Recommended Reading

The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
Orlando Furioso, Ludovico Ariosto
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
If on a winter's night a traveler, Italo Calvino
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
The Second Sex, Simone DeBeauvoir
The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Neuromancer, William Gibson
The Princess Bride, William Goldman
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
The Iliad, Homer
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
The Cider House Rules, John Irving
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid
The Tao Te Ching, Lao-Tzu
A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
Beloved, Toni Morrison
The Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi
Because It Is Bitter and It Is My Heart, Joyce Carol Oates
Vineland, Thomas Pynchon
Beowulf, Burton Raffel, trans.
Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger
The House Tibet, Georgia Savage
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Cuckoo's Egg, Clifford Stohl
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Girl with Curious Hair, David Foster Wallace
All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren

Recommended reading, unabridged edition.