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MsEffie’s
List of Titles from Open Response Questions
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A
Absalom,
Absalom by William Faulkner (76, 00,
10, 12)
Adam Bede by George Eliot (06)
The
Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (13)
The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by
Mark Twain (80, 82, 85, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 99, 05A&B, 06A&B, 07B, 08B,
11B, 13, 16B)
The Aeneid by Virgil (06, 18)
Agnes of God by John Pielmeier (00)
The Age of
Innocence by Edith Wharton (97, 02,
03, 08, 12, 14, 24-1)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (19)
Alentejo Blue by Monica Ali (15)
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (00, 04, 08, 18)
Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (16)All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki (21)
All the King’s
Men by Robert Penn Warren (00, 02,
04, 07, 08, 09, 11)
All the Light
We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (18, 21)
All My Sons by Arthur Miller (85, 90, 13)
All the
Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (95,
96, 06, 07, 08, 10, 11, 13)
America is in
the Heart by Carlos Bulosan (95)
An American
Marriage by Tayari Jones (24-1)
An American
Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (81, 82,
95, 03)
American
Pastoral by Philip Roth (09)
The American by Henry James (05, 10)
Angels in
America by Tony Kushnet (09)
Angle of
Repose by Wallace Stegner (10)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (80, 91, 99, 03, 04, 06, 08, 09, 16,
24-1)
Another
Country by James Baldwin (95, 10, 12)
Antigone by Sophocles (79, 80, 90, 94, 99, 03, 05, 09, 11, 13,
14, 19, 23-2, 24-2)
Anthony and
Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (80,
91)
Apprenticeship
of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler
(94)
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (23-2)
Armies of the
Night by Norman Mailer (76)
As I Lay
Dying by William Faulkner (78, 89,
90, 94, 01, 04, 06, 07, 09, 11, 13)
As You Like
It by William Shakespeare (92, 05.
06, 10, 16)
Atonement by Ian McEwan (07, 11, 13, 16, 23-2)
Autobiography
of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon
Johnson (02, 05, 23-1)
The
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines (24-1)
The Awakening by Kate Chopin (87, 88, 91, 92, 95, 97, 99, 02, 04B, 07A&B,
09, 11B, 14, 19, 21, 23-1&2, 24-2)
B
“The Bear” by William Faulkner (94. 06)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (24-2)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (90, 99, 01, 02B, 03, 05B, 07, 09,
10B, 11A&B, 14A&B, 15A&B, 16, 17, 18, 21, 24-1)
A Bend in the
River by V. S. Naipaul (03, 15)
Benito Cereno by Herman Melville (89)
Beowulf (18)
Billy Budd by Herman Melville (79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 99, 02, 04,
05, 07, 08, 15)
The Birthday
Party by Harold Pinter (89, 97)
Black Boy by Richard Wright (06, 08, 13, 15)
Bleak House by Charles Dickens (94, 00, 04, 09, 10)
Bless Me,
Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya (94, 96, 97, 99, 04, 05, 06, 08)
The Blind
Assassin by Margaret Atwood (07, 11,
16)
The Bluest
Eye by Toni Morrison (95, 08, 09, 16,
19, 22)
Bone: A Novel by Fae M. Ng (03)
The
Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan (06,
07, 11, 16)
Brave New
World by Aldous Huxley (89, 05, 09,
10, 15, 17, 19, 23-2, 24-2)
Breath, Eyes,
Memory by Edwidge Danticat (13)
Brideshead
Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (12, 19)
The Brief
Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot
Díaz (15, 16,19)
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (79, 22)
Broken for
You by Stephanie Kallos (09)
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín-1)
The Brothers
Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (90,
08)
Brown Girl,
Brownstones by Paule Marshall (13, 21)
The Burgess
Boys by Elizabeth Strout (16)
By the Way,
Meet Vera Stark by Lynn Nottage (23-1)
C
Candida by George Bernard Shaw (80)
Candide by Voltaire (80, 86, 87, 91, 95, 96, 04, 06, 10, 16,19)
The
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey
Chaucer (06)
