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        Colonialism
        Neoclassicism
        Thoreau, Emerson, and Transcendentalism

A. D. Hope
        Beware of Ruins

A. Scott Berg
        Lindbergh

Abbie Hoffman
        Steal This Book

Adrienne Kennedy
        Funnyhouse of a Negro

Adrienne Rich
        Rusted Legacy

Aeschylus
        Agamemnon
        Eumenides
        Libation Bearers
        Oresteia, The
        Prometheus Bound
        Seven against Thebes

Agatha Christie
        And Then There Were None
        Mousetrap, The
        Murder on the Orient Express
        Ten Little Indians

Agha Shahid Ali
        Country Without a Post Office, The

Alain Robbe-Grillet
        Replacement, The

Alan Ayckbourn
        Chorus of Disapproval, A

Alan Paton
        Cry, The Beloved Country
        Too Late the Phalarope

Albert Camus
        Guest, The
        Plague, The
        Stranger, The

Alberto Rios
        Island of the Three Marias

Aldous Huxley
        Brave New World

Alex Haley
        Roots

Alexander Hamilton
        Federalist Papers

Alexander Pope
        Rape of the Lock, The

Alexander Pushkin
        Stationmaster, The

Alexander Solzhenitsyn
        One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Alexandre Dumas
        Count of Monte Cristo, The
        Three Musketeers, The

Alfred Jarry
        Ubu Roi

Alfred Lord Tennyson
        Tennyson's Poetry

Alfred Uhry
        Driving Miss Daisy
        Last Night of Ballyhoo, The

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
        Charge of the Light Brigade, The
        Eagle, The
        Lady of Shallot, The

Alice Adams
        Last Lovely City, The

Alice Childress
        Trouble in Mind
        Wedding Band
        Wine in the Wilderness

Alice Gerstenberg
        Overtones

Alice Munro
        Boys and Girls
        Walker Brothers Cowboy

Alice Walke
        Meridian

Alice Walker
        Color Purple, The
        Everyday Use
        Roselily

Alifa Rifaat
        Distant View of a Minaret

Ama Ata Aidoo
        Anowa
        No Sweetness Here

Ambrose Bierce
        Boarded Window, The
        Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An

Amiri Baraka
        Baptism, The
        Dutchman
        In Memory of Radio
        Slave Ship

Amos Tutuola
        Village Witch Doctor, The

Amy Bloom
        Silver Water

Amy Hempel
        In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried

Amy Tan
        Joy Luck Club, The
        Kitchen God's Wife, The
        Rules of the Game
        Two Kinds

Ana Castillo
        So Far from God

Andre Dubus
        Fat Girl, The

Andrew Hudgins
        Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Time Rice
        Jesus Christ Superstar

Angela Carter
        Bloody Chamber, The
        Erlking, The

Anita Desai
        Studies in the Park

Anita Diamant
        Red Tent, The

Ann Beattie
        Janus

Ann Brashares
        Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The

Ann Petry
        Street, The

Anna Akhmatova
        Midnight Verses

Anna Deavere Smith
        Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

Anne Carson
        New Rule

Anne Devlin
        Naming the Names

Anne Frank
        Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Lamott
        Operating Instructions

Anne Moody
        Coming of Age in Mississippi

Anne Sexton
        Courage

Anne Tyler
        Accidental Tourist, The
        Average Waves in Unprotected Waters
        Breathing Lessons
        Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Annie Dillard
        Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Ernaux
        I Remain in Darkness
        Shame

Anonymous
        American Poets of the 20th Century
        Beowulf
        Cattle Raid of Cooley, The
        El Cid
        Elder Edda
        Gilgamesh
        Go Ask Alice
        New Testament, The
        Old Testament
        Seafarer, The
        Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
        Song of Igor's Campaign, The
        Song of Roland
        Song of Roland, The
        Swing Low Sweet Chariot
        The 1990s Newbery Medal Winners

Anthony Burgess
        A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Shaffer
        Sleuth

Antoine De Saint-Exupery
        Little Prince, The

Anton Chekhov
        Darling, The
        Gooseberries
        Lady with the Pet Dog, The
        Seagull, The
        Three Sisters, The
        Uncle Vanya

Anton Pavlovich Chekov
        Cherry Orchard, The

Antonio Buero Vallejo
        Sleep of Reason, The

Anzia Yezierska
        America and I

Aphra Behn
        Rover, The

Ariel Dorfman
        Death and the Maiden

Aristophanes
        Lysistrata

Aristotle
        Aristotle's Ethics
        Politics, The

Arnold J. Toynbee
        Study of History, A

Arthur C. Clarke
        2001: A Space Odyssey
        Star, The

Arthur Conan Doyle
        Red-Headed League, The

Arthur Kopit
        Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Momma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad
        Y2K

Arthur Miller
        A View from the Bridge
        Crucible, The
        Death of a Salesman

Athol Fugard
        'Master Harold' … and the Boys
        Boesman & Lena
        Sizwe Banzi Is Dead
        Valley Song

Audre Lorde
        What My Child Learns of the Sea

August Strindberg
        Ghost Sonata, The
        Miss Julie

August Wilson
        Fences
        Joe Turner's Come and Gone
        Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
        Piano Lesson, The

Austin C. Clarke
        Leaving This Island Place

Avi
        True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle , The

Ayn Rand
        Anthem
        Atlas Shrugged
        Fountainhead, The

B.F. Skinner
        Walden Two

Banana Yoshimoto
        Kitchen

Barbara Kingsolver
        Animal Dreams
        Bean Trees, The
        Pigs in Heaven
        Poisonwood Bible, The

Beatriz Rivera
        African Passions

Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
        Front Page, The

Ben Jonson
        Alchemist, The
        Volpone

Benjamin Franklin
        Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Bernard Malamud
        Assistant, The
        Black Is My Favorite Color
        First Seven Years, The
        Fixer, The
        Magic Barrel, The
        Natural, The

Bernard Pomerance
        Elephant Man, The

Bertolt Brecht
        Caucasian Chalk Circle
        Galileo
        Good Person of Szechuan, The
        Jungle of Cities
        Mother Courage
        Threepenny Opera, The

Bessie Head
        Life
        Snapshots of a Wedding

Beth Henley
        Crimes of the Heart

Bette Greene
        Summer of My German Soldier

Betty Friedan
        Feminine Mystique, The

Betty Smith
        A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

Bharati Mukherjee
        Jasmine
        Management of Grief, The
        Middleman, The

Billy Collins
        Afterlife, The

Blanche Wiesen Cook
        Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume One, 1884-1933

Bobbie Ann Mason
        In Country
        Residents and Transients
        Shiloh

Boris Pasternak
        Dr. Zhivago

Bram Stoker
        Dracula

Brendan Behan
        Hostage, The

Bret Easton Ellis
        Less than Zero

Bret Harte
        Outcasts of Poker Flat

Brian Friel
        Dancing at Lughnasa

Brian Greene
        Elegant Universe, The

Bruce Jay Friedman
        Brazzaville Teen-ager

Bryce Courtenay
        Power of One, The

Buchi Emecheta
        Bride Price, The
        Joys of Motherhood, The
        Wrestling Match, The

C. S. Lewis
        Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, The

Carl Hiaasen
        Hoot

Carlos Fuentes
        Old Gringo, The
        Where the Air Is Clear

Carolyn Forche
        Garden Shukkei-en, The

Carolyn Kizer
        To an Unknown Poet

Carson McCullers
        Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The
        Member of the Wedding, The
        Square Root of Wonderful, The
        Wunderkind

Caryl Churchill
        Cloud Nine
        Top Girls

Catalina de Erauso
        Lieutenant Nun

Chaim Potok
        Chosen, The
        My Name is Asher Lev

Chan Tsao
        Dream of the Red Chamber

Charles Baudelaire
        Flowers of Evil, The

Charles Dickens
        A Tale of Two Cities
        Bleak House
        Christmas Carol
        David Copperfield
        Great Expectations
        Hard Times
        Oliver Twist

