1984 by George Orwell

A

After Life by Rhian Ellis
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Ahab's Wife Or, The Star-Gazer: A Novel by Sena Jeter Naslund
The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho
All Flowers Die by Andrew K. Stone
Aloft by Chang-rae Lee
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
Asylum by Patrick McGrath
Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis

B

Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism by Karen Armstrong
Because it is Bitter and Because it is my Heart by Joyce Carol Oates
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
Beethoven's Hair by Russell Martin
Before and After by Rosellen Brown
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
The Bitch In the House by Cathi Hanauer
Blessings by Anna Quindlen
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Blindness by Jose Saramago
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
The Book of Salt by Monique Troung
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander
Brazil by John Updike
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich
Butterfield 8 by John O'Hara
By Way of Deception by Victor Ostrovsky

C

Cane River by Lalita Tademy
The Captain's Wife by Douglas Kelley
Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
The Clan of the Cave Bear: Earth's Children #1 by Jean M. Auel
The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students by Alan Bloom
The Coast of Good Intentions: Stories by Michael Byers
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbon
The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah
The Color of Water by James McBride
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Crime and Punishment by Fyoderor Dostoevsky
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

D

Dancing Naked by Shelley Hrdlitschka
Daughter of Fortune by Isabelle Allende
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
Dead Above Ground by Jervey Tervalon
Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart
Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Eric Larson
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
The Dive From Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer
The Dog Who Spoke With Gods by Diane Jessup
Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
Douglass' Women: A Novel by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Down and Out in Paris and London by Geoge Orwell
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Drop City by T. Coraghessan Boyle

E

East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: A Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
Emma Brown: A Novel from the Unfinished Manuscript by Charlotte Bronte by Clare Boylan
The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen Carter
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Enemy in the Promised Land: An Egyptian Woman's Journey into Israel by Sana Hasan
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Eva Luna by Isabelle Allende
Evelina: Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World by Fanny Burney
Eventide by Kent Haruf
Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth and Everyday Magic by Martha Beck

F

Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger
From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant by Michael S. Sanders
The Full Cupboard of Life: More from the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

G

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel
A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee
Getting Mother's Body by Suzan-Lori Parks
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials Series #1) by Phillip Pullman
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Good Harbor by Anita Diamant
Good Morning Midnight: Life and Death in the Wild by Chip Brown
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Pretender by Millenia Black
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
The Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
A Hope In the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League by Ron Suskind
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

I

I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
I Sailed With Magellan by Stuart Dybek
The Ice Storm by Rick Moody
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Investment Biker by Jim Rogers

J

The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison

K

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Known World by Edward P. Jones

L

Larry's Party by Carol Shields
The Last Girls by Lee Smith
Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noir
The Liar's Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr
Lincoln by Gore Vidal
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
Live from Death Row by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir by Neely Tucker
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

M

The Man Who Fell In Love With the Moon by Tom Spanbauer
The Man Who Talks to Dogs: The Story of America's Wild Street Dogs and Their Unlikely Savior by Melinda Roth
Mary: A Flesh-and-Blood Biography of the Virgin Mother by Lesley Hazleton
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Milk In My Coffee by Eric Jerome Dickey
Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention by Catherine Bowen
Mirror Mirror: A Novel by Gregory Maguire
Miss Garnet's Angel by Salley Vickers
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
More Than You Know by Beth Gutcheon
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Muse Asylum by David Czechleukis
My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

N

A Name of Her Own by Jane Kirkpatrick
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin

O

October Suite by Maxine Clair
Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simons
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings by Amy Tan
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Our Lady of the Forest by David Guterson

P

The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Patrimony: A True Story by Philip Roth
Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart the Buddhist Path of Kindness by Sylvia Boorstein
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It by Neal Bascomb
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
Personal History by Katherine Graham
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Prairie Nocturne by Ivan Doig
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

Q

R

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
A River Sutra by Gita Mehta
The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
Running With Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs

S

Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America by Michael Dobbs
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
The Satanic Verses by Salmon Rushdie
Scribbling the Cat by Alexandra Fuller
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff
Sex Tips for a Straight Woman by a Gay Man by Dan Anderson
Shot In the Heart by Mikal Gilmore
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
Songbook by Nick Hornby
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
Stealing Heaven: A Novel by Marion Meade
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Sugar by Bernice L. McFadden

T

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
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
The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles by Dominick Dunne
The Two Percent Solution: Fixing America's Problems in Ways Liberals and Conservatives Can Love by Matthew Miller

U

Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowby Who Raided Asia in Search of the American Dream by Ben Mezrich
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer

V

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: Rediscovering America in the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
Waxwings by Jonathan Raban
The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
West With the Night by Beryl Markhum
The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsaka
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Winter Wheat by Mildred Walker
Wintering by Kate Moses
Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triump, Genius, and Obession in the World of Competitive Scrabble by Stephan Fatsis
The World According to Garp by John Irving

X

Y

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

Z

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