Possession A.S. Byatt Cry the Beloved Country Alan Paton The Stranger Albert Camus The Plague Albert Camus Brave New World Aldous Huxley Eyeless in Gaza Aldous Huxley Point Counterpoint Aldous Huxley The Autobiography of Malcom X Alex Haley & Malcom X The Three Musketeers Alexander Dumas The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch Alexander Solzenitzen The First Circle Alexander Solzhenitsyn Love's Cross Currents Algernon Charles Swinburne Temple of My Familiar Alice Walker The Color Purple Alice Walker Living by the Word Alice Walker Meridian Alice Walker The Third Life of Grange Copeland Alice Walker To Hell with Dying Alice Walker In Love and Trouble Alice Walker Howl and Other Poems Allen Ginsberg The Kitchen God's Wife Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan The Diary of Anaïs Nin Anaïs Nin Henry and June Anaïs Nin The Counterfeiters Andre Gide The Immoralist Andre Gide The Magician's Assistant Ann Patchett The Street Ann Petty The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Radcliffe Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess A Doctor's Visit: Short Stories Anton Chekov Arabesques Anton Shammas Tales of the City Armistead Maupin Romeus and Juliet Arthur Brooke Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship Arthur Rolande A Lesson from Aloes Athol Fugard Islandia Austin Tappan Wright Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand The Fountainhead Ayn Rand Excellent Women B. Pym Kitchen Banana Yoshimoto Farewell to Military Profession Barnabe Rich Bridge of Birds Barry Hughart The Tangerine Tango Equation Barry Targan The Tao of Pooh Benjamin Hoff The Fixer Bernard Malamud The New Male Sexuality Bernie Zilbergeld Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak Giovanni's Gift Bradford Morrow Dracula Bram Stoker At Swim Two Birds Brian O'Nolan Songlines Bruce Chetwin Beowulf Burton Raffel, trans. The Sentimental Bloke C.J. Dennis Midshipman Hornblower C.S. Forester The Chronicles of Narnia C.S. Lewis Perelandra C.S. Lewis The Alienist Caleb Carr Native Tongue Carl Hiaasen The Old Gringo Carlos Fuentes The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories Carson McCullers On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin Little Dorrit Charles Dickens The Maximus Poems Charles Olson Villette Charlotte Bront‘ Jane Eyre Charlotte Bront‘ The Execution of Mayor Yin & Other Stories Chen Jo-hsi Girls at War and Other Stories Chinua Achebe Hectomithi Cinthio The Cuckoo's Egg Clifford Stohl The Analects Confucius All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy Anima as Fate Cornelia Brunner Sons and Lovers D. H. Lawrence The Plumed Serpent D. H. Lawrence Women in Love D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover D.H. Lawrence Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri How to make love to a Negro Dany Laferrière Concrete Blond Darcey Steinke Let the Dog Drive David Bowman The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language David Crystal Girl with Curious Hair David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again David Foster Wallace The Brothers K David James Duncan The Term Paper Artist David Leavitt The Road to Many a Wonder David Wagoner Dream on Monkey Mountain Derek Walcott Nightwood Djuna Barnes White Noise Don Delillo I Gave at the Office Donald Westlake The Secret History Donna Tartt Briefing for a Descent into Hell Doris May Lessing Bastard out of Carolina Dorothy Allison Trash Dorothy Allison Every Woman Loves a Russian Poet Dunkel Collected Poems Dylan Thomas A Room with a View E.M. Forster A Passage to India E.M. Forster Howard's End E.M. Forster The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Earl Mac Rauch The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym Edgar A. Poe Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs The House of Mirth Edith Wharton Ethan Frome Edith Wharton Cyrano de Bergerac Edmund Rostand The New Feminist Criticism Elaine Showalter, ed. The Moon is Broken Eleanor Craig Hamlet and Revenge Eleanor Prosser Night Eli Wiesel Aurora Leigh Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Giant's House : A Romance Elizabeth McCracken Maximum Bob Elmore Leonard The Experimental Novel Emile Zola J'accuse Emile Zola Wuthering Heights Emily Bront‘ Fear of Flying Erica Jong All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway Delta Wedding Eudora Welty Desire Under the Elms Eugene O'Neill Strange Interlude Eugene O'Neill Ten Plays Euripedes Issei, Nisei, War Bride Evelyn Nankano Glenn The Basil and Josephine Stories F. Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald The Cape Ann Faith Sullivan Mandarin Summer Fiona Kidman The Good Soldier Ford Maddox Dune Frank Herbert Children of Dune Frank Herbert Dune Messiah Frank Herbert Heretics of Dune Frank Herbert Chapterhouse of Dune Frank Herbert The Wizard of Oz Frank L. Baum McTeague Frank Norris The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka The Penal Colony Franz Kafka My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass The Fourth Protocol Frederick Forsythe Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spoke Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky Strange Pilgrims Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez Innocent Erindera Gabriel Garcia Marquez Of Love and Other Demons Gabriel Garcia Marquez Was Geoff Ryman Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer Man and Superman George Bernard Shaw Daniel Deronda George Eliot Middlemarch George Eliot The Mill on the Floss George Eliot Silas Marner George Eliot Middlemarch George Eliot 1984 George Orwell Animal Farm George Orwell The House Tibet Georgia Savage Mulligan Stew Gilbert Sorrentino The Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio Il Pecorone Giovanni Fiorentino Brighton Rock Graham Greene The Power and the Glory Graham Greene Madame Bovary Gustav Flaubert The Children's Bach H. Garner She H. Rider Haggard The Return of She H. Rider Haggard The Time Machine H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells The Invisible Man H.G. Wells Call of Cthulhu H.P. Lovecraft The Dunwich Horror H.P. Lovecraft The Buddha of Suburbia Hanif Kureishi The Damnation of Theron Ware Harold Frederic To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe Stones for Ibarra Harriet Doerr The Assault Harry Mulisch Four Great Plays Henrik Ibsen Peer Gynt Henrik Ibsen Tropic of Cancer Henrry Miller Tom Jones Henry Fielding Gray's Anatomy Henry Gray The Wings of the Dove Henry James Black Coffee Blues Henry Rollins Call it Sleep Henry Roth The Red and the Black Henry Stendahl Moby Dick Herman Melville The Confidence Man Herman Melville The Caine Mutiny Herman Wouk Demian Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Herman Hesse Steppenwolfe Hermann Hesse Castle of Ortranto Hoarace Walpole The Iliad Homer The Odyssey Homer La Père Goriot Honoré de Balzac Littlejohn Howard Owen The Many Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle Last Exit to Brooklyn Hubert Selby, Jr. Everything Looks Impressive Hugh Kennedy Black Dogs Ian McEwen The Bicentennial Man Isaac Asimov Stories Isaac Babel Enemies: A Love Story Isaac Bashevis Singer House of Spirits Isabel Allende Eva Luna Isabel Allende Of Love and Shadows Isabel Allende Out of Africa Isak Dinesen Babette's Feast Isak Dineson The Uses of Literature Italo Calvino Makioka Sisters J. Tanizaki Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Nine Stories J.D. Salinger Franny and Zooey J.D. Salinger Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters J.D. Salinger Seymour, An Introduction J.D. Salinger Peter Pan J.M. Barrie Unfinished Tales J.R.R. Tolkien The Dharma Bums Jack Kerouac The Call of the Wild Jack London The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm At the Bottom of the River Jamaica Kincaid If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin Johnson James Boswell Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper Chaos James Gleick Ulysses James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce The Dubliners James Joyce Finnegan's Wake James Joyce Persuasion Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Desert of the Heart Jane Rule The Man Who Planted Trees Jean Giono Horseman on the Roof Jean Giono The Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys Cane Jean Toomer The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugenides The Painted Bird Jerzy Kozinski Cockpit Jerzy Kozinski Being There Jerzy Kozinski The American Way of Death Jessica Mitford The Woman Lit by Fireflies Jim Harrison After Dark, My Sweet Jim Thompson The Killer Inside Me Jim Thompson Play It As It Lays Joan Didion The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Columbia History of the World John A. Garraty, ed. Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror John Ashberry Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure John Cleland Manhattan Transfer John Dos Passos USA John Dos Passos Hiroshima John Hersey The Wall John Hersey A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving The World According to Garp John Irving The Hotel New Hampshire John Irving Setting Free the Bears John Irving A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole A Separate Peace John Knowles Paradise Lost John Milton Paradise Regained John Milton Lycidas John Milton East of Eden John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck In Dubious Battle John Steinbeck Tortilla Flat John Steinbeck Rabbit, Run John Updike Rabbit Redux John Updike Rabbit is Rich John Updike Rabbit at Rest John Updike Rabbit, Run John Updike The Witches of Eastwick John Updike Miss Ravenal's Conversion John W. DeForest Augustus John Williams The Day of the Triffids John Wyndham A Civil Action Jonathan Harr Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell Lord Jim Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Catch-22 Joseph Heller The Fireman's Fair