A

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Alma Rose by Edith Forbes
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines by Gail Collins
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by The Dalai Lama
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Ask Dr. Mueller by Cookie Mueller
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

B

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai, Ina Rilke (translator)
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
The Beach by Alex Garland
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy
The Bird Artist by Howard Norman
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup by Susan Orlean
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey by Isabel Fonseca

C

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
The Coast of Good Intentions by Michael Byers
Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston
Crescent: A Novel by Diana Abu-Jaber
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

D

Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
Duplicate Keys by Jane Smiley

E

F

The Fall of a Sparrow by Robert Hellenga
Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Fox by D.H. Lawrence
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang by Joyce Carol Oates
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels

G

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
The God of Small Things by Arundati Roy
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

H

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Heretic's Heart: A Journey through Spirit and Revolution by Margot Adler
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

I

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Interview With a Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles #1 by Anne Rice
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

J

K

The Known World by Edward P. Jones

L

The Ladies Gallery by Irene Villar
The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
Lazarus and the Hurricane by Sam Chanton and Terry Swinton
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Lolita by Vladmir Nabakov
Lost: A Novel by Gregory Maguire

M

Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Memoir From Antproof Case by Mark Helprin
Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member by Sanyika Shakur a.k.a. Monster Kody Scott
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
My Ántonia by Willa Cather

N

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

O

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Open Secrets by Alice Munro
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

P

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving

Q

R

Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey by Jane Goodall
The Red Tent By Anita Diamant
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams
Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher, Ph.D.
Rice by Su Tong
The River Why by David James Duncan

S

Sassafrass, Cypress, & Indigo: A Novel by Ntozake Shange
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
Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

T

Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World by Rita Golden Gelman
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
To the Wedding by John Berger
The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

U

Under My Skin: My Autobiography to 1949, Vol. 1 by Doris Lessing
Under the Neem Tree by Susan Lowerre
The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch

V

W

A Walnut Sapling on Masih's Grave and Other Stories by Iranian Women by Green, Yazdanfar, editors
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Whoredom in Kimmage: Irish Women Coming of Age by Rosemary Mahoney
A Widow For One Year by John Irving

X

Y

Z