Fiction (Novels and Short Stories) of Literary Merit
Chinua Achebe,
Things
Fall Apart
Kingsley Amis, The Green
Man; The Alteration; The Anti-Death League.
Rudolfo Anaya, Bless
Me, Ultima
Margaret Atwood, Alias
Grace ; The
Handmaid's Tale ; Cat's
Eye
Jane Austen,Emma
; Mansfield
Park, ; Persuasion
; Pride
and Prejudice
Saul Bellow, (1976 Nobel Prize for
Literature) The Actual: A Novella; Henderson the Rain King.
Emily Bronte, Wuthering
Heights
Charlotte Bronte, Jane
Eyre
Albert Camus, The
Stranger; The
Fall
Lan Cao, Monkey
Bridge
Willa Cather, My Antonia;
One of Ours (1923 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction).
Miguel De Cervantes, Don
Quixote
Sandra Cisneros,Woman
Hollering Creek and Other Stories The House on
John Cheever,The
Stories of John Cheever ; The Wapshot Chronicle;
Kate Chopin, The
Awakening
Collette, Collected
Stories of Colette.
Joseph Conrad, Lord
Jim ; Heart
of Darkness
Stephan Crane, Maggie, A
Girl of the Streets; The Red Badge of Courage.
Robertson Davies, A
Fifth Business
Anita Desai, Diamond
Dust: Stories; Clear Light of Day;
Baumgartner's
Daniel DeFoe, Moll
Flanders
Charles Dickens,A
Tale of Two Cities ; Bleak
House ; Dombey
and Son ; Great
Expectations ; Hard
Times ; Little Dorrit; The
Pickwick Papers; David
Copperfield; Our
Mutual Friend ; Oliver Twist.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime
and Punishment ; Notes
from the Underground ; The
Brothers Karamozov .
Theodore Drieser, An
American Tragedy ; Sister
Carie
George Eliot, Mill
on the Floss ; Middlemarch
Ralph Ellison,Invisible
Man
Louise Erdich, The
Chippewa Landscape of Louise Erdich; Grandmother's Pigeon.
William Faulkner, Absalom,
Absalom ; Light
in August ; As
I Lay Dying ; The
Sound and the Fury
Henry Fielding, Tom
Jones ; Joseph
Andrews
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The
Great Gatsby
Gustave Flaubert, Madame
Bovary
Ford Maddox Ford, The Good Soldier.
Richard Ford, Independence Day
(1996 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction).
E. M. Forster, A
Passage to India
Ernest J. Gaines, A
Gathering of Old Men ; A
Lesson Before Dying
William Golding, Lord
of the Flies
Nadine Gordimer, July's
People
Graham Greene, Brighton
Rock ; The
Heart of the Matter ; The
Power and the Glory
David Guterson, Snow
Falling on Cedars
Thomas Hardy, Tess
of the d'Urbervilles; Jude
the Obscure (; Mayor
of Casterbridge ; Return of the Native.
Nathanel Hawthorne, The
House of the Seven Gables ; The
Scarlet Letter
Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a
Strange Land.
Joseph Heller, Catch
22
Ernest Hemingway, The
Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway; The
Sun Also Rises ; A
Farewell to Arms
Herman Hesse,Siddhartha;
Steppenwolf.
Zora Neal Hurston, Their
Eyes Were Watching God
Aldous Huxley, Brave
New World
Kazuo Ishiguro, The
Remains of the Day
Henry James,Daisy
Miller ; The
Portrait of a Lady ; The
Turn of the Screw ; Washington
Square ; The American; The Europeans.
Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the
Pointed Firs : And Other Stories; A Country Doctor;
A
White Heron and Other New England Tales ; "Eveline"
from Dubliners ; Ulysses.
Franz Kafka, The
Trial ; The
Metamorphosis
Ken Kesey, One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Maxine Hong Kingston, The
Woman Warrior : Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts ;
Tripmaster Monkey : His Fake Book; China Men.
Joy Kogawa, Obasan;
A choice of Dreams; Itsuka;
John Knowles, A
Separate Peace
Joy Kogawa, Obasan
Par F. Lagerkvist, The
Marriage Feast
Margaret Laurence, The
Diviners ; The
Stone Angel
D. H. Lawrence, Aaron's Rod;
Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation; Birds, Beasts and
Flowers; The Boy in the Bush; Complete Poems;
The Complete Short Stories; The Cornish Nightmare; Sons
and Lovers
Chang-Rae Lee, Native
Speaker
Ursula K. LeGuin, Left Hand of Darkness.
Sinclair Lewis, Main
Street
Norman Mailer, Armies
of the Night
Bernard Malamud, The Fixer (1967
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction), the Natural, the Assistant -- The Complete Stories;
God's Grace; A New Life; The People and
Uncollected Stories; Talking Horse: Bernard Malamud on Life
and Work; The Tenants;El Hombre De Kiev.
Katherine Mansfield,
Bliss & Other Stories; The Garden Party and Other Stories.
