1984 by George Orwell

A

After Life by Rhian Ellis
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
All Flowers Die by Andrew K. Stone
All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren
All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Alma Rose by Edith Forbes
Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
Almost a Woman by Esmeralda Santiago
Aloft by Chang-rae Lee
The Amazing Adventures of Kavelier and Clay by Michael Chabon
American Chica by Marie Arana
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
America's Women, 400 years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines by Gail Collins
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
Ancestral Truths by Sara Maitland
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Art of Happiness by The Dalai Lama
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Ask Dr. Mueller by Cookie Mueller
The Assault by Henry Mulisch
The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
Asylum by Patrick McGrath
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

B

Bachelor Brothers Bed & Breakfast by Bill Richardson
Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Battle for God by Karen Armstrong
The Beach by Alex Garland
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
A Beautiful Mind by Slyvia Nasar
Because it is Bitter and Because it is my Heart by Joyce Carol Oates
Becoming a Man by Paul Monette
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
Beethoven's Hair by Russell Martin
Before and After by Rosellen Brown
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Bellwether by Connie Willis
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy
Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories by Herman Melville
The Bird Artist by Howard Norman
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
The Bitch In the House by Cathi Hanauer
Blacker than a Thousand Midnights by Susan Straight
Blessings by Anna Quindlen
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Blind Eye by James B. Stewart
Blindness by Jose Saramago
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
The Book of Salt by Monique Troung
The Bounty by Caroline Alexander
A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White
Brazil by John Updike
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup by Susan Orlean
Bury Me Standing by Isabel Fonseca
Butterfield 8 by John O'Hara
By Way of Deception by Victor Ostrovsky

C

California Crossing by Adam Langer
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter Miller
The Captains's Wife by Douglas Kelley
Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
Catfish and Mandala by Andrew Pham
Caucasia by Danzy Senna
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott
Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
The Closing of the American Mind by Alan Bloom
Coast of Good Intentions by Michael Byers
Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbon
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah
The Collected Stories of Grace Paley by Grace Paley
The Color of Water by James McBride
The Coma by Alex Garland
Comfort Woman by Nora Okja Keller
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett
Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston
Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber
Crime and Punishment by Fyoderor Dostoevsky
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

D

Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig
Dancing Naked by Shelley Hrdlitschka
A Dangerous Friend by Ward Just
Darjeeling by Bharti Kirchner
Daughter of Fortune by Isabelle Allende
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
Dead Above Ground by Jervey Tervalon
Dead Man Walking by Sister Heln Prejean
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
The Death of Ivan Illyich by Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart
The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
Desert Queen by Janet Wallach
The Devil in the Details by Jennifer Traig
Devil in White City by Eric Larson
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
Disgrace by JM Coetzee
The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin
The Dive From Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
The Dog Who Spoke With Gods by Diane Jessup
Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
Douglass' Women by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Down and Out in Paris and London by Geoge Orwell
Down by the River by Edna O’Brien
Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Drop City by T. C. Doyle
The Dubliners by James Joyce
Duplicate Keys by Jane Smiley

E

East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
Emma Brown by Clare Boylan
The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen Carter
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
Enemy in the Promised Land by Sana Hasan
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Eva Luna by Isabelle Allende
Evelina by Fanny Burney
Eventide by Kent Haruf
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
Expecting Adam by Martha Beck

F

Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith
The Fall of a Sparrow by Robert Hellenga
Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
Fear of Falling by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
The Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Fooling With Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft by Bill Moyers
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
The Fox by DH Lawrence
Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger
From Here You Can't See Paris by Michael S. Sanders
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith

G

Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers
A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee
Getting Mother's Body by Suzan-Lori Parks
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy by Barbara Ehrenreich, Arlie Hochschild
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
The God of Small Things by Arundati Roy
Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Good Harbor by Anita Diamant
Good Morning Midnight by Chip Brown
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Grass Dancer by Susan Power
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Pretender by Millenia Black
Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

H

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Hanging Tree by David Lambkin
Hannibal by Thomas Harris
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Sarah Louise Delaney
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCuller
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things by J. T. LeRoy
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Heretic's Heart by Margot Adler
The Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
A Hope in the Unseen by by Ron Suskind
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen
How to Be Alone: Essays by Jonathan Franzen
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

I

I Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots by Susan Straight
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
I Sailed with Magellan by Stuart Dybek
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
The Ice Storm by Rick Moody
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
In the Memory of the Forest by Charles T. Powers
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Interview With a Vampire by Anne Rice
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
Investment Biker by Jim Rogers
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabakov
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

J

The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Jefferson’s Pillow by Roger Wilkins
Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison

K

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Kristin Lavransdatter, Vol. 1: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset

L

Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
The Ladies' Gallery by Irene Villar
Larry's Party by Carol Shields
Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger
The Last Girls by Lee Smith
The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor
Last Orders by Graham Swift
The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
Lazarus and the Hurricane by S. Chaiton and T. Swinton
Leap of Faith by Queen Noor
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Letters from Yellowstone by Diane Smith
The Liar's Club by Mary Karr
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Lincoln by Gore Vidal
Little Alters Everywhere by Rebecca Wells
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
Live from Death Row by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Living to Tell by Antonya Nelson
Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Longitude by Dava Sobel
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
Losing Julia by Jonathan Hull
Lost by Hans-Ulrich Treichel
Lost: A Novel by Gregory Maguire
Love in the Driest Season by Neely Tucker
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind by Loung Ung
Lying Awake by Mark Salzman

M

Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett
The Magician’s Wife by Brian Moore
Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
The Man Who Fell In Love With the Moon by Tom Spanbauer
The Man Who Talks to Dogs by Melinda Roth
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser
Martyrs’ Crossing by Amy Wilentz
Mary by Lesley Hazleton
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester
Meatless Days by Sara Suleri
Meely LaBauve by Ken Wells
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
Memoir from Antproof Case by Mark Helprin
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Milk in My Coffee by Eric Jerome Dickey
Miracle at Philadelphia by Catherine Bowen
Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire
Miss Garnet's Angel by Salley Vickers
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member by Sanyika Shakur
Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith by Gina Nahai
The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
More Than You Know by Beth Gutcheon
Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Muse Asylum by David Czechleukis
My Antonia by Willa Cather
My Dream of You by Nuala O’Faolain
My Own Country by Abraham Verghese
My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

N

O

October Suite by Maxine Clair
Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simons
Old School by Tobias Wolff
Oleander, Jacaranda by Penelope Lively
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
One Writer’s Beginnings by Eudora Welty
Open Secrets by Alice Munro
The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philappa Gregory
Other People’s Children by Joanna Trollope
Our Lady of the Forest by David Guterson

P

The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Parable of The Talents by Octavia Butler
Paradise by Toni Morrison
Parallel Lives by Phyllis Rose
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Patrimony by Philip Roth
The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
Pay Attention for Goodness' Sake by Sylvia Boorstein
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
The Perfect Mile by Neal Bascomb
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
The Persian Bride by James Buchan
Personal History by Katherine Graham
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation by John Phillip Santos
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Prairie Nocturne by Ivan Doig
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga by Edward Rutherford
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean Sasson
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

Q

R

The Reader by Bernard Schlink
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey by Jane Goodall
Red Azalea by Anchee Min
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher, PHd
Rice by Su Tong
The Riders by Tim Winton
A River Sutra by Gita Mehta
The River Why by David James Duncan
Road From Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
Rumors of Peace by Ella Leffland
Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

S

Saboteurs by Michael Dobbs
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo by Ntozake Shange
The Satanic Verses by Salmon Rushdie
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
Scribbling the Cat by Alexandra Fuller
The Sea Wolf by Jack London
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
Searching for Caleb by Anne Tyler
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Life of Cowboys by Tom Groneberg
The Sensualist by Barbara Hodgson
Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff
Sex Tips for a Straight Woman by a Gay Man by Dan Anderson
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
Shiva Dancing by Bharti Kirchner
Shizuko’s Daughter by Kyoko Mori
Shot In the Heart by Mikal Gilmore
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Sisters Rosenzweig by Wendy Wasserstein
The Sky Fisherman by Craig Lesley
Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
Songbook by Nick Hornby
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
The Speed of Light by Elizabeth Rosner
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Stealing Heaven by Marion Meade
Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
Straight Man by Richard Russo
The Strangeness of Beauty by Lydia Minatoya
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! by Michael Moore
Sugar by Bernice L. McFadden
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck

T

Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman
Talking to High Monks in the Snow by Lydia Minatoya
Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
They Fought like Demons: Women Soldiers of the American Civil War by DeAnn Blanton, Lauren Cook
Things My Mother Never Told Me by Blake Morrison
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Three Junes by Julia Glass
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
To Asmara: A Novel of Africa by Thomas Keneally
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
To the Wedding by John Berger
The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World by Leah Hager Cohen
Transmission by Hari Kunzru
Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles by Dominick Dunne
The Two Percent Solution by Matthew Millier
Typical American by Gish Jen

U

Ugly Americans by Ben Mezrich
Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
Under My Skin by Doris Lessing
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Under the Neem Tree by Susan Lowerre
The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart
The Unfastened Heart by Lane Von Herzen
The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch
Unless by Carol Shields

V

A Very Long Engagement by Sebastion Japrisot
Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

W

Waiting by Ha Jin
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
A Walnut Sapling on Masih's Grave and Other Stores
Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Patillo Beals
Waterland by Graham Swift
Waxwing by Jonathan Raban
The Way I Found Her by Rose Tremain
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
West With the Night by Beryl Markhum
Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsaka
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Where Bigfoot Walks by Robert Michael Pyle
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Whoredom in Kimmage by Rosemary Mahoney
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
A Widow For One Year by John Irving
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
Winter Wheat by Mildred Walker
Wintering by Kate Moses
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
Woman of the Inner Sea by Thomas Keneally
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama
Word Freak by Stephan Fatsis
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

X

Y

A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon

Z

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