The Caretaker by Harold Pinter (85)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (82, 85, 87, 89, 94, 01, 03B, 04B,
05, 07B, 08, 11B, 15A&B, 16A&B, 22, 23-2)
The Catcher
in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (01, 08,
11, 13, 19)
Cat on a Hot
Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams (00, 13,
15)
Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood (94, 08, 09, 13, 15)
The Centaur by John Updike (81)
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (94, 96, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 06, 07, 09, 12, 23-1&2,
24-2)
The Cherry
Orchard by Anton Chekhov (77, 06, 07,
09, 10)
The Chosen by Chaim Potok (08, 13)
Cider House
Rules by John Irving (13)
“Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau (76)
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (06, 08)
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of
Pilgrimage by
Haruki Murakami (24-1)
The Color
Purple by Alice Walker (92, 94, 95,
96, 97, 05, 08, 09, 12, 13, 15, 16, 23-1&2)
A Comedy of
Errors by
William Shakespeare (14B)
Coming
Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje (01)
Copenhagen by Michael Frayn (09)
Corelli’s
Mandolin by
Louis de Berniéres (24-1)
The Count of
Monte Cristo by
Alexandre Dumas (23-1)
The Country
of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne
Jewett (10)
Cry, The
Beloved Country by Alan Paton (85,
87, 91, 95, 96, 07, 09)
Crime and
Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski (76, 79, 80, 82, 88, 96, 99, 00, 01, 02A&B,
03, 04A&B, 05B, 09, 10, 11, 14B, 16, 18)
“The Crisis” by Thomas Paine (76)
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy (09)
The Crucible by Arthur Miller (71, 83, 86, 89, 04, 05, 09, 14, 15,
16, 23-2)
D
Daisy Miller by Henry James (97, 03, 12)
Dancing
at Lughnasa by Brian
Friel (01)
David
Copperfield by Charles Dickens (78,
83, 06, 13)
“The Dead” by James Joyce (97)
The Death of
Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy (86)
Death in
Venice by Thomas Mann (18)
Death of a
Salesman by Arthur Miller (86, 88,
94, 03, 04, 05, 07, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 21, 24-2)
Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty (97)
Desire under
the Elms by Eugene O’Neill (81)
The Dew
Breaker by
Edwidge Danticat (13)
Digging to
America by
Ann Tyler (13)
Dinner at the
Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
(97)
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (23-1)
The
Dispossessed by
Ursula K. Le Guin (22)
The Divine
Comedy by Dante Alighieri (06)
The Diviners by Margaret Laurence (95)
Doctor
Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (79,
86, 99, 04, 11)
Doctor
Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (10)
A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen (83, 87, 88, 95, 05, 09, 16)
The Dollmaker by Harriet Arnot (91)
Dominicana: A Novel by Angie Cruz (22)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (01, 04, 06, 08, 16, 19, 24-2)
The Dragon
Can’t Dance by
Earl Lovelace (22)
Dreaming in
Cuban by Cristina Garcia (03)
Dracula by Bram Stoker (17, 18)
Dubliners by James Joyce (24-1)
Dutchman by Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones (03, 06)
E
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (06, 13, 22)
The Edible
Woman by Margaret Atwood (16)
Elmet by Fiona Mozley (21)
Emma by Jane Austen (96, 08, 11, 16, 24-1)
An Enemy of
the People by Henrik Ibsen (76, 80,
87, 99, 01, 07)
The English
Patient by Michael Ondaatje (17)
Equus by Peter Shaffer (92, 99, 00, 01, 08, 09)
Erewhon by Samuel Butler (1)
Ethan Frome by Edith
Wharton (80, 85, 03, 05, 06, 07, 14)
The Eumenides by Aeschylus (in The Orestia) (96)
Extremely
Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan
Safran Foer (16)
F
Fahrenheit
451 by Ray
Bradbury (22, 23-1&2)
The Fall by Albert Camus (81)
A Farewell to
Arms by Ernest Hemingway (99, 04, 09)
The Father by August Strindberg (01)
Fathers and
Sons by Ivan Turgenev (90)
Faust by Johann Goethe (02)
The
Federalist by Alexander Hamilton (76)
Fences by August Wilson (02, 05, 09, 10, 21, 23-1&2,
24-2)
Fifth
Business by Robertson Davis (00)
A Fine
Balance by Rohinton Mistry (03, 07)