Charles Frazier
        Cold Mountain

Charles H. Fuller
        Soldier's Play, A

Charles Johnson
        Menagerie, a Child's Fable

Charles Waddell Chesnutt
        Sheriff's Children, The

Charlotte Bronte
        Jane Eyre

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
        Herland
        Three Thanksgivings
        Yellow Wallpaper, The

Chinua Achebe
        Anthills of the Savannah
        Civil Peace
        No Longer At Ease
        Things Fall Apart
        Vengeful Creditor

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
        Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter

Chris Crutcher
        Crazy Horse Electric Game, The

Christa Wolf
        Exchanging Glances

Christina Rossetti
        Remember

Christopher Collier & James Lincoln Collier
        My Brother Sam is Dead

Christopher Marlowe
        Doctor Faustus
        Edward II: The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable End of Edward the Second, King of England, with the
        Jew of Malta, The

Clarice Lispector
        Family Ties

Clifford Odets
        Golden Boy
        Waiting for Lefty

Conrad Aiken
        Silent Snow, Secret Snow

Conrad Richter
        Light in the Forest, The

Cormac McCarthy
        All the Pretty Horses

Corrie ten Boom
        Hiding Place, The

Cristina Garcia
        Aguero Sisters, The

Cynthia Kadohata
        Kira-Kira

Cynthia Ozick
        Pagan Rabbi, The
        Shawl, The

Cynthia Voigt
        Dicey's Song
        Homecoming

Czeslaw Milosz
        Song of a Citizen

D'Arcy Thompson
        On Growth and Form

D. H. Lawrence
        Odour of Chrysanthemums
        Rocking-Horse Winner, The

D.H. Lawrence
        Lady Chatterley's Lover
        Sons and Lovers

Dalton Trumbo
        Johnny Got His Gun

Dan Brown
        Da Vinci Code, The

Daniel Defoe
        Moll Flanders
        Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Keyes
        Flowers For Algernon

Dante Alighieri
        Divine Comedy-The Inferno (Dante's Inferno), The

Daphne du Maurier
        Birds, The
        Don't Look Now
        Rebecca

David Edgar
        Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, The

David Guterson
        Snow Falling on Cedars

David Hare
        Blue Room, The
        Plenty
        Secret Rapture, The

David Henry Hwang
        M. Butterfly
        Sound of a Voice, The

David Hume
        Concerning Principles of Morals

David Mamet
        American Buffalo
        Glengarry Glen Ross
        Glengarry, Glen Ross
        Life in the Theatre, A
        Oleanna
        Reunion
        Speed-the-Plow

David Pelzer
        A Child Called "It"

David Rabe
        Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, The
        Sticks and Bones
        Streamers

Deborah Eisenberg
        “Twilight of the Superheroes”

Dee Brown
        Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Delany, Delany, Hearth
        Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years

Denise Levertov
        Blue Rim of Memory, The

Derek Walcott
        Dream on Monkey Mountain
        Far Cry from Africa, A
        Omeros

Djeli Mamoudou Kouyate
        Sundiata

Don Delillo
        White Noise

Donald Barthelme
        Indian Uprising, The
        Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning

Donald Hall
        Names of Horses

Donald Justice
        Incident in a Rose Garden

Donald Margulies
        Dinner with Friends

Dore Schary
        Sunrise at Campobello

Doris Lessing
        Debbie and Julie
        Through the Tunnel

Dorothy Allison
        Bastard Out of Carolina

Dorothy L. Sayers
        Suspicion

Dorothy Parker
        Big Blonde
        Last Question, The

Douglas Adams
        Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The

Dylan Thomas
        Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
        Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower, The

E. Annie Proulx
        Half-Skinned Steer, The
        Shipping News, The

e. e. cummings
        i was sitting in mcsorley's

E. H. Gombrich
        Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation

E. L. Doctorow
        Ragtime

E. M. Forster
        Aspects of the Novel
        Howard's End

E.M. Forster
        A Passage to India
        A Room with a View
        Howards End

