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| jrf | glenl | Title | Author | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | RFTP | RFTP | The Adventures of Augie March | Saul Bellow |
| All the King’s Men | Robert Penn Warren | |||
| American Pastoral | Philip Roth | |||
| An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser | |||
| RIDP | RIDP | Animal Farm | George Orwell | |
| Appointment in Samarra | John O’Hara | |||
| Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret | Judy Blume | |||
| The Assistant | Bernard Malamud | |||
| 6 | RFTP | RFTP | At Swim-Two-Birds (level diagram) | Flann O’Brien |
| OIH | Atonement | Ian McEwan | ||
| NTBRA | NTBRA | Beloved | Toni Morrison | |
| 9 | RFTP | RFTP | The Berlin Stories | Christopher Isherwood |
| RIDP | The Big Sleep | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 10 | RFTP | RFTP | The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood |
| Blood Meridian | Cormac McCarthy | |||
| RIDP | Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| 8 | RFTP | RFTP | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Thornton Wilder |
| Call It Sleep | Henry Roth | |||
| RIDP | RIDP | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | |
| RIDP | RIDP | The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | |
| RIDP | RIDP | A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | |
| The Confessions of Nat Turner | William Styron | |||
| The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | |||
| RIDP | The Crying of Lot 49 | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| A Dance to the Music of Time | Anthony Powell | |||
| The Day of the Locust | Nathanael West | |||
| Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather | |||
| A Death in the Family | James Agee | |||
| The Death of the Heart | Elizabeth Bowen | |||
| Deliverance | James Dickey | |||
| Dog Soldiers | Robert Stone | |||
| Falconer | John Cheever | |||
| SBNF | The French Lieutenant’s Woman | John Fowles | ||
| SBNF | RIDP | The Golden Notebook | Doris Lessing | |
| Go Tell it on the Mountain | James Baldwin | |||
| SBNF | Gone With the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| RIDP | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | ||
| RIDP | Gravity’s Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| RIDP | RIDP | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| A Handful of Dust | Evelyn Waugh | |||
| RIDP | The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers | ||
| The Heart of the Matter | Graham Greene | |||
| Herzog | Saul Bellow | |||
| Housekeeping | Marilynne Robinson | |||
| A House for Mr. Biswas | V.S. Naipaul | |||
| I, Claudius | Robert Graves | |||
| Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | |||
| RIDP | Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | ||
| Light in August | William Faulkner | |||
| RIDP | RIDP | The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe | C.S. Lewis | |
| 2 | RFTP | RFTP | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
| RIDP | RIDP | Lord of the Flies | William Golding | |
| RMT | RMT | The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| Loving | Henry Green | |||
| Lucky Jim | Kingsley Amis | |||
| The Man Who Loved Children | Christina Stead | |||
| 1 | RFTP | RFTP | Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie |
| Money | Martin Amis | |||
| The Moviegoer | Walker Percy | |||
| SBNF | Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | ||
| RIDP | Naked Lunch | William Burroughs | ||
| Native Son | Richard Wright | |||
| RIDP | RIDP | Neuromancer | William Gibson | |
| Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | |||
| RIDP | RIDP | 1984 | George Orwell | |
| RMT | RIDP | On the Road | Jack Kerouac | |
| RIDP | RIDP | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Ken Kesey | |
| RIDP | RIDP | The Painted Bird | Jerzy Kosinski | |
| Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov | |||
| RIDP | A Passage To India | E. M. Forster | ||
| RMT | RIDP | Portnoy’s Complaint | Philip Roth | |
| Possession | A. S. Byatt | |||
| The Power and the Glory | Graham Greene | |||
| The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Muriel Spark / National Library of Scotland | |||
| Rabbit, Run | John Updike | |||
| Ragtime | E. L. Doctorow | |||
| The Recognitions | William Gladdis | |||
| 3 | RFTP | RFTP | Red Harvest | Dashiell Hammett |
| Revolutionary Road | Richard Yates | |||
| The Sheltering Sky | Paul Bowles / Authorized Site | |||
| RIDP | RIDP | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut / Official Site | |
| Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | |||
| SBNF | The Sot-Weed Factor | John Barth | ||
| RIDP | The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | ||
| The Sportswriter | Richard Ford | |||
| RIDP | RIDP | The Spy Who Came in From the Cold | John le Carre | |
| RMT | RIDP | The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | |||
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | |||
| 4 | RFTP | RRFTP | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| RIDP | To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | ||
| RIDP | RIDP | Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller | |
| RIDP | Ubik | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 5 | RFTP | RFTP | Under the Net | Iris Murdoch |
| Under the Volcano | Malcome Lowry | |||
| Watchmen | Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons | |||
| White Noise | Don DeLillo | |||
| White Teeth | Zadie Smith | |||
| RMT | Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys |