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (07)
For Whom the
Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (03,
06)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (89, 00, 03, 06, 08, 15, 17, 18, 23-2, 24-1&2)
A Free Life:
A Novel by Ha Jin (10)
G
A Gathering
of Old Men by Ernest Gaines (00, 11)
Germinal by Emile Zola (09)
A Gesture
Life by Chang-Rae Lee (04, 05, 15, 19)
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen (00, 04)
The Glass
Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (71,
90, 94, 97, 99, 02, 08, 09, 10, 12, 23-2)
The God of
Small Things by Arundhati Roy (10, 11,
13, 21)
Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien
(01, 06, 10)
The Golden
Bowl by Henry James (09)
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (18,24-2)
The Good
Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford (00, 11)
George
Washington Gómez by America Paredes (24-1)
The Grapes of
Wrath by John Steinbeck (95, 03, 06,
09, 10, 11, 12, 13)
Great
Expectations by Charles Dickens (79,
80, 88, 89, 92, 95, 96, 00, 01, 02 A&B, 03B, 04, 05B, 07 A&B, 08B, 10B,
12, 13A&B, 15A&B, 17, 18, The Great
Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (82,
83, 88, 91, 92, 97, 00, 02, 04, 05, 07, 10, 16)
Grendel by John Gardner (17, 23-2)
Go Tell It on
the Mountain by James Baldwin (83,
88, 90, 05, 09)
Gulliver’s
Travels by Jonathan Swift (87, 89,
01, 04, 06, 09, 16)
H
The Hairy Ape by Eugene O’Neill (89, 09)
Half of a
Yellow Sun by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (23-2)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare (88, 94, 97, 99, 00, 16)
The Handmaid’s
Tale by Margaret Atwood (03, 09, 15, 19,
23-2, 24-2)
A Handful of
Dust by
Evelyn Waugh (16)
Hard Times by Charles Dickens (87, 90, 09)
The Haunting
of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (21)
Heart of
Darkness by Joseph Conrad (71, 76,
91, 94, 96, 99, 00, 01, 02A&B, 03B, 04A&B, 06, 09, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16,
18)
The Heart of
the Matter by Graham Greene (71)
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen (79, 92, 00, 02, 03, 05)
Henry IV,
Parts I and II by William Shakespeare
(80, 90, 08)
Henry V by William Shakespeare (02)
A High Wind
in Jamaica by Richard Hughes (08)
The
Homecoming by Harold Pinter (78, 90)
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (18, 21)
Home to
Harlem by Claude McKay (10)
Hope Leslie, or, Early Times in the Massachusetts by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (22)
A House for
Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipul (10, 21, 23-1)
House Made of
Dawn by N Scott Momaday (95, 06, 09,
23-2)
The House of
Mirth by Edith Wharton (04, 07, 10, 13,
19, 21)
The House of
Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
(89, 21)
The House of
the Spirits by Isabel Allende (22, 23-1& 2)
The House on
Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (08,
10, 13, 21)
Housekeeping:
A Novel by
Marilynne Robinson (21)
How the
Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez (24-2)
Howards End by E. M. Forster (21, 24-2)
The
Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urea (22, 23-1)
The Hundred
Secret Senses by Amy Tan (24-2)
I
If Beale
Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (22, 24-2)
The Iliad by Homer (80, 17, 18)
The
Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar
Wilde (06, 15, 17, 19)
The
Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
(10, 22)
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese (24-1)
Interior
Chinatown by
Charles Yu (24-1)
In the Lake
of the Woods by Tim O’Brien (00, 16)
In the Time
of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (05,
23-2)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (76, 77, 78, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88,
89, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 01, 03B, 04, 05, 07B, 08, 09A&B, 10A&B, 11, J
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (78, 79, 80, 88, 91, 94, 95, 96,
97, 99, 00, 02B, 05, 07A&B, 08B, 10A&B, 13, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23-1&2,
24-1&2)
Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee (99, 10, 13, 15, 23-1)
