literary merit titles and authors

Absalom, Absalom

William Faulkner

Adam Bede

George Eliot

The Adventures of Augie March

Saul Bellow

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

The Aeneid

Virgil

Agnes of god

John Pielmeier

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

Alias Grace

Margaret Atwood

All the King's Men

Robert Penn Warren

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

All My Sons

Arthur Miller

All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy

America is in the Heart

Carlos Bulosan

An American Tragedy

Theodore Dreiser

American Pastoral

Philip Roth

The American

Henry James

Angels in America

Tony Kushner

Angle of Repose

Wallace Stegner

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Another Country

James Baldwin

Antigone

Sophocles

Anthony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare

Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Mordecai Richler

Armies of the Night

Norman Mailer

As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

As You Like It

William Shakespeare

Atonement

Ian McEwan

Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

James Weldon Johnson

The Awakening

Kate Chopin

The Bear

William Faulkner

Beowulf

A hero who fights Grendel, Grendel's Mother and a fire breathing dragon; protagonist (author unknown)

Beloved

Toni Morrison

A Bend in the River

V.S. Naipaul

Benito Cereno

Herman Melville

Billy Budd

Herman Melville

The Birthday Party

Harold Pinter

Black Boy

Richard Wright

Bleak House

Charles Dickens

Bless me, Ultima

Rudolfo Anaya

The Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwood

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

Bone: A Novel

Fae M. Ng

The Bonesetter's Daughter

Amy Tan

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Breath, Eyes, Memory

Edwidge Danticat

Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh

Brighton Rock

Graham Greene

Broken for You

Stephanie Kallos

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevski

Brown Girl, Brownstones

Paule Marshall

The Burgess Boys

Elizabeth Strout

Candida

George Bernard Shaw

Candide

Voltaire

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Caretaker

Harold Pinter

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Tennessee Williams

Cat's Eye

Margaret Atwood

The Centaur

John Updike

Ceremony

Leslie Marmon Silko

The Cherry Orchard

Andon Chekhov

The Cider House Rules

John Irving

The Chosen

Chaim Potok

Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

Cold Mouintain

Charles Frazier

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

Coming Through Slaughter

Michael Ondaatje

Copenhagen

Michael Frayn

The Country of the Pointed Firs

Sarah Orne Jewett

Cry, The Beloved Country

Alan Paton

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevski

The Crisis

Thomas Paine

The Crossing

Cormac McCarthy

The Crucible

Arthur Miller

Daisy Miller

Henry James

Dancing at Lughnasa

Brian Friel

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

The Dead

James Joyce

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Leo Tolstoy

Death in Venice

Thomas Mann

Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller

Delta Wedding

Eudora Welty

Desire under the Elms

Eugene O'Neill

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Anne Tyler

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

The Diviners

Margaret Laurence

Doctor Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

Doctor Zhivago

boris Pasternak

A doll House

Henrik Ibsen

The Dollmaker

Harriet Arnot

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes

Dracula

Bram Stoker

Dreaming in Cuban

Cristina Garcia

Dutchman

Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones

East of Eden

John Steinbeck

Emma

Jane Austen

An enemy of the People

Henrik Ibsen

The English Patient

Michael Ondaatje

Equus

Peter Shaffer