Earle Birney
        Vancouver Lights

Edgar Allan Po
        Poe’s Short Stories

Edgar Allan Poe
        A Descent into the Maelstrom
        A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
        Annabel Lee
        Balloon Hoax, The
        Black Cat, The
        Cask of Amontillado, The
        Fall of the House of Usher, The
        Gold Bug, The
        Man That Was Used Up, The
        Masque of the Red Death, The
        Murders in the Rue Morgue, The
        Pit and the Pendulum, The
        Poe's Short Stories
        Premature Burial, The
        Purloined Letter, The
        Raven, The
        Sphinx, The
        Tell Tale Heart, The

Edith Hamilton
        Mythology

Edith Wharton
        Age of Innocence, The
        Ethan Frome
        House of Mirth, The
        Pomegranate Seed
        Roman Fever

Edmond Rostand
        Cyrano De Bergerac

Edmund Spenser
        Faerie Queene, The

Edna St. Vincent Millay
        Wild Swans

Edward Albee
        American Dream
        Delicate Balance: A Play, A
        Seascape
        Three Tall Women
        Tiny Alice
        Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
        Zoo Story, The

Edward Bellamy
        Looking Backward: 2000-1887

Edward Bond
        Lear
        Saved

Edwidge Danticat
        Breath, Eyes, Memory
        Children of the Sea
        Farming of Bones, The
        Krik? Krak!

Elias Lonnrot
        Kalevala

Elie Wiesel
        News of a Kidnapping
        Night

Elizabeth Bowen
        Death of the Heart, The
        Demon Lover, The

Elizabeth Jenkins
        Elizabeth the Great

Ellen Gilchrist
        Victory over Japan

Ellen Glasgow
        Difference, The

Elmer Rice
        Street Scene

Emilio Carballido
        I, Too, Speak of the Rose

Emily Bronte
        Wuthering Heights

Emily Dickinson
        I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
        Much Madness Is Divinest Sense
        My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close
        Narrow Fellow in the Grass, A

Eoin Colfer
        Artemis Fowl

Eric Schlosser
        Fast Food Nation

Erich Maria Remarque
        All Quiet on the Western Front

Ernest Hemingway
        A Clean, Well Lighted Place
        A Farewell to Arms
        Big, Two-Hearted River
        For Whom the Bell Tolls
        Hemingway's Short Stories
        Hills Like White Elephants
        In Another Country
        In Our Time
        Killers, The
        Old Man and the Sea, The
        Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The
        Snows of Kilimanjaro, The
        Sun Also Rises, The

Ernest J. Gaines
        Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The
        Gathering of Old Men, A
        Lesson before Dying, A
        Sky Is Gray, The

Es'kia Mphahlele
        Mrs. Plum

Esther Forbes
        Johnny Tremain

Eudora Welty
        Losing Battles
        Optimist's Daughter, The
        Why I Live at the P.O.
        Worn Path, A

Eugene Ionesco
        Bald Soprano, The
        Chairs, The
        Rhinoceros

Eugene O'Neill
        Anna Christie
        Beyond the Horizon
        Emperor Jones, The
        Great God Brown, The
        Hairy Ape, The
        Iceman Cometh, The
        Long Day's Journey into Night
        Mourning Becomes Electra

Eugenia Ginzburg
        Journey into the Whirlwind

Euripedes
        Electra
        Phaedra

Euripides
        Bacchae, The
        Iphigenia in Taurus
        Medea

Evelyn Waugh
        Brideshead Revisited
        Scoop

Ezra Pound
        Cantos, The
        Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
        River Merchant's Wife: A Letter, The

F. Scott Fitzgerald
        Babylon Revisited
        Great Gatsby, The
        Tender is the Night
        This Side of Paradise

Fannie Flagg
        Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Fanny Burney
        Evelina; or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World

Federico Garcia Lorca
        Blood Wedding
        House of Bernarda Alba, The

Flannery O'Connor
        A Good Man Is Hard To Find
        Everything That Rises Must Converge
        Life You Save May Be Your Own, The
        Wise Blood