Paule Marshall, Praisesong
for the Widow
Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
One
Hundred Years of Solitude Love in the Time of
Cholera; Collected Stories; The Autumn of
the Patriarch; Aventura de Miguel Littín;
Chronicle of a Death Foretold; Cien años de soledad;
Collected Novellas : Leaf Storm, No One Writes to the Colonel, Chronicle of a
Death Foretold ; Collected Stories; Cuentos
1947 - 1992; Del Amor y Otros Demonios; Doce
Cuentos Peregrinos; El amor en los tiempos del Colera ;
El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba.
Bobbie Ann Mason, Clear Springs :
A Family Story; In Country; Midnight Magic:
Selected Stories of Bobbie Ann Mason;
Feather Crowns : A Novel; The Girl Sleuth;
In Country.
Cormac McCarthy, All
the Pretty Horses; The
Crossing; Cities
of the Plain.
Hugh MacLennan, The
Watch that Ends the Night
Carson McCullers, The
Member of the Wedding
Herman Melville, Billy
Budd ; Benito
Cereno
N. Scott Momaday, House
Made of Dawn
Toni Morrison, (1993 Noble Prize
for her Literature), The
Bluest Eye The Big Box; Beloved
(1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) ; Sula
; Song
of Solomon
Bharati Mukherjee,
Jasmine
Iris Murdoch,
Vladimir Nabokov, Pale
Fire ; Pnin
V. S. Naipaul, Way in the World: A
Novel; The Enigma of Arrival.
Gloria Naylor, Mama
Day; Bailey's Cafe
Tim O'Brien, Going
After Cacciato ; In
the Lake of the Woods ; Things They Carried
Flannery O'Connor, Wise
Blood A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories;
The Complete Stories.
John Okada, No-No
Boy
Tillie Olsen, Tell
Me a Riddle ; Mother to Daughter,
Daughter to Mother: Mothers on Mothering: A Daybook and Reader.
Michael Ondaatje, Coming
Through Slaughter
George Orwell, 1984Coming
Up for Air; Burmese Days.
Cynthia Ozick, The
Shawl ; A Cynthia Ozick Reader .
Alan Paton, Cry
the Beloved Country
Walker Percy, The
Moviegoer.
Katherine Anne Porter,
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter : The Cracked Looking Glass/the
Grave/Magic/Flowering Judas.
Annie Proulx, The
Shipping News
Barbara Pym, A Few
Green Leaves; Jane and Prudence; Excellent
Women.
Jean Rhys, Wide
Sargasso Sea After Leaving Mr. MacKenzie ;
The Collected Short Stories.
Mordecai Richler, The
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
J. D. Salinger, The
Catcher in the Rye
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
Marmon Silko, Ceremony
Upton Sinclair, The
Jungle
Muriel Spark, The
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
John Steinbeck, (1975 Open
Question: Show how the conventional or stereo-typed character is used to
accomplish the author's purpose.) Grapes
of Wrath ; Of
Mice and Men ; The
Sun Also Rises
Laurence Sterne,The Life and Opinions of
Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle
Tom's Cabin
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's
Travels
Amy Tan, The
Joy Luck Club
Leo Tolstoy, Anna
Karenina; War and Peace.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Fathers
and Sons
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi;
Innocents Abroad; The Bridge-Builders; The Prince and the
Pauper;Pudd'nhead Wilson; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's
Court, 1889; The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Anne Tyler, Dinner
at Homesick Restaurant
John Updike, The
Centaur ; Rabbit is Rich (1982 Pulitzer Prize
for Literature); Rabbit at Rest (1991 Pulitzer Prize for
Literature).
Luisa Valenzuela,Cuentos Completos y uno
más; Aqui pasan cosas raras; The Censors;
Bedside Manners; Clara; Lizard's Tail;
Symmetries : Stories; Aqui pasan cosas raras;
Cambio De Armas; Donde Viven Las Aguilas/Where Eagles Live;
El Silencio Que Habla: Aproximacion A La Obra.
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse
Five
Alice Walker, By the Light of My
Father's Smile; The
Color Purple
Robert Penn Warren, All
the King's Men
Evelyn Waugh, The
Loved One ; A Handful of Dust;
Decline and Fall; Brideshead Revisited.
James Welch, Fool's Crow;
Indian Lawyer; Winter
in the Blood
Fay Weldon,The Life and Loves of a
She-Devil; Rhode Island Blues; Affliction;
Big Girls Don't Cry; Darcy's Utopia; Down
Among the Women; The Fat Woman's Joke;
Female Friends; A Hard Time to Be a Father;
Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen ; Life Force;
Splitting ; Wicked Women : Stories; Worst
Fears; Big Women.
Eudora Welty, Complete Novels: The
Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, The
Optimist's Daughter (1973 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) ; Delta
Wedding
Nathan West, Miss
Lonelyhearts
Edith Wharton, The
Age of Innocence (1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) ; Ethan
Frome; The Buccaneers; A Backward Glance;
The Custom of the Country.
John Edgar Wiedman, Brothers and
Keepers; The Cattle Killing; Fatheralong: A Meditation on
Fathers and Sons, Race and Society;
Virginia Woolf, Mrs.
Dalloway
Richard Wright, Black Boy;
Native
Son