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Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Agee, James - A Death n the Family
Angelou, Maya - A Song Flung Up to Heaven, Gather together in My Name, The Heart of a Woman,I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Singin' and Swingin' and Getting' Merry Like Christmas
Atwood, Margaret - The Handmaid's Tale (REQUIRED), Cat's Eye
Baldwin, Jame - Go Tell It on the Mountain, Another Country, The Fire Next Time
Bayley, John - Elegy for Iris
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Angie March, Herzog
Bragg, Rick - All Over but the Shoutin'
Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451
Capote, Truman - In Cold Blood
Carson, Rachel - The Silent Spring
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
DeMaggio, Thomas - Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life With Alzheimer's
Didion, Joan - Slouching Toward Bethelem
Doctorow, E.L. - Ragtime
Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie
Ellison, Ralph- The Invisible Man
Faulkner, William - Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby(REQUIRED)
Gaines, Ernest - Bloodlines, A Lesson Before Dying
Goldman, William - Princess Bride Revisited
Gordimer, Nadine - My Son's Story
Hawthorne Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph - Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises
Hersey, John - The Wall
Hurston, Zora Neale- Their Eyes Were Watching God
Irving, John - The World According to Garp
Kerouac, Jack - On the Road
Kingsolver, Barbara - The Poisonwood Bible(REQUIRED)
Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Warrior Women: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, China Men
Lewis, Sinclair - The Jungle
Mailer, Norman - The Naked and the Dead, The Armies of the Night
Matthiessen, Peter- At Play in the Fields of the Lord
McCarthy, Mary - Memories of a Catholic Girl
McMurty, Larry - Lonesome Dove
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Michener, James - The Source, Other Major Works
Mitchell, Margaret - Gone With the Wind
Morrison, Toni - Beloved, Song of Solomon
Oates, Joyce Carol - First Person Singular, New Heaven, New Earth
Olson, Tillie - Tell Me a Riddle
Orwell, George - Shooting an Elephant
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
Rand, Ayn - Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead
Rodriguez, Richard - Hunger of Memory, Days of Obligation
Rovaag, O.E, - Giants in the Earth
Salinger, J.D. - Catcher in the Rye
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Stegner, Wallace - Angle of Repose
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Syron, William - Sophie's Choice
Tan, Amy - The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Bonesetter's Daughter
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Tyler, Anne - Breathing Lessons, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Updike, John - Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism
Walker, Alice - You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down
Welty, Eudora - Losing Battles, The Golden Apples
Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence, Ethan Fromme
Wolfe, Thomas - Look Homeward Angel
Woolfe, Virginia - A Room of One's Own
Woulk, Herman - Winds of War, the Caine Mutiny
Wright, Richard - Native Son, Black Boy
Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Chabon, Michael - The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay
Clavell, James - Shogun
Cozzens, James Gould - Guard of Honor
Cunningham, Michael - The Hours
Diamante, Anita - The Red Tent
Faulkner, William - The Reivers
Franzen, Jonathan - The Corrections
Frazier, Charles- Cold Mountain
Gates, Henry Louis - Colored People: A Memoir, The Bondwoman's Narritive
Lamb, Wally - I Know This Much is True
Macdonald, Ann Marie - Fall On Yours Knees
Mailer, Norman - The Executioner's Song
Michener, James - Tales of the South Pacific
Poitier, Sidney - The Measure of a Man
Proulx, Annie - Shipping News
Quindlen, Anna - Blessings
Richter, Conrad - The Town
Russo, Richard - The Empire Falls
Sebold, Alice - The Lovely Bones
Shaara, Michael - The Killer Angels
Shields, Carol - The Stone Diaries
Smiley, Jane - A Thousand Acres
Syron, William - The Confessions of Nat Turner
Toole, John Kennedy - A Confederacy of Dunces
Updike, John - Rabbit is Rich, Rabbit at Rest
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
Woolf, Virginia, Mrs. Dalloway
Wouk, Herman - Caine Mutiny