J.B. by Archibald MacLeish (81, 94)
Joe Turner’s
Come and Gone by August Wilson (00)
The Joy Luck
Club by Amy Tan (97, 03, 13, 23-1&2)
Joseph
Andrews by Henry Fielding (99)
The Joys of
Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta (13)
Jude the
Obscure by Thomas Hardy (71, 76, 80,
85, 87, 95, 09, 10, 16)
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (82, 97, 05B, 07,
07B, 09)
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 90, 96, 09)
K
Kafka on the
Shore by Haruki Murakami (08)
Kindred by Octavia Butler (18, 21, 23-1&2, 24-2)
King Lear by William Shakespeare (77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 90, 96,
01, 03, 04, 04B, 05, 06, 08, 10, 11, 12, 13B, 14, 14B, 18, 19, 23-2)
Kiss of the
Spider Woman by
Manuel Puig (23-1)
The Kite
Runner by Khaled Hosseini (07, 08, 09,
14B, 15, 16, 22, 24-1)
The Known
World by
Edward P. Jones (23-1)
L
Lady
Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde (09)
The Last of
the Menu Girls by Denise Chávez (23-1)
Last of the
Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
(15)
A Lesson
before Dying by Ernest Gaines (99,
11)
Let the Great
World Spin by Colum McCann (23-2)
Letters from
an American Farmer by St. John de Crèvecœur (76)
Life of Pi by Yann Martel (16)
Light in
August by William Faulkner (71, 79,
81, 82, 83, 85, 95, 99, 03, 06, 11, 15, 17)
Lila by Marilynne Robinson (23-1)
Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor (14)
Little Fires
Everywhere by Celeste Ng (23-1, 24-1&2)
The Little
Foxes by Lillian Hellman (85, 90, 10)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (08)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (15, 19)
Long Day’s
Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill
(90, 03, 07)
A Long Petal
of the Sea by
Isabel Allende (24-1)
Look
Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe (10)
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (77, 78, 82, 86, 00, 03, 07)
Lord of the
Flies by William Golding (85, 08, 15)
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh (89)
Love in the
Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (24-1)
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (95, 22, 23-2)
“Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot (85)
Lucy by
Jamaica Kincaid (23-1)
Lysistrata by Aristophanes (87, 16)
M
Macbeth by William Shakespeare (83, 99, 02B, 03, 05B, 09, 17,
24-2)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (80, 85, 04B, 05, 06, 09, 10, 16,
18, 24-1)
Maggie: A
Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane
(12)
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (87, 09)
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw (79, 96, 04, 07, 09, 11)
Mama Day by Gloria Naylor (18)
Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw (81, 15, 16, 18)
Mansfield
Park by Jane Austen (03, 06, 15)
Master
Harold...and the Boys by Athol Fugard
(03, 08, 09)
The Mayor of
Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (94, 99,
00, 02, 07, 10, 11, 17, 23-1)
M. Butterfly by David Henry Wang (95, 11, 12, 16)
Medea by Euripides (82, 92, 95, 01, 03, 11, 15)
The Member of
the Wedding by Carson McCullers (97,
08)
The Memory
Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards (09,
14, 16)
The Merchant
of Venice by William Shakespeare (85,
91, 95, 02, 03B, 11, 15)
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (78, 89, 17, 18, 24-1)
Middlemarch by George Eliot (95, 04, 05, 07, 17)
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (16, 23-1)
Middle
Passage by V. S. Naipaul (06)
Midnight’s
Children by Salman Rushdie (16, 18)
A Midsummer
Night’s Dream by William
Shakespeare (06, 12, 13B)
The Mill on
the Floss by George Eliot (90, 92, 04,
19, 22)
The
Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez by John Rechy (23-1, 24-1)
The
Misanthrope by Moliere (08)
Miss Lonelyhearts by
Nathanael West (89)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 89, 94, 96,
01, 03, 04A&B, 05B, 06B, 07, 09, 15B, 16B, 24-2)
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (76, 77, 86, 87, 95, 09, 16, 23-2)
Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao (00, 03)
The Moor’s
Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie (07)
