play or Drama
The Wretched of the Earth

Frantz Fanon

Nonfiction

A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

Fiction

Year of Wonders

Geraldine Brooks

Fiction

The Yellow Birds

Kevin Powers

Fiction

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fiction

Yellow Woman

Leslie Marmon Silko

Fiction

Young Goodman Brown

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction

Your Inner Fish

Neil Shubin

Nonfiction

Zeitoun

Dave Eggers

Nonfiction

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert Pirsig

Fiction

Zero Hour

Ray Bradbury

Fiction

The Zoo Story

Edward Albee

Play or Drama

Zoot Suit

Luis Valdez

Play or Drama