Ultimate KB Lit

Paulo Coelho

The Alchemist

Pierce Brown

Red Rising

Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis

John Milton

Paradise Lost

Thomas Paine

Common Sense

Henry Fielding

Tom Jones

Ken Kesey

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Kathryn Stockett

The Help

Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence AND Ethan Frome

John Irving

The World According to Garp

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote

Dashiell Hammett

The Maltese Falcon

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale

James Dashner

Maze Runner

Anne Bronte (AKA Acton Bell)

Agnes Grey AND The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Margaret Mitchell

Gone With the Wind

John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath AND Of Mice and Men AND East of Eden AND The Pearl

Raymond Chandler

The Big Sleep

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist AND Great Expectations AND A Tale of Two Cities AND David Copperfield

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tarzan of the Apes

Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar

Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye AND Beloved

Yann Martel

Life of Pi

Boris Pasternak

Doctor Zhivago

Stephen Crane

The Open Boat AND The Red Badge of Courage

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

Jhumpa Lahiri (Short Story Collection)

Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri (Novel)

The Namesake

Jack Kerouac

On the Road

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

Joseph Heller

Catch-22

William Thackery

Vanity Fair

Henry David Thoreau

Walden

Emily Bronte (AKA Ellis Bell)

Wuthering Heights

Charlotte Bronte (AKA Currer Bell)

Jane Eyre

Gaston Leroux

The Phantom of the Opera

Rudyard Kipling

The Jungle Book

George Bernard Shaw

Pygmalion AND Man and Superman

Kate Chopin (Novel)

The Awakening

Terry Pratchett

Discworld

Jorge Luis Borges

Labyrinths (Short Story Collection) AND The Aleph and Other Stories AND "The Library of Babel"

Anna Sewell

Black Beauty

Jack Kirby

Co-Creator of many Marvel Comics

John LeCarre

Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment AND The Brothers Karamazov

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace AND Anna Karenina

George Orwell

1984 AND Animal Farm

Homer

The Iliad AND The Odyssey

Madeline L'Engle

A Wrinkle in Time

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

Mario Puzo

The Godfather

Kurt Vonnegut (Short Story)

Harrison Bergeron

Kurt Vonnegut (Novels)

Slaughterhouse Five AND Cats Cradle AND Breakfast of Champions

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice AND Sense and Sensibility AND Emma

James Joyce

Ulysses

S.E. Hinton

The Outsiders

Salman Rushdee

Midnight's Children AND Satanic Verses

James Baldwin (Novel)

Go Tell it on the Mountain AND If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin (Short Story)

Sonny's Blues

James Baldwin (Essay Collection)

Notes of a Native Son

Mildred D. Taylor

Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

Alex Haley

Roots

William Golding

Lord of the Flies

Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness

Bret Easton Ellis

American Psycho

Kate Chopin (Short Story)

The Story of an Hour

Herman Melville

Moby Dick AND Bartleby, the Scrivener

J.D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

James Fenimore Cooper

The Last of the Mohicans

Arthur Golden

Memoirs of a Geisha

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter AND The House of Seven Gables

Frank Herbert

Dune

William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury AND As I Lay Dying

Alan Paton

Cry, the Beloved Country

Machiavelli

The Prince

Isaac Asimov

I, Robot AND The Foundation Trilogy. (Also known as the Father of Robotics, created the Three Laws of Robotics)

Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Johnathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels AND A Modest Proposal (Satire)

Sinclair Lewis

Main Street AND Babbit

Stan Lee

Co-Creator of Marvel Comics

Octavia Butler

Kindred

Isabel Allende

House of Spirits

Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart

Ernest Cline

Ready Player One

John Bunyan

The Pilgrim's Progress

Richard Wright

Native Son

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales

Horace Walpole

The Castle of Otranto

Willa Cather

My Ántonia

Sandra Cisneros

The House on Mango Street

Stephen Chbosky

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Amy Tan

The Joy Luck Club

Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man

H.G. Wells

The Invisible Man AND War of the Worlds AND The Time Machine

Henry James

The Turn of the Screw AND Daisy Miller

Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha

Tom Wolfe

The Right Stuff AND The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Purple Hibiscus AND The Dangers of a Single Story (TED Talk)