Mother
Courage and Her Children by Berthold
Brecht (85, 87, 06)
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (94, 97, 04, 05, 07, 11, 21)
Mrs. Warren’s
Profession by George Bernard Shaw
(87, 90, 95, 02, 09)
Much Ado
About Nothing by William Shakespeare
(97, 14, 16)
Murder in the
Cathedral by T. S. Eliot (76, 80, 85,
95, 07, 11)
“My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning (85)
My Ántonia by Willa Cather (03, 08, 10, 12, 19)
My Name is
Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (03)
N
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (09, 10, 13,
15, 23-2, 24-1)
Native Son by Richard Wright (79, 82, 85, 87, 95, 01, 04B, 09B,
11A&B, 12, 15B, 19, 21, 22, 23-2, 24-2)
Native
Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee (99, 03, 07,
08)
Nervous
Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (21)
Never Let Me
Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (09, 10, 16, 21,
23-2)
The Nickel
Boys by
Colson Whitehead (22, 23-1&2)
Night by Elie Weisel (15)
The Night
Watchman by
Louis Erdrich (24-1)
1984 by George Orwell (87, 94, 09, 15, 22)
Noah’s
Compass by Anne Tyler (13, 14)
No Country
for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (17)
No Exit by John Paul Sartre (86, 12)
No-No Boy by John Okada (95)
North and
South by
Elizabeth Gaskell (24-1)
Northanger
Abbey by
Jane Austen (21)
Notes from
the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
(89)
O
Obasan by Joy Kogawa(94, 95, 04, 05, 06, 07)
The Octopus by Frank Norris (09)
The Odyssey by Homer (86, 06, 10, 15, 17, 19)
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (77, 85, 88, 00, 03, 04, 11, 17)
Of Mice and
Men by John Steinbeck (01)
Old School by Tobias Wolff (08)
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (09, 15)
On Earth We’re
Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (22, 24-2)
One Day in
the Life of Ivan Denisovich by
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (05)
One Flew Over
the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (01,
12, 15, 16B, 23-2, 24-1&2)
One Hundred
Years of Solitude by Gabriel
García Márquez (89, 04, 12, 15)
On Such a
Fell Sea by Chang Rae Lee (22)
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (06)
The Optimist’s
Daughter by Eudora Welty (94)
The Orestia by
Aeschylus (90)
Orlando: A
Biography by Virginia Woolf (04, 15, 17,
23-1)
Oryx and
Crake by Margaret Atwood (12, 14, 16,
17)
Othello by William Shakespeare (79, 85, 88, 92, 95, 03, 04B,
07B, 11B, 14, 15, 16, 22)
The Other by Thomas Tryon (10)
Our Mutual
Friend by Charles Dickens (90)
Our Town by Thornton Wilder (86, 97, 09)
Out of Africa by Isaak Dinesen (06)
P
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (01)
Pamela by Samuel Richardson (86)
Parable of
the Sower by
Octavia Butler (22)
A Passage to
India by E. M. Forster (71, 77, 78,
88, 91, 92, 07, 09, 12, 18, 22)
Paradise Lost by John Milton (85, 86, 10, 23-2)
Passing by Nella Larsen (11, 21, 23-1, 24-2)
Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (06)
Père Goriot by Honore de Balzac (02)
Persuasion by Jane Austen (90, 05, 07)
Phaedre by Jean Racine (92, 03)
The Piano
Lesson by August Wilson (96, 99, 07,
08, 10, 12, 16)
The Picture
of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (02, 16,
18)
The Pilgrim’s
Progress by
John Bunyan (16)
Pipeline by Dominique Morisseau (24-1)
The Plague by Albert Camus (02, 09, 12)
The Playboy
of the Western World by John
Millington Synge (17)
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (97)
Pocho by Jose Antonio Villareal (02, 08)
The
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara
Kingsolver (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 23-1)
Portrait of a
Lady by Henry James (88, 92, 96, 03,
05, 07, 11, 14, 16, 18, 19, 21)
Portrait of
the Artist as a Young Man by James
Joyce (76, 77, 80, 86, 88, 96, 99, 04, 05A&B, 08B, 09, 10A&B, 11B, 13, 15B,
16B, 19)
The Power and
the Glory by Graham Greene (95)
The Power of
One by Bryce Courtenay (18)
Praisesong for the
Widow by Paule Marshall (96)
A Prayer for
Owen Meany by John Irving (09, 14, 15,17)
Pride and
Prejudice by Jane Austen (83, 88, 92,
97, 08, 11, 12, 16, 22, 23-2)
The Prime of
Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (90,
08, 16)
The Professor’s
House by
Willa Cather (21, 24-1)
Purple
Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(13, 22)
Push by Sapphire (07)
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (03, 05, 08)
Q
Quicksand by Nella
Larsen
R
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (03, 07)
A Raisin in
the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (87,
90, 94, 96, 99, 07B, 09A&B, 12, 13B, 14A&B, 18, 21, 22, 23-2. 24-1&2)
The Rape of
the Lock by Alexander Pope (81)
Rasselas by Samuel Johnson (16)
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (24-1)
The Red Badge
of Courage by Stephen Crane (08, 15)
Redburn by Herman Melville (87)
The Remains
of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (00, 03,
11, 21)
Reservation
Blues by Sherman Alexie (08, 09)
The Return of
the Native by Thomas Hardy (07, 18)
Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco (09)
Richard III by William Shakespeare (79)
A River Runs
Through It by Norman Maclean (08)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (10)
Robinson
Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (10, 22)
A Room of One’s
Own by Virginia Woolf (76)
A Room with a
View by E. M. Forster (03, 24-1)
Romeo and
Juliet by William Shakespeare (90,
92, 97, 02B, 08)
Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (81, 94, 00, 04, 05, 06,
10, 11, 16)
The Round
House by
Louise Erdrich (21)
S
Sag Harbor by Colin Whitehead (24-2)
Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw (95)
The Sandbox by Edward Albee (71)
Saturday by Ian McEwan (21)
The Scarlet
Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (71,
77, 78, 83, 88, 91, 99, 02A&B, 04A&B, 05A&B, 06, 11B, 14, 15A&B,
22, 23-2, 24-2)
The Secret
Garden by
Frances Hodgson Burnett (21)
The Secret
Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (13,
24-2)
Sense and
Sensibility by
Jane Austen (21)
Sent for You
Yesterday by John E. Wideman (03)
A Separate
Peace by John Knowles (82, 07, 13)
Set This
House on Fire by William Styron (11)
Shalimar the
Clown by
Salman Rushdie (15)
The Shipping
News by E. Annie Proulx (97)
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (13, 16)
Silas Marner by George
Eliot (02)
Sing,
Unburied, Sing: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward (21)
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (87, 02, 04, 09, 10, 15)
Sister of My
Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (10)
Slaughterhouse
Five by Kurt Vonnegut (91, 04)
A Soldier’s
Play by Charles Fuller (11)
Snow by Orhan Pamuk (09)
Snow Falling
on Cedars by David Guterson (00, 10, 12)
Snow Flower
and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (13, 16)
Song of
Solomon by Toni Morrison (81, 88, 96,
00, 02B, 04, 05, 06B, 07B, 10B, 13A&B, 14B, 15B, 24-2)
Sons and
Lovers by D. H. Lawrence (77, 90)
Sophie’s
Choice by William Styron (09, 15, 23-1)
The Sorrows
of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe (13)
The Sound and
the Fury by William Faulkner (77, 86,
97, 01, 07, 08, 13, 19)
Southernmost by Silas House (23-2)
The Stone
Angel by Margaret Laurence (96, 04)
The Story of
Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (11, 13)
The Strange
Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (23-1)
The Stranger by Albert Camus (79, 82, 86, 04, 11, 24-1)
A Streetcar
Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
(91, 92, 01, 04, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 14, 15)
The Street by Ann Petry (07)
Sula by Toni Morrison (92, 97, 02, 04, 07, 08, 10, 12, 13,
23-2)
Surfacing by Margaret Atwood (05, 11, 23-1)
The Sun Also
Rises by Ernest Hemingway (85, 91,
95, 96, 04, 05, 12, 19)
Sweat by Lynn Nottage (22, 24-2)
Swing Time by Zadie Smith (24-2)
T
A Tale of Two
Cities by Charles Dickens (82, 91,
04, 08, 14. 24-1)
The Taming of
the Shrew by
William Shakespeare (23-1)
Tartuffe by Moliere (87, 16)
The Tempest by William Shakespeare (71, 78, 96, 03, 05, 07, 10, 15,
18, 19, 24-2)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (23-1)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (82, 91, 03, 06, 07, 12, 14, 15, 24-1)
Their Eyes
Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston (88, 90, 91, 96, 04A&B, 05A&B, 06, 07, 08, 10B,
11B, 13A&B, 14, 15B, 16B, There There by Tommy Orange (23-1&2, 24-2)
Things Fall
Apart by Chinua Achebe (91, 97, 03,
09, 10, 11, 14, 18, 22)
The Things
They Carried by Tim O’Brien (04, 09,
13)
A Thousand
Acres by Jane Smiley
(06, 11, 13, 14)
A Thousand
Splendid Suns by Khaled
Hosseini (11, 13, 24-2)
To Kill a
Mockingbird by Harper Lee (08, 09, 11,
13, 15, 19)
To the
Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (77, 86,
88, 08, 18, 24-2)
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (90, 00, 06, 08, 17)
Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks (24-1)
A Tree Grows
in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (13)
The Trial by Franz Kafka (88, 89, 00, 11)
Trifles by Susan Glaspell (00)
Tristram
Shandy by Laurence Sterne (86)
The Turn of
the Screw by Henry James (92, 94, 00,
02, 04, 08)
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (85, 94, 96, 11B, 16, 16B, 17)
Typical
American by Gish Jen (02, 03, 05, 13)
U
Uncle Tom’s
Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (87,
09, 16)
U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos (09)
V
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace
Thackeray (22, 23-1)
The Vicar of
Wakefield by Oliver
Goldsmith (06)
Victory by Joseph Conrad (83)
The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt
(24-2)
Volpone by Ben Jonson (83, 15)
W
Waiting by Ha Jin (24-1)
Waiting for
Godot by Samuel Beckett (77, 85, 86,
89, 94, 01, 09, 12, 15, 16, 17)
The Warden by Anthony Trollope (96)
Washington
Black by Esi Edugyan (23-1&2)
Washington
Square by Henry James (90)
The Wasteland by T. S. Eliot (81)
Watch on the
Rhine by Lillian Hellman (87)
The Way of
the World by William Congreve (71)
The Way We
Live Now by Anthony Trollope (06)
We Were the Mulvaneys by
Joyce Carol Oates (07)
When the
Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
(12, 19, 24-2)
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri (24-1)
White Noise by Don DeLillo (24-2)
The White
Tiger by
Aravind Adiga (22)
Who Has Seen
the Wind? by W. O. Mitchell (11)
Who’s Afraid
of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
(88, 94, 00, 04, 07, 11, 15, 16)
Wide Sargasso
Sea by Jean Rhys (89, 92, 05, 07, 08)
The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen (78)
Winter in the
Blood by James Welch (95)
Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare (82, 89, 95, 06)
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor (82, 89, 95, 09, 10)
Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (91, 08, 13)
The Women of
Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor (09,
10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 22)
Wuthering
Heights by Emily Bronte (71, 77, 78,
79, 83, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 96, 97, 99, 01, 06, 07 A&B, 08A&B, 10A&B,
12, Y
A Yellow Raft
in Blue Water by Michael Dorris (16)
Z
The Zoo Story by Edward Albee (82, 01)
Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez (95)
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Most
Frequently Cited 1970-2024
35 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
33 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
31 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
28 Jane
Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
23 King Lear by William
Shakespeare
22 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky; The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne;
Their
Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston
21 Heart
of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
20 Beloved by Toni Morrison
19 The
Awakening by Kate Chopin; Moby Dick by Herman Melville;
Portrait
of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
18 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain; Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
17 Native Son by Richard Wright; A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine
Hansberry
15 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller; Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
