Fiction/Lit:

• 1984

• A Death in the Family

• A Personal Matter

• A Thousand Splendid Suns

• All The Pretty Horses

• Angela’s Ashes

• Blood Meridian

• Brave New World

• Cat’s Cradle

• Catch 22

• Ceremony

• Chronicle of a Death Foretold

• Crime and Punishment

• Crying of Lot 49

• The Da Vinci Code

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

• Fathers and Sons

• For Whom the Bell Tolls

• Frankenstein

• Go Tell it on the Mountain

• Heart of Darkness

• Hiroshima, Mon Amour

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

• In the Country of Last Things

• Invisible Man

• Journey to the East

• Labyrinths

• Lord Jim

• Madame Bovary

• Maus

• Metamorphosis

• Mrs. Dalloway

• No Exit

• On the Road

• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

• One Hundred Years of Solitude

• Parable of the Sower

• Pattern Recognition

• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

• Pump House Gang

• Reservation Blues

• Siddhartha

• Slaughterhouse Five

• The Alchemist

• The Brooklyn Follies

• The Cherry Orchard

• The Children of Men

• The Death of Artemio Cruz

• The Good Earth

• The Handmaid’s Tail

• The Hours

• The Man in the High Castle

• The New York Trilogy

• The Old Man and the Sea

• The Once and Future King

• The Plague

• The Fall

• The Second Sex

• The Sound and the Fury

• The Sun Also Rises

• The Trial

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

• A Wizard of EarthSea

• To the Lighthouse

• Unbearable Lightness of Being

• Waiting for Godot

• White Noise

• Depths of Glory

• Girl in Hyacinth Blue

• Hiroshima

• In the Company of the Courtesan

• Lust for Life

• Roots

• The Agony and the Ecstasy

• The Birth of Venus

• The Girl with A Pearl Earring

• The Passion of Artemisia

• 1421

• Art and Physics

• Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

• Devil in the White City

• Galileo’s Daughter

• Guns, Germs, and Steel

• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism

• Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling

• Ten Years of Madness: Oral Histories of China’s Cultural Revolution

• The Creators: A History of the Heroes of the Imagination

• The Interpretation of Dreams

• The Feminine Mystique

• The Power of Myth

• The Stones of Florence

• The World’s Religions

• Ways of Seeing

• A Long Way Gone

• Black Boy

• Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival

• Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

• Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

• Kaffir Boy

• Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

• Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak

• Survival in Auschwitz

• The Good Women of China

• They Poured Fire On Us From The Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan

• Walking Stars: Stories of Magic and Power

• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be KilledWith Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

• Don Quixote

• Dream of the Red Chamber

• Hamlet

• Jane Eyre

• Midsummer Night’s Dream

• Oedipus Rex

• Plato’s Republic

• Pride and Prejudice

• Tale of Two Cities

• The Aeneid

• The Art of War

• The Canterbury Tales

• The Iliad

• The Odyssey

• The Overcoat

• The Prince

• The Ramayana

• War and Peace

• Wuthering Heights

Websites with recommended reading lists:

http://reading.berkeley.edu/

http://als.lib.wi.us/Collegebound.html

http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/greatbks.html