Ford Madox Ford
        Good Soldier, The

Frances Harper
        Iola Leroy

Frances Hodgson Burnett
        Secret Garden, The

Francis Richard Stockton
        Lady, or the Tiger?, The

Frank Conroy
        Body and Soul

Frank D. Gilroy
        Subject Was Roses, The

Frank Herbert
        Dune
        Soul Catcher

Frank McCourt
        Angela's Ashes

Frank Norris
        Octopus, The

Frank O'Connor
        Guests of the Nation

Frank O'Hara
        Why I Am Not a Painter

Frank Wedekind
        Spring Awakening

Franz Kafka
        A Hunger Artist
        A Little Woman
        First Sorrow
        In the Penal Colony
        Josephine Songstress or The Mouse People
        Metamorphosis, The
        Stories of Franz Kafka
        Trial, The

Frederick Douglass
        Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Friedrich Duerrenmatt
        Visit, The

Fyodor Dostoevsky
        Brothers Karamazov, The
        Crime and Punishment
        Grand Inquisitor, The
        Idiot, The
        Notes From Underground

G. H. Hardy
        Mathematician's Apology, A

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
        100 Years of Solitude
        A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
        Chronicle of a Death Foretold
        Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, The
        Love in the Time of Cholera
        One Hundred Years of Solitude
        Woman Who Came at Six O'Clock, The

Gabriela Mistral
        Fear

Galway Kinnell
        Saint Francis and the Sow

Gary Paulsen
        Hatchet

Gary Snyder
        Anasazi

Geoffrey Chaucer
        Canterbury Tales, The

Georg Buechner
        Woyzeck

George Bernard Shaw
        Arms and the Man
        Major Barbara
        Man and Superman
        Pygmalion
        Saint Joan

George Eliot
        Adam Bede
        Lifted Veil, The
        Middlemarch
        Mill on the Floss, The
        Silas Marner

George Lamming
        In the Castle of My Skin

George MacBeth
        Bedtime Story

George Orwell
        1984
        Animal Farm
        Shooting an Elephant

George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
        Once in a Lifetime
        You Can't Take It with You

Gerard Manley Hopkins
        Hopkins's Poetry

Gerda Weissmann Klein
        All But My Life

Gertrude Stein
        Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The
        Melanctha

Giles Foden
        Last King of Scotland, The

Gina Berriault
        Stone Boy, The
        Women in Their Beds

Gita Mehta
        River Sutra, A

Gjertrud Schnackenberg
        Darwin in 1881

Gloria Naylor
        Mama Day
        Women of Brewster Place, The

Gore Vidal
        Visit to a Small Planet

Grace Ogot
        Green Leaves, The

Grace Paley
        Conversation with My Father, A

Graham Greene
        Destructors, The
        End of the Affair, The
        Power and the Glory, The

Graham Swift
        Waterland

Gunter Grass
        Tin Drum, The

Gustave Flaubert
        Madame Bovary
        Sentimental Education
        Simple Heart, A

Guy de Maupassant
        Necklace, The

H. E. Bates
        Daffodil Sky, The

H. G. Wells
        Door in the Wall, The
        War of the Worlds, The

H. L. Mencken
        American Language, The

H.G. Wells
        Time Machine, The

Ha Jin
        In the Kindergarten

Hal Borland
        When the Legends Die

Hannah Green
        Dead of the House, The

Harlan Ellison
        Boy and His Dog, A
        I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
        Jeffty Is Five

Harold Pinter
        Birthday Party, The
        Caretaker, The
        Dumb Waiter, The
        Homecoming, The
        Mountain Language

Harper Lee
        To Kill a Mockingbird

Harriet A. Jacobs
        Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Beecher Stowe
        Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harvey Fierstein
        Torch Song Trilogy

Helen Keller
        Story of My Life, The

Helene Hanff
        84 Charing Cross Road

Henrik Ibsen
        A Doll House
        An Enemy of the People
        Brand
        Ghosts
        Hedda Gabler
        Master Builder, The
        Peer Gynt
        Wild Duck, The

