The 60 Most-Recommended Novels and Short Stories
1. Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice (BR, 1813) / 2. Baldwin, James, Go Tell It on the Mountain (AM, 1953) / 3. Bellow, Saul, Seize the Day (AM, 1956) / 4. Bronte, Charlotte, Jane Eyre (BR, 1847) / 5. Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights (BR, 1847) / 6. Camus, Albert, The Stranger (FR, 1942) / 7. Carroll, Lewis, Alice’ s Adventures in Wonderland (BR, 1865) / 8. Cather, Willa, My Antonia (AM, 1918) / 9. Cervantes, Miguel de, Don Quixote (SP, 1605, 1607) / 10. Chopin, Kate, The Awakening (AM, 1899) / 11. Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness (BR, i902 ) / 12. Crane, Stephen, The Red Badge of Courage (AM, 1895) / 13. Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe (BR, 1719) / 14. Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations (BR, 1860～61)/ 15. Dostoevski, Feodor, Crime and Punishment (RU, 1866) / 16. Eliot, George, The Mill on the Floss (BR, 1860) / 17. Ellison, Ralph, Invisible Man (AM, 1947) / 18. Faulkner, William, The Sound and the Fury (AM, 1929) / 19. Fielding, Henry, Tom Jones (Br, 1749) / 20. Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Great Gatsby (AM, 1925) / 21. Flaubert, Gustave, Madame Bovary (FR, 1857) / 22. Forster, E. M., A Passage to India (BR, 1924) / 23. Garcia Marquez, Gabriel, One Hundred Years of Solitude (CO, 1967) / 24. Golding, William, Lord of the Flies (BR, 1954) / 25. Hardy, Thomas, Tess of the D’ Urbervilles (BR, 1891) / 26. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Scarlet Letter (AM, 1850) / 27. Hemingway, Ernest, A Farewell to Arms (AM, 1929) / 28. Hurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God (AM, 1937) / 29. Huxley, Aldous, Brave New World (BR, 1932) / 30. James, Henry, The Turn of the Screw (AM, 1898) / 31. Joyce, James, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (IR, 1916) / 32. Kafka, Franz, The Trial (CZ, 1925) / 33. Lawrence, D. H., Sons and Lovers (BR, 1913) / 34. Lewis, Sinclair, Babbitt (AM, 1922) / 35. Malamud, Bernard, The Assistant (AM, 1957) / 36. Mann, Thomas, Death in Venice (GE, 1912) / 37. Melville, Herman, Moby-Dick (AM, 1851) / 38. Morrison, Toni, Sula (AM, 1973) / 39. O’Connor, Flannery, A Good Man Is Hard to Find (AM, 1955) / 40. Olsen, Tillie, Tell Me a Riddle (AM, 1956～60) / 41. Orwell, George, Animal Farm (BR, 1945) / 42. Paton, Alan, Cry, the Beloved Country (SA, 1948 ) / 43. Poe, Edgar Allan, Great Tales and Poems (AM, 1839-45) / 44. Salinger, J. D., The Catcher in the Rye (AM, 1951)/ 45. Scott, Sir Walter, Ivanhoe (BR, 1820) / 46. Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein (BR, 1818) / 47. Stelnbeck, John, The Grapes of Wrath (AM, 1939) / 48. Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver’ s Travels (BR, 1726) / 49. Thackeray, William Makepeaee, Vanity Fair (BR, 1847～48) / 50. Tolstoy , Leo , War and Peace (RU, 1865~69) / 51. Turgenev, Ivan, Fathers and Sons (RU, 1862) / 52. Twain, Mark, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (AM, 1886) / 53. Updike, John, Rabbit, Run (AM, 1961) / 54. Voltaire, Candide (FR, 1759) / 55. Vonnegut, Kurt, Slaughterhouse Five (AM, 1969) / 56. Walker, Alice, The Color Purple (AM, 1982) / 57. Welty, Eudora, Thirteen Stories (AM, 1956) / 58.Wharton, Edith, The Age of Innocence (AM, 1920) /59. Woolf, Virginia, To the Lighthouse (BR, 1927) /60. Wright, Richard, Native Son (AM, 1940)