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Ulysses - James Joyce

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler

Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry

The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler

1984 - George Orwell

I, Claudius - Robert Graves

To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

Native Son - Richard Wright

Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow

Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara

U. S. A. (Trilogy) - John Dos Passos

Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson

A Passage to India - E.M. Forster

The Wings of the Dove - Henry James

The Ambassadors - Henry James

Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Studs Lonigan Trilogy - James T. Farrell

The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford

Animal Farm - George Orwell

The Golden Bowl - Henry James

Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser

A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh

As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner

All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren

The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder

Howards End - E.M. Forster

Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin

The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

Deliverance - James Dickey

A Dance to the Music of Time (series) - Anthony Powell

Point Counter Point - Aldous Huxley

The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad

Nostromo - Joseph Conrad

The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence

Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence

Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller

The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer

Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth

Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov

Light in August - William Faulkner

On the Road - Jack Kerouac

The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett

Parade's End - Ford Madox Ford

The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton

Zuleika Dobson - Max Beerbohm

The Moviegoer - Walker Percy

Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather

From Here to Eternity - James Jones

The Wapshot Chronicle - John Cheever

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

Main Street - Sinclair Lewis

The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton

The Alexandria Quartet - Lawrence Durell

A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes

A House for Mr. Biswas - V.S. Naipaul

The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West

A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway

Scoop - Evelyn Waugh

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark

Finnegans Wake - James Joyce

Kim - Rudyard Kipling

A Room with a View - E.M. Forster

Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow

Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner

A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul

The Death of the Heart - Elizabeth Bowen

Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad

Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow

The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett

The Call of the Wild - Jack London

Loving - Henry Green

Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell

Ironweed - William Kennedy

The Magus - John Fowles

Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

Under the Net - Iris Murdoch

Sophie's Choice - William Styron

The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles

The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain

The Ginger Man - J.P. Donleavy

The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington

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