- The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
- The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
- To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
- The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
- Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Beloved, by Toni Morrison
- The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
- 1984, by George Orwell
- The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
- Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov
- Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
- Charlotte’s Web, by E.B. White
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
- Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
- Animal Farm, by George Orwell
- The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
- As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
- A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
- Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
- Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
- Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
- Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
- Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
- Native Son, by Richard Wright
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey
- Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
- For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
- On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
- The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
- The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
- To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
- Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
- Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
- The World According to Garp, by John Irving
- All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren
- A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster
- The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Schindler’s List, by Thomas Keneally
- The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
- The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
- Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
- The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
- Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
- A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
- The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
- My Antonia, by Willa Cather
- Howards End, by E.M. Forster
- In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
- Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger
- The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
- Jazz, by Toni Morrison
- Sophie’s Choice, by William Styron
- Absalom, Absalom!, by William Faulkner
- A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster
- Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find, by Flannery O’Connor
- Tender Is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Orlando, by Virginia Woolf
- Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence
- Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe
- Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
- A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
- Light in August, by William Faulkner
- The Wings of the Dove, by Henry James
- Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
- Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
- A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
- Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs
- Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
- Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence
- Look Homeward, Angel, by Thomas Wolfe
- In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Tokias, by Gertrude Stein
- The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett
- The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer
- Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
- White Noise, by Don DeLillo
- O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather
- Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
- The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells
- Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad
- The Bostonians, by Henry James
- An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
- Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather
- The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
- This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
- The French Lieutenant’s Woman, by John Fowles
- Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis
- Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
- The Beautiful and the Damned, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
- Where Angels Fear to Tread, by E.M. Forster
- Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie
(Source: American Library Association, 2011)