Henry Brooks Adams
        Education of Henry Adams, The

Henry David Thoreau
        Civil Disobedience
        Walden

Henry Fielding
        Tom Jones

Henry James
        Ambassadors, The
        American, The
        Beast in the Jungle, The
        Daisy Miller
        Jolly Corner, The
        Portrait of a Lady
        Turn of the Screw, The

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
        Arsenal at Springfield, The

Herb Gardner
        I'm Not Rappaport

Herbert Croly
        Promise of American Life, The

Herman Melville
        Bartleby the Scrivener
        Benito Cereno
        Billy Budd
        Melville Stories
        Moby Dick
        Typee

Herman Wouk
        Caine Mutiny, The

Hermann Hesse
        Demian
        Siddhartha
        Steppenwolf

Hisaye Yamamoto
        Eskimo Connection, The

Ho Xuan Huong
        Spring-Watching Pavilion

Homer
        Iliad, The
        Odyssey, The

Honore de Balzac
        La Grande Breteche

Howard Nemerov
        Deep Woods

Howard Sackler
        Great White Hope, The

Hugo von Hofmannsthal
        Tower, The

Irene Hunt
        Across Five Aprils

Iris Murdoch
        Under the Net

Irving Stone
        Agony and the Ecstasy, The

Isaac Asimov
        Nightfall

Isaac Babel
        My First Goose

Isaac Bashevis Singer
        Gimpel the Fool
        Henne Fire
        Spinoza of Market Street, The

Isabel Allende
        And of Clay Are We Created
        Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses
        Daughter of Fortune
        Gold of Tomas Vargas, The
        House of the Spirits, The
        Paula

Isak Dinesen
        Out of Africa
        Ring, The
        Sailor-Boy's Tale, The
        Sorrow-Acre

Italo Calvino
        Feathered Ogre, The

Ivan Turgenev
        Fathers and Sons
        Month in the Country, A

J. D. Salinger
        Perfect Day for Bananafish, A

J. G. Ballard
        Empire of the Sun

J. K. Rowling
        Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
        Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
        Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
        Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix
        Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
        Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
        Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

J. M. Barrie
        Peter Pan

J. M. Synge
        Playboy of the Western World, The

J.D. Salinger
        Catcher in the Rye, The
        Franny and Zooey

J.R.R. Tolkien
        Fellowship of the Ring, The
        Hobbit, The
        Lord of the Rings, The
        Return of the King
        Two Towers, The

Jack Agueros
        Dominoes

Jack Kerouac
        On the Road

Jack London
        Call of the Wild, The
        To Build a Fire
        White Fang

Jack Schaefer
        Shane

Jamaica Kincaid
        A Small Place
        Annie John
        Lucy: A Novel
        My Brother
        What I Have Been Doing Lately

James Baldwin
        Sonny's Blues

James Agee
        A Death in the Family

James Baldwin
        Amen Corner, The
        Go Tell It On the Mountain
        One Day When I was Lost: A Scenario
        Rockpile, The

James D. Watson
        Double Helix, The

James Dickey
        Deliverance
        Hospital Window

James du Maresq Clavell
        Shogun

James Fenimore Cooper
        Deerslayer, The
        Last of the Mohicans, The

James Fenton
        Milkfish Gatherers, The

James Frazer
        Golden Bough, The

James Frey
        A Million Little Pieces

James Joyce
        A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
        Araby
        Dead, The
        Dubliners
        Ulysses

James Tate
        Smart and Final Iris

James Thurber
        Catbird Seat, The
        Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The

James Wright
        Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio

Jan de Hartog
        Fourposter, The

Jane Austen
        Emma
        Mansfield Park
        Northanger Abbey
        Persuasion
        Pride and Prejudice
        Sense and Sensibility

Jane Hirshfield
        Three Times My Life Has Opened

Jane Kenyon
        Having it Out with Melancholy
        Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School

