Some Recommended Novels

1. One Hundred Years of Solitude--Gabriel Garcia Marquez

2. A Fan's Notes--Frederick Exley

3. Invisible Man--Ralph Ellison

4. Invisible Cities--Italo Calvino

5. The Folded Leaf--William Maxwell

6. Winter in the Blood--James Welch

7. Lolita--Vladimir Nabokov

8. Lives of Girls and Women--Alice Munro

9. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man--James Joyce

10. Three Lives--Gertrude Stein

11. The True Detective--Theodore Weesner

12. Lithium for Medea--Kate Braverman

13. Sula--Toni Morrison

14. End Zone--Don DeLillo

15. Slaughterhouse-Five--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

16. Ceremony--Leslie Marmon Silko

17. Absalom, Absalom!--William Faulkner

18. The Bell Jar--Sylvia Plath

19. Dog Soldiers--Robert Stone

20. Museum Pieces--Elizabeth Tallent

21. Wise Blood--Flannery O'Connor

22. The Postman Always Rings Twice--James M. Cain

23. Things Fall Apart--Chinua Achebe

24. The Beans of Egypt, Maine--Carolyn Chute

25. Blood Meridian--Cormac McCarthy

26. Going After Cacciato--Tim O'Brien

27. Native Son--Richard Wright

28. House Made of Dawn--N. Scott Momaday

29. A Passage to India--E.M. Forster

30. The Stranger--Albert Camus

31. The Universal Baseball Association--Robert Coover

32. Naked Lunch--William S. Burroughs

33. Three Novels--Samuel Beckett

34. Sent For You Yesterday--John Edgar Wideman

35. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn--Mark Twain

36. Journey to the End of the Night--Louis-Ferdinand Celine

37. The Wapshot Chronicle--John Cheever

38. A Sport and a Pastime--James Salter

39. Housekeeping--Marilynne Robinson

40. The Sun Also Rises--Ernest Hemingway

41. Anna Karenina--Leo Tolstoy

42. Blood and Guts in High School--Kathy Acker

43. Lie Down in Darkness--William Styron

44. To the Lighthouse--Virginia Woolf

45. The Mezzanine--Nicholson Baker

46. The Easter Parade--Richard Yates

47. Under the Volcano--Malcolm Lowry

48. Anywhere But Here--Mona Simpson

49. Sometimes a Great Notion--Ken Kesey

50. A Death in the Family--James Agee

51. Middlemarch--George Eliot

52. The Human Comedy--William Saroyan

53. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter--Carson McCullers

54. The Unbearable Lightness of Being--Milan Kundera

55. Among the Dead--Michael Tolkin

56. Court of Memory--James McConkey

57. Bastard Out of Carolina--Dorothy Allison

58. Mrs. Bridge--Evan S. Connell

59. The Cannibal--John Hawkes

60. Fat City--Leonard Gardner

61. Beyond the Bedroom Wall--Larry Woiwode

62. Hopscotch--Julio Cortazar

63. Platitudes--Trey Ellis

64. Go Tell It on the Mountain--James Baldwin

65. Revolutionary Road--Richard Yates

66. Surfacing--Margaret Atwood

67. Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich; Rabbit at Rest--John Updike

68. You Know Me, Al--Ring Lardner

69. The Moviegoer--Walker Percy

70. Wide Sargasso Sea--Jean Rhys

71. The Red and the Black--Stendhal

72. The Executioner's Song--Norman Mailer

73. Ironweed--William Kennedy

74. The Optimist's Daughter--Eudora Welty

75. A Clockwork Orange--Anthony Burgess

76. Annie John--Jamaica Kincaid

77. Light in August--William Faulkner

78. Nausea--Jean-Paul Sartre

79. Angels--Denis Johnson

80. The Ice Storm--Rick Moody

81. Jalousie--Alain Robbe-Grillet

82. The Great Gatsby--F. Scott Fitzgerald

83. Heart of Darkness--Joseph Conrad

84. Nickel Mountain--John Gardner

85. Time Will Darken It--William Maxwell

86. Ordinary Love & Good Will--Jane Smiley

87. The Trial--Franz Kafka

88. Mobile--Michel Butor

89. The House of Mirth--Edith Wharton

90. The Catcher in the Rye--J.D. Salinger

91. War and Peace--Leo Tolstoy

92. Moby-Dick--Herman Melville

93. The Turn of the Screw--Henry James

94. The Stand--Stephen King

95. Fahrenheit 451--Ray Bradbury

96. Crooked Hearts--Robert Boswell

97. Edisto--Padgett Powell

98. Portnoy's Complaint--Philip Roth

99. My Antonia--Willa Cather

100. The Sound and the Fury--William Faulkner