Josephine Humphries Because It Is Bitter and It Is My Heart Joyce Carol Oates We Were the Mulvaneys Joyce Carol Oates ForeverÉ Judy Blume Daisy Bates in the Desert Julia Blackburn The Makioka Sisters Junichiro Tanizaki Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Justin Kaplan, ed. Best American Short Stories 1991 Katrina Kenison, ed. The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey Towards a Better Life Kenneth Burke The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame The Bone People Keri Hulme Bluebeard Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut Gal‡pagos Kurt Vonnegut Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery Best Short Stories by Negro Writers Langston Hughs, ed. The Tao Te Ching Lao-Tzu Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel Tristram Shandy Lawrence Stern Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy War and Peace Leo Tolstoy The Dead Lecturer LeRoi Jones Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll The Gift Lewis Hyde Poetry Li Po Deceptions and Myths of the Bible Lloyd M. Graham Poems Lord Edward Herbert A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry Self Help Lorrie Moore Poetry of Meditation Louis Martz Alternative Alcott Louisa May Alcott Love Medicine Louise Erdrich The Beet Queen Louise Erdrich Tracks Louise Erdrich Stories and Sketches Lu Hsun Orlando Furioso Ludovico Ariosto My Life Lyn Hejinian The Far Pavillions M.M. Kaye Le Princess de Clèves Madam de La Fayette The House on Via Gombito Madelon Sprengnether, ed. Kiss of the Spider Woman Manuel Puig Remembrance of Things Past Marcel Proust Geoffrey Chaucer of England Marchette Chute Shakespeare of London Marchette Chute The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell The Lover Marguerite Duras Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales Marie L. Von Franz Housekeeping Marilyn Robinson The Godfather Mario Puzo The Mists of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradley Speed Mark Harris A Soldier of the Great War Mark Helprin I Smell Esther Williams Mark Leyner Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain Letters from the Earth Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain The Medium is the Message Marshall McLuhan The Revolt of Mother and other stories Mary E.W. Freeman The Liar's Club Mary Karr Captivity Narrative Mary Rowlandson Frankenstein Mary Shelley Novelle Matteo Bandello China Men Maxine Hong Kingston Tripmaster Monkey Maxine Hong Kingston I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou Birds of America McCarthy When God Was a Woman Merlin Stone The English Patient Michael Ondaatje No Telephone to Heaven Michelle Cliff Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera The Myth of Eternal Return Mircea Eliade The Book of Five Rings Miyamoto Musashi The Misanthrope Molière The Imaginary Invalid Molière O To Be a Dragon Moore Plumb Morns Gee House Made of Dawn N. Scott Momaday The Beauty Myth Naomi Wolf The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne The Day of the Locust Nathaniel West Kokoro Natsume Soseki Snow Crash Neal Stephenson The Cruel Sea Nicholas Monsarret Sabine's Notebook Nick Bantoch Report to Greco Nikos Kazantzakis Zorba the Greek Nikos Kazantzakis The Last Temptation of Christ Nikos Kazantzakis No Peace at Versailles and Other Stories Nina Barragan South Wind Norman Douglas A River Runs Through It Norman Maclean The Naked and the Dead Norman Mailer Harlot's Ghost Norman Mailer Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo Ntozake Shange Giants in the Earth O.E. Rolvaag The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Stories Oscar Wilde The Happy Prince and Other Stories Oscar Wilde Metamorphoses Ovid Prince of Tides Pat Conroy Lords of Discipline Pat Conroy Potila Patricia Grace The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles The Great War and Modern Memories Paul Russell White Hunter, Black Heart Paul Viertal The Story of O Pauline Reage Smilla's Sense of Snow Peter Høeg Rage of Honor Pettcilerc Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth Les Liaisons Dangerreuses Pierre Choderios de Lacios The Republic Plato Amphitruo Plautus Menacchmi Plautus Lives Plutarch Poetry Po Chu-i The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel Rabelais The Invisible Man Ralph Ellison Chronicles Raphael Holinshed Dandelion Wine Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury I Sing the Body Electric Ray Bradbury The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler Moral Man and Immoral Society Reinhold Niebuhr True Irish Ghost Stories Rev. John D. Seymour Watership Down Richard Adams The Abortion Richard Brautigan Revenge of the Lawn Richard Brautigan In Watermelon Sugar Richard Brautigan Trout Fishing in America Richard Brautigan Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana Bulfinch's Mythology Richard Martin, ed. Galatea 2.2 Richard Powers Legends, Lies and Cherished Myths of World