Janet Malcolm
        Journalist and the Murderer, The

Jason Brown
        Animal Stories

Jason Miller
        That Championship Season

Jayne Anne Phillips
        Souvenir

Jean Anouilh
        Ring around the Moon

Jean Auel
        Clan of the Cave Bear, The

Jean Genet
        Balcony, The
        Maids, The

Jean Paul Sartre
        No Exit

Jean Racine
        Andromache

Jean Rhys
        Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Toomer
        Blood-Burning Moon
        Cane

Jean-Paul Sartre
        Flies, The
        Nausea
        Wall, The

Jeanette Winterson
        Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Jeanne Wakatsuki/James Houston
        Farewell to Manzanar

Jeffrey Eugenides
        Virgin Suicides

Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
        Inherit the Wind
        Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, The

Jerzy Kosinski
        Painted Bird, The

Jim Carroll
        Basketball Diaries, The

Joan Didion
        Democracy
        Year of Magical Thinking, The

Joanne Greenberg
        I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Joanne Hyppolite
        Seth and Samona

Joe Orton
        Entertaining Mr. Sloane
        What the Butler Saw

Joel Brouwer
        Last Request

John Arden
        Serjeant Musgrave's Dance

John Ashbery
        Paradoxes and Oxymorons

John Barth
        Lost in the Funhouse

John Bunyan
        Pilgrim's Progress, The
        Pilgrim’s Progress, The

John Cheever
        Country Husband, The
        Swimmer, The

John Donne
        Donne's Poetry
        Valediction: Forbidden Mourning, A

John Edgar Wideman
        Beginning of Homewood, The
        Fever

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
        Profiles in Courage

John Ford
        'Tis Pity She's a Whore

John Fowles
        French Lieutenant's Woman, The

John Galsworthy
        Japanese Quince, The

John Gardner
        Grendel
        Redemption

John Gay
        Beggar's Opera, The

John Gneisenau Niehardt
        Black Elk Speaks

John Guare
        House of Blue Leaves, The
        Six Degrees of Separation

John Gunther
        Death Be Not Proud

John Hersey
        Hiroshima

John Howard Griffin
        Black Like Me

John Irving
        A Prayer for Owen Meany
        Cider House Rules, The
        World According to Garp, The


John Keats
        Bright Star! Would I Were as Steadfast as Thou Art
        La Belle Dame sans Merci
        Ode on a Grecian Urn

John Kenneth Galbraith
        Affluent Society, The

John Knowles
        A Separate Peace

John Milton
        On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three
        Paradise Lost
        Samson Agonistes

John O'Hara
        Appointment in Samarra

John Osborne
        Look Back in Anger

John Patrick
        Teahouse of the August Moon, The

John Pepper Clark
        Raft, The

John Rawls
        Theory of Justice, A

John Steinbeck
        Cannery Row
        Chrysanthemums, The
        East of Eden
        Flight
        Grapes of Wrath, The
        Of Mice and Men
        Pearl, The
        Red Pony, The
        Tortilla Flat

John Stuart Mill
        On Liberty

John Updike
        A & P
        Rabbit, Run

John Webster
        Duchess of Malfi, The

Jon Krakauer
        Into the Wild
        Into Thin Air

Jonathan Swift
        A Modest Proposal
        Gulliver's Travels

Jorge Luis Borges
        Aleph, The
        Garden of Forking Paths, The
        Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote

Jorie Graham
        Mind

Jose Raul Bernardo
        Silent Wing

Josef Capek and Karel Capek
        Insect Play, The

Joseph A. Walker
        River Niger, The

Joseph Conrad
        Heart of Darkness
        Lord Jim
        Secret Sharer, The

Joseph Heller
        Catch 22

Joseph Kramm
        Shrike, The

Joseph Stein
        Fiddler on the Roof

Jostein Gaarder
        Sophie's World

Joy Harjo
        Anniversary

Joy Kogawa
        Obasan

Joyce Carol Oates
        Four Summers
        How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again
        Them
        Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

Juan Jose Arreola
        Switchman, The

Judith Bennett