14 Antigone by Sophocles; Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko; The Color Purple by Alice Walker
13 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott
Fitzgerald; Light in August by
William Faulkner; Othello by William
Shakespeare
12 Billy
Budd by Herman Melville; The Color Purple by
Alice Walker; The Crucible by Arthur Miller;
Portrait
of a Lady by Henry James
11 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner; Candide by Voltaire; Frankenstein by Mary Shelley;
The
Glass Menagerie by
Tennessee Williams; A Streetcar Named
Desire by Tennessee Williams;
The
Tempest by William Shakespeare; Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
10 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy; Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert; A Passage to India by E. M. Forster;
Pride
and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Sula by Toni Morrison
9 Brave
New World
by Aldous Huxley; Jude the Obscure by
Thomas Hardy; Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy; Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard; Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy;
Things
Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
8 All the Pretty
Horses by Cormac McCarthy; Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya; Fences by August Wilson;
The
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck; The Jungle by
Upton Sinclair; The Kite Runner by
Khaled Hosseini;
Moll
Flanders by Daniel Defoe; Macbeth by William
Shakespeare; Oedipus Rex by Sophocles;
The
Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner; The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway;
Who’s
Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee; The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
7 Age
of Innocence by
Edith Wharton; All the King’s Men by
Robert Penn Warren;
Cry,
The Beloved Country by Alan Paton; A Doll’s House by
Henrik Ibsen; Don Quixote by Miguel
de Cervantes;
Ethan Fromeby Edith Wharton; Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift; Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad; Medea by Euripides;
The
Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare; Mrs. Dalloway by
Virginia Woolf;
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey; The
Piano Lesson by August Wilson;
To
the Lighthouse by
Virginia Woolf; Twelfth Night by
William Shakespeare;
6 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison; An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen; Equus by Peter Shaffer;
Hamlet by William
Shakespeare; The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood; Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen;
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House of Mirth by Edith Wharton; Major Barbara by
George Bernard Shaw; Murder in the
Cathedral by T. S. Eliot;
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri; Obasan by Joy Kogawa; The Odyssey by Homer;
The
Poisonwood Bible by
Barbara Kingsolver; Sister Carrie by
Theodore Dreiser; The Stranger by Albert Camus;
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens; To
Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee; The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
5 Atonement by Ian McEwan; Bleak
House by
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The
Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov; Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe; Emma by Jane Austen;
Go
Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin; Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee; The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan;
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Octavia Butler; Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka; Middlemarch by
George Eliot;
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Mill on the Floss by George Eliot; Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George
Bernard Shaw; My Ántonia by Willa Cather; 1984 by
George Orwell; Never Let Me
Go by Kazuo Ishiguro; Tom Jones by Henry Fielding;
Wide
Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys; Wise
Blood by Flannery O’Connor
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