History Richard Shenkman Native Son Richard Wright Ghost Stories Roald Dahl Almighty Me Robert Bausch Complete Poems of Robert Frost Robert Frost Twentieth Century Pleasures Robert Hass Stranger in a Strange Land Robert Heinlein Time Enough for Love Robert Heinlein John Donne's Christian Vocation Robert Jackson Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling The Chrysanthemum and the Sword Ruth Benedict Murphy Samuel Beckett The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler The Einstein Intersection Samuel Delany Lives of the Poets Samuel Johnson Clarissa Samuel Richardson The Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett Henderson the Rain King Saul Bellow More Die of Heartbreak Saul Bellow Something to Remember Me By Saul Bellow Herzog Saul Bellow The Tale of Genji Shikibu The Blood of Others Simone DeBeauvoir The Second Sex Simone DeBeauvoir The Iliad: Or the Poem of Force Simone Weil Elmer Gantry Sinclair Lewis Main Street Sinclair Lewis The Golden Bough Sir James G. Frazer Arcadia Sir Philip Sidney The Book of a Thousand Nights and One Night Sir Richard Burton The Boy's King Arthur Sir Thomas Malory Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott Dead Man Walking Sister Helen Prejean Fear and Trembling S¿ren Kierkegaard Kokoro Soseki Natsume Impossible Vacation Spaulding Gray Self-Consuming Artifacts Stanley Fish Surprised by Sin Stanley Fish The Object of My Affection Stephen Macaulay Dropping Ashes on the Buddha Stephen Mitchell A Question of Attribution Stephen Schiff The Twelve Caesars Suetonius The Art of War Sun Tzu Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women Susan Faludi My Emily Dickinson Susan Howe Folly Susan Minot I, etcetera Susan Sontag My Father's House Sylvia Fraser The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath Three Cheers for the Paraclete T. Keneally East is East T.C. Boyle The Once and Future King T.H. White Four Quartets T.S. Eliot The Complete Poems and Plays T.S. Eliot The Waste Land T.S. Eliot Slaves of New York Tama Janowitz Ice Castle Tarjei Vessaas The Birds Tarjei Vessaas The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser Little Big Man Thomas Berger Poems Thomas Carew Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Ubervilles Thomas Hardy Trumpet Major Thomas Hardy The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy Far From the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy Return of the Native Thomas Hardy Rosalynde Thomas Lodge Magic Mountain Thomas Mann The Age of Reason Thomas Paine Common Sense Thomas Payne Slow Learner Thomas Pynchon V. Thomas Pynchon Vineland Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon Mason & Dixon Thomas Pynchon Poems Thomas Traherne Look Homeward Angel Thomas Wolfe Three Plays Thornton Wilder A History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien Sour Sweet Timothy Mo The Murder of Albert Einstein Todd Gitlund Oxford Companion to the English Language Tom McArthur, ed. Jitterbug Perfume Tom Robbins Half-Asleep in Frog Pajamas Tom Robbins Another Roadside Attraction Tom Robbins Still Life with Woodpecker Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Tom Robbins Arcadia Tom Stoppard Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Tom Stoppard The Collected Poems Tomas Trantronen Beloved Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison Song of Solomon Toni Morrison Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote In Cold Blood Truman Capote Poetry Tu Fu The Jungle Upton Sinclair Before the Birth of the Moon V.Y. Mudimbe The Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo Les Misérables Victor Hugo The Aeneid Virgil To the Lighthouse Virginia Wolfe Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf Orlando Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham The Collected Poems W.B. Yeats The Souls of Black Folk W.E.B. DuBois For the Time Being W.H. Auden Shoeless Joe W.P. Kinsella Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman John Donne's Poetry Wilbur Sanders The Law and the Lady Wilkie Collins The Moonstone Wilkie Collins The Woman in White Wilkie Collins Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather O Pioneers! Willa Cather A Lost Lady Willa Cather The Song of the Lark Willa Cather In the American Grain William C. Williams The Lilies of the Field William E. Barrett As I Lay Dying William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner Count Zero William Gibson Mona Lisa Overdrive William Gibson Burning Chrome William Gibson Lord of the Flies William Golding Free Fall William Golding The Princess Bride William Goldman I Killed Hemingway William Henderson Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackery The Palace of Pleasure William Painter, trans. Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs Bomb the Suburbs William Wimsatt Ake Wole Soyinka Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston

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